Diamond Legacy Support - Yeah right !

[Murpheeee]

I have a Diamond Viper 550 card running under Win 98. I am about to upgrade to ME and wanted to check that tehre were video drivers available.

As the 550 is no longer sold I was directed to Diamaond Legacy Support.

Their "support" was - trade up to their current card which has ME drivers. Their trade-up price is higher than its being sold anywhere else.

This card is only about 18 months old, I cannot believe they are forcing people to buy a new one

 

[Cpt. Duke]

Murpheeee -- although Diamond sucks the big one for this, it doesn't matter.
Just download the references drivers from nVidia.

 

[Murpheeee]

What are the nVidia drivers for ?

 

[SF DUDE]

Nvidia....the company that makes the TNT(among other) chipset. The Detonator drivers are updated frequently, and work better than any Diamond drivers ever did.

 

[Murpheeee]

So the nVida drivers will work with any card ?

 

[Michael]

They work with all the reference design-based cards. Diamond's TNT card is a reference design based card, so you should be ok.

Michael

 

[oldfart]

There are MANY different versions available for this card (too many). Use the 5.xx series of drivers. 5.22, 5.32, 5.45 all seem to be pretty good.

 

[IronFist]

Start with the 3x series and work your way up to see how far you can push your card too. nVidia 3.68 driver is rock-solid on diamond cards.
Good-Kuck

 

[Tambora]

Hey Murpheeee:

Diamond's support was very poor from my experience when it existed. At one time I had all kinds of issues attempting to upgrade their drivers and received no useful help from them (driver never did install successfully). Switched to Nvidia's reference drivers and never had a problem. Last version used were the 3.68 set. Good and stable (that was before swapping it out for a V5 5500 last month). Really prefer the Voodoo, even the 3.68 drivers had some minor issues with some D3D games. Wish 3dfx had stuck to their guns, we need the competition to push the vendor's to create better hardware (without driving the price of hardware through the roof).

 

[dennilfloss]

I'm still using the 3.68 on my V770 and I'm happy with them.

 

[Rigoletto]

Diamond are simply evil.
When I requested support for a card that wasn't booting with more than 16 colours they said it was a known issue with my card model and that they recommended the full retail version of my card.
What gave it away was that I gave them the wrong model number in the first place.
Diamond, I hope you are listening... die painfully, the more you suffer the more I am loving it...