HELP! NVIDIA 3.53 DRIVERS DID VERY BAD THINGS TO MY CPU

I have a new DELL P3 600 with 256 ram, sound blaster live and GeForce card. I tried to install the 3.53 drivers to stop the mirror problem and all heck broke loose. The drivers wouldnt install and the system (nvidia software install) said it would reboot and put everything back as it was. When the system rebooted I had vga graphics with 16 bit color and no monitor for my hardware. I had to re-install the monitor and the Geforce drivers, which was no small feat considering my overmatched computer skills. The bottom line was, as soon as I got on GPL the sound was atrocious! It is garbled and sounds as if the speakers are blown (even though they are fine). I just want my sim back the way it was. I will live with the mirror problem and just let people pass me at will! (alright, so thats a lie) If you have any idea what I can do please let me know. And please, be very specific as I am not a pc savant. Thanks in advance, Mike Loos

A few people are having success with the new 3.62 drivers, in that they actually fix the mirrors. I unfortunately had no luck with them and have gone back to 2.08. You have been booted back to a standard "VGA" display by the system and need to reinstall some drivers before you will get your resolution options back. If you have other programs running properly try reinstalling gpl, if nothings working properly you probably don't have your drivers installed. -- Don Scurlock Vancouver,B.C.

Did you try the fix that was described in the thread 'GPL: TNT2-Detonator Mirrors not right!'? Matthew Causebrook gave me a little bit of info that has fixed the mirror problem! Using the 3.53 drivers and setting the beffer flipping mode to "use block transfer" (on the OpenGL page of the additional properties dialogue). SLG [email hidden] (Don Scurlock) wrote:

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>[email hidden] (Michael Blood Loos) wrote in ><[email hidden]>: > >>I have a new DELL P3 600 with 256 ram, sound blaster live and GeForce card. I >>tried to install the 3.53 drivers to stop the mirror problem and all heck >broke >>loose. The drivers wouldnt install and the system (nvidia software install) >>said it would reboot and put everything back as it was. When the system >>rebooted I had vga graphics with 16 bit color and no monitor for my hardware. >>I had to re-install the monitor and the Geforce drivers, which was no small >>feat considering my overmatched computer skills. >>The bottom line was, as soon as I got on GPL the sound was atrocious! It is >>garbled and sounds as if the speakers are blown (even though they are fine). >I >>just want my sim back the way it was. I will live with the mirror problem and >>just let people pass me at will! (alright, so thats a lie) >>If you have any idea what I can do please let me know. And please, be very >>specific as I am not a pc savant. >>Thanks in advance, >>Mike Loos >> > >A few people are having success with the new 3.62 drivers, in that they >actually fix the mirrors. I unfortunately had no luck with them and have gone >back to 2.08. You have been booted back to a standard "VGA" display by the >system and need to reinstall some drivers before you will get your resolution >options back. If you have other programs running properly try reinstalling gpl, >if nothings working properly you probably don't have your drivers installed. > >-- >Don Scurlock >Vancouver,B.C.

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers)

Yes I tried a lot of different combinations of settings and had short moments when the everything worked well including the mirrors. But things would quickly get totally corupted and unstable. Things like all of the text missing from setup screens, tons of thin horizontal lines of distortion, flashing screens, and even at the moments when everything was working I had a significant frame rate loss. Would love to know whats different about my system compared to others but I couldn't figure it out. I'm back to 2.08 and no mirrors. [email hidden] (Steve Garrotto) wrote in <[email hidden]>:

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>Did you try the fix that was described in the thread 'GPL: >TNT2-Detonator Mirrors not right!'? Matthew Causebrook gave me a >little bit of info that has fixed the mirror problem! > >Using the 3.53 drivers and setting the beffer flipping mode to "use >block transfer" (on the OpenGL page of the additional properties >dialogue). > >SLG > >[email hidden] (Don Scurlock) wrote: >>A few people are having success with the new 3.62 drivers, in that they >>actually fix the mirrors. I unfortunately had no luck with them and have gone >>back to 2.08. You have been booted back to a standard "VGA" display by the >>system and need to reinstall some drivers before you will get your resolution >>options back. If you have other programs running properly try reinstalling

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