Author Topic: Nvdia Rules (Read 3866 times)

rheffera · « **on:** November 24, 2009, 12:53:00 PM »

I love NVIDIA

psyren · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:03:38 PM »

Quote from: rheffera on November 24, 2009, 12:53:00 PM

Got home, put in the card, Installed the drivers. Restarted

Epic fail right there.

You uninstall your current drivers first, reboot, go into Windows, cancel any driver installation attempts, then shut down.
You then swap cards, boot up, install your drivers, and reboot again.

FAIL.

shadowmaniac · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:06:10 PM »

Make sure you cleanly removed any traces of your old card's drivers especially since you're moving towards a competitor's product.

Oh yea, beaten to it by Psyren.

rheffera · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:12:50 PM »

Quote from: psyren on November 24, 2009, 01:03:38 PM

Quote from: rheffera on November 24, 2009, 12:53:00 PM
Got home, put in the card, Installed the drivers. Restarted
Epic fail right there.

You uninstall your current drivers first, reboot, go into Windows, cancel any driver installation attempts, then shut down.
You then swap cards, boot up, install your drivers, and reboot again.

FAIL.

*Shrugs* Never had to do that before.(then again before this i only worked with PCI and AGP cards) Ill tell you what. Ill do a clean install of XP right now. If it works after that ill bow down and post "I'm stimulated by nvidia in a way you cant show on TV" (and given that im an ATI fanboy ill be mildly unhappy in doing it). But i doubt it will work.

Takeshi · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:16:44 PM »

Quote from: rheffera on November 24, 2009, 01:12:50 PM

*Shrugs* Never had to do that before.(then again before this i only worked with PCI and AGP cards) Ill tell you what. Ill do a clean install of XP right now. If it works after that ill bow down and post "I'm stimulated by nvidia in a way you cant show on TV" (and given that im an ATI fanboy ill be mildly unhappy in doing it). But i doubt it will work.

It's common sense to un-install something before installing a new version of something whether it's programs or drivers. Some programs may support the functionality to install over the old version, but that doesn't go for drivers.

psyren · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:17:49 PM »

You don't need to do a clean install. Just go into safe mode and remove all the drivers.
I also recommend doing a registry scrub, either with CCleaner or a more thorough program like Eusing Free Registry Cleaner.

molbjerg · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:18:47 PM »

ATI are the ones that suck, everyone knows that.

Software speaking anyways....

psyren · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:25:49 PM »

Agreed. If not for their stupid CCC, it'd be better.
They have moved it from .Net to VB now, though, so it's a step forward.

rheffera · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:32:07 PM »

Well im going to do a clean install anyway; had a codec issue recentley and a few other issues.

Also as a foot note; i did some googling and people are saying nvidia's drivers cause BSOD'S with the same message im getting because they FAIL with winxp x64

reinstalling windows as i type.

molbjerg · « **Reply #9 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:45:58 PM »

Well... WinXP64 isn't exactly a well supported O/S...

bloody000 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:47:33 PM »

Everyone knows XP x64 is hated everywhere.

rheffera · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:52:55 PM »

Quote from: bloody000 on November 24, 2009, 01:47:33 PM

Everyone knows XP x64 is hated everywhere.

I thought that was Vista; considering it has even less driver support than x64

Lupin · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:53:57 PM »

Quote from: rheffera on November 24, 2009, 01:52:55 PM

I thought that was Vista; considering it has even less driver support than x64

It's worse than Vista compatibility-wise.

And what driver support? Vista has better driver support than xp64bit ever has.

rheffera · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:59:52 PM »

Quote from: Lupin on November 24, 2009, 01:53:57 PM

Quote from: rheffera on November 24, 2009, 01:52:55 PM
I thought that was Vista; considering it has even less driver support than x64
It's worse than Vista compatibility-wise.

And what driver support? Vista has better driver support than xp64bit ever has.

Im gonna drop the whole OS argument.

molbjerg · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:04:11 PM »

Probably a good idea. Take our word for it; ATI has worse software than Nvidia, and WindowsXP x64 is barely even an official O/S, with awful compatibility.

rheffera · « **Reply #15 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:07:41 PM »

I do admit ATI's CCC was slow. i might give windows 7 a go. Its also possible i have a faulty card

raylu · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:08:52 PM »

To be honest, the fail is that unrelated drivers cause your system to BSOD.

Linux might have shitty video drivers for hardware/3D acceleration, but with all the drivers installed (minus the legacy ones), I have no issues; that's how it should be.

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EDIT: A faulty card should not cause BSODs. Driver failure can cause that, but I suppose a faulty card may indirectly cause it because of a badly written driver that can't handle error conditions.

molbjerg · « **Reply #17 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:09:54 PM »

Well, something is faulty along the way... It's not exactly all working

Most likely your config.

rheffera · « **Reply #18 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:27:49 PM »

Well reinstalling didnt help. it detects the card ok; but its stuck on 4bit color! changing it shuts down my monitor.

molbjerg · « **Reply #19 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:30:43 PM »

Plugged in the power cable to the graphics card?