Best Nvidia drivers for 2d text quality for a GF4 Ti4200?

[Salvador]

I just built a system and installed a GF4 Ti4200 card that I had and the text is lousy in WinXP Pro. Much worse than I remember in a previous system. I'm using the 44.03 driver and I don't know if that has anything to do with it. The text is so fuzzy and the screen actually seems dimmer than usual.

Would this even be driver related? It's a newer Epox KT333 board. Are there any settings that I should be aware of in the BIOS that might help?

TIA,

Sal

 

[Regs]

I never had fuzzy text with my Soltek Kt333 and GF4 using the detonators. Sounds more like a monitor issue. I would of recommended the 44.03's, but I guess that option is out.

Whats your refresh rate, dpi, and resolution set at?

 

[Salvador]

You know what's strange is that I have more than one monitor and it looks different on the different monitors. I have a 17" CRT that I set up the machine on and it looked fine even though it's the cheapest monitor that I have. I put the system in place of my business pc because it's in my office were my router is and it's easiest to hook up to the internet (to finish setting up the machine). The weird thing is that this is a pretty good 17" CRT and looks great with my work pc's cheapo video card in Windows 98. I wonder why the video looks so lousy on this monitor with this system?

I did update the drivers to the 52.16's for a short while through Windows update when I was updating the Windows files because of the lousy text just to try it and there was no visible difference, so I rolled back the driver to the 44.03's.

Could it be a compatibility issue with this particular monitor?

Thanks again!

Sal

 

[BenSkywalker]

It could be that the refresh rate is going up high enough to show the limitations of the board. Try dropping the refresh rate on your better monitor and see if that improves things at all.

 

[RKS]

I know it is mostly for LCDs but have you tried to install the ClearType Fonts?

 

[Salvador]

Guess what? The monitor that I was using with the system just died on me last night. I came upstairs having left the machine on and there was this weird flickering, so I rebooted the system and it went back to normal. I left the machine again and then came back and the monitor was dead!

This leads me to another question. Could something be going haywire in my system (motherboard, video card, etc..) that could kill my monitor? I still don't know if it was my system that was making the flashing or the monitor that was just going nuts because it was near the end of its life. I'm afraid to try this system with another monitor now.

Thanks again.

Sal

 

[modedepe]

I've never heard of a video card killing a monitor, and I see no way it could. Your monitor was probably just on its last leg.

 

[Regs]

Sounds like what has been going on with my monitor as of late; flickering and refresh rate problems. I shut it off for a few good minutes, turn it back on, then presto, it's normal again. My monitor is only a few months old however, so I'm a little suspicious. My intuition is either telling my monitor is getting power spikes from my power outlets, which have been blowing fueses lately, or simply because my monitor is defective.