GeForce 2 + Windows 2000 = bizarre behavior

[dopefish]

Finally set up Windows 2000 Pro on my comp. I did a dual boot with the old Win98 incase I didn't like it. I got the latest drivers from Creative for my Annihilator 2 and there's a bizarre 2d glitch. Sporadically little flickers/glitches/whatever happen all over the screen. I know this doesnt happen in Windows 98 and I also played Quake 3 in Windows 2000 for a few hours and didn't see any of this glitching. It only happens when I'm doing normal things in Windows 2000. I even tried the plain old nVidia reference drivers and theres the same twitching. The problem isn't a full-screen flicker/glitch, it happens in little areas all over the screen. Any ideas?

 

[Zaphs]

I get exactly the same thing here with my prophet 2 64MB

Could it be an overclocking issue?.. is yours overclocked?

Mine came clocked at 220/365 thinking about lowering it if new drivers don't help.

 

[AndyHui]

Have you tried turning OFF mouse shadows? Mouse shadows with some of the later drivers, ie 5.22, cause problems with that option.

 

[dopefish]

Disabling the mouse shadow seems to have worked. Thanks for the tip, Andy! I miss the mouse shadow though, it was a neat feature. I hope nVidia fixes this.

And no, mine isn't overclocked. That was just a bios problem with the 3D Prophet II 64MBs.

 

[derekb77]

how do you disable mouse shadows? im not sure where to find this. thanks.

 

[AndyHui]

Go to Mouse in Control Panel, go the Pointers tab, and uncheck the Enable Mouse Shadow option at the bottom.

 

[derekb77]

how come when i go into the pointers tab settuing you specify there is no option for this? i really want to get rid of this annoying flicker problem, please help!