TNT2 no longer compatible with Nvidia's newer drivers?

[beatle]

I currently have a TNT2 M64 PCI card and a BFG 6800OC AGP card so that I can run 3 monitors.

I'd been running the beta 71.20 drivers for quite some time. I had no reason to upgrade as these were stable and I wasn't playing games. Then I decided to try the BF2 demo. I had awful video artifacts, so I tried upgrading to the latest drivers at the time - 77.77. These caused my computer to BSOD upon bootup. After restoring last known good, I was back in business. Later I tried FEAR and I was unable to run the game with my old drivers, so I tried the latest ones again - 81.85. These also caused a BSOD at bootup. After pulling out my PCI TNT2, things booted up fine.

Today I reformatted to start from scratch. I loaded the 81.85 drivers and I still get a BSOD at the Windows splash screen if I have the TNT2 in my system.

AFAIK, the TNT2 only works with 71.20 drivers and earlier, at least on my system. Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround?

 

[johnnqq]

my geforce 2 gts only uses the low 70 drivers (havent updated in a long time because they just don't work :\)

 

[Mem]

The following products are not supported in the current ForceWare Release 80 driver. Please continue to use the previous ForceWare Release 70 drivers available here.

TNT2
TNT2 Pro
TNT2 Ultra
TNT2 Model 64 (M64)
TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro
Vanta
Vanta LT
GeForce 256
GeForce DDR
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 Ti
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics
Quadro
Quadro2 Pro
Quadro2 EX

Link.

 

[beatle]

They need to update their driver download application to reflect this. When I select TNT2/Geforce, it prompts me to download the 81.85s. :thumbsdown:

Is there a way to run separate drivers for each nvidia card? I bought the TNT2 to consolidate my drivers. :|

 

[Kalessian]

Don't hold me to this, but I believe that I saw some modified drivers that claimed to add support for those older cards. XG drivers I think, but maybe DNA.

 

[sandorski]

I doubt newer drivers have added any benefit to such old hardware for quite some time. Could be wrong, but any issues would have been worked out ages ago.