NR2003 computer problem

I've come up with a very strange problem on one of 3 machines I have on a home network. I installed the NR2003 demo on 2 of the machines which are relatively equal in capability. All was fine and with mostly medium graphics settings I get 50 to 100 fps in 800x600 16 bit depending on the situation on the track. All 3 computers run DirectX 8.1. Below are the specs for those 2 computers that work fine: Computer #1: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Motherboard: CPU Type Intel Celeron-S, 1300 MHz (13 x 100) Motherboard Name Soyo TISU (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio) Motherboard Chipset Intel Solano i815EP System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM) BIOS Type Award Modular (04/27/01) Display: Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (64 MB) Multimedia: Audio Adapter Diamond Monster Sound MX300 Sound Card Computer #2: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Motherboard: CPU Type AMD Athlon-PECM, 1366 MHz (6.5 x 210) Motherboard Name Abit KT7(A)/KT7(A)-RAID/KT7E (1 ISA, 6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM) Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8363(A) Apollo KT133(A) System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM) BIOS Type Award Modular (12/15/00) Display: Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (32 MB) Multimedia: Audio Adapter Creative Labs SB 16 Audio Adapter Then I installed the demo on the 3rd computer which is much more capable than the other 2 and is significantly faster on every other application or game I've encountered. On the 3rd computer with the same graphic settings as the other 2, I get at most 20 fps and the sound on the menu screens is corrupted. The in game engine sound is relatively normal, but at 20 fps I haven't messed with it much. I thought maybe something about the sound card was bogging it down so I disabled sound in the demo and in Windows. No help. I tried several varieties of Nvidia drivers including 40.72 and 41.09. No difference. Sound card drivers are the latest I could find. All other games I've tried on this machine including UT2003 and F1 2002 run great. Now it gets even weirder. Out of curiosity I launch NR2002 which has always run great on that machine. Now it too is bogged down to 20 fps. It doesn't matter if I use DirectX or OpenGL. As a last resort I installed DirectX 9. No difference. Below are the specs for the 3rd machine: Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Motherboard: CPU Type AMD Athlon XP, 1466 MHz (5.5 x 266) 1700+ Motherboard Name ECS K7S5A (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR, 4 DIMM, Audio) Motherboard Chipset SiS 735 System Memory 512 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM) BIOS Type AMI (12/15/01) Display: Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (64 MB) Multimedia: Audio Adapter Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 Sound Card Any advice you can give is much appreciated.

I Dont know if this will help or not but I had to install the newest 4 -1 drivers on my machine for it to work I dont know why even the previous set of drivers would not run it just the newest but I have got a via chip so thats why i dont know if it will help you or not,. "Tanstaafl" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:746Y9.117076$[email hidden]...

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> I've come up with a very strange problem on one of 3 machines I have on a > home network. I installed the NR2003 demo on 2 of the machines which are > relatively equal in capability. All was fine and with mostly medium > graphics settings I get 50 to 100 fps in 800x600 16 bit depending on the > situation on the track. All 3 computers run DirectX 8.1. Below are the > specs for those 2 computers that work fine: > > Computer #1: > Operating System Microsoft Windows

XP > Professional > Motherboard: > CPU Type Intel Celeron-S, > 1300 MHz (13 x 100) > Motherboard Name Soyo TISU (6 PCI,1 > AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio) > Motherboard Chipset Intel Solanoi815EP

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> System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM) > BIOS Type Award Modular > (04/27/01) > > Display: > Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 > MX/MX 400 (64 MB) > Multimedia: > Audio Adapter Diamond Monster > Sound MX300 Sound Card > > > Computer #2: > Operating System Microsoft Windows

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> Professional > Motherboard: > CPU Type AMD Athlon-PECM, > 1366 MHz (6.5 x 210) > Motherboard Name Abit > KT7(A)/KT7(A)-RAID/KT7E (1 ISA, 6 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM) > Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8363(A)

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> KT133(A) > System Memory 512 MB (SDRAM) > BIOS Type Award Modular > (12/15/00) > Display: > Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 > MX/MX 400 (32 MB) > Multimedia: > Audio Adapter Creative Labs SB

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> Audio Adapter > > Then I installed the demo on the 3rd computer which is much more capable > than the other 2 and is significantly faster on every other application or > game I've encountered. On the 3rd computer with the same graphic settings > as the other 2, I get at most 20 fps and the sound on the menu screens is > corrupted. The in game engine sound is relatively normal, but at 20 fps I > haven't messed with it much. > > I thought maybe something about the sound card was bogging it down so I > disabled sound in the demo and in Windows. No help. I tried several > varieties of Nvidia drivers including 40.72 and 41.09. No difference. > Sound card drivers are the latest I could find. All other games I've

tried > on this machine including UT2003 and F1 2002 run great. > > Now it gets even weirder. Out of curiosity I launch NR2002 which hasalways > run great on that machine. Now it too is bogged down to 20 fps. Itdoesn't > matter if I use DirectX or OpenGL. As a last resort I installed DirectX9. > No difference. Below are the specs for the 3rd machine: > > Computer: > Operating System Microsoft WindowsXP > Professional > Motherboard: > CPU Type AMD Athlon XP,1466 > MHz (5.5 x 266) 1700+ > Motherboard Name ECS K7S5A (5 PCI,1 > AGP, 1 AMR, 4 DIMM, Audio) > Motherboard Chipset SiS 735 > System Memory 512 MB (PC2100DDR

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> SDRAM) > BIOS Type AMI (12/15/01) > Display: > Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti > 200 (64 MB) > Multimedia: > Audio Adapter Creative Labs SB > Live! 5.1 Sound Card > > Any advice you can give is much appreciated. > > >

"Tanstaafl" > > Any advice you can give is much appreciated. > Well that is odd. About all I can 'guess' is you have some sort of resource conflict. Check to make sure the videocard is NOT sharing an IRQ with anyother device. (same for the soundcard) There is a conflict with nvidia drivers that pre-date the 40+ level.(for example going from the 30.82's to the 41.09's) You should be able to find a utility that deletes the extra files at most driver sites. Also try using a program like detonator destroyer to find more un-used nvidia files(after uninstalling the drivers and choosing a standard pci vga display adapter. Make sure to follow the uninstall and reinstall instructions closely. Good luck. dave henrie