NVIDIA

Gummo wrote:

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video card. When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function
i.e. a square sample is taken at the cursor position which can be
moved around the screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects the problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Sure – everything new is good 🙂 You may also need to upgrade to the latest Direct3D from www. microsoft.com.

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I installed that last week Mike!

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

Sure – everything new is good 🙂 You may also need to upgrade to the latest Direct3D from www. microsoft.com.

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"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video card. When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a square sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the screen.
Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects the problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

What driver version did you install?

Version: 44.03

"Jimmy" wrote in message

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

What driver version did you install?

Sometimes setting your video output to 32 bit, changes everything!

Right click on the desktop and choose properties.

Settings tab, and choose 32 bit color.

Dave.

I had the EXACT same problem.
I thought that I had the latest DirectX drivers as well…but I didn’t. I had DirX*9*…it’s now 9*A* I believe.
I downloaded those and installed and things corrected itself. eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Here’s the link for DirectX 9A:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A19 BED22-0B25-4E5D-A584-6389D8A3DAD0&displaylang=en

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Sorry Gummo,
I had remembered that at one time after updating my Nvidia drivers, I had more "gizmos" on the settings panel in Display. (slide out panels, fancier background on dialogue box, etc.)
And remembered that when I fixed the Liquify problem, I went to Windows Update in my IE6 and not only downloaded the newer DirectX 9A…but it also listed Nvidia display drivers, and I downloaded them as well. (Which musta been older drivers cuz it didn’t look a pretty with the slideouts, etc.)
But it worked.
I just went to Nvidia and DL’ed the newest drivers, installed, got the "pretty display panel" again…and the Liquify screwed up again! I changed the settings back and forth from 16 bit to 32…no change. I went to Windows Update…and noticed all of a sudden, there was a driver update for Nvidia there.
(which wasn’t there a minute ago when I looked for the DirectX link for you in my earlier post)
I downloaded them and installed…and the problem went away again. They’re not as pretty in the way the dialogue box looks etc., and they say "March 09, 2002"…
but they work for all my games, and they correct the Liquify problem. I would suggest if you hve the newer Nvidia drivers…go to Windows Update and see if they list any Nvidia drivers and try them. They’re older…but they WORK.
Adobe and Nvidia should probably get together and work this out. SOOO…I guess new is not always better…
eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Here’s link for Windows Update:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Eddie

Thanks for the time you took. I have DirectX 9.0a. I fixed the problem by re-installing the old NVIDIA drivers which I had kept until I was sure the new ones were going to work which of course they didn’t.

Gummo

"The Magician" wrote in message

Here’s link for Windows Update:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

No problem G!
eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

Eddie

Thanks for the time you took. I have DirectX 9.0a. I fixed the problem

by

re-installing the old NVIDIA drivers which I had kept until I was sure the new ones were going to work which of course they didn’t.
Gummo

"The Magician" wrote in message

Here’s link for Windows Update:

http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver

corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Did anyone experience any real benefits with the newest NVIDIA driver?

"The Magician" wrote in message

Here’s the link for DirectX 9A:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A19 BED22-0B25-4E5D-A584-6389D8A3DAD0&displaylang=en

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Truthfully…NO.
And I’ve NEVER experienced ANY difference after installing new video drivers…except for a different control panel interface (which I never have cause to use) , and the comfort of having the latest drivers. As far as actually SEEING a difference…my display has always looked the same. Never understood why I update…except that game manufacturer’s always blame their crappy software on your old drivers…and that I’m a drone like everyone else…and it’s "the thing to do".
eddie

"Felice" wrote in message

Did anyone experience any real benefits with the newest NVIDIA driver?

"The Magician" wrote in message

Here’s the link for DirectX 9A:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A19 BED22-0B25-4E5D-A584-6389D8A3DAD0&displaylang=en

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e. a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver

corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good thing?

Thanks Eddie, I had a feeling that may be the case and decided not to install the upgrade.

"The Magician" wrote in message

Truthfully…NO.
And I’ve NEVER experienced ANY difference after installing new video drivers…except for a different control panel interface (which I never

have

cause to use) , and the comfort of having the latest drivers. As far as actually SEEING a difference…my display has always looked the same.

Never

understood why I update…except that game manufacturer’s always blame

their

crappy software on your old drivers…and that I’m a drone like everyone else…and it’s "the thing to do".
eddie

"Felice" wrote in message

Did anyone experience any real benefits with the newest NVIDIA driver?

"The Magician" wrote in message

Here’s the link for DirectX 9A:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A19 BED22-0B25-4E5D-A584-6389D8A3DAD0&displaylang=en

eddie

"Gummo" wrote in message

I have just updated the driver for my NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

video

card.

When I use Liquify, all the tools default to the same function i.e.

a

square

sample is taken at the cursor position which can be moved around the

screen.

Any ideas why this should happen? Uninstalling the new driver

corrects

the

problem but I’m curious – isn’t a driver upgrade always a good

thing?

Most of the driver updates are concerned with 3D graphics and speed, FAA, transform lighting and other "gamers" hacks. Often, there is an incompatibility with a popular application display, and some part of the code is modified to accomodate the display, such as in 3rd person "shooters" and flight simulator which uses multiple screens, and extremely complex combinations of working gauges while displaying moving terrain and texture mapping. Seldom are "static" graphics displays such as Photoshop changed by driver updates.

Which has now indeed happened.

"Mike Davis" wrote in message

Seldom are "static" graphics displays such as Photoshop changed by

driver updates.