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Hey there I have a similar system config, and i also had a ****load of problems. First off, I dont know if it was just me, but i found the 5.30 detonators more stable than 5.32 Second. Turn of the Super By-pass in your Bios (under advance cmos settings i believe) In your hardware acceleration (its in control panel somewhere) lower the slide by one notch...this will hardly affect performance, but apparently drasticly improves stability. Also (if you want to risk it) try installing directx 8.0 beta. I have it in, and I find everything works great! Finally go to www.geforcefaq.com and look at the tips they have there...Under generice geforce lockups, and under the "athalon and geforce section" I have followed their advice, and Have been running quite stable. Believe me, i know the frustration, I was ready to just replace the whole thing. Good luck!

Hello all. MY system specs are as follows: Amd 750 Asus K7M 256 Ram pc-100 Asus v6800 Geforce pure SB live! maxtor 20 gig hard drive. I have a dual boot with Win2k pro, and WinME (had 98SE but was trying to solve my problems so i upgraded) I am not sure about the drivers etc. that i need to install, so i downloaded the miniport 751 drivers from AMD for the WINMe (says they are not needed in NT). I downloaded and installed the VIA 4-in-1 drivers (during install it says registry error but still installs). Also i got some AGP driver from the Asus board. I have newest BIOS for both Geforce and K7M I am using the 5.30 detonators. I have 300w power supply, and yesterday moved the VIO voltage to the highest setting on the M/B I get tons of crashed in any game that uses 3d (even frickin diablo2!!!) I had DX 7.0a, but i have tried directx 8.0 beta, which helped a bit, but still lots of crashes... I have reformatted and reinstalled both O/Ses and the same **** happens. I want my system stable! If there is nothing else to be done, should i replace the Motherboard? The graphics card? If either, which should i get that is PROVEN to be stable! Thanks in advance!

Damn.. the archive says broken can you tell me where you got it? Ive got cable connection so i can download in a few seconds...

Obviously I thank you very much for helping me out. Now i can enjoy some multiplayer goodness

I know thats the first place i always check but all they have is a crack for non patched version, which of course doesnt work with Win2K... so i was surprised that Jbrave found a crack that gamecopyworld doesnt have.. anyways JBRAVE! please let me know where u got it.. icq me if u want 8217706 thanks

Jbrave... where did you get the 1.2 crack??? i have searched for it everywhere, and i can find is the 1.1 version...I have 2 computers, and only 1 cd, so i cant play, LAN, since one comp has win2k and one win98..and High heat wont run without 1.2 patch on win2k! thanks!

notsosmart would you be able to tell me where the win98 download for directx 8 is? i wanted to see how it runs under 98 vs. 2k im sure that there has to be one somewhere, if there was a win2k one.

thank you sherlock, i saw that too.. MY question was, i thought DX8 would be streamlined for all Windows operating systems. Eg. One file works for all O/s's. Was i incorrect in that assumption, or will the final product be 'one for all'

Hello i was wondering if anyone knew of a website that has a database or listing of quake 3 timedemo results for different system configurations, and operating systems I would be interested in comparing my results. I ran it at 1024x768, in 32 bit and got 56.7 FPS on athalon 750mhz, geforce 32ddr, and det 2.2

Hey all, just a question in regards to Directx8.0 I have a dual boot with win2k, and win98 i find that win98 plays my games faster than win2k... I have the directx8 installed for win2k, but when i try to install it in 98, it says the version wasnt designed for it. the file is dx8nteng.exe question is, i thought dx8 would be the same for all O/S's? is there a seperate file for the win98based kernels? thanks,.

