Burner27 0 Posted July 4, 2000 When Win2K first came out, I went to nVidia's website to download the 3.78 drivers. They work fine and are fast in every game I play. When I saw the Detonator 2 (5.22) drivers were out, I downloaded them and tried them out. Well, now when I play UT, the game seems to play in a Window rather than fill up the entire screen. If I change resolutions, the window the game plays in either gets bigger or smaller. When I say 'window', I mean you can still see the task bar at the bottom of the screen and at the upper left hand part of the screen you can see the title of the window says 'Unreal Tournament'. Also, the game runs a hell of a lot slower (not unplayable) using the Detonator2 (5.22) drivers and the graphics look horrible. Some games like Revolt, will not even run--I get a 'No Z buffer' error. Anyone able to offer any advice? Thanks. Share this post Link to post
JediBaron 0 Posted July 4, 2000 I have the exact same card and both those games. They both work just fine in my system. I have a suggestion for your UT. UT has one of the strangest Video card interfaces I've ever seen. Every time, and I do mean EVERY time, you change anything with the graphic card, drivers, cards, different slots, you have to run the 'change 3D device' from UT-safe mode and let it detect the card again. Another thing you'll want to do is apply the win2k registry patch for the TNT2 drivers: run regedit goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers delete the contents and make a new string called: RIVATNT and set the value to nvoglnt EG: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers] "RIVATNT"="nvoglnt" Share this post Link to post
Burner27 0 Posted July 5, 2000 I don't have an OpenGLdrivers key in my registry. I only have an OPENGL entry. So I made the change you suggested--didn't work. I let UT find the card again--didn't work. Did you update the bios on your card? What else can I try? Share this post Link to post
JediBaron 0 Posted July 5, 2000 That can't be right! If you have the normal Win2k install and install the NVidia drivers then you MUST have that key. The only possible reasons that I can think of of why you wouldn't have them is a) you're running a beta version of Win2k or you upgraded a Win95/98 box to Win2k If you did upgrade, and didn't remove all drivers, software, etc. from the system first then any amount of unknowns could be causing your problems. Some of the Win95 apps could still be lurking around. If that's the case, all I can really recommend is to do a fresh install on an empty drive. Your system may never work right if the upgrade didn't take correctly. Share this post Link to post
Burner27 0 Posted July 5, 2000 This is a fresh install--not an upgrade. It is also not BETA either. Could you tell me ALL of your system configurations?(i.e.--hardware). Believe me--all I have is an OPENGL registry entry. Share this post Link to post
JediBaron 0 Posted July 5, 2000 Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro (running fully PNP w/o ACPI - wasn't working in the BIOS at install time, it is now but Win2k has to be reinstalled to use it) Processor: AMD K6-3 450 w/ 128 Megs PC100 Motherboard: DFI K6XV3+/66 with thier latest BIOS (running fully at 100mhz FSB) Hard Drive: Maxtor 13Gig UDMA66 7200rpm (formatted in NTFS 5) Video: AGP Diamond V770 TNT2 32 Meg (Beta drivers - v5.30, VIA AGP driver 4.02) Sound: SB Live! Sound (official Creative Liveware 2000 drivers) Modem: USR 56K INT PnP (firmware 5.0.0) Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card) DVD Decoder: Creative DXR3 Dvd Decoder (beta1 Hollywood Drivers w/Creative NT4 drivers) SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB) Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB) Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, 1.44 floppy, PS/2 Intellimouse w/ intellipoint for w2k (ver. 3.10.0.393) DirectX: Beta 8.0 (4.08.00.0073) Share this post Link to post
Burner27 0 Posted July 5, 2000 My setup is: Win2k Pro (ACPI Multiprocessor mode) Dual P3-700e Tyan S1832DL motherboard (latest Bios) 512 MB PC100 Micron ECC RAM Diamond Viper 770 Ultra 32MB AGP (3.78 drivers) Adaptec 2940 U2W SCSI card (latest Bios) Adaptec 2902b SCSI Scanner card Soundblaster Live! Value card US Robotics 56K ISA modem Plextor 8/20 CDR (latest firmware) Plextor 40x UW CD Rom (latest firmware) SCSI ZIP Drive 9.1 GB U2W 10k rpm HD 9.1 GB UW 7200rpm HD 18.2 GB UW 10k rpm HD 18.2 GB UW 7200 rpm HD 4.5 GB UW 10k rpm drive Compaq 10/100 NIC [This message has been edited by Burner27 (edited 05 July 2000).] Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted July 6, 2000 You don't need to re-install win2k to use ACPI. My tnt won't work without it. Just goto system properties >> hardware >> device manager >> comuter, upgrade the drivers of Standard PC to ACPI (select from known drivers). ------------------ System Spec: FIC VA-503+ 1.1b bios JE438 CPU Current Limiter Disabled AMD K6-2 550 (300 when I talk to FIC tech support) 128Mb SSi PC100 STB Velocity 4400 16Mb PAL TV-Out Hauppauge Wintv Realtek 8029 LAN Creative ES1371 (PCI64v) 56.6K (AkA 44k) ISA Modem Creative 48mx CDROM Memorex TriMaxx200(DVD/CDR/CDRW, 6,4,24) Maxtor 91301U3 13Gb LS120 and com and lpt i/o conflict error during bios startup. Hardware fault caused by win2k beta3 and dodgy bios, now irrepairable. Share this post Link to post
Gerbache Kaznet 0 Posted July 6, 2000 I wouldn't try to just go in and change the drivers from standard to ACPI. I tried that a few days ago and wreaked all kinds of havoc with my computer, culminating in a fresh install. I was getting a blue screen error on bootup saying that it couldn't access my filesystem. Win2k has to load an entirely new driver tree in order for ACPI to function, so it doesn't like being changed like that. Although I've heard that -some- people have managed to get ACPI working like that, I'd just not take my chances and reinstall. Share this post Link to post
Burner27 0 Posted July 6, 2000 Hey Gerbache Kaznet & euankirkhope--you guys are getting off topic here!! I am having a video card problem NOT an ACPI problem. Share this post Link to post
ByronT 0 Posted July 6, 2000 It sounds as if UT is running in software mode - because you're not getting Direct3D, or OpenGL mode in UT. If in fact it is in software mode, it means that you didn't actually *upgrade* your NVidia drivers - you just changed your NVidia drivers to some mangled combination of MS and NVidia drivers. The way to correct that is to make sure that you always get a clean install of NVidia drivers - by first changing to generic MS drivers and then upgrading to the latest NVidia drivers. There is a more detailed post that I made that gives the step by step way of removing NVidia drivers so that you can then re-install the latest NVidia drivers: http://www.ntcompatible.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002962.html Try those steps, then reinstall the latest NVidia drivers and you should be ok. Hope this helps... ------------------ J. Byron Todd Computer Consultant byron@toddcomp.com Todd Computer Solutions Share this post Link to post
Burner27 0 Posted July 7, 2000 I fixed it--thanks for your help--5.22 drivers are installed and run very well!! No more windowed mode!! Share this post Link to post
