GeForce2 MX Problems

apollokiev · 01-09-2002, 04:59 AM

I just read in another post that the answer to video problems is your GeForce2 MX. I have one, and I'm experiencing video problems.

What's up the the MX ? Why does it do that?

~ Kiev

spiewalk · 01-09-2002, 05:04 AM

go to nvidia.com and get the detnator drivers, there the absolute best, but ofcourse the best thing to do would be to get an ATI card, hehe..

Pointman · 01-09-2002, 05:08 AM

I had problems with my Graphics card at first with the MOHAA demo and this file took care of the problem
http://www.glsetup.com/cgi-shl/mirror.cgi

apollokiev · 01-09-2002, 05:09 AM

I have the DetonatorXP drivers.
Running Win2K Pro, 256 MB SDRAM, Athlon 900Mhz.
I run RtCW great, QuakeIII great, HL @ 1280x960 at 60 fps. I don't know why the hell this game isn't running as well as I'd like.
Great game though.

DuckOfDeath · 01-09-2002, 05:26 AM

not had any problems with my MX, SP demo slows down a bit with smoke & when lots of enemies in the town (but thats my poor old P111 450), apart from that both demos run fine.

Manny · 01-09-2002, 05:45 AM

2015 is not able to handle the Quake III Engine close as good as Id, buttom line.

FrankieP · 01-25-2002, 06:26 AM

I figured out the solution for the problem running the game (or demo) in XP with a
nivida chipset.
First:
Update to the latest Detonator drivers for your NVidia card for windows XP/2000.
( http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=windows2000)
Version 23.11
Second:
After the install of the videodriver search
for these 2 files:
opengl32.dll (670Kb, dated 7 sept 2001) and
opengl32.lib (325Kb, dated 16 july 1996).
The can be found in the windowssystem32
directory.

Third:
Copy these 2 files into the game dir
x:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAA
(x is your drive letter where the game is installed!)
overwriting the old files that were there.
(the old opengl32.dll is 717Kb)

Last step:
Remove the '3dfxgl.dll' from your game dir.
that should fix the problem. I believe the
engine tries to load the 3dfx drivers
first. I think when they did the RTCW code
they did not do a validity check to make
sure there was not another opengl driver
before erroring out.

After these steps MOHAA will work on XP too!!

Have fun people!!

01-25-2002, 06:30 AM

Frankie - your solution is a one-way ticket to crash city for individuals running XP with an nVIDIA card. The Detonator driver for XP are more than shoddy - they downright suck. It is accepted that random reboots - and massive system failure will occur when using 23.11. So the answer? - stick with 21.83, and download OpenGL and install it on your computer. It's what I had to do using a GeForce2 Mx/Mx 64mb vid-card. And now I'm aok.

EXCELSIOR

FrankieP · 01-26-2002, 07:34 AM

Not having any problems with the latest Nvidia drivers in XP... Works perfect with my Geforce 2 card!! Maybe it depends on
the card you have?