Gemfire James

I think he has a 3D Prophet II I think anyways.

yea, 5.5.2.3 or better works fine. Mind you, it's probably smart to wait on RTM of XP until they come out with XP versions of your favorite programs, it's the only way things are going to be fixed completely, that includes drivers Putting 2000 apps and drivers on XP within RC1, RC2, or when it's RTM is just reducing the speed and stability, but who am I to talk, I'm doing that right now with RC2, but I pay the price, because until I put on 2000 drivers, I could shut down and reboot, now, all I can do is hit the power switch to fire it down, very bad, but anyways, i'm talking too much. Nero 5.5.2.3 or better works fine here. Nuff said now

heh, it's not a bug in windows, because it happens in all OS, I've even had it happen in Mandrake 7.1, while booting up, i have a GeForce 2 MX 400, no problems, it has to do with your video card and how it is settled in the AGP slot, shut down computer, pull out the card completely, firmly put it back in, then reset your bios defaults, then go back in and make sure Int Display First is set to AGP, and try it then. Now, this may or may not work for you, it worked for my friend when I did it to his system, may as well give it a try.

exactly, cept i haven't caused trouble at all for the past month, I tried to tell Phillip that, hence, he can't unban my nice 950 post user, so I have to start from post 1 all over again. But no problems and there never will be any problems. right clutch?

it's a problem with some 2000 driver you installed most likely

CrazyKillerMan they can't keep those sorts out of here, Eddie has no problem with jdulmage as far as I remember. Right eddie?

question is, did that work? haha

hmm, caused a memory dump on my machine, but i don't blame that, because i have been screwing around with device drivers and crap. anyways, nothing I can do. Thanks anyways.

thank you, I appreciate your time. I'll try them out and tell you how good they are.

where are people seeing these drivers? they are not on Creative's site at all.

check your bios for that 14-15 MB Memory Hole thing (I think that's what it's called), if it's on, turn it off, disabled it.

Ok, so my friend here has Celeron 533 384 MB RAM GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB AGP (Asus 7100 I guess) Windows 98 (God forbid) now...he has latest Via, latest DirectX, and 12.41 det drivers, and latest flashed bios for his mobo. 3DMark 2001 gives him a 1400 mark 3DMark 2000 gives him a 2200 mark with 800 X 600 at 32-bit @ 75 Hz To him, he says that is slow for his video card, and that in UT, he should be getting about 85 to 100 fps running at 800 X 600 within the game itself, I find that hard to believe, but anyways. What can he do to speed up the framerate? Thanks.

I need to know of some good CPU Idling programs, ones that help keep the cpu idle as much as possible, I can't find any and I don't know if CPU Idle actually does just that or not.

if you have Nvidia-based card and SB Live, Blizzard says that you must have latest Nvidia and Creative drivers for this one error that happens. As far as saying "no video modes", try some of these. Right click on the "My Computer" Icon. Click on "Properties". Click on the "Performance" tab at the top. Click on the "Graphics" button on the bottom. Check to make sure the "Hardware Acceleration" is set to either "All accelerator functions", or "Most accelerator functions". If this is set to either "No accelerator functions", or "Basic accelerator functions" the video test will not find any video modes for Diablo II to run with. Enable DirectDraw & Direct3D Acceleration. Adjust the AGP/clk to 1/1 and the PCI/clk 1/3 in your BIOS. Make sure you have the latest video card drivers available from our drivers page (http://www.blizzard.com/support/diablo2/problems/drivers.shtml). Latest version of Direct X installed. Run dxdiag.exe and make sure video acceleration is not disabled. Check to make sure you have the latest driver for the monitor. Or monitor manufacturers driver installed.

ok, this sucks. Relisys has no Windows 2000 drivers on their site and I was wondering if anybody knew where I could get some drivers, hacked or not or if there is a resolve for this issue, cuz not only can I not use it in 2000, I can't use it in XP either. Any ideas?

i install Diablo 2, and expansion, then update it and then run the d2vidtst.exe and i'm fine.

uhh, that's because 2000 is a business OS, if people want to run an NT that is going to give them the multimedia and compatibility of Windows 9x, as well as a hell of a lot stablized and hell of a lot faster than win2k, then they are going to use XP, and I agree with them, 2000 is gone from my work area once XP is finished.

I would like an opinion (yes, once again), which are the best det drivers as of today for both sides of the story. And when you submit an answer, tell me what kind of video card you have Windows 9x/Me = ? Windows 2000 = ? Thanks

LOL! I think they mean that CURRENTLY, it is only in theatres.

i must go and see it, or wait until I can illegally obtain it, hahaha

the OS is NEVER going to stay down at a low amount of space, I mean, now a days, 1 GB is pretty much nothing, if you can't handle 1 GB of usage, then your screwed anyways

