Abit Geforce4 4400Ti stability with games

[SteveLeeS]

Hi, here's my set up:

AMD AthlonXP 1800+
Soyo K7V+ Dragon Plus Motherboard
512Megs Crucial DDR2100 RAM
Antec case with a 420 Watt power supply
Abit Geforce4 4400Ti Video Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
US Robotics V92 Modem
Windows 98 SE


I had a Geforce2 GTS in this system before and everything ran fine, but the moment I installed the Geforce4, my games have been
freezing the system for no reason. Older less graphic intensive games takes longer to freeze the system while newer games like
Serious Sam Second Encounter freezes with a minute or two of game play. When things crash, I am forced to do a hard reboot. I
have installed the newest nvidia Detonator drivers and I even installed the newest VIA 4-in-1 drivers. I'm not really sure why my
system is crashing. I didn't bother getting rid of the old video drivers when I installed the card because I was using the newest
version of the detonator drivers before I installed the card. Can anyone help? Does anyone know if there's a compatability issue in
my setup or if this is a common problem with this motherboard/videp card set up? Thanks in advance.

Steve

 

[GiGoLo]

<< I have installed the newest nvidia Detonator drivers >>



- just wanted to make sure you knew that nvidia released brand new drivers a few days ago, ver. 28.32... if ur using an older one, tryin updating the driver

- is your system o/ced or the video card o/ced? if so, set it back to default just for testing purposes

- try updating your directx to the newest Directx 8.1 DirectX 8.1 for WinXP or DirectX 8.1 for Win98

- if those don't work, reboot into safe mode by hitting F8 during bootup (right after the P.O.S.T. screen), and check device manager to make sure your old driver isn't "ghosted" there... 98 is known for leaving old devices in device manager, but it only shows up in safe mode

- you can also see if its a program running in the background causing it. goto start -> run -> msconfig, put the bullet on "selective startup" and uncheck "load startup group items"... reboot and when it enters windows, all of your programs in the systray will be gone temporarily (including virusscan so be careful).... this way you can run your games and if it works fine, you'll know its one of those programs at startup causing a problem.

i could probably think of a few more suggestions, but go ahead and try those first and post again if it doesn't work

 

[SteveLeeS]

When I went to safe mode, I did find my old card there, I removed it and restarted without any of the programs in my system tray to test if
it will work. This time, games lasted a little longer before it froze my system like before. Now I'm worried that I might have to return this card.
FYI I already have directX 8.1 installed before I bought this card.😕😱😕

 

[SteveLeeS]

Ok, I *think* I fixed the problem. I reinstalled the AGP.VxD driver and set it to normal mode (I guess it was in turbo mode before)
Now my question is whether others are able to get it to run fine in turbo more? The reason I asked was that before I got my Gefore4
I tried setting the soyo board to turbo mode before and I got the same type of crashes, but the system performed a lot better. I really
want to run the system and the AGP.VxD driver in turbo mode stabily, any suggestions?

 

[Cuular]

Try re-installing DirectX 8.1. Anytime you swap out devices that directx uses you should re-install directx so that it switches the drivers it uses for talking to the devices.

 

[SteveLeeS]

Well, I checked and directX does see the new card as my grafics card, but games will still crash if
I set the soyo board to turbo mode or if the AGP driver is in turbo mode. help!!!

 

[scootmaster]

look in the bios and see if fast writes are enabled if they are turn them off. Also try 2x AGP instead of 4X agp and see what happens 2x -4x there is like no performace difference. also id unistall all the drivers again. you should wipe all traces of nvidia stuff off your comp. Then reinstall the newest drivers 28.32.