I recently upgraded my GeForce 4 MX (no one told me "MX" was short for "Not really a GeForce" before I bought it) with a new GeForce FX 5200. Being the computer idiot that I am, I didn't know that my piece of trash motherboard only went up to "4X", whatever that means, but that's another story.
I installed the drivers for the graphics card, and they worked fine. Later, however, I decided that I should probably try to update to the latest driver for my card. So I downloaded the driver from NVidia's website, driver...um...45.23. It's located here, if it helps me sound any less educated about computers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_45.23
Anyway, things looked great until I tried playing a computer game which actually wanted to USE the video card for something. At that point, any game which I tried to play (Everquest, Halo, Warcraft3, etc.) all gave me different messages about my video card having problems. Running DXDIAG showed that while DirectDraw worked fine, Direct3D acceleration didn't work at all. To make a long story short, I just went back to using the drivers from the CD and hoped I wouldn't have any reason to upgrade them. (if THIS makes a difference, the CD has a picture of a purple woman with a metal forehead, and says Verto, followed by GeForce FX Drivers CD)
Anyway, recently I developed a reason to upgrade my drivers. I have a website for an online business I do for both myself and charity (or will do, if I ever finish it) that I'm using FrontPage to create. The dynamic links at the top of the page once showed lovely leaves with text over them describing the page they linked to, but now they are covered in large black boxes. When I described my problem on the Frontpage forums, the immediate response was that it was a problem with old GeForce chipset drivers, and that I needed to upgrade.
The website in question can be found at the following link - please feel free to take a look at it and tell me if the FrontPage forum guys are full of it:
www.amazondefenders.com
I hate black boxes.
Aside from that, I think it would be nice to have an updated graphics engine in the first place...so can anyone tell me what my problem is?
This is probably going to be a simple answer which makes me look very foolish =P But thanks in advance, all the same!
I installed the drivers for the graphics card, and they worked fine. Later, however, I decided that I should probably try to update to the latest driver for my card. So I downloaded the driver from NVidia's website, driver...um...45.23. It's located here, if it helps me sound any less educated about computers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_45.23
Anyway, things looked great until I tried playing a computer game which actually wanted to USE the video card for something. At that point, any game which I tried to play (Everquest, Halo, Warcraft3, etc.) all gave me different messages about my video card having problems. Running DXDIAG showed that while DirectDraw worked fine, Direct3D acceleration didn't work at all. To make a long story short, I just went back to using the drivers from the CD and hoped I wouldn't have any reason to upgrade them. (if THIS makes a difference, the CD has a picture of a purple woman with a metal forehead, and says Verto, followed by GeForce FX Drivers CD)
Anyway, recently I developed a reason to upgrade my drivers. I have a website for an online business I do for both myself and charity (or will do, if I ever finish it) that I'm using FrontPage to create. The dynamic links at the top of the page once showed lovely leaves with text over them describing the page they linked to, but now they are covered in large black boxes. When I described my problem on the Frontpage forums, the immediate response was that it was a problem with old GeForce chipset drivers, and that I needed to upgrade.
The website in question can be found at the following link - please feel free to take a look at it and tell me if the FrontPage forum guys are full of it:
www.amazondefenders.com
I hate black boxes.
Aside from that, I think it would be nice to have an updated graphics engine in the first place...so can anyone tell me what my problem is?
This is probably going to be a simple answer which makes me look very foolish =P But thanks in advance, all the same!