NVIDIA GForce 2 MX Display Drivers for Windows XP

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:15 am

In upgrading my system, I have just installed Windows XP and reinstalled MSTS, but it hung after running for a couple of minutes (Acela on NEC). I expect it will be display driver problems, so I am downloading the Detonator 30.30 drivers from guru3d.com right now.

What drivers are other XP users using?

class40 · Post by **class40** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:46 am

Ian, I am using Version 40.41 on a GForce 3 T200 and they appear to work fine.

I cant remember where I got them from but you do a search for 40.41 I am sure that you will find them.

Tony

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:04 am

Thanks for the quick response. The 30.30 drivers seem to be OK, but the sound has gone all stuttery, so I am getting the latest VIA drivers down now. I think I saw the 40.41 drivers at guru3D but need to check they are OK with GForce 2. I will post the results.

decapod · Post by **decapod** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:05 am

GeForce 2 mx200 on XP using 30.82 from nvidia web site (WHQL)

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Sep 21, 2002 10:45 am

geforce 4 Ti4600 128DDR on v40.41 drivers from http://www.nvidia.com

regards,
IKB.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 11:51 am

I have the latest sound drivers now, but the sounds are still stuttering badly, so I will give the other NVIDIA drivers a try, thanks all.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 12:44 pm

30.82 working fine for the display, but the stuttering sound is driving me up the wall still.

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Sep 21, 2002 1:28 pm

Which sound card you running Ian,ive never had sound corruption problems with any of the nvidia detonator drivers.My card is a lowly SB 128 PCI ,which uses the bog standard xp drivers and before that the win2000 drivers.

regards,
IKB.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 1:56 pm

The sound is on-board VIA AC'97 using Apollo KT133A chipset. I picked up v5.12.1.381 drivers from the VIA site which appear to be the latest.

It was all fine under Windows 98. The frame rates under XP seem a bit better though, but then I have not reinstalled all the clag that had built up over time, and was probably throttling the system.

exshunter · Post by **exshunter** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 2:19 pm

i tried the 40.41 drivers but found i couldnt go in to advanced properties of my ti4600,anyone else had this prob?

im currently using 30.82? drivers with no probs as yet.

Jonnie1972 · Post by **Jonnie1972** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 5:23 pm

Hi

You can get the latest drivers all you want but they sometimes do not do the trick.
I must state I do not use WinXP, but have experienced this problem many times on Win98.
I am not familiar with XP so I will give the Win98 explanation, maybe you can find your way to it in XP.
In control panel go to Mutlimedia and select the top audio tab.
It will give 2 options....Playback and recording, choose Advanced options on the playback and click on the performance tab. In here it has a Hardware Acceleration sliding bar. If sound is iffy lower the setting from max(default) to a lower setting.
I have found out on many Win98 systems this has sorted out the problem.
Again, Im not familiar with XP.
Try and find similar settings on XP.
Jonnie.

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Sep 21, 2002 6:19 pm

exshunter ,you have to completely uninstall all previous driver versions and then reboot your machine.Then do a clean install of 40.41.

I had the same problem initially,so i mailed nvidia for a solution.

Im not a big fan of onboard sound chips,Ian.So never having used them (mine is disabled) i can`t comment or make a judgement on yours.

regards,
IKB.

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:18 pm

Thanks for that tip jonnie, it has improved it, but its not gone away completely. Might have to bung in a separate sound card.

IKB, is the GForce4 card worth getting? I saw your comments about the lines on your cab screenshots.

(btw in XP to get to the sound hardware accellaration control I did:
Start -> Control Panel
Sounds,Speech and Audio Devices
Sounds and Audio Devices
Audio tab
Sound Playback 'Advanced' button
)

isambardkingdombrunel · Sat Sep 21, 2002 8:39 pm

Ian,definately worth getting.I had a geforce2 400 mx 64mg before getting it.The performance premium is amazing (and thats with it being restricted to 2xAGP with my low end mobo)

The lines problem only appeared with the latest driver versions,no problems with the earlier versions. But im sticking with 40.41 because of the performance improvement overall.

regards,
IKB.

exshunter · Post by **exshunter** » Sat Sep 21, 2002 9:06 pm

isambardkingdombrunel wrote:exshunter ,you have to completely uninstall all previous driver versions and then reboot your machine.Then do a clean install of 40.41.

I had the same problem initially,so i mailed nvidia for a solution.

Im not a big fan of onboard sound chips,Ian.So never having used them (mine is disabled) i can`t comment or make a judgement on yours.

regards,
IKB.

hi IKB,i did try this,completeley removed old drivers and rebooted in pci,then installed the 40.41 drivers but i still had the prob.thanks for the advice though.maybe i'l try them again

its quite possible that ive goofed up somewhere!
cheers-rich