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From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if
I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo |
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Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. |
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Buffalo wrote:
Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul |
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Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Thanks, I will lower the refresh rate to 60. The refresh rate for my LCD monitor is rated for 75Hz at the resolutions I use, but I will try the lower 60 rate. Buffalo PS:When I go to Safe Mode or after I uninstall the drivers and reboot, the refresh rate goes to 60Hz and the display is 640x480 and the display is corrupted and partial and tears when I move the mouse pointer. I have two of the 7600GT agp 256MB cards and both act the same way. |
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Buffalo wrote:
Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Thanks, I will lower the refresh rate to 60. The refresh rate for my LCD monitor is rated for 75Hz at the resolutions I use, but I will try the lower 60 rate. Buffalo PS:When I go to Safe Mode or after I uninstall the drivers and reboot, the refresh rate goes to 60Hz and the display is 640x480 and the display is corrupted and partial and tears when I move the mouse pointer. I have two of the 7600GT agp 256MB cards and both act the same way. You should have a look around the Nvidia forums, and see if there is a recommendation for a driver version. This thread is old, but they recommend 94.24. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=45256 Also, with an old OS, you need to find out what the last driver was for the OS, to understand how much further than that you can go. And as luck would have it, that looks to be 94.24 as well. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24_2.html Uninstall the previous driver, and try that one. It's also possible you're already using that (because it would pop up from the Nvidia driver download page). I'll have to reboot, so I can go back and check what I'm using in Win2K for my card... Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Buffalo wrote: Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Thanks, I will lower the refresh rate to 60. The refresh rate for my LCD monitor is rated for 75Hz at the resolutions I use, but I will try the lower 60 rate. Buffalo PS:When I go to Safe Mode or after I uninstall the drivers and reboot, the refresh rate goes to 60Hz and the display is 640x480 and the display is corrupted and partial and tears when I move the mouse pointer. I have two of the 7600GT agp 256MB cards and both act the same way. You should have a look around the Nvidia forums, and see if there is a recommendation for a driver version. This thread is old, but they recommend 94.24. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=45256 Also, with an old OS, you need to find out what the last driver was for the OS, to understand how much further than that you can go. And as luck would have it, that looks to be 94.24 as well. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_94.24_2.html Uninstall the previous driver, and try that one. It's also possible you're already using that (because it would pop up from the Nvidia driver download page). I'll have to reboot, so I can go back and check what I'm using in Win2K for my card... Paul It looks like for some reason, I'm using 175.19 for my 7900GT card on Win2K SP4. I don't know how I arrived at choosing that one. It seems to work. What's interesting (and scary), is I found one hit in a forum, suggesting 175.19 is a driver that causes the fan to stop spinning. Well, that can't affect my 7900 GT, because I bypassed the fan header. My video card fan runs from a separate power source, and, at a fixed speed. I did that, because the spinup to 100% fan speed in Linux, was annoying me, and I had to do *something* about it (the bog-standard Linux driver, doesn't have fan speed control - you need a tainted driver for that). So I decided to bypass the control and just power the fan from a separate (voltage limited) source. I adjusted the voltage, until I got the same cooling effort as while in Windows and gaming. So when I play my favorite 3D game in Windows, the fan speed I selected, is just right for cooling the card. (Card runs at the same temp as it did, before I butchered the cabling.) So if you were to try 175.19, do a check first and see if it's one of those driver releases that stops the fan from spinning. Paul |
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Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Just to give you more info, I can reset the card by launching Halo but not by launching Q2 or Q3Arena. It will also reset if I run Half-Life Episode 1 (have to go through Steam). I use the same resolution in those games and the same refresh rate. Once the card is 'reset' it usually will stay that way until I reboot. Buffalo |
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Buffalo wrote: Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Just to give you more info, I can reset the card by launching Halo but not by launching Q2 or Q3Arena. It will also reset if I run Half-Life Episode 1 (have to go through Steam). I use the same resolution in those games and the same refresh rate. Once the card is 'reset' it usually will stay that way until I reboot. Buffalo Doom 3 doesn't do it either/ Buffalo |
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Buffalo wrote:
Buffalo wrote: Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Just to give you more info, I can reset the card by launching Halo but not by launching Q2 or Q3Arena. It will also reset if I run Half-Life Episode 1 (have to go through Steam). I use the same resolution in those games and the same refresh rate. Once the card is 'reset' it usually will stay that way until I reboot. Buffalo Doom 3 doesn't do it either/ Buffalo Aren't some of the ID software titles based on OpenGL ? Perhaps the ones that reset your card, are DirectX titles ? And so the issue might be slightly DirectX related. Paul |
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Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: Paul wrote: Buffalo wrote: Buffalo wrote: From my post "GeForce 7600GT AGP on Win2000ProSP4" I just realized that if I didn't have Halo installed, I wouldn't be able to keep my 7600gt AGP card able to play Q3 or view videos in full screen. Damn, their must be a better solution. I just reinsatlled my AGP ECS mb drivers. I used the latest ones from ECS (my mb is an ECS K7s5a rev3.1 with a HoneyX Bios. I don't have the HDD to install an XP system into to test out your ideas. I still use a dual 98se-2kSP4 system with an Athlon Mobile 2400+ (266MHz fsb) with 1 GB of ram. My Desktop resolutiob is at 1440x900 with a refresh of 75MHz with a Planar PX2710MW LCD monitor. Even if I set my Halo game vid setting the same, I still have the same problem. Amy other ideas on how I can get my video display to work properly without having to start Halo after the video changes shortly after bootup. Once changed, it seems to stay that way for the rest of the session, even after 12 hrs. Thanks again, Buffalo One addition, when I was using the previous vid card ATI Radeon 8500LE, I did not experience the problem I do now. (the new card gives me much better fps in my games). Also, when I try to uninstall the vid drivers and then reboot, the screen is very corrupted and tears whenever I move the mouse pointer. It is very difficult to make out what is on the screen. The same exact thing happens in Safe Mode, even without uninstalling the vid drivers first. Buffalo PS: It seems that my PC does not load the PCI Standard VGA (if any at all) default drivers. I cannot even find the .inf for that default driver. I would start by changing the refresh from 75Hz back to 60Hz. That's half your problem right there. LCDs do not behave the same as CRTs. On a CRT, we used to raise refresh, to reduce flicker. It's less of an issue with LCDs. Some LCDs actually throw away 1 in N frames when you raise the refresh too high. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mon...ameters_3.html On the two LCDs I have here, I run them at 60Hz. Paul Just to give you more info, I can reset the card by launching Halo but not by launching Q2 or Q3Arena. It will also reset if I run Half-Life Episode 1 (have to go through Steam). I use the same resolution in those games and the same refresh rate. Once the card is 'reset' it usually will stay that way until I reboot. Buffalo Doom 3 doesn't do it either/ Buffalo Aren't some of the ID software titles based on OpenGL ? Perhaps the ones that reset your card, are DirectX titles ? And so the issue might be slightly DirectX related. Paul Thanks, good thought. Buffalo PS: Have a fun weekend and don't forget about the Super Moon tonight!!! (ie: closest to Eartha and full to bring you the brightest moon of 2012 : 14% larger and 30% brighter) |
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