Ok, sorry to sound stupid, but im assuming you mean quake 3 (demo?) how do you get frame rates to show? is there other info that displays? thanks

What would be a good platform to test on? It doesnt seem too many people use 3Dmark... thanks

I dont know about anyone else, but compared to Win98, win 2k gives a slower performance in games, and lower score on Madonions 3dmark2000 For a system like mine i dont think that should be the case/ though i must say the actual desktop performance, like multitasking is way better Athalon 750 K7m M/b Asus v6800 geforce ddr 256 pc-100 ram sb live value 20 gig maxtor 7200rpm

Hey all, To those that have Directx8.0 installed, are there any problems running NHL 2000? I know its crappy overall in win2k, but i got a dual boot with win 98, and ME, and with directx8 i get a error once the intro is finished playing, before the menu comes up. (NFS porsche unleashed seems to be having problems as well) Also is there any way to manually remove the directx8.0 files and registry entries so i can reinstall 7 to see if directx is the culprit? Right now i killed all the files that started with DX, but still says Directx has detected newer version. thanks

I was wondering if anyone ran 3Dmark in both win98 and 2k and compared the results Ive got an amd k-7 750 256 ram pc-100 asus v6800 geforce sb live 20 gig maxtor 7200 rpm From the results it seems win 98 runs quite a bit faster in 3d stuff with 98 i got about a 3600 score (is that low overall?) and with win2k it was sub 3000 i ran the tests in 1024x768 32 bit

OH yeah i got a K7M M/B

Hey i had a similar problem the only solution that i could find was to turn down the sound acceleration to the last or second last level. can do that in control panel. that will make the sound work fine. As towards other solutions, just gotta wait for a patch

a bit off topic, but has anyone been able to get their pictures into the game in windows2k? i can do it in 98 but for some stupid reason it wont go in 2K thanks

if you have the v6600 or v6800 and are having major problems with random lockups go to the asus site and get the new BIOS flash for these cards... i am running 3.79 drivers and no lockups in windows 2000 FIRST TIME EVER!!!!!! YAY!!! gotta try the games, but desktop etc. works fine...

unfortunatly i have given up for now... the stupid graphics drivers kept me crashing like crazy in win2k...so i went back to 98 i have crashed much less, but oh my, how slow does win98 seem to win 2k.... horrible i have muchos problems in games under driver versions 5.14 even when i loaded up 3.66 i got a bluescreen with kmode exception not handled and pointing to the n4display.dll (or something like that) so i will stagnate in win98 for a while. I will see if win2k gets better drivers soon..(perhaps it was creative drivers f-ing me up?) amd athalon 750 asus k7m asus v6800 geforce ddr sound blaster live value 20 gig maxtor.

Hello I need to figure out if i should return some of my hardware, cause i am having quite a bit of problems with win2k and graphics errors i have Asus K7M m/b Athalon 750 mhz Asus v6800 geforce any driver besides 3.66 gives me huge headaches... anything after 3.66 and before 5.13 (eg. 3.79, 3.81) crashes randomly in desktop while moving the mouse around... 5.13 is ok in desktop, but crashes ocassionally in games. 3.66 is only driver that seems to work fine in both areas. i saw a post below that recomends the microstar m.b...should i give back my mb? or is it the asus v6800? or should i just wait for another driver release? thanks!

I have a 300 W power supply got it especially cause of the athalon and k7m so its not that...and i do have the 1008 bios.... sigh...i guess drivers is the culprit...but if so what is such a huge difference between 3.66 and everything else that causes all these crashes?

hey man im sorry i dont know how to help you but how the hell did you get rally 2k working under win 2k? mine doesn't work for some reason... i tried everything, but you mentioned you got a patch? i dunno, re installed it and all, nothing works i getinto the game, but i cannot ever actually play it it loads but like at the very end it screws up and gives me a guru meditation error. i dont what the hell is going on if someone can please help me i would greatly appreciate it.... please and thank you icq-34729599 email-paulyw85@home.com thank you very much in advance

didnt say they were playing it over the LAN. but they were trying it out...one guy had it on his harddrive, and of course soon everyone had it..its only the first "chapter" ( i guess thats what you call it). looks pretty nice though,, a lot more above ground stuff to explore.

actually.... i have seen one being played at a LAN party over the weekend.. dont know where it was obtained, but it was there, but i dont know the OS since i didnt ask, and win2k and win95 look too similar in desktop.