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Title: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 09, 2008, 07:17:44 AM: Didnt there used to be a website that had alternate video card drivers for bother Nvidia and ATI video cards?

Is it still around?

I have to try something different as the game occasionally locks up in an "endless loop" that an error report traces back to the NVidia card driver

Not the greatest card I know. But for now it will have ta do

Nvidia card 7600 GS 512 MB
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on April 09, 2008, 07:23:44 AM: www.omegadrivers.net
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: kamori on April 09, 2008, 09:23:48 AM: Dread...Try the original drivers that came on CD with your card. if you dont have them use a older set. I tried the newer ones from Nvidia and omega. I got the same results as you have. If you have nvidia on board sound then definatly go back to the originals for both.

Im running the Nvidia 7950 Vid Card and the Nvidia NForce2 Ultra 400 chipset.

Kamori
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on April 09, 2008, 11:04:37 AM: IIRC Omegadrivers.net also hosts legacy driver versions so people can find also older drivers when necessary.
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 10, 2008, 12:29:15 AM: Well the Omega drivers caused my system to completely lock up as soon as my decktop appeared.
If left to sit for a minutes the screen goes black then ges filled with multicolored garbage.
Yes I uninstalled the old drivers and ran driver sweaper in safe moe before installing the omega drivers

Back on the newest Nvidia drivers now just for chuckles.
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: kamori on April 10, 2008, 02:24:47 PM: Dred...go back to your original drivers... read my post a few yup its a bit more detailed..kind of.

Good Luck
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 10, 2008, 07:52:07 PM: Quote from: kamori on April 10, 2008, 02:24:47 PM
Dred...go back to your original drivers... read my post a few yup its a bit more detailed..kind of.

Good Luck

I did. thats what caused me to seek new drivers to start with.

I read on a tech forum soewhere from someone else having the same problem with a different game that Nvidia cards sometimes have issues with machines that use Corsair Ram.
Having bought 2 more gigs of kingston ram for my machine I removed ther one 512 corsair I had in there to use on my wifes machine. Thought that had been the answer. then the game locked up 3 times ina row the other day.

Seems very intermittent. I can go days without a hitch. Then 3 or more times in one night. Or 3 or 4 days in a row
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: falcon23 on April 10, 2008, 10:23:18 PM: Drediock try this site,I have used it to download and play around with different drivers for my 8600GT, it may help you out.
http://www.tweakforce.com/index.php
Kevin :salute
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 11, 2008, 12:47:21 AM: Thanks.
I'll check it out.

I see they have beta forceware drivers there
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: falcon23 on April 11, 2008, 11:31:40 PM: yea,there are a few I really like there...
Kevin
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: kamori on April 12, 2008, 09:11:55 PM: are you overclocking your CPU or memory ? Is so then slow it back down or increase voltage to CPU. Same goes to Vid Card.

Kamori
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: humble on April 12, 2008, 10:45:03 PM: As a general rule I think skuzzy recommends the 84.66 drivers for nvidia cards....
Title: Re: Alternate Video drivers
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 13, 2008, 04:23:59 PM: Quote from: kamori on April 12, 2008, 09:11:55 PM
are you overclocking your CPU or memory ? Is so then slow it back down or increase voltage to CPU. Same goes to Vid Card.

Kamori

Why yes I am.

Anthlon 64 3200+ OC'ed to 2147. (dont remember the current voltage)
Havent touched the memory or Vid card