WinXP + GF3 + UT = Trouble

[Workin']

I'm running WinXP Pro at the moment, and I installed Unreal Tournament. However, I can't get it to run. Right when it starts, and trys to detect the 3D device to use, the display goes all squiggly and the machine locks, then reboots itself after about 30 seconds.

I have a VIA KT266A mobo, 1.4 tbird, 1 GB RAM, and a Vortex2 sound card. I installed the latest 4-in-1's, and tried the 22.40 version drivers that came with the card, and also the 21.83's from nvidia. Same problem.

Am I missing something here?

 

[PUNKtotalled]

What are exactly your boards (GF3 and mother)?

 

[Workin']

Shuttle AK31A r3.1 motherboard
Gainward GF3 Ti200/450 Golden Sample

 

[Workin']

Anyone?

 

[TAsunder]

I found that I had to downgrade to I believe 14.51 to get most games to function smoothly in WinXp.

 

[jbond04]

I'm running an Asus V8200 Deluxe GF3 under WinXP Home version with no problems at all with UT. I have used 21.81, 21.83, and 22.50 drivers, and none of them have a problem.

 

[tstanev]

I'm having more or less the same problem with the machine I just built.
It has the 266A chipset (EPOX 8KHA+ board), Athlon XP, Gainward GF3 Ti200, WinXP Pro.
Nothing that uses DirectX acceleration works (i.e. it crashes my computer whenever I try to run it, or the screen goes blank and there is still sound in the background).
I got the latest VIA drivers, and Detonator drivers and still it doesn't work.

 

[EdipisReks]

have you guys tried reinstalling dx8.1? that usually fixes winXP dx problems, in my experience.

--jacob

 

[tstanev]

Yes I tried reinstalling DX8.1.

 

[Workin']

tstanev, that is EXACTLY the problem I have. I'll be messing around with it some more tomorrow, but I'm not quite sure what I will be trying...

 

[tstanev]

I tried many things.
First, I tried the Geforce on my old machine, runing Win2K. It worked perfectly.
Then I tried my old video card (Voodoo 3 3000 AGP) in the new machine. It works.
My conclusion is that the Gainward card does not like WinXP Pro. May be this is limited to the 266+ chipset, but I don't know about that.
I think I'll just return it to newegg and get a different geforce, because I don't want to waste more time. I tried pretty much everything I could to get it to work.

 

[Emo]

I am running UT on Win XP Pro machine with no problems at all.. Epox 8HKA+, 512M Crucial, XP1600+@1585Mhz, Visiontek Ti 200 @230/540, latest Det. 23.10. UT at 1600x1200 is a beauty! I would go back to the Win XP Via drivers and also test different settings in the bios (t.e., disable Fastwrites, etc.)

 

[Workin']

tstanev, I have the same problem using either my Geforce 3, my Geforce2 Pro, or my Geforce2 GTS-V.

emo, which VIA drivers are you using? Are you using on-board sound? Which version of XP? Did you have to tweak anything or did you just install it and it worked?

 

[Emo]

I am running XP Pro (2600), using the XP VIA drivers and didn't tweak anything to get it working. I am not using the onboard sound, just a SB Live with the XP drivers.

 

[tstanev]

<< I am running UT on Win XP Pro machine with no problems at all.. Epox 8HKA+, 512M Crucial, XP1600+@1585Mhz, Visiontek Ti 200 @230/540, latest Det. 23.10. UT at 1600x1200 is a beauty! I would go back to the Win XP Via drivers and also test different settings in the bios (t.e., disable Fastwrites, etc.) >>



We have the same mobo, sound card, ram. Except our video cards are different. It has to be the Gainward! What a piece of crap.

 

[Workin']

<< It has to be the Gainward! What a piece of crap. >>

I wouldn't say that - I have the same problem with a Leadtek card and with a Visiontek card. It has to be the drivers - all this stuff works perfectly for me under Windows 2000.

Tomorrow I'm going to reinstall XP, and the only driver I'm going to install that didn't come with XP is the 23.10 Nvidia driver set. We'll see what happens.

 

[tstanev]

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<< It has to be the Gainward! What a piece of crap. >>

I wouldn't say that - I have the same problem with a Leadtek card and with a Visiontek card. It has to be the drivers - all this stuff works perfectly for me under Windows 2000.

Tomorrow I'm going to reinstall XP, and the only driver I'm going to install that didn't come with XP is the 23.10 Nvidia driver set. We'll see what happens. >>



When I installed XP clean, I only installed the 21.83 driver, nothing else and it didn't work. I'm gonna reinstall clean XP right now and see what happens.

 

[tstanev]

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<< It has to be the Gainward! What a piece of crap. >>

I wouldn't say that - I have the same problem with a Leadtek card and with a Visiontek card. It has to be the drivers - all this stuff works perfectly for me under Windows 2000.

Tomorrow I'm going to reinstall XP, and the only driver I'm going to install that didn't come with XP is the 23.10 Nvidia driver set. We'll see what happens. >>



When I installed XP clean, I only installed the 21.83 driver, nothing else and it didn't work. I'm gonna reinstall clean XP right now and see what happens. >>




All right, it works for me now. Clean reinstall of XP, didn't even let it use anything but the default VGA driver. Then got the latest detonator (23.10). And it finally worked!

 

[Workin']

<< All right, it works for me now. Clean reinstall of XP, didn't even let it use anything but the default VGA driver. Then got the latest detonator (23.10). And it finally worked! >>

I'm reinstalling right now - happy to hear it worked, I have my fingers crossed, hoping for the best here. I'll post results when I have them!

 

[Workin']

Yeee Hawww!

Finally working!!! Clean install of XP, using XP's VIA drivers and Nvidia 23.10 drivers. That was a lot more difficult than it should have been.