[TM2] Crashes - Problem With Nvidia Drivers

[mistoftime]

Upon each startup of Maniaplanet I get the message "Your video card performance has not been found. A quick benchmark will be preformed."

After agreeing to the check I get a popup warning saying "Your video adaptor's (NVIDIA GeForce 310M) driver is outdated(1.0.2.0). This game works better with driver version 6.14.10.5303 (or a more recent one)." It then goes on to explain how to update your drivers.

After hitting ok on that warning, the test starts but all i get out of it is a blank white window, then shortly after my video drivers crash and recover themselves but this leaves the maniaplanet unresponsive. Then it will tell me that it "Could not retrieve your graphic device preformance. Automatic graphic quality may be inadequate."

After this i'm given the option to play or change settings but nothing i've tried will let the game get past a blank white window.

This would all be fine if my drivers were out of date, but i'm running driver version 280.26, the newest driver for my card.

My system specs are: Intel Core i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz, 4gb ram, NVIDIA GeForce 310M, 64bit Windows 7

As far as I can tell no other display drivers are causing problems so any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[broric]

I have the same graph card in my laptop and have no problems running game on it.

I just checked driver details in "device manager/Display Adapter/Nvidia Ge force 310m/ Properties" and driver version was listed as 8.16.11.8990 dated 7/05/2010.
On the chance i might have missed an update I hit Update driver but got "Your drivers are the latest version" message.
I suggest that you check yours to see whats listed and update if not the recommended version listed there.

[mistoftime]

My mistake, In the first post I listed my driver as 280.26. This was Nvidia's driver number, in the device manager it says I have version 8.17.12.8026 from 8/3/2011.

So far the only way I've gotten the game to run is by changing the Vertex processing from hardware to software, so I think that means my install is fine, it's just having some sort of problem interfacing with my Graphics card.

[broric]

Looks like i have missed an update then.
Trust windows search feature to not find the Nvidia website and the update.
oh well manually updating now.
As for your bug, Sorry i cant help, works great on my laptop.
Good luck

[mistoftime]

Not a problem, just hoping someone out there does.