After testing 6 different video cards this weekend, I finally bit the bullet
and bought a GeForce 3 Ti200 for my Athlon XP 1500+ system. I knew about the
"old" driver requirement for F1 2001and have it running fine with 12.41
drivers. GPL seems O.K except that sometimes the menus have no words at all,
but I know it so well I don't need them :-). GP3 has a very strange effect.
The entire background is brown (track, sky, grandstands and scenery) and the
only part of the cars visible is the wheels. So I have these perfectly
rendered BBS wheels (4 per car) disappearing off into a brown nothingness
until I run into an invisible fence or something. Also sometimes I can't get
past the first menu in NFS5, as the words are missing and there is no mouse
cursor, however occassionally it works fine. Then there's Midtown Madness 1
and 2, where the sky and most of the buildings are large multi-coloured
trinagles!
What I'm asking is: are these usual driver problems and what version of the
NVidia drivers will give acceptable results in the majority of (or some)
sims Really starting to regret my choice (based on framerates in GPL and F1
2001)!
TIA..
Phillip...
Go with the 21.83's at the nvidia website.
DC
Phillip Archer <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> After testing 6 different video cards this weekend, I finally bit thebullet
> and bought a GeForce 3 Ti200 for my Athlon XP 1500+ system. I knew aboutthe
> "old" driver requirement for F1 2001and have it running fine with 12.41
> drivers. GPL seems O.K except that sometimes the menus have no words atall,
> but I know it so well I don't need them :-). GP3 has a very strangeeffect.
> The entire background is brown (track, sky, grandstands and scenery) andthe
> only part of the cars visible is the wheels. So I have these perfectly
> rendered BBS wheels (4 per car) disappearing off into a brown nothingness
> until I run into an invisible fence or something. Also sometimes I can'tget
> past the first menu in NFS5, as the words are missing and there is nomouse
> cursor, however occassionally it works fine. Then there's Midtown Madness1
> and 2, where the sky and most of the buildings are large multi-coloured
> trinagles!
> What I'm asking is: are these usual driver problems and what version ofthe
> NVidia drivers will give acceptable results in the majority of (or some)
> sims Really starting to regret my choice (based on framerates in GPL andF1
> 2001)!
> TIA..
> Phillip...
>
>
