Nvidia TNT problems

[Juggernaut]

Hey, I have the new Detonator 3 6.34 drivers for my Nvidia TNT 16MB video card. I'm on WinME, PII 400, 128MB RAM, SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer with LiveWare 3.0.

Now to my problem. When I play Quake 3, my FPS are quite low (30-40) and often I'll get an illegal operation on the nvopengl.dll and it'll crash Quake 3 and take me back to the desktop. Now I tried the earlier version drivers and it does the exact same thing.

Another problem I have is in other games, the game will just quit out for no reason and put me back to the desktop. This happens in the game, Star Trek: New Worlds. On all three of the resolutions, it will just sudden close and put me back to the desktop when I'm at the loading of a board stage.

Can anyone help me out?

[ssjDoh]

Umm, what speed is your CPU? and the TNT is an old card already, don't expect high frames with it. I dunno about those errors though. Did you do a CLEAN install for the drivers?

[Cable Guy]

Try upgrading to a V5 5500 or 6000,and his cpu is 400mhz

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[ssjDoh]

LOL, I just saw that too http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/smile.gif

Don't I feel like a newbie http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

yeah, your vid card is old and moldy, you prob need to upgrade (if you want 60+ fps on Q3)

[Juggernaut]

ya I know it's old, but I'm cheap http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/smile.gif and yes I did a CLEAN install. I went back to the older Detonator 5.22 drivers and it's going better. Unless you have a Geforce card, my recommendation would be to stay away from the Detonator 3 drivers for now. I was talking to someone else today and he agrees. He has a Geforce 2 Ultra and he still uses the 5.22 drivers. Just some things to think about.

[Vengence]

Juggernaut's right. The detonator drivers were written for GF's. The regular TNT cards stopped gaining performance some where around 3?!?!?!? Install Drivers somewhere between 3 & 5 and they should work. Otherwise look at the GeForce MX cards. Wonderful card for the price, and works as well as the V5 which costs twice as much...

[Maximus]

Well, i got my 16MB Nvidia TNT back last June or July, or so, and Quake 3 runs like a charm for me.....never a problem....yet http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

not sure about FPS though

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[This message has been edited by Maximus (edited 10-12-2000).]

[Battleship]

I'm with Vengeance on this one.
GF2MX, nice card for $180 Canadian buckeroos. http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/smile.gif

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[No Skillz]

Hey, go to www.reactorcritical.com (http://www.reactorcritical.com) and go and install the older 5.13 detnator driver. This was one of the top performers of the older drivers. Remove your video card and do a clean install with this driver. If that dont work, just start up the ladder of #'s on the det drivers until you find one that is decent. Also read the tweak guide for Q3Arena here on http://www.3dspotlight.net/tweaks/quake3/index.shtml to help improve your FPS. Talk to ya laterz.

[AMD750]

Juggernaut, I have a TNT and I just loaded Windows ME. Same freakin problem. I have only tried UT, I haven't loaded any other games because of the problem. At least now I know it is my video card.

But as far as the TNT being old, I was getting 70fps in 98SE playing Unreal Tournament at 1024x768. I was happy with that.

Guess we better do some shopping.

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