yet another fine point by Eddie, haha. I have no problem with mp3 ripping, works fine here, product activation can be cracked and you don't need two copies, buy one, install it legit, with activation and crack the other one, and I think as long as it's coming from the same IP address, it'll activate, I can't remember how it works, but it's not any different than just basic "buy and install" that we've been doing for the past 5 years. I mean, I don't know if you've been hitting your head on a brick wall, hiding in a cave or something, but open your eyes dude, XP is more than just eye candy and some product activation, it's the windows that people have been waiting for, and no, nobody said any of that about ME, so I don't know what your talking about stating that people were wanting it or something, people actually want XP, for the first time since Windows 95, they have come out with something that beats the current OS (Windows 2000 and Windows Me), and gives us something we can all be happy with. If you don't like the eye candy or a feature, ummm, have you heard of "disable"? Windows XP RC1 takes the very stable and impressive base of Beta 2 and makes a number of subtle and not-so-subtle improvements. Even in this unfinished state, Windows XP offers major improvements over both Windows 9x/Me and NT/2000. For Windows 9x users, Windows XP finally moves them into the world of stability and reliability that NT/2000 users take for granted. But for NT/2000 users, Windows XP provides the hardware and software compatibility that were previously unheard of on those platforms. For any user of Windows, the new user interface in Windows XP is a huge improvement over anything else that's available. And most importantly, the new task-based interface provides new users and experienced pros alike with a system with which they will be immediately productive. It's hard to understate the importance of this release. Windows 2000 was important for businesses, because it moved those users ahead with a platform that was extensible and supported modern hardware and technologies. But Windows XP speaks to a far larger group--consumers, home users, enthusiasts, and gamers--making the stakes higher, and the goals loftier. That Microsoft was able to hit it on the head so completely is somewhat stunning, especially when you consider that this release has really only been in development for less than two years. I'm not the only one that'll tell you this, I've seen it around here. That's my two cents, no more replying for me, cuz I hate arguing about things that I know the majority agree with me on, haha, see ya later, word out.

I hear ya man, some people just don't get how well XP is compared to previous windows OS's, and no, saying it's in RC1 stages isn't an excuse, hehe. I've been over to people's places so much (since I run a computer business), I am constantly looking at systems ranging from Windows 95, 98, Me, and NT. I look at some of them and say "holy smokes, no defrag in the last 560 days eh?", they should be defragging once a month or once every two months. Skipped scandisks are a common thing that i've seen users do, they skip the autorun scandisks thinking it doesn't matter, then when something crashes, they flip out on the OS, when they should have scandisk'd it in the first place to repair the problems. Things like unorganized files are even a problem, I see things like hundreds of html or pictures or something right on the base C:\, where the only thing that should be there is a pagefile, some logs and boot files, that's it. I also see a lot of people that don't clear temp folders or the likes, which leads to errors yet again, simple things that can be fixed. Now into hardware, damn, I don't know where to start, I repair a computer, first, open the case, dusty as hell, hasn't been cleaned in at least a year, no wonder things are malfunctioning. Or I look and say "Your installing such and such operating system with an old 28.8 ISA modem attached to your system?". Like come on here, companies such as MS, Corel, etc. cannot innovate or have a hard time doing it when users are still using there old, crappy hardware. You can't expect those companies to maintain an area solely based on old machines, it just isn't profitable. And I continue by saying "Why do you people have so many problems in their machines? XP can't install this, XP can't install that". All I have is an Athlon 650, 256 MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX 32 MB, Soundblaster Live!, 20 GB 5400 RPM hard drive, and it never crashes, hasn't crashed in a very long time, I usually format and reinstall my OS at least once a year, but that isn't based on anything that the OS is doing wrong, it's just a thing I personally do. I for one, am sitting here, waiting and waiting for RTM (final code) of Windows XP to be released, because i'm going to format, install it, and live like a king, I don't care about why MS has made this default or that default, or why this or why that, and I'm a user just like the rest of you. I think of it this way, "If I can change the defaults, then it's ok with me", things such as how folders are viewed (Tile, Icons, etc.) or what the default skin is for XP Professional. Those things are so meaningless, and can be changed in so little time that it's pointless complaining about it. People talk about XP being bloated too, I hear that from some and I say "An OS can never be bloated", simple because users will always want things edited, added, etc. into an OS to make it better, therefore MS, or Linux, or whoever should try to meet the users requests, and not the minority of what users want, it's the MAJORITY that ask for it that get something, duh. MS for example doesn't think of everything themselves when making the OS, they just code it, it's the users that request things, such as skins, faster NT boot loading time, etc. and they got it, now they ***** that they have it, give me a break. There isn't a thing wrong with XP in my eyes, and if a piece of hardware doesn't work, look at it and say "How old is it? What slot it fits in, ISA, PCI, etc. and whether or not you should replace it" For example, something like 32 MB of RAM isn't going to be enough, get 128 MB, it's the standard now anyways. 300 Mhz computer, well, it's good, but around 500 is the standard. Wonder why XP takes up a gig of hard drive space, well, the users asked for new things, new things take up space and I have no beef with it, because every user should have at least a 10 GB drive now in my opinion, that's also a standard. Get all of that, install XP, immediately put on AGP miniport and any type of bus things like 4-in-1, or AMD bus mastering stuff, etc. and then best drivers for your sound and video, then install stuff, using the compatibility modes, some caution, some smarts and a bit of patience. Set your pagefile to 3 and a bit times your RAM count, 256 X 3 = 768, count it up to 800 for example. Set min and max to 800 both, set it. Then when your done, defrag the drive and leave it to defrag on it's own with as much stuff shut down as possible. Wow, that's about all I do and then smartly defrag once a month or once every two months, along with checking for updates and install/uninstalling things properly, and even as little as flashing your bios and configuring that properly helps too. Wow, I just told you my secret on how to get 99.999 % uptime on your computer using Windows Me, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, cuz hey, I've used all of those with this particular system and I have basically a perfect system now, it's not hard to troubleshoot people, read up if you have to, but i've been doing this for 10 years now, so I give you the benefit of that much. So next time, if something screws up, take a look at your configuration before you take a look at the OS, like many assumes so much. Anyways, I better not keep talking, hope I didn't offend anyone, so i'm outta here, peace.

he was a bad pothead

those "Setup is starting blah blah" errors are not a result of the OS, it happens with all versions of NT, just depends that's all.