On 25 Aug 2005 13:32:10 -0700, "noabody" wrote:

To provide a gauge or timeline for this message I'd like to start off
by saying that the most current driver I can download from Nvidia today
is 77.77 for 2000/XP and 77.72 for 9x/ME. I am running a Geforce 2 GTS
64Mb card (bios 3.15.01.02) on an MSI K7T lite with dual-boot Windows
98 SE and Windows XP SP2 and DirectX 9.0c. The computer is an Athlon
900Mhz; with 3.5Ghz processors out today you can certainly say that
this is a low-end gaming computer. As a result I am playing classic
games on it: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, High Stakes, Porsche
Unleashed, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D, Shadows of the Empire, Battle
for Naboo, and Episode 1 Racer. All of these games had a common
problem with the Nvidia 75 series drivers, they either displayed no
graphics or had missing 3D objects.

An example of this is Porsche Unleashed. In Win98 there was no text on
the menu screens so the game was unplayable. In WinXP there was menu
text but I could only see the doors and hood on the cars. While racing
I could see the sky and mountains but there was no road. It was as if
half of the 3D objects weren't being rendered. This same problem
showed up in every game mentioned, some graphics were missing or there
were none at all. With Episode One Racer I could see just the horizon
and my HUD, nothing else showed up on the screen.

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'm not sure what driver revisions stopped supporting the GF2
GTS/Pro/Ti chips. Only the GF2 MX versions are supported in newer
drivers. Why Nvidia would keep support of the lesser GF2 MX, and dump
the more powerful GTS/Pro/Ti is beyond me.