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Geforce4 Ti problem FIXED!!! YAY!Follow

#1 Jan 17 2004 at 5:03 PM Rating: Decent
This will hopefully help out other people that have had similar problems as well. Basically, these problems began yesterday when I upgraded my GeForce 2 MX card to the the GeForce4 TI 4200. Here are my specs:

AMD 2600+ Barton
512 MB RAM
Geforce Ti 4200 128MB
Shuttle AN53N motherboard

Problems:

* Random long delays (10-15 sec)... this would sometime happen every other minute. I would then get a red circle logo next to my name.

* Shimmering/glittering white artifacts on the map.

* Permanent crashes/freezes/blue screen.. the message was "nv_disp.dll error: the driver was unable to complete the drawing operation..."


Fixes:

* Updated drivers to 53.03 WHQL. (took care of 95% the shimmering)

* Since Direct3D is used, I disabled both the options in OpenGL in the Settings. Also, AA is OFF and AF is 8x. (took care of the weird artifacts and completely gray map)

*** Took out my Creative SB Live! PCI sound card and used the on-board sound. This immediately took care of the LONG 10-15 sec temporary freezes!!! Apparently, there is a conflict with this card with the AGP 8X slot and referred to as the nvloop bug.


NOTE: Most crashes are NOT caused by this exact problem. There may be viruses/spyware/norton that are running in the background that will most certainly cause the game to crash. Other problem can be traced to a slow network. I knew beforehand that these were not the problem since everything was working fine on my older Geforce MX card. Please let me know if this helped. (By the way, the game looks 10X better now on 1024x1024. The 2048 resolution slowed me down too much.) Good luck!
#2 Jan 17 2004 at 6:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I dont think it was a conflict with the card, rather the PCI slot you had it in was on the same IRQ as the AGP slot so the Video and Sound cards were trying to share the resource at the same time which is a major no-no for video games. Try re-installing it in a different PCI slot and then check hardware resources to make sure it is on a different IRQ then the Video card. Ideally the Sound card should be on IRQ 5 and the Video card should be on IRQ 11, but windows is majorly retarded concerning this and doesnt allow you to allocate IRQ resources like it should. Keep swaping PCI slots till you get the Sound card to show a different ICQ then the Video card.
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