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Faulty Nvidia Drivers with Swat 3

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Slippery_Jim:
After a lot of testing I have discovered that the lastest Nvidia drivers are incompatible with Swat 3 on Windows 7. If you revert back to version 353.62 you will once again get good frame rates. If you play Metal Gear Solid 5, Mad Max, Ashes of Singularity, or Killing Floor 2 you won't want to revert since they contain "game-ready" drivers.

Breakdown of recent drivers:

355.98 Sept 22, 2015 - bad frame rate
355.82 August 31, 2015 - bad frame rate
355.60 August 13, 2015 - bad frame rate
353.62 July 29, 2015 - good frame rate
353.30 June 22, 2015 - good frame rate
353.06 May 31, 2015 - good frame rate
352.86 May 18, 2015 - good frame rate
350.12 April 13, 2015 - good frame rate
347.88 March 17, 2015 - good frame rate
347.52 February 10, 2015 - good frame rate
347.25 January 22, 2015 - good frame rate
347.09 - bad frame rate
344.75 - bad frame rate
344.48 - bad frame rate
344.11 - good frame rate

You can help us to get a fixed driver by posting in the Nvida forums or by filling out a short bug report:

Feedback thread for Windows 7 & 8 (driver version 355.82):
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/879824/geforce-drivers/official-windows-8-1-windows-7-amp-windows-xp-355-98-game-ready-display-driver-feedback-thread/

Driver Bug report (they call it a survey):
http://surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=6e7ea6bb4a02641fa8f07694a40f8ac6

Slippery_Jim:
Just a quick update to this thread.

Both Nvidia and Microsoft seemed to have dumped support for old games like this.   Your best option is to use apps like dgVoodoo.

Link to a page about how to use with Swat 3:
http://www.swat3lastresort.info/index.php/fix-framerate-problems

DarkSynopsis:
Not really a surprise, we are some what lucky there was any support still happening, believe I just read recently that Blizzard won't be supporting XP/Vista any more, got to move forward at some point.

At least we have options like dgVoodoo that at least with SWAT 3 on my end works a treat!

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