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Offline Sleight

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« on: June 25, 2002, 01:00:27 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2002, 03:09:09 PM »
I have a Nvidia GeForce 256.

*EDIT* read the technical FAQ and capped frame rate at 45, did nothing.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2002, 08:18:33 PM »
fixed it-now I have another problem.



can anyone help me now?
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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2002, 08:31:29 PM »
reinstall directx?

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« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2002, 12:18:14 PM »
Sleight,

You have classic corrupted nVidia driver symptoms... Their drivers are a little funky in that before you install new ones, you MUST completely uninstall the old ones!! (COMPLETELY).

Here's what you need to do:

Goto The Guru of 3D sight and download their "Detonator Destroyer" program. They also have several help files...

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Uninstall your nVidia Drivers.
Run Detonator Destroyer.
Reboot
Let your computer find and install generic monitor drivers.
Reboot again.
Install your nVidia Drivers.
Reboot one last time.

I've had all those kewl symptoms with WIN98, & 2K... And it sucked - took about 10 days to figure out where to get the proper info.  I am about 95% sure this will fix your problem.

Cyas Up!
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2002, 12:34:37 PM »
delete config7 from AH dir (setting) restart and click "disable pallete swap" or something like that, when screen comes up... should fix it

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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2002, 01:23:16 PM »
I have 2 video cards-will that be a problem?

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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2002, 01:40:12 PM »
I don't know... Why do you have two?  Are you connecting two monitors?

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« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2002, 07:29:14 AM »
It's supposed to be a 2-monitor computer, but I disabled the second one.

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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2002, 11:24:49 PM »
Down to one card & monitor.. did this fix your problem?

I'd say get one working 100%, then try the other...

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« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2002, 08:21:20 AM »
Please provide more information.  What are your machine details besides the video card?  What OS are you running?  What nVidia driver version are you using?  What DX version?

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« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2002, 03:58:50 PM »
I know I'm sorta resurrecting this from the dead....but hey, why not...

Machine details:

900mhz Pentium 3
384 mb Ram
GeForce 256, 64mb RAM
DX 8.1
Latest Detonator drivers (40.72 or whatever)

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« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2002, 04:15:28 PM »
use the links in my signature... they should help

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« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2002, 10:10:45 PM »
I tried the fourth one but I couldn't do all the steps because I didn't have a (stadard display drivers) or whatever category. Still no workie...

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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2002, 05:38:02 PM »
It refers to your basic VGA drivers... All computers have it.  XP automatically selects the most appropriate so these steps don't work very well with XP.  I am not sure about Win2K, but anything earlier should go step for step..