Call of Duty: united Offensive had some weird problem with the default map loading screen and the custom screen for a modded map on multi in which the two screens, er, "clashed" and while playing the game.I ended up having lttle coloured pixels in some places and sort of square white things in some places, these changed places depending what I'm looking at's colours. So I uninstalled COD:UO, deleted them ods, reinstaleld, nothing happened. So I uninstaleld it but it wouldn't do anything. COD worked just fine and uninstalled. I try reinstalling, I ended up just deleting the whole folder. COD:UO STILL thinks it's installed and won't uninstall! :mad:

Does anyone know what might be wrong? I'm going to try reinstalling again later.

And a differne pronlem too, sometimes my S key will stop worknig in a game, it's hapened twice now. One in Oblivion and once in Joint Ops: TR. It completely stops responding, so far luckily it's just the S key, but you'd think the W would have died earlier. It's really strange, I can't use soem words with lots of S's liek sarcasm or else it wil lbecome arcam

I try reinstalling, I ended up just deleting the whole folder. COD:UO STILL thinks it's installed and won't uninstall! :mad:

Does anyone know what might be wrong? I'm going to try reinstalling again later.There will be some registry entries hanging-around. Go find them and delete them.

What (well, more importantly where? I think I can guess what the do) are Registry entries? And how do I remove them?

Start>Run, enter "regedit". You'll just have to search through it for relevant entries. Press delete with care though.

Found it, deleted it. I will be installing again shortly.


EDIT: Correcting spelling, I really should use the preview button.

EDIT: Still says uninstall. So I'm openig E drive to loo kat the disk and use the installer there.

EDIT: It's worknig, thanks!

Ok, all that did not fix the origional proble. I am still getting these bubbly flickering square thnigs that will not let a picture be taken of them, not even printscreen. So, I have no way of showing you them. This is so confusing, I have not a clue as to what's going on?

Does this page describe any of your problems?
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=1029

I have a 7900GT, but it could be because I have been on the computer most of the day since Monday. But 2/3rds of that time has been browsing the net. Though it's only affecting CoD:UO

My comp: http://secure.ncix.com/pcbuilder/index.php?action=getprice&id=2234715&platformid=1000

I'm using a LG Flatron LCD monitor with 1400:1 contrast, and I forget if it's 8 or 12 rms.

But artefacts sounds like the right thing.

This is so confusing. :confused:

What drivers are you using, and what kind of temps is your system & vid card showing?

How do you check?

EDIT: Hmmm, I just played it and nothing was wrong, I'll play again later and see what happens.

Any luck figuring out that problem Scamp?

Nope, it happened again last night, it seems to be caused by that one map, maybe it is my card getting to hot as I had played 4 hours of Oblivion beforehand.

EDIT: It worked fine this afternoon, then tonight it's doing it again, even in singleplayer.

I'm sure http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=1029 would help but it's so big and confusing.

4 hours of Oblivion! You should probably see if these who frequent the official oblivion thread are having the same problem.

When I set up my computer before even using the drivers on the instalation CD I downloaded the latest on the net. Do you have the latest Nvidia drivers? I have the same card as you and the version is 9.1.3.1. With those drivers there is a nifty program if you right-click on your Nvidia icon that will monitor your temp levels. Maybe the driver will sove some of your problems. Who knows. But if your card is consistently overheating there is probably a problem with it and you could RMA it for a brand new one.

If you don't have problems while playing Oblivion, then heat shouldn't be the issue. Oblivion will most definetly push the card harder than COD:UO.

Yeah, I don't think it's the heat, it happened two mornings ago (well, noon) before I played Oblivion.

I'll check for new drivers right now.

EDIT: This seems to be the right one
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.31.html

I want to be sure because it says to:

Before installing new drivers make sure you uninstall all NVIDIA display drivers from the Windows Control Panel. Browse to the Start Menu > Windows Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and search for "NVIDIA Windows Display Drivers" or "NVIDIA Display Drivers" and select remove.

