Forceware driver problems

[eziz]

good job mate,
but can u help me please i want the newest drivers for my gc its XFX geforce 6200 Please.

[TechZ]

You started a thread here(so I replied there): http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=73675

[Firehawk153]

Hi,


PROBLEM:

I have tried to update my drivers to 81.85 and 81.89 but they lock up my computer during installation. The nvidia install program runs fine and it gets to the point where it is installing the driver. The screen goes blank (this is normal, it has always done this) then comes back again. Then the screen goes blank a second time and I'm left with a blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen. At this point, my computer is completely non-responsive; I have to do a hard restart.

I have never had this problem before with any of nvidia's drivers. I can reinstall to the 77.77 drivers I was using with no problems and run all my applications fine. I don't suspect this is a hardware problem because I've got good temps on my box, my CPU and my video card.

WHAT I'VE TRIED:

I always uninstall the drivers via the add/remove programs and restart. I then run Detonator R.I.P, nvidia nasty file remove, and another driver removal tool (can't think of the name off-hand). After I run this tool I'll search my computer for any traces of files beginning with "nv" and remove those as well (if I'm confident they are nvidia related). I've been using this process since I had my old Geforce 4 card and I've never had any problems until now.

I also tried installing the drivers via the device manager but windows keeps saying it can't find an applicable driver for my card (?).

I've disabled fast-writes and turned down my memory timings in the BIOS to no effect.

SYSTEM SPECS AND OTHER INFO

I am not overlocking my video card nor my computer; but I did run Rivatuner to unlock the disabled 4 pixel pipelines on my 6800 so that I can have all 16 pipleines. However, I did this several driver releases ago and I have never had a problem with it.

Specs:

480 watt Thermaltake PSU
AMD Athlon 2600+ 266 FSB
Gigabyte GA-7DXR (lastest motherboard drivers)
1 Gig PC2100
EVGA Geforce 6800 (currently 77.77 release)
Audigy 2 ZS (lastest drivers)
RAID 0 - 2x Western Digital 40 gig ATA 100 7200 RPM drives
Maxtor 60 gig HD
Windows XP SP2

[TechZ]

I am not overlocking my video card nor my computer; but I did run Rivatuner to unlock the disabled 4 pixel pipelines on my 6800 so that I can have all 16 pipleines. However, I did this several driver releases ago and I have never had a problem with it.

Either for some reason your card is having problems with the latest releases of drivers, or its your unlocking of pipelines thats causing it, try using EVGA's own driver set, maybe they've optimized it for use with their cards.

[Firehawk153]

EVGA doesn't have a release for the 81.94 drivers but I did try eVGA's release for the 81.85 drivers....still locks up my machine.

Someone else from the EVGA message boards is having the same problem and he's got an unmodded card, still, I wonder if I could try and close the pipelines and then try to install the driver.

[TechZ]

Tweaktown have compared the 81.94 (http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/842/) against the last official driver, Forceware 78.01: nVidia's Forceware 81.94 drivers are perfect for anyone utilizing high-end GeForce graphics cards especially those who are fortunate enough to be using a wicked GeForce 7800GTX SLI setup. There is no denying that we see a new nVidia driver once in a blue moon but when they hit the web, boy do we get to see some improvements and that's a credit to nVidia for keeping things interesting.

It is worth upgrading to the new 81.94 drivers no matter what GeForce graphics card you use as Forceware drivers come out rarely and come with a massive amount of game bug fixes - besides the obvious performance increases.

[EasyEEE]

Unfortunately, I installed these on a Athlon XP 3200 on WinXP Pro using a GeForce 5300, 5600 or 5900 video card (can't rememeber) at work.

Installed fine.. went to reboot.. Windows XP starts with the logo, but then black screen, waits about 15 seconds, reboot.

I've tried booting in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Safe Mode with Networking, Last Known Working Configuration - everything ... nothing.

I've tried resetting all bios settings to defaults.. still nothing.

Suggestions, recommendations? I feel like a jack ***.. lol. I'm relatively savy with computers.. didn't think installing Nvidia drivers would render the computer completely useless.

[Sarvi]

I'm using GeForce 6600Gt - Civilization 4 crashes with graphic driver problems, even after installing the latest drivers.

[TechZ]

Latest Patch for Civ 4:
http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?id=4981&t=reviews&toprate=5.0000&tophits=5594&cat=350

[Eskan]

Latest Patch for Civ 4:
http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?id=4981&t=reviews&toprate=5.0000&tophits=5594&cat=350


Hi, I have tried the latest patch for Civ 4, still get crashes to desktop every few minutes and occaisionally blue screens too.
Windows XP, clean install yesterday
GeForce 6600GT
Asus A8N SLi (onboard sound, no extra S card)
AMD Athlon 64, 3500+

graphics card and motherboard have new drivers (85.95 for Ge). any ideas?

[Zerotech]

Just installed the v84.21 drivers last night and got noticeable drops in 3DMark03 and Aquamark3 scores compared to scores when using v81.98_WHQL and v84.12_Beta drivers.

I might try re-installing my AGP drivers and/or re-running ntune.