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SPLINTER CELL PANDORA TOMORROW PATCH 1.31 DRIVERS

*Cards older than those above will work but have to run on Windows XP and Nvidia cards cannot use drivers 177 and newer.

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So ATI cards may not have an XP driver that breaks the game. I tested an ATI X600 (PCI-E) with the latest available XP drivers (10.2) and the lighting still works fine. The 8xxx series introduced unified shaders so I think this is where the game breaks on a hardware level.ĪTI introduced unified shaders in the HD2xxx series so I think that's where the ATI cards stop working properly. I tested an 8400GS (G86 model) with the old drivers and couldn't get that to work with correct lighting. The 177 release happens to coincide with the release of the 9800GTX. Nvidia released the 177 drivers after that and the lighting is broken. The last WHQL driver that works is 175.16. With a GeForce 6800GT (AGP) the lighting showed correctly up to driver 175.80 (Beta).

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I've spent a bit of time the past couple of days experimenting with drivers for both ATI and Nvidia on Windows XP Pro SP2. How come ATI cards are supported but newer Nvidia (and ATI cards) are known not to display lights and shadows correctly. The machine I'm planning on using for this game will be:ĭoes this game also use shadow buffers like Splinter Cell?ĭoes it use an alternative render path for ATI? Issues resolved: GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow: Rain splashes do not appear. I found another entry in driver 61.77 from July 2004: Issues resolved: GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: In the game Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, white flashes occur on a character with antialiasing enabled. The game ships with 53.03 and the first, newer, driver I found is 56.72 from April 2004 with this entry: Looking at driver versions I found a few drivers with references to Pandora Tomorrow: Regarding graphics card I believe that the FX5950 is the 'best' card for this game. The shadows and lights are all off of course but I have't compared it to a period correct machine yet. I have installed the game on my current i7 machine with Windows 8.1 and GTX660 and it installed and plays fine. However, the game runs properly with versions 53.03 and higher.

With GeForce 3, the use of 56.09 drivers, or higher, provides improved performance in high resolution with enhanced graphic detail. Use version 4.1, or an earlier version than 4.2. Problems may be experienced with ATI Catalyste Version 4.2 drivers.

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If your monitor switches to Energy Saving, update the drivers for your screen. Using ALT-TAB to toggle to the desktop and back to the game should correct these problems. Update your drivers with the latest available version on the nVidia site ( ). Graphical problems may be experienced with GeForce FX. If the game is very slow, or the display corrupted, check that anti-aliasing is not forced at the level of the drivers. More information regarding compatibility: **** Graphics Compatibility **** Interesting that ATI cards are supported. Network: High-Speed Modem with 128 Kbits of data transfer upoad rate. Sound Card: DirectX 8.1 compatible with EAX Advanced HD Network: High-Speed Modem with 64 Kbits data transfer upload rate. GeForce 3 or higher ( GeForce 4 MX are GeForce4 Go are not supported) The readme file mentions these hardware configurations: 1.1. Nvidia driver 53.03, ATI 4.2, DirectX 9 runtime, a patch to update to version 1.31 and a readme file with some info (attached). On the CD are some useful pointers for compatibility.

I got the DVD version recently, new, sealed and cheap on eBay: There seem to be two retail versions of this game, one spanning 4 CDs and one on a single DVD.

I have only started investigating this game so I will add findings as I go along and please feel free to contribute 😀 It appears that the issues are extreme enough for GOG.com and Steam not to publish this game. On modern hardware shadows and lights are not displayed correctly. Similar to the original Splinter Cell this game is very picky regarding the graphics card. Haven't done much lately and really want to check out this game!

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