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I had the same problem. Upgraded to the 53.03 drivers and the terain
started blacking out. I rolled back to the previous version drivers,
which were 40.xx and reinstalled them. It worked.

reodon



On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:07:57 -0500, none <none@specified.com> wrote:

>I rolled back the video card drivers a bit more carefully than I did
>the first time and managed to get the 45.xx drivers installed.  The
>game displays correctly now, thanks for your help!
>
>Dragon
>
>On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:01:14 -0600, "Margolis" <someone@somewhere.org>
>wrote:
>
>>"none" <none@specified.com> wrote in message
>>news:anq9uv817p30oijik48ot8rmcvuv51ru98@4ax.com...
>>> I'm attempting to play a patched version (latest patch) of Generals on
>>> a Dell 4400 series with a 2 gig chip and 512k RAM with an NVIDIA
>>> GEforce2 MX card with 64mb of memory.  I currently am running the
>>> 45.xx drivers for the card, after reading a post that suggested that
>>> the 52.xx drivers caused some problems.  I'm experiencing the problem
>>> under both drivers.   From the opening menu screen the terrain does
>>> not display properly regardless of the resolution settings- the ground
>>> has large black areas where textures should be mapped.  It seems like
>>> areas that should have textures are mapped correctly, but areas that
>>> are a solid color turn black and stay that way.  The same thing
>>> happens in the missions- the first mission for the USA path, which
>>> takes place in snow, for instance, is completly black with ghostly
>>> little tanks running around on it.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Dragon
>>
>>
>>this sounds exactly like the 52.16 driver problems.   Check your drivers to
>>verify if they truly are the 45.xx drivers.   Did you change your drivers
>>with an executable or through windows device manager?  If it was through
>>windows device manager and you have broadband there is a very good chance
>>that even though you pointed to the 45.xx  drivers on your computer, it
>>still downoaded and installed the 52.16 drivers from window update site
>>instead.
>>
>>If that is truly not the problem, did the game work before? Make sure you
>>completely uninstall the drivers and reboot and cancel the video driver
>>installation that will pop up.  Then install the new drivers.  You could go
>>back to the 44.90 drivers, but the 45.23 drivers should also work well.
>>This was a bug specific to the 52.16.  You could also go to www.guru3d.com
>>and download the 53.03 drivers which fixed quite a few bugs in the 52.16,
>>including this problem ;o)
>>
>>if you are using winxp, you could also just restore back to a point before
>>the driver problem popped up.