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| Thread ID: 24748 | 2002-09-18 03:08:00 | Problem with graphics card and games | Scott Bartley (836) | Press F1 |
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| 80568 | 2002-09-18 03:08:00 | Well . . . actually it's most likely NOT a problem with the video card . . . . here's the deal: My brother-in-laws Celeron 600 system (ASUS TUSL2-C, 292MB 133 RAM, Windows XP Pro) is having trouble playing games with his new Triplex GF4 Ti4200 128MB video card . In his words . . . this is the problem . . . "The problem is, it's like I have 8mb 3D card instead of a 128mb card with the graphics and res on full, jerk, jerk, jerk, jerk, but I have to turn the graphics right down eg . In V8 Challenge I have to have the res on 600 x 400 and all the detail turned on to low and have about 3 other cars on the track to run smoothly, but its still not perfet . " Now, I know its not the card at fault cos it runs sweetly in another PC, he has installed the latest Detonator drivers with no effect on the problem . Strangely, he put his old M64 TNT2 back in and suddenly it's doing the same thing too . I'm guessing it is something to do with either Windows XP or perhaps the motherboard . Because I havent actually been able to physically look at the PC yet to have a play with various things . . . I thought I'd see if anyone here has any ideas about the problem first . Cheerz Scotty |
Scott Bartley (836) | ||
| 80569 | 2002-09-18 03:16:00 | theres been problems with the latest dets. try uninstalling them and go back to an older ver. there is a tool to clean out the nvida drivers (link in the news somewhere). | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80570 | 2002-09-18 03:22:00 | Yeah but the problem first happened with his older drivers (I'm not sure which revision...probably at least a few months old knowing him). When he first told me about the problem I told him the usual line "have you installed the latest drivers?", which he hadn't, so he did that and there was no change. I wonder if he installed the drivers that came with card over the old ones and that has screwed it all up? I might tell him to uninstall any trace of both the old and new drivers and to remove the card itself thru device manager so he start from scratch. |
Scott Bartley (836) | ||
| 80571 | 2002-09-18 03:48:00 | he could have had non gf4 drivers in for his tnt and install the new gf4 without removeing the old drivers first. that could have corrupted the drivers. for starters i would clean out all nvida drivers then install the gf4 ones that came with the card. once they are all working go look at the latest er...semi latest ;-) also check the monitor drivers. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80572 | 2002-09-18 06:55:00 | That CPU would be better suited to a granny cruising the web in her morris minor than full on V8 challenging. | BIFF (1) | ||
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