nVidia driver problem (Max Payne)??

[Xesh]

A friend of mine is having trouble with the new detonator drivers... his computer doesn't fully boot with windows hardware acceleration enabled, and when trying to run Max Payne, he gets an error saying that a DirectX 8 compatible card is required. We can't even get to the setup screen. He has a TNT2 card. We tried installing the 12.41 drivers (which the game's readme file recommended), and the game still didn't work. DXDiag says that all Direct3D tests are successful but says that one of the files is unregistered. Does anybody have any ideas as to what might be wrong?

I appreciate your help ---
--- Xesh

 

[Duvie]

remove the drivers and clean up all the reminence of the drivers...basically going back to just plain vga card like in a fresh install...then reinstall the latest drivers or the 12.41's...

I am concerned that some of the older cards like tnt2's should not be updated to newer detonators for the reasons of the error message you got...

 

[Xesh]

I uninstalled (via control panel) the new drivers before going to the 12.41's - windows (98) installed the card as a standard one. I don't know what other traces of the drivers there might be aside from the install file. Perhaps the card would work better under older drivers, but the older drivers aren't DX8 compatible anyway, right?

 

[Duvie]

I have no personall experience in the matter, but I remember awhile back the issue was brought up of not updating to new detonator 3 & 4's do the card wasn't made for dx 8.0 features let alone direct x 7.0...I could be wrong but the eroor message maybe confirming this...

Anyway go to nvidias webpage and see if it suggest anything interms of drivers for that card...that might tell you something about the cars ability to run det 3 & 4's.

 

[GunDog]

I have a TNT2 card in one of my systems and using the newest nvidia drivers. The card is alot faster and with no problems at all. DirectX 8a is installed and DirectX dba is also installed.

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[FuManStan]

Have you tried reinstalling Direct X 8? Either redownload and install from Microsoft or install DX8 from the cd ( i think its included).

 

[MrNutz]

i also have a nvidia TNT2m64 card on my ol' 400mHz w/ 128megsRAM

im using the most current nvidia drivers & directx 8.0a and Max Payne runs suprisingly great! in fact ive already beaten the game...

if you have removed & reinstalled the drivers and a fresh install of directx8.0a doesnot recognize the card then the card itself is most likely the problem - you may have possibly damaged it while installing it by running a static discharge over the chip if you weren't careful.
this would result in initialization errors on the chipset due to blown transistors...

 

[poppasp1ce]

I have a P3-800EB, TNT2 21.83, WindowsXP, and Max Payne (as well as all my other games) runs like a champ.