ti4200 on win98

[MadEye2]

I have a second ti4200 card now (I sort screwed up on ebay not realizing you can't undo a "buy it now"). This one is the Siluro ti4200 (not the 8x AGP one). Like my other card the offical nvidia drivers (regular and forceware) don't work very well on the card - anything that uses direct x crawls terribly - in dxdiag i only get about 1 frame per second (if i'm lucky). OpenGL seems to work fine though, at least on Unreal Tournament.
My other ti4200 is an asus one, which has it's own enhanced drivers which work perfectly, just not the generic nvidia ones.
Anyone got any ideas on what's causing the DX crippling?
I'm on Win98se, but I'm getting XP home soon (hopefully)

 

[MadEye2]

could it be DX9c that's the problem?

 

[MadEye2]

Anyone any ideas at all? Not just for ti4200s, but for any cards that have had directx problems while opengl worked fine?

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: MadEye2
I have a second ti4200 card now (I sort screwed up on ebay not realizing you can't undo a "buy it now"). This one is the Siluro ti4200 (not the 8x AGP one). Like my other card the offical nvidia drivers (regular and forceware) don't work very well on the card - anything that uses direct x crawls terribly - in dxdiag i only get about 1 frame per second (if i'm lucky). OpenGL seems to work fine though, at least on Unreal Tournament.
My other ti4200 is an asus one, which has it's own enhanced drivers which work perfectly, just not the generic nvidia ones.
Anyone got any ideas on what's causing the DX crippling?
I'm on Win98se, but I'm getting XP home soon (hopefully)

I've got an Abit Ti 4200 (Siluro OTES). Great card, no diff between 4x and 8x AGP and these 64MB models are faster than the 128MB models. I use in win98se and it works fine. I believe the driver I prefer is the nVidia driver dated May 03, anyway, it's the one issued before they started doing all the tweaks for the FX line of cards and all their DX9 problems.

I'd say try different drivers (IIRC they issued another for win98se and ME recently though I haven't tried it), run the DXdiag and maybe make sure the mobo drivers (including the AGP) are updated.

May wanna Drivercleaner in there and reinstall. BTW, follow the install/update instructions on nVidia's site carefully. I have inadvertantly "mixed" driver versions by not paying careful attention in the dialog boxes which pop-up when updating the nVidia drivers. And that makes problems...

Good Luck with it.

Fern

 

[MadEye2]

Thanks. I've downloaded several versions of the nvidia drivers for the asus ti4200 i have. I'm not sure if I have the may 2003 version but i'll look out for it. None of them work directly, only the Asus specific enhanced drivers worked.
For some reason my mobo doesn't like any via drivers other than the ones that came on the CD with it. And the viagart drivers that came with the asus model just made my machine locked up during boot - loads of screen glitches on the splash screen. Not a problem with the enhanced drivers, but I don't know if they'll work on the siluro card, I doubt it.
I'm going to hunt down the may drivers, see what they're like.
Thanks.

Oh it,s the 128mb siluro I have too. I should try it on the downstairs PC like I threatened, see if it functions on there.

 

[MadEye2]

Do you know the version number for the may03 drivers? The sites I'm looking at don't have dates.

 

[MadEye2]

I've just downloaded the 41.09 drivers and they seem to be working a treat on both cards. The Siluro is lagging slightly behind the v9280 but that's most probably down to the 440Mhz RAM.

 

[MDE]

The 44.03 drivers have always been great on GeForce4 cards for me.

 

[MadEye2]

I think the 44.03s may be the may 2003 ones fern suggested, because the 41.09 ones I'm using are only a few months older. I'll look out for the 44.03s. Cheers

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: MadEye2
I think the 44.03s may be the may 2003 ones fern suggested, because the 41.09 ones I'm using are only a few months older. I'll look out for the 44.03s. Cheers

Yeah, I was referring to the 44.03. Get 'em HERE.

Fern

 

[MadEye2]

Thanks. I'm building quite a big collection of drivers for videocards now. I think I should make a website hoho