Via Arena send word on some new VIA AGP Drivers:



Download them here

I've just downloaded that driver and the VIA 4-in-1's V4.37a.

Strange the 4-in-1's are a 1.2MB Zip yet the stand alone AGP drivers is over a 5MB Zip.

I have the default Microsoft drivers installed at the moment but I've been suffering the infinite loop bug in Deus Ex & Return To Castle Wolfenstein.

I'm using a Radeon 32MB DDR 7200 vid card. Latest drivers installed a coupla weeks ago.

Now, how the hell do I install these new VIA drivers?

I've a feeling the AGP driver is under Device Manager > System Devices > VIA Tech CPU to AGP controller. Is that correct?

Anybody wanna lend a helping hand here, all advice apreciated. I've never updated the 4-in-1's with WIN XP.

I'm just doing the same now:

1) Extract all the 4.37a files (1.2 Meg) in to a temporary DIR, then run the main setup.exe file... All I needed to do was click next and stick with the default settings several times

once setup is complete, reboot and follow any prompts and click continue/next on them

2) Extract the new AGP drivers in to a temporary dir, and again run setup.exe and then click next a couple of times, and then restart

once more, follow any prompts by clicking next/continue

All Done

Thanks for the quick response.

That sounds straightforward enough. OK, let's give it a go...

No Problem I was about to install it just as I noticed your post!

I'm up and running with them now, and they seem to work fine and dandy

I've just installed them as well. I've been playing Wolfenstein for half an hour or so, no 'infinite loop' suffered so far, so that seems OK. I'd already played Wolfenstein through at Christmas, thought I'd give it another go. Had no probs then, only thing that's changed since then was upgrading the Radeon drivers. Odd.

Still no luck with Deus Ex though. I'm only playing the demo as I wanted to make sure it worked OK before I bought the whole game - it's out on budget now.

I get through the training mission OK, it's when I enter the game proper it seizes up. I have read some people haven't been able to run Deus Ex at all within WIN XP.

Maybe the budget reissue of the game is patched? Not sure what to do really, could always make this rig a dual boot with WIN98SE, that can be done with Partition Magic even though WIN XP is already installed. We shall see.

Other than that, all seems fine. Thanks again for your help

No Problem

What exactly is the infinite loop bug?

I'm sure you know that a lot of games designed to run under WIN98SE & earlier didn't run on WIN 2K. With WINXP Microsoft had hoped to make the OS more compatible with older games.

It has worked to a degree but still certain games 'lock'. The symptoms are that the sound gets stuck in a loop, everything seizes up and the only way out is to hit the reset button.

Some games work fine, others don't.

Here's a link to a looooong thread at another Forum that may give some insight: Infinite loop

Ahh - I have been experiencing these problems too - and I never knew what it was!

Guys there is one of the overclocking utilities that is suppose to fix the infinite loop error under Nvidia cards ,cant remember which utility atm ,but I always thought it was nvidia cards only and ATI cards didnt have the problem?

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