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Chaintech Ti4200 and D3D Problem
Hey, all...
I've been Googling all day to find a solution (or at least a reason) for my problem, which is that I just finished putting together a new machine, and everything's great except I'm experiencing some D3D errors with my Chaintech Ti4200 64MB vid card. My setup: AMD Athlon XP+ 2600 512 MB DDR400 Aopen AK77-400N motherboard Chaintech Ti4200 64 MB video card Win98SE (for games) I've tried old and new drivers for the card, DirectX 8 and Direct X 9, stepping the card down to 4X AGP, but so far, every time I run dxdiag, I fail all the D3D tests. I'd be very grateful for any ideas anyone can throw my way. I was hoping to spend a lazy Saturday watching my old games suddenly look better, and instead, I'm looking at UT in windowed mode and failing dxdiag tests. Thanks a million! -- Rev. Tim McIntire http://www.reverendtim.com |
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Rev. Tim McIntire wrote:
Hey, all... I've been Googling all day to find a solution (or at least a reason) for my problem, which is that I just finished putting together a new machine, and everything's great except I'm experiencing some D3D errors with my Chaintech Ti4200 64MB vid card. My setup: AMD Athlon XP+ 2600 512 MB DDR400 Aopen AK77-400N motherboard Chaintech Ti4200 64 MB video card Win98SE (for games) I've tried old and new drivers for the card, DirectX 8 and Direct X 9, stepping the card down to 4X AGP, but so far, every time I run dxdiag, I fail all the D3D tests. I'd be very grateful for any ideas anyone can throw my way. I was hoping to spend a lazy Saturday watching my old games suddenly look better, and instead, I'm looking at UT in windowed mode and failing dxdiag tests. Thanks a million! -- Rev. Tim McIntire http://www.reverendtim.com Had the same problem on a recent rebuild with a old KT133a board. Sometimes there's a PCI latency bug with certain boards. Check with amdmb.com forums and see if there was an old "MWQ bug" or "pci latency fix/filter patch" for your board in previous chipset drivers. Also, disable fastwrites and sideband addressing in the bios. Then if all that fails, check for a card bios update. I've seen several people cure infinite loop and 'no acceleration' problems by updating buggy bioses. |
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Do you have the newest VIA Hyperion (4in1) drivers? And try older
Detonators. "Rev. Tim McIntire" wrote in message news Hey, all... I've been Googling all day to find a solution (or at least a reason) for my problem, which is that I just finished putting together a new machine, and everything's great except I'm experiencing some D3D errors with my Chaintech Ti4200 64MB vid card. My setup: AMD Athlon XP+ 2600 512 MB DDR400 Aopen AK77-400N motherboard Chaintech Ti4200 64 MB video card Win98SE (for games) I've tried old and new drivers for the card, DirectX 8 and Direct X 9, stepping the card down to 4X AGP, but so far, every time I run dxdiag, I fail all the D3D tests. I'd be very grateful for any ideas anyone can throw my way. I was hoping to spend a lazy Saturday watching my old games suddenly look better, and instead, I'm looking at UT in windowed mode and failing dxdiag tests. Thanks a million! -- Rev. Tim McIntire http://www.reverendtim.com |
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:05:14 -0800, Sept1967 wrote:
Do you have the newest VIA Hyperion (4in1) drivers? And try older Detonators. I believe I have the newest VIA drivers, but I'll double-check. How far back do you recommend I go on the Detonators? -- Rev. Tim http://www.reverendtim.com |
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Try the late 33.xx series up to early 44 series. I use 44.03 on mine.
"Rev. Tim McIntire" wrote in message news On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:05:14 -0800, Sept1967 wrote: Do you have the newest VIA Hyperion (4in1) drivers? And try older Detonators. I believe I have the newest VIA drivers, but I'll double-check. How far back do you recommend I go on the Detonators? -- Rev. Tim http://www.reverendtim.com |
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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:53:29 -0800, Sept1967 wrote:
Try the late 33.xx series up to early 44 series. I use 44.03 on mine. Brother man, I do believe you solved my problem! I downloaded the latest Hyperion drivers, installed 'em. Then I uninstalled my nVidia 45.23 (I think, it's late, and I'm not too bright) and loaded 40.something. Reboot, and UT ran as it should for about five minutes, then it froze hard. I rebooted and ran Ghost Recon, and it ran for about five minutes, and IT froze hard. So I uninstalled the older nVidia drivers and reinstalled the newest, rebooted, and so far, everything *seems* to be working okay. Maybe it WAS the VIA drivers that were the problem. Should I get the hard freeze again (and the pessimist in me assumes I will), is that a more accurate symptom of something, do y'all think? Either way, I'm going to bed relieved instead of angry at the technology gods, so thanks for EVERYTHING. -- Rev. Tim http://www.reverendtim.com |
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