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77.72: Geforce 2 MX/400 with 2046 MB RAM in DxDiag
hi all,
installed the newest driver and direct 9.0c and i now get the info that the card has 2046 MB Ram and also the direct 3d tests in DxDiag all failed. de-installed and re-installed the drivers again but same result. as a consequence the card doesnt work well of course,. some games wont run now. what can i do to solve this? thanks all, euro |
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That older technology card is incompatible with the newer drivers. I
believe hte newest driver you can use is 45.23 if you want stability with games. Most modern games require a more recent more powerful card. Time to upgrade. And that card has, maybe 64 MB of RAM; it does NOT have 2046 MB of RAM! -- DaveW __________ wrote in message oups.com... hi all, installed the newest driver and direct 9.0c and i now get the info that the card has 2046 MB Ram and also the direct 3d tests in DxDiag all failed. de-installed and re-installed the drivers again but same result. as a consequence the card doesnt work well of course,. some games wont run now. what can i do to solve this? thanks all, euro |
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hi daveW,
i know that the card has 64 mb ram. i just said that dxdiag shows 2046 in the panel. anyways, i will try an older driver now.i hope it works. thanks for your help, european |
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DaveW wrote:
That older technology card is incompatible with the newer drivers. I believe hte newest driver you can use is 45.23 if you want stability with games. Most modern games require a more recent more powerful card. Time to upgrade. And that card has, maybe 64 MB of RAM; it does NOT have 2046 MB of RAM! Don't listen to this idiot. He's been around for a while and just copy/pastes basically the same message everytime. I've run every driver since maybe 23.xx on a GF2MX (including the 77.xx) in my server and have not had any problems, EVER. I've also run every official driver release since card purchase on a GF2U, a GF3 TI200, an FX5600, F5700, and my current GF6 6600GT. No problems with the drivers, EVER, and I really stress the hell out of these poor chips . Normally if you're getting acceleration errors or blue screens and lockups, you're looking at a chipset error (motherboard chipset). The solution differs depending on your board, but generally you should make sure you have your chipset driver installed properly and any AGP GART drivers installed before your NVIDIA driver. Some chipset problems are just arcane. I had an old KT133A and it would not run accelerated games at all because the newer VIA 4-in-1 drivers (now Hyperion) forgot to set a register value correctly (MWQ bug) and screwed it completely. So if you DO have all the proper drivers and everything else fails, start looking for weird incompatiblities like that. Best of luck. |
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hi deimos,
well thanks for your statement. i did the following to solve this issue: i tried all drivers on the nvidia website beginning with the newest one. all of them gave me the same wrong MB size in dxdiag and faulty direct3d tests. except one: 53.04 this one works with directx 9, i see 64 mb ram and all dxdiag-tests work now. ....weird incompatiblities, yep. probably the reason. but i do not want to spend half day on this. now everything works fine with 53.04 and thats it. for all future readers of this thread: FIC VB-601-V Mainboard (VIA Apollo Pro + Chipset) Windows 98SE 384 MB RAM Geforce 2 MX/MX400 64 MB Direct X 9.0c Driver version: 53.04 This Config Works fine! Thanks, European |
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"deimos" wrote in message ... DaveW wrote: That older technology card is incompatible with the newer drivers. I believe hte newest driver you can use is 45.23 if you want stability with games. Most modern games require a more recent more powerful card. Time to upgrade. And that card has, maybe 64 MB of RAM; it does NOT have 2046 MB of RAM! Don't listen to this idiot. He's been around for a while and just copy/pastes basically the same message everytime. I've run every driver since maybe 23.xx on a GF2MX (including the 77.xx) in my server and have not had any problems, EVER. I've also run every official driver release since card purchase on a GF2U, a GF3 TI200, an FX5600, F5700, and my current GF6 6600GT. No problems with the drivers, EVER, and I really stress the hell out of these poor chips . You are very lucky not to have struck a bug in drivers. I have an FX5700 A360 TDH and had gamma adjustment problems with the WinXP 77.72 version nVidia driver. The default setting was washed out, i.e. way to high, but trying to adjust it was impossible. The gamma would go from 0.3 to 6.5 with nothing in between in adjusting the thing by one pixel on the screen. I did discover a partial work around, partial in that when I when I tried to save it, it would have to be reapplied at next reboot. I went back to older drivers for a while. My card has ViVo and I had hassles installing and using WDM 2.26 drivers until 77.77. Those are not the only driver problems I have had with this and other cards. I don't bother with beta drivers anymore either. I hope you stay bug free. Dave |
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