3d games stopped working

[Todd Silk]

Have a winxp service pak 2 with a AMD 1.3 athlon and a
pny Nvidia based mx200 card. Recently all my kids 3d games
have quit working right. As soon as they go into 3d mode
the frame rate slows to a crawl or stops completly. Have
the latest direct x installed and have tried various
versions of the Nvidia drivers and none have helped.
All these games had ran fine in the past. Example Tony
Hawks 3, Jurasic Park. Have seen alot of complants about
the mx series of cards but untill recently it has worked
fine for me. I am at a lose at what to try next. Dxdiag
passes all its tests.

Thanks
TOdd

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

When was the last time you:

Defragged the drive(s)
Ran Checkdisk?
Ran a FULL antivirus scan with updated signatures?
Ran a Disk Cleanup?
Ran a Spyware check?

 

[Lester Stiefel]

When was the last time you:

Defragged the drive(s)
Ran Checkdisk?
Ran a FULL antivirus scan with updated signatures?
Ran a Disk Cleanup?
Ran a Spyware check?

You need to do all Cari suggests. The SP2 install as well as
updates do create a fragmentation hazard. Also Clean out
Browser Cache & History
--
Lester Stiefel
In 2 Timothy 3:1-7, there is a list of the qualities that
Unregenerate man will have in the last days. Is your quality
found there? If So, don't despair - Christ came to save His
people.

 

[Todd Silk]

At Least every week, avg, adaware,sbybot, and have run the others in the
last couple of weeks.
Will try the other Ideas. Tried backing out to direct x 8 now it will not
allow me to upgrade to
9 goes thought the install but does not update anything, Also tried
installing the video drivers from
windows update which fails after the download. Still at a loss but will try
what you suggest again

Thanks
Todd

 

[Todd Silk]

Further Update did the repair function and The computer is now back to
Directx 9
with all current service paks and the latest nvidia drivers for the video
card.
So no luck, Could this be a hardware failure? Only 3d stuff is affected with
the
exception being the tests in dxdiag.

Todd