Video card driver

The card is a TNT2 from Creative Labs? It is marked ct6870. I can't
find a driver at Creative Labs.

I do find one at Nvidia, but when I try to run it, I get a message
that I don't have the hardware for the drivers.

Suggestions?

In article <50cl4517ne84fjnog1barbvr7lbrl4hl5c@4ax.com>, Metspitzer
<kilowatt@charter.net> writes

>I do find one at Nvidia, but when I try to run it, I get a message
>that I don't have the hardware for the drivers.

You've downloaded the wrong driver. The GeForce driver set doesn't
include the TNT2 - there's a separate download for that.

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Metspitzer wrote:
> The card is a TNT2 from Creative Labs? It is marked ct6870. I can't
> find a driver at Creative Labs.
>
> I do find one at Nvidia, but when I try to run it, I get a message
> that I don't have the hardware for the drivers.
>
> Suggestions?
>

Support for that card probably stopped a while ago. For
example, my FX5200 doesn't have any recent drivers, and
I have to go back a bit to get one of the older drivers
to use. So I wouldn't expect a driver released today, to include
support for TNT2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT2

For WinXP, I did a lookup on Nvidia, and I got 71.89 as the
last driver for TNT2. When I looked in the release notes, TNT
and TNT2 aren't in the table of GPUs supported.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html

You could always verify the VEN and DEV coming from the
card, using a program like Everest, and verify it is
responding correctly.

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

10de nVidia Corporation
0028 NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]
0029 NV5 [RIVA TNT2 Ultra]

Now, when I looked up CT6870, I seem to be getting

Creative Labs nVidia Riva TNT AGP Video Card 32M

and that would be something like

10de nVidia Corporation
0020 NV4 [RIVA TNT]

Pictures of the CT6870

http://www.kpsurplus.com/img/full/6e...71e21dd728.JPG
http://www.kpsurplus.com/img/full/24...d50aec87a0.JPG

Now, if I go back to a previous driver, like the 61.77 driver,
and look at the release notes for that one, the TNT/TNT2
are actually in the table on page 16.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.77

http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/6...ws_XP-2000.pdf

If that was my card, I'd go backwards in time a bit, and try a
slightly older driver, like the 61.77 .

Paul

On Jun 30, 8:40*pm, Metspitzer <kilow...@charter.net> wrote:
> The card is a TNT2 from Creative Labs? *It is marked ct6870. *I can't
> find a driver at Creative Labs. *
>
> I do find one at Nvidia, but when I try to run it, I get a message
> that I don't have the hardware for the drivers.
>
> Suggestions?

Go to the nvidia driver page and under product type pick legacy then
product series pick tnt.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:37:06 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:

>Metspitzer wrote:
>> The card is a TNT2 from Creative Labs? It is marked ct6870. I can't
>> find a driver at Creative Labs.
>>
>
>If that was my card, I'd go backwards in time a bit, and try a
>slightly older driver, like the 61.77 .
>
> Paul
That worked.
Thanks