- Jun 17, 2002
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Yah Yah i know its an old card, but until I started buying more and more games that use a full DX 8.1 feature set the card was working fine.
It all started with Empire Earth. EE would run fine for like an hour and then crash...hard, requiring a soft reset. when xp booted back in i would get a fimilar message stating that "there is a problem with (in bold) Nvidia GeForce 3. Please contact vendor for blah blah blah."
I was like ok whatever, so EE dont work, no bigge. Then Dungeon Seige crashed randomly. This got me scratching my head so I sent an email like so:
> I have a problem with my Geforce 3 card that i bought a year ago from a
> reseller, manufactured by your company.
> The card was Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB
> After recieving the card and installing the drivers everything was running
> ok..for awhile
> Reciently I was trying to play some newer Direct 3d games like Empire
> Earth and Dungeon Seige, both using what appears to be the same rendering
> engine. I updated my drivers to the newest WHQL Nvidia Drivers 23.81 (or
> something of the sort) and the direct 3d games crash after a few minutes
> of use. After the crash, which sometimes requires a reboot Windows XP
> Professional points the finger squarely at The Nvidia Device (do doubt
> refering to the drivers) and it continues to crash on Direct 3D
> applications untill i restore the old 21.83 drivers, in which case
> everything works fine (for the most part).
> Open Gl applications work fine and D3d applications work fine with the old
> drivers... I do not want to use the outdated drivers and would like to use
> any newer drivers offered for the card. It seems ludicris to me that
> 21.83 drivers work but newer ones do not for direct 3d. which leads me to
> my next problem.
> I am also at a loss in finding your drivers for the CardExpert series for
> your driver page ONLY shows the Ti series 400+ it does show nor say where
> to find your drivers for the Card Expert Series. Your BIOS page is equally
> frustrating, and doesnt have the model of the card i am d/l the bios for
> (although i would have to assume that all the GF3 cores are alike).
> Finally my system setup:
>
> MSI KK266-R
> Kingston PC150+ memory
> Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB
> AMD Athlon 1.33 @ 266
> Sound Blaster Audigy
>
> thank you in advance for your time
Get this for respose, and this should make you think twice about dealing with Gainward:
Hi,
No new bios is available.
GeForce 3 is old and discontinued. I think that the old driver sometimes is
the best driver.
Thanks.
Now Like i had in the e-mail OGL works flawlessly, and i reciently got AOM and Hitman 2 ... hitman 2 crashes on certian levels, and AOM has the same crash as EE.... The funny thing is taht I have since then upgraded my entire system short of my soud and video card. To be exact:
XP 2100+
Gigabyte 7VAXP+
Kingmax pc2700
well my question might not be so obvious after all this ranting but it is twofold:
1)HAs anyone encountered the same problem?
2)Since I'm looking squarely at ATI now I'm wonderng which company should i trust for a quality part and excellent service (I was thinking Asus or Gigabyte) preferably in the U.S. of A.
It all started with Empire Earth. EE would run fine for like an hour and then crash...hard, requiring a soft reset. when xp booted back in i would get a fimilar message stating that "there is a problem with (in bold) Nvidia GeForce 3. Please contact vendor for blah blah blah."
I was like ok whatever, so EE dont work, no bigge. Then Dungeon Seige crashed randomly. This got me scratching my head so I sent an email like so:
> I have a problem with my Geforce 3 card that i bought a year ago from a
> reseller, manufactured by your company.
> The card was Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB
> After recieving the card and installing the drivers everything was running
> ok..for awhile
> Reciently I was trying to play some newer Direct 3d games like Empire
> Earth and Dungeon Seige, both using what appears to be the same rendering
> engine. I updated my drivers to the newest WHQL Nvidia Drivers 23.81 (or
> something of the sort) and the direct 3d games crash after a few minutes
> of use. After the crash, which sometimes requires a reboot Windows XP
> Professional points the finger squarely at The Nvidia Device (do doubt
> refering to the drivers) and it continues to crash on Direct 3D
> applications untill i restore the old 21.83 drivers, in which case
> everything works fine (for the most part).
> Open Gl applications work fine and D3d applications work fine with the old
> drivers... I do not want to use the outdated drivers and would like to use
> any newer drivers offered for the card. It seems ludicris to me that
> 21.83 drivers work but newer ones do not for direct 3d. which leads me to
> my next problem.
> I am also at a loss in finding your drivers for the CardExpert series for
> your driver page ONLY shows the Ti series 400+ it does show nor say where
> to find your drivers for the Card Expert Series. Your BIOS page is equally
> frustrating, and doesnt have the model of the card i am d/l the bios for
> (although i would have to assume that all the GF3 cores are alike).
> Finally my system setup:
>
> MSI KK266-R
> Kingston PC150+ memory
> Gainward CARDEXPERT GeForce3 PowerPack !!! 64MB
> AMD Athlon 1.33 @ 266
> Sound Blaster Audigy
>
> thank you in advance for your time
Get this for respose, and this should make you think twice about dealing with Gainward:
Hi,
No new bios is available.
GeForce 3 is old and discontinued. I think that the old driver sometimes is
the best driver.
Thanks.
Now Like i had in the e-mail OGL works flawlessly, and i reciently got AOM and Hitman 2 ... hitman 2 crashes on certian levels, and AOM has the same crash as EE.... The funny thing is taht I have since then upgraded my entire system short of my soud and video card. To be exact:
XP 2100+
Gigabyte 7VAXP+
Kingmax pc2700
well my question might not be so obvious after all this ranting but it is twofold:
1)HAs anyone encountered the same problem?
2)Since I'm looking squarely at ATI now I'm wonderng which company should i trust for a quality part and excellent service (I was thinking Asus or Gigabyte) preferably in the U.S. of A.
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