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Old August 25th 05, 10:53 PM
D. K. Kraft
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With patience akin to a cat's, noabody, on 8/25/05 1:32 PM typed:
After trying numerous drivers from the Nvidia archive I can report that
using any driver beyond the 50 series does not work on older DX6/DX7
and possibly DX8 games. Currently I am using revision 56.64 in Win98
and 56.72 in WinXP. This caused me quite some frustration so I hope
the information is useful to others.


I've received similar problems on my system, with an older CPU (AMD
Athlon 700) and a GeForce 2 GTS/PRO (forget the brand--it's been a while)
running Win 98SE.

One of my favorite older games is Drakan: Order of the Flame, and
although the game ran okay with the 71.84 drivers, it caused a pixel shift
that put the graphics and text just slightly out of focus, making it impossible
to look at for any length of time. The 6x.xx drivers caused any DirectX 3D
graphics to be shifted to right, half-way off the screen, making them positively
unusable. I'm currently running the 56.64 drivers with success, only seeing a
minor corruption of the ruler numerals in MS Word, which is tolerable at my end.

As stated in the nVidia FAQ/Knowledge Base: "The general rule of thumb
for graphic card display drivers is 'if it ain't broken, don't fix it.' When we
release a new product, over time, we learn more about the architecture, and are
able to gain better performance from this architecture through our updated
ForcewareTM unified display drivers. As a product matures, driver updates
mainly provide bug fixes and compatibility with newer software.
"If your NVIDIA based graphics card is a newer model, it is recommended
that you update your graphic card drivers regularly to get the best performance
and experience from your PC. If your NVIDIA based graphics card is an older
model, then we suggest you update your drivers only if you are experiencing
instability problems while running newer software on your PC."


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