Need Help with new Gainward GF3 Ti200 Card

[mcruiser]

Hey all, any ideas?

I just purchased a Gainward GF3 Ti200 to replace my old Leadtek GF2 Pro. The card seemed to install just fine, I installed DirectX 8.1, the Expert Tool diagnostics program that came with the card and the Detonator 23.11 drivers. The card would run old-engnine games like HL and MOHAA (with unusually low frame rates), but IL-2 wouldn't start. Also neither 3DMark2001 versions worked, both said that the card was not a DirectX 8 card. I tried to run the diagnostic test in dxdiag.exe to test Direct3D. The DirectX 7 feature test worked, but when it tried to run the DirectX 8 test, there was an error "3D not available". Thinking it might be some garbage in the registry, I did a complete reinstall of WinME. Same problem. When I dropped my old card back in I got the same errors, so I did another full reinstall just to get it back to normal. I updated my AGP drivers for my motherboard, my MB BIOS is current, I tried different drivers, no luck.

System Specs:

MSI KT7 Turbo (KT133) MB
512 MB PC133
Athlon XP 1500+
Sound Blaster Live!
Windows ME, latest service pack

 

[sgtpepper06]

Kind of the same problem I am having. My system will not run any 3d games, and when i try and run half life, it says the video card does not support direct x 8. Runnign windows xp home

 

[limsandy]

I thought this might help:



<< More specifically, the GeForce4 MX features no DirectX 8 pixel shaders and only limited support for vertex shaders >>



Taken from here
4th paragraph from the top

 

[TBC]

mcruiser, try removing/uninstalling the gainward tools. They usually cause nothing but problems. I have the same card and it runs 3dmark2001 just fine. I'm running mine under WindowsXP.

Not sure if it will help you, but its something worth trying.

 

[jfunk]

When you did the complete reinstall of ME, was that clean? If not your registry may have the same old junk in it.

As mentioned before, I'd try not using anything off the Gainward disc and install nothing but the NVIDIA drivers.

If you are comfortable in the reg, you may want to manually go in there and delete any old graphics cards in there.


j

 

[The Reaper]

You must remove your old drivers from the add/remove program under window's control panel. Then install your new drivers (I suggest the new 27.42's). I also find RivaTuner RC10 a better tweaker then the Gainward Tools. I also had similar problems untill I uninstalled the old drivers properly.

 

[mcruiser]

jfunk: Yeah, it was a full-on clean reinstall, reformatted C:.

Thanks for the tips about the Expert Tools all, when I get the time in the next few days I will try to install it without the tools program.

 

[mcruiser]

Thanks guys, it did turn out to be the EXPERTools utility program. I installed the card without it, no problems.

 

[ALstonLoong]

i am having this problem right now ...couldnt run any games ! not even 3dmark !!! i didnt install the expert tools ..but no help ...