my geforce 2 mx card is acting weird.

Anything graphic intensive (ie games) freezes/crashes, whatever.

Half-Life: Cannot get back to menu, erratic mouse movement
Soldier of Fortune: Game freezes upon starting new game
Anachronox: Runs for 2 secs, gets stuck in a loop for a minute, freezes, repeat.
NFS5: Game doesn't get past first loading screen

I seriously think something is wrong with the card... but I am wondering if anyone has some ideas.

btw, OS is Windows 2000 pro.

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www.nvidia.com dl the drivers

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Originally posted by Orbax www.nvidia.com dl the drivers

ummmmm... I'm not that stupid.

Reinstalling drivers was the first thing I tried over a week ago.

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GF2 MX is the shittiest card every built by humans.

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Originally posted by ThaDevil GF2 MX is the shittiest card every built by humans.

It's not THAT bad...

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Originally posted by Turbonium It's not THAT bad...

Ohh yea it is, its very shitty.

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Time for a new graphics card, it would seem. You could try adjusting the level of hardware acceleration by popping along to Display Properties, the 'Settings' tab, then the 'Advanced' button and the 'Troubleshooting' tab.

This may or may not work as a temporary measure before you can set aside enough cash for a new card.

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Originally posted by Mosaic ummmmm... I'm not that stupid. Reinstalling drivers was the first thing I tried over a week ago.

did you get the ones from Nvidia?

because if it was a hardware problem, it wouldnt fucking work at all. I very much doubt that its overheating and shutting down.

so that means software.

so that means drivers.

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Originally posted by Orbax did you get the ones from Nvidia? because if it was a hardware problem, it wouldnt fucking work at all. I very much doubt that its overheating and shutting down. so that means software. so that means drivers.

actually, I just went to reseat the graphics card again, and I found that it was REALLY hot (and I've been working with computer hardware since I was 6, I know when something is hotter than it should be)

but, I've discovered that games run fine in OpenGL... Direct3d modes are incredibly unstable, so I am gonna try a fresh install of DirectX

I thought the on-card memory might have been crapping out, because so many games were crapping out during loading.

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try using some 30.XX drivers, the 40.XX have caused issues on some of the machines ive been using in some games.

You said the card was hot, what cooling is on the GPU and is it attached corectly and hasnt been knocked out

If your geting the crashes in DX try running 3dmark2001 a few times to see if that crashes.

has the card ever been overclocked at all? sometimes if the ram is overclocked on a video card to much it can cause damage, although this is rare, in most cases the system will crash before damamge is done to the card

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Dude.

Dont bother updating drivers or anything. BUy a newer Graphic card. MX is one of the shitties. Buy a new vid card, or buy like a gefroce 3 TI500 or 200 from newegg.com with 64 mb and you will be happy.

I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.

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Originally posted by SebTheDJ Dude. Dont bother updating drivers or anything. BUy a newer Graphic card. MX is one of the shitties. Buy a new vid card, or buy like a gefroce 3 TI500 or 200 from newegg.com with 64 mb and you will be happy. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro.

you can pay for it then

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