A Good Video Card!

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mickey b from sd

I give up.. For the past couple of months, i've been
trying to troubleshoot BSOD probs with the Conflict:
Desert Storm games, parts 1 and 2..The BSOD's vary from
0xD1 to nvidia's nv4_disp.dll. Yeah, I've updated the
nvidia drivers for my GeForce FX 5600.

So I want to condemn the video card. So my official
poll is: what video card do you use that is trouble free?

also, this FX 5600 has 256 meg RAM.. I thought that
would make it a bob *itchin' machine, but obviously I'm
wrong.. Do video cards for heavy duty 3D graphics need
that much RAM? What is the point of having that much vid
RAM?

WHAT CARD DO YOU USE??

Thanks, mike san diego
 
FX 5700
Ti 4600

I give up.. For the past couple of months, i've been
trying to troubleshoot BSOD probs with the Conflict:
Desert Storm games, parts 1 and 2..The BSOD's vary from
0xD1 to nvidia's nv4_disp.dll. Yeah, I've updated the
nvidia drivers for my GeForce FX 5600.

So I want to condemn the video card. So my official
poll is: what video card do you use that is trouble free?

also, this FX 5600 has 256 meg RAM.. I thought that
would make it a bob *itchin' machine, but obviously I'm
wrong.. Do video cards for heavy duty 3D graphics need
that much RAM? What is the point of having that much vid
RAM?

WHAT CARD DO YOU USE??

Thanks, mike san diego
 
I've had cards all the way up the ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB of RAM. My
present card is an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB of RAM, for $99.00. Works great,
even with UT2004!

Bill Crocker
 
Hi Mickey,

My 64MB GeForce4 Ti4200 does a great job with
every game I've thrown it's way. It's inexpensive too.

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| I give up.. For the past couple of months, i've been
| trying to troubleshoot BSOD probs with the Conflict:
| Desert Storm games, parts 1 and 2..The BSOD's vary from
| 0xD1 to nvidia's nv4_disp.dll. Yeah, I've updated the
| nvidia drivers for my GeForce FX 5600.
|
| So I want to condemn the video card. So my official
| poll is: what video card do you use that is trouble free?
|
| also, this FX 5600 has 256 meg RAM.. I thought that
| would make it a bob *itchin' machine, but obviously I'm
| wrong.. Do video cards for heavy duty 3D graphics need
| that much RAM? What is the point of having that much vid
| RAM?
|
| WHAT CARD DO YOU USE??
|
| Thanks, mike san diego
 
I actually use a card a step down from you - the 5200.

Did you completely unisntall the drivers (down to VGA) and then install the
new ones?
 
mickey b from sd said:
I give up.. For the past couple of months, i've been
trying to troubleshoot BSOD probs with the Conflict:
Desert Storm games, parts 1 and 2..The BSOD's vary from
0xD1 to nvidia's nv4_disp.dll. Yeah, I've updated the
nvidia drivers for my GeForce FX 5600.

So I want to condemn the video card. So my official
poll is: what video card do you use that is trouble free?

also, this FX 5600 has 256 meg RAM.. I thought that
would make it a bob *itchin' machine, but obviously I'm
wrong.. Do video cards for heavy duty 3D graphics need
that much RAM? What is the point of having that much vid
RAM?

WHAT CARD DO YOU USE??

Thanks, mike san diego
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I never had many problems with a GeForce FX5200 128MB installed.
 
Look mate, i my humble opinion, the NVIDIA series looks
reliable, user friendly and advertised as generally
great. But after supporting them for a while, i noticed,
after a friend showed me his Radeon 9600 in action, that
the 9600 is much better. It actually delivers. In my
opinion, NVIDIA are self proclaiming theyre cards as
fabulous, but at the end of the day, I just want my game
to play. NVIDIA doesnt do this for me, ATI does it, and
they are cheaper too..
 
mickey said:
I give up.. For the past couple of months, i've been
trying to troubleshoot BSOD probs with the Conflict:
Desert Storm games, parts 1 and 2..The BSOD's vary from
0xD1 to nvidia's nv4_disp.dll. Yeah, I've updated the
nvidia drivers for my GeForce FX 5600.

So I want to condemn the video card. So my official
poll is: what video card do you use that is trouble free?

also, this FX 5600 has 256 meg RAM.. I thought that
would make it a bob *itchin' machine, but obviously I'm
wrong.. Do video cards for heavy duty 3D graphics need
that much RAM? What is the point of having that much vid
RAM?

