NVIDIA Riva TNT2/TNT2 Pro problem

[v0rTeX]

I have the NVIDIA Riva TNT2/TNT2 Pro video card running at 4xAGP. The card is a 32MB card and my res settings are 1024x768 on my windows 98 SE. When I turn the graphics acceleration setting up beyond the second notch out of the possible four I get errors displaying web pages with Flash on them, some games that use 3D graphics freeze on me, and sometimes my start menu button messes up graphically. When I leave it at the second setting ( the one to correct sever problems and program errors) everything is fine but I can't play any games that use Direct Draw 3D or something. Is this something I can fix or is it because I am running a bad card or bad res settings?

[eagle1]

if you like, try setting your resolution to 800x600 and increase the video acceleration tab that you talked about.! It could be alot of things, :

1. Do you have the latest directX installed?
2. Do you have the latest video card drivers?
3. Is your video card well ventilated?
4. Have you checked your AGP and Video card Bios settings?

Just some questions to get started.!!

[v0rTeX]

thanks for the ideas Ill try checking all that... I know I have the latest drivers for TNT2 and there dated june 2001 and I have directX8.0a I think cause I got them from microsoft update... I will try to change my settings to 800x600 and also to decrease my color depth settings as I have read elsewhere in these forums that it may be a factor...

[v0rTeX]

well I tried everything I can think of but no matter what my card causes errors related to Direct Draw whenver the accelerator setting is all the way up unless I go into DXDIAG and disable Direct Draw... guess I need to go out and get my self a Radeon card now...grrr at incompatibilities... thanks for the help eagle1

[RobRich]

Try to disable AGP 4x in your BIOS, plus make sure that the AGP aperature is set to 1/2 your system memory. Other BIOS settings to chech: disable video shadow, disable video cache, enable assign IRQ to video.

Also, try a different driver revision, such as 12.90 which should be available at http://www.3dchipset.com .

Good Luck,
Robert Richmond

[denisik]

Try to disable sideband addressing,it might help a lot.