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| Thread ID: 56086 | 2005-03-27 02:35:00 | Garbled graphics, GeForce MX440-SE 64MB card | nicisace (7454) | Press F1 |
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| 338348 | 2005-03-27 02:35:00 | Ran a clean XP install a few months back, installed SP2, reinstalled all drivers and now I have a problem displaying 3D - and in some cases even 2D - graphics. 3D in particular (in games & other 3D software) looks garbled and sometimes disappears making games impossible to play (or in most cases even see a menu screen in them). Have played with refresh rates & screen resolution which often results in a completely scrambled screen. Have run dxdiag and noticed running Direct3D tests that while different refresh rates have made the "spinning box" easier to see, none have fixed the problem. Have uninstalled & reinstalled various version of the NVIDIA GeForce drivers. After installing the latest version had to battle through the scramble to adjust screen resolution before getting a usable picture. Anything other than 16-bit colour results in scrambled screen of death. dxdiag show "no problems found", although any full-screen tests (including DirectDraw) are patchy at best. Have tried updating MOBO BIOS but that didn't help either. The card has worked fine up until recently. OS: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) Processor: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz Memory: 512MB RAM HDD: 120GB Western Digital SATA (primary, split into 2 x partitions) 19.5GB QUANTUM FIREBALL (secondary feeble backup drive) MOBO: A7V8X-X DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE Display Memory: 64.0 MB Monitor: Philips 105S PCI Cards in use: * WinFast TV2000 XP TV Tuner Card * Firewire Card * SoftV90 Data Fax Modem DVD/CD Rom Drives: * Creative CD-RW RW2410E * Dick Smith DVDR/RW DX162D-A Any help appreciated! :help: |
nicisace (7454) | ||
| 338349 | 2005-03-27 04:24:00 | what video drivers are you useing and what motherboard drivers are you useing? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 338350 | 2005-03-27 04:50:00 | check your refresh rates against what themonitor can handle..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 338351 | 2005-03-27 08:15:00 | what video drivers are you useing and what motherboard drivers are you useing? Nvidia video driver version 6.6.9.3 MOBO BIOS version 1013 umm, any others that may be applicable? "VIA 4in1" I think was version 4.49 (2.4.1.0), but had a few tries there - & due to a healthy dose of ignorance not sure where to look to see the current revision in use. Thanks, Nic |
nicisace (7454) | ||
| 338352 | 2005-03-27 08:54:00 | I'd also be interested in any resolutions to this issue - I had downloaded the latest drivers a few weeks ago for my NVidia GeForce2 MX-400 (since my old drivers were causing a low framerate in Unreal II). Now the DirectDraw tests (in dxdiag) show two flickering rectangles bouncing around the screen for the full-screen test. In Direct3D tests there are a few rogue pixels near the bottom of the screen. But hey - the framerate in Unreal II has improved, and steam & flames in Half-Life (Game of the Year ed.) are rendered properly! The driver version is 66.94, with all DLLs having version numbers 4.14.10.6694, and that version of the drivers was released December 16, 2004. Just noticed that there is a new version on the NVidia site (71.84), released March 11 2005. I'm going to try downloading it to see if it resolves the issue. My OS is Windows ME and I'm running an Athlon XP 2600+ CPU on a Soltek NV400-L64 motherboard (which uses the nForce chipset). Just wondering - how many others have had this issue? Does anyone know how to resolve this (assuming this latest version I'm downloading doesn't work)? |
D. McG (3023) | ||
| 338353 | 2005-03-27 08:59:00 | have you tried to update direct x? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 338354 | 2005-03-27 09:09:00 | have you tried to update direct x? Using the latest version of DX (9.0c). All refresh rate settings i've tried are within manufacture spec's for this monitor. Interested to see a new Nvidia driver version available...17.9MB will mean over an hour over my stressed modem but hopefully will bear fruit...! |
nicisace (7454) | ||
| 338355 | 2005-03-27 09:19:00 | hhhmmm, you say that you reinstalled all the drivers in that case download drivercleaner3 (http://www.drivercleaner.net/) and remove all the graphics related drivers, that could be intergrated graphics drivers etc.... after you have tried that and still no go, reset the graphics card. take it out then put it back in |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 338356 | 2005-03-27 10:36:00 | Good news - the latest Nvidia drivers do seem to have remedied any issues in the dxdiag tests. My 3D mapping software still seems to be having issues (may just need to reinstall it as the graphics issues were apparent when it was first installed), but games appear to be go again. May just be that all variations of the previous drivers weren't playing well with XP SP2?! Interested in hearing how you got on D. McG... |
nicisace (7454) | ||
| 338357 | 2005-03-27 11:01:00 | Change that - no problem with 3D mapping software now either (a stray setting within the program), so the new driver has worked 100% :) | nicisace (7454) | ||
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