WHAT CARD DO YOU USE??

Thanks, mike san diego
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Hi, I'm Mike from Houston :)

The whole system affects performance with software (like games) in
varying degrees. Your video card itself may not be the problem
actually. The GeForce FX5nnn series are DX9 compliant cards. I think
they are also all AGP4x/8x only cards, 1 volt. Your motherboard,
operating system, chipset, and OPsys mobo drivers can all affect things
to the point you can get these BSOD's. Settings in the BIOS, settings
in the FX5600's driver applet if the game doesn't like them, they can do
this.

You have what version of DirectX installed? Which operating system?
What motherboard? BIOS version? What drivers for the chipset/mobo in
the opsys? What driver set for the FX5600? If any one of these is
messed up in some way, then you could easily get a BSOD.

My own system:
P4-2.66 gHz on 533 fsb, Gigabyte G8i848P-L mobo with F5 bios, all the
mobo/chipset drivers are the current listed. 1 gig PC3200 (DDR400) @
333, PNY GeForce FX5900-128, that's 128 megs DDRGram (stock clocked
core-400 ram-850), with Forceware 53.03 driver set for now, Turtle Beach
Santa Cruz sound card. Onboard Intel NIC enabled, Onboard sound
disabled. AGP aperture is set to 256 megs. Opsys is XP Pro SP1 and no
further updates (deliberate). This card and mobo are running AGP 8X,
with fastwrites and sidebanding on by default.

I don't play the game you're talking about, but I think that Halo PC,
UT2004, TR:AoD (all DX9 games) push the system around pretty good :) I
also play Morrowind with Tribunal and Bloodmoon addons. This system
plays those games clean and smooth, I've had no problems with any of
these at all.

The last motherboard I had died on me. It gave me exactly one (01) BSOD
the entire time I used it (22 months). It never booted up again after
that BSOD, which apparently blamed the video adapter for the problem.
It wasn't the problem. The mobos built in voltage regulators for the
buses 'warped out', broke down, whatever. It no longer supplied the
correct voltage to the AGP or PCI buses. Memory bus has its own
regulator.

I hope this will help you sort things out, and not confuse you. I'd
hate to see you NOT do some deep troubleshooting steps and replace a
perfectly good vid card. yakow?

McG.
 
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I actually use a card a step down from you - the 5200.

Did you completely unisntall the drivers (down to VGA) and then install the
new ones?
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My XP machine is new )jan4, 2004) and the vid card has
had two updated drivers since.. The last one, i
just "UNINSTALLED" the card and had the system call it
new hardware.. But the BSOD's ONLY happened when running
conflict; desert storm
 
-----Original Message-----
Look mate, i my humble opinion, the NVIDIA series looks
reliable, user friendly and advertised as generally
great. But after supporting them for a while, i noticed,
after a friend showed me his Radeon 9600 in action, that
the 9600 is much better. It actually delivers. In my
opinion, NVIDIA are self proclaiming theyre cards as
fabulous, but at the end of the day, I just want my game
to play. NVIDIA doesnt do this for me, ATI does it, and
they are cheaper too..
.
Click to expand...

thanks for well thought out opinion!
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi Mickey,

My 64MB GeForce4 Ti4200 does a great job with
every game I've thrown it's way. It's inexpensive too.
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FYI , you've been very patient working with me the past
couple of months.. Thanks! gimme Bill Gates email address
and i'll recommend a pay raise for you ;{D
 
thanks for well thought out opinion!
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My biggest gripe with ATI was the horrid support I got from them. Well, that
and water problems in Neverwinter Nights. :) But the "No, we're not going to
listen to what you say" support is what pushed me to buy an nVidia card for
this system.

If you never need support, either is great. And if you're building an
all-in-one machine w/TV display, etc. I'd wholeheartedly suggest an
All-In-Wonder (though I'm running a several-year-old Hauppage WinTV card.)
Other than that... whatever works and makes ya happy. :)
 
Thanks Mickey!

This is just a hobby for me though. :-)

Cheers,
Jimmy.

|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hi Mickey,
| >
| >My 64MB GeForce4 Ti4200 does a great job with
| >every game I've thrown it's way. It's inexpensive too.
| >
|
| FYI , you've been very patient working with me the past
| couple of months.. Thanks! gimme Bill Gates email address
| and i'll recommend a pay raise for you ;{D
 
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