Nvidia driver problem on Vista

[orbiter]

Hi all,

I took the plunge and installed Vista a few days ago and am just getting used to the differences from XP...

One problem though! My Graphics card drivers (Latest for Nvidia Geforce 7600gs) cock the screen up. Things seem to work ok with the drivers Vista uses however I think games are lacking. SO I install the proper drivers for the card and I'm getting a scrambled Vista startup and shutdown screen along with problems like Vista's pop'up warning boxes incomplete and scrambled.

If I uninstall the Proper Nvidia drivers (Version: 158.18)
all is well again.

Anyone else having similar problems?

 

[AnotherGuy]

Welcome to the Jungle of nVidia and Vista... did u download the latest drivers for Vista from the nVidia site?

 

[AmdInside]

It might be due to the fact that your motherboard has an AGP + PCI Express slot. I've heard of a lot of cases where this causes problems with certain graphics cards.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: AmdInside
It might be due to the fact that your motherboard has an AGP + PCI Express slot. I've heard of a lot of cases where this causes problems with certain graphics cards.

And that is different from nforce3 and Athlon 64 X2 issue?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: AmdInside
It might be due to the fact that your motherboard has an AGP + PCI Express slot. I've heard of a lot of cases where this causes problems with certain graphics cards.

no, this doesn't make a difference, I have nvidia cards running on my Asrock with no problems at all.

try an earlier version of the Forceware drivers....the 158.18's are pretty dreadful...but then again so are the earlier versions.

have you tried a clean install to see if that corrects the problem?

 

[orbiter]

Thanks for the responses guys,

Yep! I've tried the lastest drivers from Nvidia and Vista was cleanly installed as were the drivers after a zero'd hard drive wipe.

The card and drivers were fine on XP Pro. Nothing else has been changed other than the switch to Vista OS.

As I haven't checked (rather don't know where to look What drivers does Vista use for the 7600gs?

 

[GregMal]

I just completed a new Vista build. All went well except for the Nvidia video drivers.
Vista does recognize the 7600GS (512) card correctly and automatically installs a default
driver. I then installed the latest driver from the Nvidia web site (158.18) and I'm
having some problems with it.
For instance, when I right-click the desktop and click the nvidia control panel, the screen
blinks, goes blank for 1 sec, then the control panel appears. Is this normal? Should I
stick with the Vista default drivers until better drivers come out? I'm not a gamer.
(Biostar Nforce4 MB, 2 gig Kingston ram, 320 gig sata WD hd, EVGA 7600GS).

 

[Pugnate]

I don't understand why you guys insist on installing Vista alone despite everyone having the usual complaints. I am dual booting XP with Vista. No fuss and no problems.

Dual boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Woofmeister]

NVIDIA's Vista drivers are a disgrace. I'm having problems even with the 8800GTX drivers (though the Vista Beta drivers are an improvement). I second Pugnate on dual booting.

 

[imported_TimBob]

I'm having the same problem. Same motherboard and 6800 ultra. Another problem I'm having is with the refresh rate. I have it hooked up to a 720p projector running at 1280x720, but I cannot set the refresh rate to 60. It always reverts back to a 30.

 

[orbiter]

I'm currently using the 97.46 drivers for my XFX 7600GS. These seem to be the lataest functioning drivers for my card and Vista. Any of the later Vista series drivers from Nvidia just result in screen corruption on startup/shutdown and when any confirmation dialogs pop up within Vista.

Still missing a fully functioning Coolbits for Vista too

 

[orbiter]

Originally posted by: GregMal
I just completed a new Vista build. All went well except for the Nvidia video drivers.
Vista does recognize the 7600GS (512) card correctly and automatically installs a default
driver. I then installed the latest driver from the Nvidia web site (158.18) and I'm
having some problems with it.
For instance, when I right-click the desktop and click the nvidia control panel, the screen
blinks, goes blank for 1 sec, then the control panel appears. Is this normal? Should I
stick with the Vista default drivers until better drivers come out? I'm not a gamer.
(Biostar Nforce4 MB, 2 gig Kingston ram, 320 gig sata WD hd, EVGA 7600GS).

Try the 97.46 drivers on the 7600, they seem to work for me. Just wish the latest Nvidia drivers worked properly. You can download the 97.46 drivers here.......

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_97.46.html

 

[GregMal]

So the older driver is more stable?

 

[mruffin75]

Originally posted by: TimBob
I'm having the same problem. Same motherboard and 6800 ultra. Another problem I'm having is with the refresh rate. I have it hooked up to a 720p projector running at 1280x720, but I cannot set the refresh rate to 60. It always reverts back to a 30.

Isn't the refresh rate for progressive scan 30fps? It's only 60 if it's interlaced.. (twice as fast because it has to refresh the screen twice for every frame)..

 

[orbiter]

Originally posted by: GregMal
So the older driver is more stable?

For me it is. I just can't use the newest drivers without seeng this...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/orbiter/DSCN5322.jpg

 

[Raider1284]

a friend of mine just got vista with his 8800gtx and he is having problems as well. He did a clean install with the latest 158.24 drivers. If he is just on the desktop the screen is fine, but if he tries to enable aero, or play a movie, the screen cuts out and goes blank. The screen then randomly turns on and off until he eventually has to restart.

If he boots into safe mode he has no problems at all.
If he uses the default vista drivers he also seems to have no problems.
Should he try those older 97.46 drivers?

Any ideas?

 

[nullpointerus]

Have you tried the 100.65 drivers? They're WHQL also, but slightly newer than 97.46.

Also consider using a different cable (i.e. VGA instead of DVI) and/or refresh rate if possible.

 

[deadmeat282]

I have that problem with the same motherboard and a 6800GT any driver version above the one that comes with vista causes those black lines and some distortion with Vista UAC boxes(example having to put the curser over the ok or cancel for the button to appear.)

never got a reply when I sent in my bug report to nvidia.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Raider1284
a friend of mine just got vista with his 8800gtx and he is having problems as well. He did a clean install with the latest 158.24 drivers. If he is just on the desktop the screen is fine, but if he tries to enable aero, or play a movie, the screen cuts out and goes blank. The screen then randomly turns on and off until he eventually has to restart.

If he boots into safe mode he has no problems at all.
If he uses the default vista drivers he also seems to have no problems.
Should he try those older 97.46 drivers?

Any ideas?

The Vista Beta Drivers for the 8800GTX (158.45) are a big improvement. Get them here.

 

[Acanthus]

Strange that you guys have so many problems with nvidia graphics drivers.

Im running fantastic in all of my games on vista.

However, on my 2nd machine, the awful Nforce drivers were enough to drive me to move to Intel/Intel from Nvidia/AMD.

It is my understanding that microsoft has pulled nvidias WHQL listing for all nforce motherboards due to driver issues with the PCI Management Bus driver. Their sound drivers are equally abysmal.

 

[Xavier434]

It is my understanding that microsoft has pulled nvidias WHQL listing for all nforce motherboards due to driver issues with the PCI Management Bus driver.

Could you provide a link that formally discusses this action? I'm not saying you are wrong or anything. I just haven't had much luck with Google.