I recently got an eVGA - NVIDIA FX 5700 (128 mb). I bought it because it is supossed to be faster than the 5600. Well, I formatted my HD and reinstalled Win 2000 just so that the video card would run properly without having any conflicts with old drivers. I installed the driver that came with the card and then Direct X 9. The problem is that when I'm running games now, the computer is freezing like crazy. It ususally happens in the middle of the games, but some times when I quit the games. I think it has to be the video card because it's the only thing I've changed in my system. Anybody has any idea of what could be wrong? Thanks for your help. Asus Deluxe (NVIDIA nForce 2) AMD 2600+ 512 DDR Ram 80 Gig Western Digital NVIDIA Geforce FX 5700 (eVGA) Sound Blaster 5.1 400 W PSU Samsum CDRW
Over time I've discovered there's a regimen for replacing video cards that usually works very well, assuming the hardware is OK. 01) Remove old video card from device manager 02) Uninstall old device drivers 03) Shut down PC -- unplug from power 04) Swap video cards 05) Boot PC 06) Install latest Service Packs (SP4 at present) 07) Reboot 08) Install latest DirectX (9.0b at present) 09) Reboot 10) Install latest chipset drivers 11) Reboot 12) Install latest Video Drivers 13) Reboot 14) Perform video burn-in 15) Done! (finally!) The order one performs the steps is very important, and don't neglect to reboot after each operation. Windows is a real bitch about rebooting all the time to refresh the registry. It's also not a bad idea to defragment after you're through installing any major updates. Hope this helps!
I also think you should have installed DX9 before the drivers. In fact, with ATI cards, you cannot install the drivers if DX9 isn't installed (that is for a DX9 card of course) Also, could you tell us your temps and what the brand of your psu is ? Temps, drivers and psu are all things that can cause a game to crash.
I'll download the latest NVIDIA drivers today and see what happens. Also, what are Temps? Anyways, thanks for replying gus. I'll let you know how everything went tomorrow.
temps = temperature of your cpu and system. you can check them out in the bios or with a program which you can download from your motherboard's manufacturer's site
Yes! I downloaded the lastest drivers from NVIDIA and . . . they did the trick! No more freezing. Thanks to all of you for your help. :good:
