RTCW with new Omega & nVidia drivers?

eurolu · Dec 22, 2002, 12:26 AM

Wow, I haven't been able to play Return To Castle Wolfenstein for more than 10 minutes without it freezing and my monitor shutting off by itself with the newest Omega and newest nVidia-41.09 drivers... what the hell? It never froze with the earlier drivers, and my monitor has NEVER shut off by itself before. Any ideas? This happening to anyone else?

digitalwanderer · Dec 22, 2002, 12:44 AM

...install DX9? I just did a dx9 install & freshly install 41.09s on Bubbles on both 98se & XP...I'll go check it out and get back to ya.

eurolu · Dec 22, 2002, 02:27 AM

Thanks a lot bro.. Direct X 9 is out? Or just the beta. ?

digitalwanderer · Dec 22, 2002, 02:46 AM

It's the real deal, DX9 is out. I just tried out RTCW for a while in XP and didn't have any problems. It ran really nice for me and I always left it running since me last post whether I played it or not. (I cheated with godmode whenever I wasn't playing and just let the soldiers attack me.

) No problems here, did you do any tweaks to your OS or your viddy card?

eurolu · Dec 22, 2002, 09:42 PM

Can you give me a url for DX9 full? And yeah I think I just did like two, three tweaks to my comp, but one for speed (my speed sucks so much ass I dont know why, I'm on cable, this morning it was fixed for some reason but now it's all shitty again) and two more, I dont think it was big just slight, but hey.. it worked fine on old drivers (2.9.x.x), it never froze, it only freezes on the latest omega/nvidia drivers.

eurolu · Dec 23, 2002, 12:09 AM

I found DX9, I installed it.. but I cant find the icon in control panel anywhere.. or is it gone now? How do I check what DX9 it is?

konjini · Dec 23, 2002, 11:56 AM

Go to run(onder search) and enter dxdiag.

eurolu · Dec 23, 2002, 01:27 PM

Nah.. shit still freezes, I'm pretty sure it's the drivers, cause everything works fine if the drivers are signed ( like the 2.9.x.x drivers )

Dec 25, 2002, 08:33 AM

Well buddy its quite weird that you having a 4600 card and having problems with drivers that are optimised for GF4 cards.

Im pretty sure its not the drivers but a combination of the newr drivers and something else.

Can you try to UNINSTALL old drivers and disable any tweaks ??
Then install the newer drivers.

I had similar problems once and was convinced it was the vid drivers but at one point i had to do a clean install (virus) and used the same drivers in the new install......guess what??....no more problems.

Ever considered that it may be your VID-Card overheating?
Or a bad bios setting ?
Or even a corrupt installation of windows?

Its too bad that the more GPU power we get the more complicated things get...

BTW: I just finished RTCW with the 41.09 drivers without any freezes except one that was caused from my SB live plat. and after i tuned down the hardware settings in my multimedia it was fine.

P.S What a great game !!!!

eurolu · Dec 25, 2002, 01:55 PM

Heheh.. great game indeed, I think I fixed it.. I updated my AGP, or VGA.. one of those (lol) and I called Gainward -- the peeps who made my card.. and they told me that I can't install the drivers from nVidia on my card.. because my card is specially made for the drivers of gainward.. and I downloaded their drivers and everything is working fine now! Greekrage: Come on the Jolt (TRAM) server sometime.. my name is TEKNIKAL.. I phucking OWN.

Actually... nevermind.. it still freezes, what the FUCK!?!?!?
Yesterday it didn't freeze but today it freezes everytime I try to play, but this time the monitor doesn't shut off, the game just freezes completely and I obviously have to turn off the computer manually cause faggot winxp doesn't have the ctrl+alt+del restart function.... what the hell could be the problem?

konjini · Dec 26, 2002, 12:19 PM

Will look around for you for some fragging

, i'm offthen on j3 .

That what you discraibed looks like refresh problem.
The refresh fix don't work for me with the new drivers so i'm stuck right now with 60Hz

.
Try to see running without fullscreen(ctrl-enter) to see if it freezes.

eurolu · Dec 26, 2002, 05:16 PM

Alright, thanks... also eh... 3dmark freezes too lol on the 2nd test everything just freezes just like in wolfenstein.

Dec 22, 2002, 12:26 AM	#1
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	RTCW with new Omega & nVidia drivers? Wow, I haven't been able to play Return To Castle Wolfenstein for more than 10 minutes without it freezing and my monitor shutting off by itself with the newest Omega and newest nVidia-41.09 drivers... what the hell? It never froze with the earlier drivers, and my monitor has NEVER shut off by itself before. Any ideas? This happening to anyone else? __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate

Dec 22, 2002, 12:44 AM	#2
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Did ya... ...install DX9? I just did a dx9 install & freshly install 41.09s on Bubbles on both 98se & XP...I'll go check it out and get back to ya. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 22, 2002, 02:27 AM	Thread Starter #3
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	hey Thanks a lot bro.. Direct X 9 is out? Or just the beta. ? __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate

Dec 22, 2002, 02:46 AM	#4
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	No, it's out. It's the real deal, DX9 is out. I just tried out RTCW for a while in XP and didn't have any problems. It ran really nice for me and I always left it running since me last post whether I played it or not. (I cheated with godmode whenever I wasn't playing and just let the soldiers attack me. ) No problems here, did you do any tweaks to your OS or your viddy card? __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 22, 2002, 09:42 PM	Thread Starter #5
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	Can you give me a url for DX9 full? And yeah I think I just did like two, three tweaks to my comp, but one for speed (my speed sucks so much ass I dont know why, I'm on cable, this morning it was fixed for some reason but now it's all shitty again) and two more, I dont think it was big just slight, but hey.. it worked fine on old drivers (2.9.x.x), it never froze, it only freezes on the latest omega/nvidia drivers. __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate

Dec 23, 2002, 12:09 AM	Thread Starter #6
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	I found DX9, I installed it.. but I cant find the icon in control panel anywhere.. or is it gone now? How do I check what DX9 it is? __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate

Dec 23, 2002, 11:56 AM	#7
konjini DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Heerlen (NL) Posts: 85 Rep Power: 0	Go to run(onder search) and enter dxdiag.

Dec 23, 2002, 01:27 PM	Thread Starter #8
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	Nah.. shit still freezes, I'm pretty sure it's the drivers, cause everything works fine if the drivers are signed ( like the 2.9.x.x drivers ) __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate

Dec 25, 2002, 08:33 AM	#9
GREEKRAGE Guest Posts: n/a	Well buddy its quite weird that you having a 4600 card and having problems with drivers that are optimised for GF4 cards. Im pretty sure its not the drivers but a combination of the newr drivers and something else. Can you try to UNINSTALL old drivers and disable any tweaks ?? Then install the newer drivers. I had similar problems once and was convinced it was the vid drivers but at one point i had to do a clean install (virus) and used the same drivers in the new install......guess what??....no more problems. Ever considered that it may be your VID-Card overheating? Or a bad bios setting ? Or even a corrupt installation of windows? Its too bad that the more GPU power we get the more complicated things get... BTW: I just finished RTCW with the 41.09 drivers without any freezes except one that was caused from my SB live plat. and after i tuned down the hardware settings in my multimedia it was fine. P.S What a great game !!!!

Dec 25, 2002, 01:55 PM	Thread Starter #10
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	Heheh.. great game indeed, I think I fixed it.. I updated my AGP, or VGA.. one of those (lol) and I called Gainward -- the peeps who made my card.. and they told me that I can't install the drivers from nVidia on my card.. because my card is specially made for the drivers of gainward.. and I downloaded their drivers and everything is working fine now! Greekrage: Come on the Jolt (TRAM) server sometime.. my name is TEKNIKAL.. I phucking OWN. Actually... nevermind.. it still freezes, what the FUCK!?!?!? Yesterday it didn't freeze but today it freezes everytime I try to play, but this time the monitor doesn't shut off, the game just freezes completely and I obviously have to turn off the computer manually cause faggot winxp doesn't have the ctrl+alt+del restart function.... what the hell could be the problem? __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate Last edited by eurolu; Dec 25, 2002 at 02:55 PM.

Dec 26, 2002, 12:19 PM	#11
konjini DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Heerlen (NL) Posts: 85 Rep Power: 0	Will look around for you for some fragging , i'm offthen on j3 . That what you discraibed looks like refresh problem. The refresh fix don't work for me with the new drivers so i'm stuck right now with 60Hz . Try to see running without fullscreen(ctrl-enter) to see if it freezes. __________________ iMMortal Clan (WA) Sponsored by: www.extremegameservers.net

Dec 26, 2002, 05:16 PM	Thread Starter #12
eurolu True Playa Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 51 Rep Power: 0	Alright, thanks... also eh... 3dmark freezes too lol on the 2nd test everything just freezes just like in wolfenstein. __________________ Asus A7N8X Deluxe AMD Athlon XP2100+ WD 80GB Caviar w/ 8MB Buffer GeForce4 MX440 w/8xAGP SoundBlaster Live 5.1+ Lite-On 52x24x52x CDR/RW Pioneer 16x DVR-Rom 2x 256MB 400 MHZ/PC3200 DDRAM Boston Speakers w/ subwoofer Windows XP SP1 Corporate