I wish I hadn't done that....

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Nothing much happening, so I switched my Nvidia graphics driver from 53.04 (official Win98) to 56.55 leaked.

Played with the pretty features (it can caollapse windows to their title bar, handy if your screen is as cluttered as mine) and a few other things - added the "coolbits" fix which enables extra options, and saw a new auto-overclock feature (now actually, I think that's for cards with monitoring).

Tried it, and it blinked and came back - and seemed to be saying ZERO.
Now I thought I'd cancelled/defaulted it again, BUT:

Next boot, came up as normal, tray began to fill - Blackscreen powersave! - no response to CTRL-ALT-DEL.

After wasting another boot (boy it's slow!), I hammered F8 and got safe mode, pulled a few reg keys that looked like the overclocking ones (Marge was set to 0) - no luck, so grabbed safemode again, and uninstalled the driver, reloading 53.04 on the reboot.

I think I'll wait for the official 56.x - but I might give it another bash, taking a bit more care - I've NEVER had a foulup like that before though - and believe me, I've tried :rolleyes:
 
VIPER_1069

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could be a case of it setting the monitor refresh rate too high for your monitor LTR12101B

had a similar prob with an ATI card i set the refresh rate to default in safe mode and it worked fine it :)

it was just a case of trial and error to guess the optimal refresh rate for the drivers/card/monitor without going over :)
 
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Excluding a few extreme cases (eg Eizo monitors) the biggest usable refresh rate is 85 Hz, even if the monitor vendor claims something faster. For TFT monitors 60 Hz is the norm (as absolutely fine for 99.5% of the existing needs).
 
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Refresh rate was not something I fiddled with - I'm suspecting that I ended up messing up the overclocking setting, though I was sure I didn't set it to overclock at reboot - I sure as hell hit something that disagreed with it though!

At least I remembered how to get safe mode - still not sure if it's HOLD F8 for the menu, or if demented hammering is required.
 
banzibaby

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Think it demented hammering m8, at least it is on mine :p

Sorry to hear about the troubles U had with them, i had a silly thing while setting up XP, tried umpteen different versions of the nvidia drivers (always ran a cleaner afterwards) they went through the install routine, but the progress bar always went straight to 100% & then asked for a reboot, after reboot the driver wasnt even installed (no extra display tabs) the only one that would work was the 53.03 ones, werid indeed :rolleyes: :confused:

BaNzI :D
 
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56.64 official driver - and no better.

Now when I've got more time, I may make a more methodical test... it's ok on the first boot after driver install, but not on the next.

One thing which did change, was the PIVOT software (for a pivot LCD screen), which disables after a driver change and needs re-installing (which I did!).
Since the time it cuts out, is about when yhat normally loads, I wonder if later drivers are not compatible with Pivot 6.05 - and I could do without the Pivot, sionce Nvidia drivers include NvRotate.

Needs more time, and a methodical, no shortcuts workthrough including ripping out any reg entries that didn't get cleaned properly, and deinstall Pivot before starting!
 
roadworker

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I have a TI4200 and get the best results with 43.25 and 44.03.......every higher driver version I tried,decreases the performance of my card....perhaps because a TI4200 is a directx 8.1 card? :confused:
 
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roadworker said:
I have a TI4200 and get the best results with 43.25 and 44.03.......every higher driver version I tried,decreases the performance of my card....perhaps because a TI4200 is a directx 8.1 card? :confused:
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Mine's a crummy old Geforce 2MX, but I do like the tricks the new drivers can do.

They do say that after a while, the older cards can see a small reverse in performance with the newer drivers.

The main thrust in the latest drivers seems to be better benchmark cheats (I mean shader compilers) for the FX range.
 
banzibaby

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Yeah LTR12101B, i noticed the same, on 98se i always stuck to the 30.82 ones as later ones the 40x ones caused game vids to crawl & stutter & image quality took a nosedive, on XP i had noting but probs as in me previous post, just read in big_ie's news post that the new ones have a IE popup blocker lol, is it any good compared to say the meaya one or are they just adding more bloat to them :)

BaNzI :D
 
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