nVidia driver question

I'm putting together a relatively low power computer for someone that will only play occasional games. The GeForce2 MX came with driver version 5.34. Everything works great. I upgraded to 631. Q2 went from 70 fps to 113. Nice increase. But, Nascar Heat won't run. It loads, but when you start a race or benchmark, it never gets past the "Loading" screen before it locks up. Games aren't important on this computer, but I still want the best solution. Besides using the older drivers, can anyone offer and help? Oh, I switch back to 5.34 drivers and everything is fine again. -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com

Oops. Nevermind. The 631 drivers loaded default as not syncing the refresh rate, I assume. Anyway, with both drivers and the same settings the fps went up. Rather than fight a VIA chipset (motherboard) and new video drivers, I'll leave well enough alone ;) -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com

On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:23:42 -0000, "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>I'm putting together a relatively low power computer for someone that will >only play occasional games. The GeForce2 MX came with driver version 5.34. >Everything works great. I upgraded to 631. Q2 went from 70 fps to 113. Nice >increase. But, Nascar Heat won't run. It loads, but when you start a race >or benchmark, it never gets past the "Loading" screen before it locks up. >Games aren't important on this computer, but I still want the best solution. >Besides using the older drivers, can anyone offer and help? Oh, I switch >back to 5.34 drivers and everything is fine again.

Dunno if this is related, but I got some weird problems in various 3D apps/games if I didn't go into "add/remove programs" and uninstalled the nVidia drivers before I upgraded from 5.x to 6.x /Magnus GPLRank hcp: -34.32

In my post I didn't say that I did remove the old drivers first (completely) and their software and installed the standard PCI drivers each time I switched. I suspect it has more to do with the VIA chipset on the Asus P3V4X motherboard. I used the GeForce2 MX with an Abit BE62 motherboard with no problems. That chipset also made it impossible for me to use the Sonic Impact 90 soundcard I had on the shelf. So, it's back to Abit from now on for me. (you never know unless you try, right?) I think that for lower end systems like this, I'll probably go with an older GeForce 256 (not MX) for about the same price as a new MX. Should be faster. -- Slot Tweaks & Reviews www.slottweak.com "GTX_SlotCar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:USa86.902$[email hidden]... > Oops. Nevermind. The 631 drivers loaded default as not syncing the refresh > rate, I assume. Anyway, with both drivers and the same settings the fps went > up. Rather than fight a VIA chipset (motherboard) and new video drivers, > I'll leave well enough alone ;) > > > -- > Slot > > Tweaks & Reviews > www.slottweak.com > > >

On another note I had a voodoo 2 12 meg card with a 4 meg video card, I bought a tnt2 m64 card, with some games I am actually getting less fps. Drivers that I am using are 4.12.01.0377 02/08/200 Capp 440 bx mobo 64 meg 133 ram PII 450 (not overclocked) TNT2 M64 32 meg GTX_SlotCar <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:sk686.899$[email hidden]... > I'm putting together a relatively low power computer for someone that will > only play occasional games. The GeForce2 MX came with driver version 5.34. > Everything works great. I upgraded to 631. Q2 went from 70 fps to 113.Nice > increase. But, Nascar Heat won't run. It loads, but when you start a race > or benchmark, it never gets past the "Loading" screen before it locks up. > Games aren't important on this computer, but I still want the bestsolution.

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> Besides using the older drivers, can anyone offer and help? Oh, I switch > back to 5.34 drivers and everything is fine again. > > > > -- > Slot > > Tweaks & Reviews > www.slottweak.com > > >

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:26:15 +1100, "Capp" <[email hidden]> wrote: >On another note > >I had a voodoo 2 12 meg card with a 4 meg video card, I bought a tnt2 m64 >card, with some games I am actually getting less fps. Drivers that I am >using are 4.12.01.0377 02/08/200 The Detonator 3 drivers are 4.12.01.631 I also have an M64 card. It worked great with my P2/400, but I just upgraded to a P3/866 and noticed I've hit the wall frame rate wise. There is no way I'm spending $400+ on a video card, so I'll probably go out and get a Geforce MX card today. Tim

Some detonator drivers are faster than others and some are more compatable than others. Genarally the later drivers are bettter aas they are getting quicker and thay are ironing out compatability bugs. So far I've found that the best are the 6.49 ones. I've had problems with some games with 7.17 (the new DX 8 ones) -- Some Call Me Tim

do u play sbk 2001 by chance ? i'm running 6.31 with my geoforce 2 gts 32ddr running fast writes enabled and also 4X agp and it wont run this game it looks like it will run then i get blackness ! rdracer "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:FjH86.36393$[email hidden]...

