Author Topic: Gforce2 and blue flashes....... (Read 1448 times)

Wardog · « **on:** May 21, 2001, 02:26:00 PM »

Ill make this as short as i can.

Ive been running a TNT2 card with no problems, its made by HiS packaged with Nvidia,s own reference drivers, needless to say this means no problems with any of Nvidias Detonator drivers. HiS make Video cards without the added bells & whistles that might mess your system up.

I just bought a HiS Gforce2 MX400 64meg card. Damn good price. again packaged with Nvidias own drivers.

Installed the MX400 and all looked great, till i yanked back on the Jstick and started getting Blue flashes that took up a good 3 inchs of the bottom of my monitor. Annouying as hell. When i pushed forward on Jstick i would get the Blue flash across the top of my monitor. I adjusted all settings, reinstall the drivers 4 or 5 times, reinstalled DX.

Still Blue flashs. The only thing i didnt check was the refresh. Checked settings, Adapter was set at Optimal. (85mhz)..

Hmm, i thought what the hell, knocked it down to 75mhz, a bit better Blue flashes are now random. Ok, set refresh rate at 72mhz and BINGO....... No more blue flashes or tears.

For your info, HiS sells a strait forward Video card based on Nvidias chips and runs fantastic with every Detonator driver i installed. Best buy for the buck.. Totally impress with this card and the TNT2 i got from them. $145.00 Canadian for the Gforce2 MX400 64meg card with TV out. Thats about 75.00 US..

So, if ya have problems with the Blue Flashs thing, before you do anything start dropping your refresh rate.

Dog out.........

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2001, 03:32:00 PM »

with v-sync enabled aren't you lowering your frame rate upper limit when you lower your refresh rate?

Eagler

Wardog · « **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2001, 04:54:00 PM »

yup, but not much difference in FPS going from 85mhz to 72mhz. As i have a 3 year old 15" monitor this may also be part of the problem. End of summer ill go to a 17 or 19 inch.

Dog out........

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2001, 08:08:00 PM »

WD, some of the 6 series detonator drivers have this problem. If you feel like it, try changing mipmapping level to "high quality" rather than best image. Also go to one of the 7.xx series WHQL certified drivers.

Either that or leave it alone if you are happy. (The 6x series drivers also show some odd effects with the ship wakes that I've seen.)

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1776 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2001, 12:05:00 AM »

I have blue flashes when I'm not running Shift+F1 mode. Have a G-force card too think only 32 megs though

Wardog · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2001, 03:52:00 AM »

Bloom, can only find 6.31 drivers at Nvidias home page, not the 7.xx series WHQL certified drivers.

Do you have a URL for them?

Dog out........

Bombjack · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2001, 04:12:00 AM »

Try:
http://www.reactorcritical.com
or http://www.guru3d.com

for more drivers than you can shake a stick at.

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2001, 08:14:00 AM »

Open control panel and go to joy conf, then click on advanced and be sure that the option named "poll with interrupts" (not sure about the english transtation but AFAIK that is the only check box in the dialog) is marked. Unmarking this option may cause interference problems between interrup driven devices and the joy.

Vosper · « **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2001, 08:22:00 AM »

I'm using the 7.58 drivers, and I see the odd effects with the ships wakes (white flashes) but nothing else odd.

Anyone reading this using 12.xx drivers with a Geforce? I'd loaded them but found no fps difference in AH so I went back to 7.58 till I have more time to experiment.

Cheers

[This message has been edited by Vosper (edited 05-22-2001).]

Bombjack · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2001, 11:04:00 AM »

The 12.x line is mostly for GeForce3's. If you're not using a GF3, they're probably not worth the risk.

bloom25 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2001, 11:15:00 AM »

I'm using 12.10s in Win2k. They work great in AH, but have one little glitch: If you screen refresh rate is not the same as your desktop refresh rate and you alt tab out there will be oddities with textures when you get back into Ah.
www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com has newest drivers as well.

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Wardog · « **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2001, 03:20:00 PM »

Ok, downloading 7.68 drivers now. As i have 3 systems im gona try as many drivers as i can. ive got 2 PIII 750s and a PIII 550 Katmia. As well as my AMD system.

Will let you know what i find.

Dog out.......

Eagler · « **Reply #12 on:** May 22, 2001, 03:45:00 PM »

thanks WD
I first tried the 12.xx drivers with my ultra but had severe flashing and the screen was dark. Heard they and the 11.xx were for the GeForce 3, saw that the 6.xx had the best benchmarks for direct3d so I went with them. Not sure which 6.xx one I have, at work now. Interested in your findings. Please post res you are running them on and if FAA is on or not. I am at 1280 x whatever, 32 bit, res 85, shift f1 and only get an occasion flash, seems to be more pronounced out the side/rear views than the front view.
thanks
Eagler

Wardog · « **Reply #13 on:** May 22, 2001, 05:12:00 PM »

Ok, just did a quick install of the 7.78 WHQL certified drivers.

NO blue flashes of any sort and refresh rate is back to 85mhz. I also seemed to have gained about 7 to 9 FPS in 800x600 32bit hi color.I only went online for about 20 mins and have not gone over the CVs yet. I will tonight and look for glitchs in the CVs wake or and rips in graphics.

At work now, but i will try the other drivers as well, but im damn happy at this point

Ive seen the 10,11 & 12 drivers, and will try them all and compare FPS and look for any other graphic glitchs.

As i have a few test machines, list the drivers you need me to look at and ill run them.

Dog out......

Furious · « **Reply #14 on:** May 22, 2001, 06:02:00 PM »

I also had the GeForce blue flashes. They began when I switched from ME to Win2K. I got rid of the flashes by uninstalling the nvidia reference driver, running the Nvidia cleaner, installing 10.80 drivers and finally running the win2k refresh fix.

When I was finished AH looked much better and I got about 10 extra fps.

However, now after I have alt-tab'ed out of AH I am flying Wonder Women's invisible plane (just the gauges are fully visible, everything else is translucent or completely not visible) through a fluorescent green world. I have changed the desktop refresh rate, but this did not remove the problem.

Any ideas??

F.