Jitters and Menu Shift

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So with tonight's d/l I finally got past the black-screen lockup. The opening screen is fine except that the menu options on the right of the screen are quite faint. And when I select "New Game" I get the screen jitters and parts of the menu, the 'overlays' if you will, are shifted to the right I think and invisible in places, making the interface useless. DirecX is current as are my video drivers. Debug report follows. The Unallocated Memory Debug Message is repeated perhaps a hundred times or so, I edited them out for the sake of brevity.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Debug Message: Version last updated on: Thu Mar 31 09:24:04 2005
Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 3/31/2005, 19:32:50
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: PRAIRIESON
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: n/a
System Model: n/a
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.5GHz
Physical Memory: 768MB RAM
Page File: 212MB used, 898MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS


Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0181&SUBSYS_88801462&REV_A2
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6693
Driver Date: 10/29/2004 16:50:00



Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: SB Live! Audio [D800]
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_80401102&REV_05
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
Provider: Creative
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0252
Driver Date: 7/19/2002 10:47:52
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0



Debug Message: *********END dxdiag info.*********
Debug Message: Entering WinMain
Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONMASKABLE
Debug Message: Game Resolution: 1024 x 768
Debug Message: Running fullscreen.
Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 85
Debug Message: Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: initailizing bink
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Battleship4 for Avatar. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Large Scale for LargeHull0. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for Constructor. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Trade for Freighter. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Sensors for SensorDrone. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech Phasers for StarFighter. ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to find required tech ImpossibleTech for Starbase. ***
Debug Message: Reading Star Names
Debug Message: Reading Star Names... Done
Debug Message: setting size 0 x 0
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: setting size 0 x 0
Debug Message: WM_CLOSE message received.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start
Debug Message: Killing Galaxy
Debug Message: Killing Galaxy: Completed
Debug Message: GameUninitialize end
Debug Message: Device not cleared. 10 counts left.
Debug Message: D3D not cleared. 2 counts left.
Debug Message: Destroying Window.
Debug Message: Main Shell terminating normally
Debug Message: Unallocated Mem: 1024 bytes of memory from line 1247 of .\Source\memman.cpp
Debug Message: Not all memory has been freed from memory system UIGame.
Debug Message: 1575936 bytes of memory still allocated.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The latest Nvidia drivers were released earlier this month. Your drivers appear to be from last year according to your report. It seems you need to update them.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Curious, I did a driver update from NVidia's site about an hour ago... better check again.

Thanks.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmmm...then you should have version 71.84. The debug.err report probably has your old drivers listed still.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I would suggest uninstalling your drivers, rebooting your computer, install the latest version, and then reboot again.  This should make sure that you have the latest drivers properly installed. Although NVidia no longer requires you to uninstall the old driver before updating, it generally works best if you do.  The debug.err reports the information directly from dxdiag so if it's reporting the old driver version, then that's a good indication that the old drivers weren't properly uininstalled.

Also, your multisampling is set to Non-maskable.  Try changing it to 2 or higher if you want anti-aliasing, or 0 if you don't.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the assist folks! It really turned into a comedy of errors befor it was all over. I did, in fact, have to uninstall the old drivers. And when I tried to install the latest-greatest, I encountered an 'access denied' error in spite of the fact I was in an admin account... required some registry editing to get it straightened out. Then, with all the rebooting, the marginal nature of my video hardware evidenced itself, ie dead video card. Forunately I yanked a backup card out of another carcass and all is now good, well, except now my beer money is going towards a new mondo video card, heheh.

Again, thanks for the help.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
C'mon, beer vs. new video card? You had to think about it?   Glad that you were able to get it running.