GeForce owners may want to look at this

[Mr.Frag]

AMD 64/3000

Yep, you can probably run a year a day of ai vs ai [:D]

[2Stepper]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

AMD 64/3000

Yep, you can probably run a year a day of ai vs ai [:D]

Sounds about right considering the final bit of the turn is 2, maybe 3 seconds. Anyhoo, nuff thumpin my chest bout the puter... Heh!

[CTB123]

I have a GeForce4 Ti4200, none of the newer ForceWare drivers have worked properly with that (although nVidia claims the card is 100% supported by ForceWare). Slower and messier graphics, anti-aliasing doesn't work as expected, random lock-ups and so on... so for every new attempt, I've had to rollback to the Detonator set.

Has anyone with a similar card had any luck?

Did you uninstall the old drivers before installing the new ones? Skipping this step can cause problems. In the past, I installed new drivers right over the old ones despite the warnigs. This time after doing so, I was having problems similar to yours. After uninstalling and reinstalling my problems went away. Many people take the extra step and use a driver cleaner such as detonator destroyer before installing new drivers, though I have never done that myself. You also should make sure you are upgraded to at least Direct X 9.0b. 9.0c has just come out, though I have not tried it yet.

Tony
Tony

[Mr.Frag]

After uninstalling and reinstalling my problems went away. Many people take the extra step and use a driver cleaner such as detonator destroyer before installing new drivers, though I have never done that myself. You also should make sure you are upgraded to at least Direct X 9.0b. 9.0c has just come out, though I have not tried it yet.

Agreed, those extra couple of steps can make the difference between a working machine and a buggered display. There is a reason all those things were written.

Driver changes are best done by completely uninstalling the old driver, rebooting to ensure any locked dll's are flushed then installing the new drivers from scratch.

For various reasons, various versions of the non-production drivers get leaked and they do not have the proper cleanup routines to ensure a complete clean uninstall so the new driver ends up only in partially installed with some of the old driver still hooked and running.

[hithere]

keep in mind that i have only installed new bio and drivers and suchs without uninstalling the old ones (well, backed up the bios)....but if you un install the driver for your graphic's card....will you see anything when you reboot?

[Mr.Frag]

keep in mind that i have only installed new bio and drivers and suchs without uninstalling the old ones (well, backed up the bios)....but if you un install the driver for your graphic's card....will you see anything when you reboot?

Thats a tricky question to answer. It depends on your operating system and your video card. Most times the answer is yes, it will default to 640x480x16 colour @ 60 Herz, but there are some cases where that is not true with older operating systems.

[hithere]

the reason i ask is because when i was loading in the driver for the GeForce 5200 it told me to delete the old driver (which is acually a correction to my prev post) and load the new driver....well...i rebooted by my own error.....after that my screen was blank..fortunatly i had a ethernet set up and was able to get it right from there

[hithere]

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

keep in mind that i have only installed new bio and drivers and suchs without uninstalling the old ones (well, backed up the bios)....but if you un install the driver for your graphic's card....will you see anything when you reboot?

Thats a tricky question to answer. It depends on your operating system and your video card. Most times the answer is yes, it will default to 640x480x16 colour @ 60 Herz, but there are some cases where that is not true with older operating systems.

ok...i don't remember right now if i had ME or XP loaded... thanks

[hithere]

acually...now that you mention it...i think that part of my prob was that my monitor (NEC LCD..don't remember the modle) didn't like the default...anyway...thanks again

[Montrose]

Wow - a major jump on my FX5700, thanks Rocco for starting this thread [:)]

[Mr.Frag]

Wow - a major jump on my FX5700, thanks Rocco for starting this thread

Thats one of the reasons I finally switched over to ATI with my last card. Got tired to having the nVidia driver up and down games. One version you blaze, next you crawl, next you blaze, next you crawl...

[Nikademus]

ATI???

[MadDawg]

I have a Geforce 3 Ti500 on my work system which pushes BFV along fine, so I think it should be fine here. Im running DirectX 9c now to no avail, but I will do a complete removal of drivers to be sure that isnt the problem. Anyone else using this card out of itnerest?

My main system is running an ATI x800XT and I must admit, that pushes it along pretty well [;)] So did my last card which was also an ATI (9800). It seems Nvidia has had a few issues with this one for some.

Dawg

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ATI???

Steve, I am IT pro and I think I had almost all 3D cards over the years... [;)]

#1 3Dfx
Voodoo1

#2 Matrox
G200

#3 nVIDIA
TNT
TNT2
GeForce2
GeForce3
GeForce4
(note that I only didn't have GeForce1 and new cards that come after GeForce4)

#4 ATI
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro

I was "die hard" nVIDIA "fan" but 12+ months ago I switched to ATI because I didn't like when nVIDIA was going...

Believe me - when I had nVIDIA (and I always had good nVIDIA cards from Asus) I wanted to change my monitor but after I got ATI I changed my mind.

The picture is so much better (nicer colors and crispier even in 2D) taht i never regreted my decision!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Goufy]

On my Geforce 2 MX200 (i think), got a big increase too, doesn't wait anymore 2 seconds between the Coastwatcher warnings or the Recon Photo Missions, more 1/3 of a second now.

But already had two system lock up, that i didn't have before, during turn resolution (did the desinstall - reboot - install thing).

[worr]

ORIGINAL: CJ Martin

Read this thread, went and got the new drivers, and now I have "Fatal Error 774" on startup.

D'oh!

Guess I need to revert...

-CJ

Did you uninstall, the smut, first?

Worr, out

[Mr.Frag]

The picture is so much better (nicer colors and crispier even in 2D) taht i never regreted my decision!

Agreed. I have a 9800XT right now, and since installing it and setting it to the maximum everything, I have never touched it since. It was not a cheap card by any means, but when it comes to video cards, you pretty much get exactly what you pay for.

nVidia always had me playing with settings when I jumped back and forth between stuff. Just got fed up with the neverending battle of the *right* settings.