Blender compatibility before 2.5

[JohnDevil]

Greetings all,

I need to use Blender 2.4.9b however whenever i start it up it starts up without a UI, when you move your mouse over certain areas you see buttons appear as if there was a smudge hiding the entire blender program.

So i started trying versions before above mentioned and i get the exact same result.

I am running GTX480 nvidia cards. Intel core I7 and WHQL supported drivers from Nvidia.

i tried to search the web but am not getting any real results or proper help besides the odd person blaming the driver of the videocard which i find a bit to easy of an awnser.


Is anyone else having this issue? how come any version before 2.5 appears to not being able to handle high end GPU's/Drivers?

Any help or workaround to get 2.4.9b on my system running (win7 64 ultimate) would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards