Video problems

[Floppyman]

Hey all,

After setting up my Soyo 5EMA+ K6-3+ 450 combo I'm having some problems. I'm using my Radeon on this combo right now. I installed a game that uses D3D (older game, that worked under win98se before with same videocard) and I can't get it to work. When I start it up the monitor goes into powersaving mode, forcing me to reboot. Now this motherboard has the MVP3 chipset and I have the latest via 4-1 drivers. I'm using DX7 and the drivers that came off the Radeon cd. Any ideas? I know putting a Radeon on a system with 450mhz processors isn't really smart, but it's the only videocard I got right now. I haven't tried open gl yet, don't know if that works fine. Thanks in Advance.

[cobra]

Would that game happen to be need for speed?
There are "switches" for those d3d games. I found them at the game manufacturer website before. Worth a shot

[Floppyman]

Actually it's Moto Racer 2..but it's also made by EA like NFS. What do you mean by switches? Anyway, open gl works fine...I just installed and played a round of half life with no troubles. Thanks again.

[RJ]

Hello Floppyman,

when the monitor goes into powersaving mode, do you hear at least sound ?
And does this happen with any game using d3d ?

I once had a problem, it was when I installed my brand new GeForce 2 GTS.
All games (using d3d) forced me to reboot by putting monitor into poversaving mode. But I was able to hear the sound. I didn't know when it happened. It could be at startup, or when the game was running 10 minutes.

After a while I found out that disabling the AGP support in dxdiag fixed that problem without (noticeable) performance lose. Only in 3D Mark 2000 I got poor points (about 1.700 I think).
Some time later, after reintallint windows - once, maybe twice, I don't know anymore, that problem was no more.

So, did you install the Radeon into a running system or did you a clean install with the Radeon ?

The first thing I would do is disabling the agp support and see if there is performance lose or not.
The second thing I would do is a clean install.

RJ

[Floppyman]

Thanks RJ,

Yeah I did a clean install with the Radeon, and no I don't get any sound, but there should not be any I don't think. Anyway I had some trouble with the drivers when I installed them. I installed the one's off the cd, then some newer ones..which screwed things up and I had to go back, so I don't what got messed up there. I will try disabling AGP support and see what happens. Like I said, open gl games work just fine. Thanks again.

[Floppyman]

BINGO! Thanks a million RJ...looks like I had the same problem as you, as after I disabled AGP support the game ran flawlessly. Maybe I'll update my drivers and install DX8 to see if that helps any. Otherwise I'll do a clean install as you suggested. Thanks again!

[RJ]

Hi Floppyman,

glad to hear it works now.
Well, I really don't know what really caused that problem. All I know is that it weren't the drivers and it weren't DirectX (I had 7, tried with 6.1 also, DX8 was not released at that time).
It's just. . after the next clean install I did, or maybe one clean install after, the problem was gone - with same drivers and DirectX.
That problem only was when my GeForce 2 card was brand new, it never happened anymore.

Maybe that cards just have to get used to the system they're build in. Being new in a system the cards are a bit shy, so if they have to unlock their potential (e.g. in games) they first refuse, but after a time, with a new windows install, so that the card finally feels like part of the system, they show their full power

RJ

[Floppyman]

LOL..that could be it.. I much rather like to blame it on my board's via chipset or me messing around with drivers though, will see if a fresh install will cure it. Thanks again for the help.