problems

I have a friend who is having video card problems. the original post on computing.net goes as follows.

Hey,

A computer I've been working on, recently had the video card drivers updated to the newest from NVidia. It is a three year old machine with an NVidia Vanta LT 8 MB Graphics Card. Now whenever fullscreen (especially with OpenGL) is required the software responds that something is wrong. For example Age of Empires II flat out crashes, counterstrike says OpenGL is not supported (although the game runs using the "software 3D rendering" option), and Warcraft III complains during its launch about a possible DirectX or graphics driver error.

The steps I have taken so far have been to uninstall the video drivers and do a clean install of the newest drivers from NVidia, then reboot. That didn't solve the problem. Then I got the restore CD (it's an emachine), and used the original driver. Still have the error.

So I think it is one of two things.

1)The driver is still not the correct one. Is the "Riva" or the "TNT/GeForce family" supposed to be the driver? Both TNT and Riva are written on the card.

2) Or some other software issue is conflicting with the graphics card. Perhaps a windows problem. (btw, I also reinstalled direct X 8.1b which didn't solve anything)

Any ideas/tips?

I'm posting here because he would like to get it fixed asap. and we get a lot of good users here in the other.

<b>Just because I like AMD or Intel more at a time because of one product compared to another, does not make me a fan boy, it makes me a person who is able to make a descision for myself.</b>

You have to use the TNT/GeForce family driver according to NVidia's website. If the newest don't work you can try some older TNT/GeForce drivers from <A HREF="http://www.guru3d.com" target="_new">http://www.guru3d.com</A>.

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