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> Some detonator drivers are faster than others and some are more compatable > than others. Genarally the later drivers are bettter aas they are getting > quicker and thay are ironing out compatability bugs. > > So far I've found that the best are the 6.49 ones. > > I've had problems with some games with 7.17 (the new DX 8 ones) > > > -- > Some Call Me Tim > >

What is the 2X 4X? is there a setting to change it? Capp rdracer <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:2VQ86.1539$[email hidden]...

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> do u play sbk 2001 by chance ? > i'm running 6.31 with my geoforce 2 gts 32ddr > running fast writes enabled and also 4X agp and it wont run this game it > looks like it will run then i get blackness ! > rdracer > "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:FjH86.36393$[email hidden]... > > Some detonator drivers are faster than others and some are more

compatable > > than others. Genarally the later drivers are bettter aas they aregetting

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> > quicker and thay are ironing out compatability bugs. > > > > So far I've found that the best are the 6.49 ones. > > > > I've had problems with some games with 7.17 (the new DX 8 ones) > > > > > > -- > > Some Call Me Tim > > > > > >

It sounds like you guys either have driver remnants from old video cards in your \Windows\System directory (some things get left even if you do an "uninstall"), or you need to play with your AGP aperture size (this REALLY varies from driver to driver for me on my VIA chipset Duron system -- some Detonator versions like a 256MB aperture, and some will only tolerate a 32MB aperture). The AGP aperture is an easy thing to swap, but it might take a few reboots and lockups before you hit on the rignt combination. -- JB In article <2VQ86.1539$[email hidden]>, "rdracer" <[email hidden]> wrote: > do u play sbk 2001 by chance ? > i'm running 6.31 with my geoforce 2 gts 32ddr > running fast writes enabled and also 4X agp and it wont run this gameit > looks like it will run then i get blackness ! > rdracer > "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:FjH86.36393$[email hidden]... > > Some detonator drivers are faster than others and some are morecompatable > > than others. Genarally the later drivers are bettter aas they aregetting

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> > quicker and thay are ironing out compatability bugs. > > > > So far I've found that the best are the 6.49 ones. > > > > I've had problems with some games with 7.17 (the new DX 8 ones) > > > > > > -- > > Some Call Me Tim > > > > > >

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there is a reg hack to go from 2x to 4x agp u can find it at nvidia.com under the faq section ! rdracer "Capp" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LUf96.4279$[email hidden]...

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> What is the 2X 4X? is there a setting to change it? > > Capp > > > rdracer <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:2VQ86.1539$[email hidden]... > > do u play sbk 2001 by chance ? > > i'm running 6.31 with my geoforce 2 gts 32ddr > > running fast writes enabled and also 4X agp and it wont run this game it > > looks like it will run then i get blackness ! > > rdracer > > "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:FjH86.36393$[email hidden]... > > > Some detonator drivers are faster than others and some are more > compatable > > > than others. Genarally the later drivers are bettter aas they are > getting > > > quicker and thay are ironing out compatability bugs. > > > > > > So far I've found that the best are the 6.49 ones. > > > > > > I've had problems with some games with 7.17 (the new DX 8 ones) > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Some Call Me Tim > > > > > > > > > > > >

went there, and for the life of me, couldnt find the faq, could u provide the direct link to it pls? Capp snip rdracer <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:K9l96.1366$[email hidden]... > there is a reg hack to go from 2x to 4x agp > u can find it at nvidia.com under the faq section ! > > rdracer >

"rdracer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:2VQ86.1539$[email hidden]... > do u play sbk 2001 by chance ? > i'm running 6.31 with my geoforce 2 gts 32ddr > running fast writes enabled and also 4X agp and it wont run this game it > looks like it will run then i get blackness ! > rdracer > "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message I've tried the demo and it worked very well even at 1600x1200. I can't remember what driver version I was using at the time though. -- Some Call Me Tim