Deus Ex 2: Invisible War crashes on map load

[Guest]

Hello and thank you in advance,

I recently purchased Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. When I start a new game, the game crashes after map load. Plus, if I put the game resolution above 640 x 480, the only part of the game that I can see - the menu - runs at a very slow frame rate. This makes me think the game is trying to software render. I have a GeForceFX 5200 128 MB video card. I went to the nVidia website to upgrade my drivers, and under install notes it said I need to remove my existing nVidia drivers first. I did this, but on completion of "uninstall" I must restart. Problem is, with WinXP, when my computer restarts, it automatically detects my card again and re-installs the old drivers, so I never get a chance to install the updated driver package. Can I turn off this auto-detect-and-install feature?

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Tyler,

If you restart in Safe Mode by pressing F8 during the
startup process, Windows will only load basic drivers.
You might get prompted to install the adapter, and if so
just press Cancel and then run nVidia's driver program.

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| Hello and thank you in advance,
|
| I recently purchased Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. When I start a new game, the game crashes after map load. Plus, if I put the game
resolution above 640 x 480, the only part of the game that I can see - the menu - runs at a very slow frame rate. This makes me
think the game is trying to software render. I have a GeForceFX 5200 128 MB video card. I went to the nVidia website to upgrade my
drivers, and under install notes it said I need to remove my existing nVidia drivers first. I did this, but on completion of
"uninstall" I must restart. Problem is, with WinXP, when my computer restarts, it automatically detects my card again and
re-installs the old drivers, so I never get a chance to install the updated driver package. Can I turn off this
auto-detect-and-install feature?

 

[Guest]

I tried your advice and when I restarted after installing the drivers in safe mode, instead of the blue WinXP user login screen, the computer froze to a solid black screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del would not work (had to do a hard reset). I then did a "System Restore" - love that WinXP feature - in Safe Mode. Back to where I started. Please help...

Thank You,
---Tyler

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi Tyler,

Here are the steps I recommend you use to update your driver. If you've
never done this before I recommend you 1) look over the Installation hints
and Release Notes both of which are linked to from their download page.

* Tyler, this method has a 100% success rate and is used by 100's each month.

2. Download the latest driver v. 53.03 for your Nvidia Card Win XP/2000:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_53.03

Win98/Me: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_53.04 (yes, it's .04 not .03)

3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\Nvidia 5303

4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.

6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.

7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.

8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".

9. Double click the 53.03 driver we saved to My Documents\
Drivers\Geforce folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.

10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 1024x768 Screen Resolution.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
my website: http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11

Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
your Video card. These steps are listed at: http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk

Perhaps the old Nvidia drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
case, use this utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
http://content.guru3d.com/index.php?page=detonatorrip&menu=0

The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
(Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:

BETA Drivers: http://download.guru3d.com/
OMEGA Drivers: http://www.omegacorner.com/

There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!

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Cheers,
Jimmy S.

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_________________________________________________________

|I tried your advice and when I restarted after installing the drivers in safe mode, instead of the blue WinXP user login screen,
the computer froze to a solid black screen. Ctrl+Alt+Del would not work (had to do a hard reset). I then did a "System Restore" -
love that WinXP feature - in Safe Mode. Back to where I started. Please help...
|
| Thank You,
| ---Tyler