Flashing triangles with GeForce 4 4200

[PapaFox]

Just tried to change my video card from ATI 8500 to GeForce 4 4200. Aces High worked fine before, but with the GeForce I receive flashing triangles on screen which follow my mouse cursor and spawn all over the place. The game is unplayable.

I reinstalled DirectX8.1, I reinstalled several flavors of the GeForce 4 drivers, I reinstalled AH (new directory, too) all to no avail. Other Direct3D games play fine, including Warbirds III. To add insult to injury, my ATI 8500 card will not reinstall properly (following the rules, removing old driver before swapping cards, etc. As luck would have it, I missed tonight's squad night where the Dickweeds absolutely obliterated a city in one pass and lived to tell about it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Celeron 1.1 processor on a PIII board, 256mb SDRAM, GeForce 4 4200 (from PNY).

thx,
PapaFox

[spiffykraits]

When re-installing drivers, you must make sure that you always revert the adaptor card back to plain old PCI VGA and also remove the old drivers before rebooting. It sounds as though you have some older files hanging around in there, if you just changed adpators without going the plain old default VGA route.

Change the adaptor selection in video properties, and choose to MANUALLY select from a list.  The plain old default PCI VGA should be listed near the top of the presented list of adapators and makes. Scroll up to it. Select it, and then BEFORE allowing the PC to reboot remove the old drivers using control panel, then add/remove.

Once rebooted make sure you have the standard VGA 640x480 running, now go install the new drivers for your card. You can do this in safe mode.

[Hwkeye]

I get the same thing on occasion with my Geforce3 Ti 200 card.  Usually I have to shutdown AH and restart and it seems to go away.

There was a time where I would have to actually reboot the computer then it would disappear.

Hwkeye

[PapaFox]

Still working on the problem,

Tried 3 other games (two were flight sims), all worked fine. Problem seems to only be with Aces High.

Took a good look at Spiffycrate's idea of ensuring that VGA driver was loaded between other two drivers, but this computer uses Windows 2000 and I get VGA driver loaded automatically when a driver is removed and machine rebooted, but Win 2000 does not allow me to manually choose "VGA" as I can in Win98, ME, etc.

[spiffykraits]

Go to NVIDIA web site and see if you can locate the program that removes all Geforce driver files for a re-install, I know that they do one somewhere, as this works better than add/remove enabling you to start from scratch again.  This may solve it.

I have no other suggestions as I'm not as familiar with win2k as with other Win OSs, but it sounds as though this could be a setting problem.  Have you got anti-aliasing turned off?

[blackfalcon4]

PAPA, try SP3

 It has fixed other's video problems

[PapaFox]

Thx for the suggestions, all of you. Solution was to install a Win 2000 service pack. I started with SP1 and that solved the problem.

Salute,
PapaFox