And when i look it says NVIDIA Drivers, so I want to wait for confirmation that it's the right one so I don't mess anything up.

You probably have multiple nvidia products on your comp, and therefore multiple nvidia drivers. When you select to remove them, it should ask you which one you want to remove.

Remove them, reboot - if windows pops up wanting to install the card when it restarts, cancel it. Then run the new drivers you downloaded. Nothing else to it.

Er, now that I've done that, something is a bit wrong?

When I scroll or move the slider with this webpage it is very slow and kind of has some weird um, like, an extremely bad refresh rate.
But I'm using and LCD monitor...

Load times are the same. I am using Opera, it does it in FireFox as well.

EDIT OH ****

The drivers didn't install, got this when opening CoD

CODUO MP 1.51 build win-x86 Dec 6 2004
----- FS_Startup -----
Current language: english
Current search path:
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\z_ahz_vehicles.pk3 (401 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\zzzz_CuFuo_Client_CLEAN_v2.8_Feb23.pk3 (278 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\smolenskF.pk3 (43 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\ratskitchen.pk3 (59 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo07.pk3 (157 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo06.pk3 (12 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo05.pk3 (3 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo04.pk3 (7646 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo03.pk3 (2275 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo02.pk3 (790 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo01.pk3 (1657 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\pakuo00.pk3 (6233 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\mp_uo_barbarossa.pk3 (43 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty/uo
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pakb.pk3 (60 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\paka.pk3 (41 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak9.pk3 (149 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak8.pk3 (235 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak6.pk3 (3 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak5.pk3 (4858 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak4.pk3 (1668 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak3.pk3 (1992 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak2.pk3 (694 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak1.pk3 (2642 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\pak0.pk3 (12816 files)
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty/main
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\localized_english_pakuo02.pk3 (12 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\localized_english_pakuo01.pk3 (37 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\uo\localized_english_pakuo00.pk3 (2578 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\localized_english_pak5.pk3 (46 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\localized_english_pak3.pk3 (7 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\localized_english_pak2.pk3 (9 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\localized_english_pak1.pk3 (3736 files)
localized assets pak file for english
C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\main\localized_english_pak0.pk3 (1204 files)
localized assets pak file for english

File Handles:
----------------------
52384 files in pk3 files
execing default_mp.cfg
couldn't exec language.cfg
execing uoconfig_mp.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec_mp.cfg
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
...detecting CPU, found AMD w/ 3DNow!
Measured CPU speed is 2.22 GHz
System memory is 1024 MB (capped at 1 GB)
Video card memory is 0 MB
Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) supported

Winsock Initialized
Opening IP socket: localhost:28960
Hostname: julian-d4de1448
IP: 192.168.0.101
----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
-------------------------------
----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 6: 1024 768 FS
...using colorbits of 32
...calling CDS: ok
...registered window class
...created window@0,0 (1024x768)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (6)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
Forcing 800x600 resolution to allow OpenGL to run in fullscreen
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 4: 800 600 FS
...using colorbits of 32
...calling CDS: ok
...created window@0,0 (800x600)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (4)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
Forcing 640x480 resolution to allow OpenGL to run in fullscreen
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 3: 640 480 FS
...using colorbits of 32
...calling CDS: ok
...created window@0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
...35 PFDs found
...GLW_ChoosePFD failed
...failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
...restoring display settings
...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3)
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
-----------------------
Hunk_Clear: reset the hunk ok
Could not load OpenGL. Make sure that you have the latest drivers for your video card from the manufacturer's web site.


EDIT: Redid the installation, all systems go.

Phew, that was quite a scare.

There will be some registry entries hanging-around. Go find them and delete them.

That was probably the most dangerous piece of advice I've ever heard.

I can see why, but I am competent enough to only delete it if it says Call of Duty United Offensive blah