Geforce3 ti200 doesn't like completing drawing operations:(

[OfficeDude]

The drivers that came on the CD were fine and dandy until I started playing games, specifically Deus Ex. Every time I came to this one specific place, I'd get an error about the video card not being able to complete a drawing operation(it happens outside of this game, so it's probably not totally the game's fault.) Then my Lite-On DVD player started acting funny reading regular disks, it would speed up quick, than go right back down to a crawl(rapidly, and I could notice it wasn't reading disks as fast as it usually does, even when it did those little bursts).....then a whole bunch of pretty colored stripes and psychadelic designs would appear on the screen and it was frozen like that. I find it weird that that would happen just reading from the DVD player......when I manually rebooted.....Windows told me the video card didn't complete a drawing operation. Since this bad stuff was happening, I decided to ditch those crummy drivers so I jumped to Nvidia's website and grabbed the newest ones.....I'm still getting the error about the video card not being able to complete a drawing operation. So the question is, which Detonator drivers that support the Geforce3 Ti200 are the most stable? I picked two bad apples in a row I think. Also, could it be something other than the video card drivers causing this maybe? Faulty video card?

 

[EdipisReks]

this happened to me with the official 21.83's. i would get the 21.88's or the 22.5's, both of which are available at icrontic.com.

--jacob

 

[OfficeDude]

Thx, I'll go download it ASAP

 

[OfficeDude]

Where do you install it to? It doesn't automatically find where to install it to......I downloaded it to My Documents and that's where the install is pointing.....That can't be it. I don't want to guess on this one, that could lead to a catastrophe:Q

 

[OfficeDude]

Anyone know where exactly you install the detonator drivers to?

 

[EdipisReks]

decompress the drivers somewhere you can remember. go to the system icon that is in the control panel, go to hardware profile and find the card. click update driver, do everything manually, and point it to where you decompressed the driver. mine looks something like c:\misc\22.5

bon apetit
--jacob

 

[OfficeDude]

Thx, I forgot all about that option.

 

[OfficeDude]

Windows doesn't like the files I decompressed, I made it search in the folder I had them in and it said it never found any driver upgrades. I guess I have to hand pick it? If I have to do that, I'm totally unsure of which file is to be used.

 

[jardragon901]

it should say nv4_disp.inf

 

[OfficeDude]

Thx

 

[OfficeDude]

It doesn't let me hand pick it either, when I tell it I want to pick the driver, it shows me two drivers(not the one I just download).......I guess it refuses to acknowledge the drivers from the beta driver? How am I supposed to install it?

 

[OfficeDude]

The notepad that comes with it was written for win2k.......when Windows XP doesn't find a suitable driver from a place you made it search, their is no option to "install one of the other drivers."