I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit having upgraded from XP a couple
of months ago.
My MB previosuly had on board AGB running a Nvidia chip.
In order to take advantage of better graphics in games like Far Cry, I
installed the video card as shown below.
I then tried installing that latest Vista friendly drivers for the card
(158.24) but found that they refused to install due to an error message
saying that Windows Vista does not support Age of Empires II Update
v2.0a
This problem was caused by a compatibility issue between Age of
Empires II Update v2.0a and Windows Vista.
I've never had Age orf Empires - so the remedy of installing the update
is a non starter.
I can't get around this issue so have had to revert to an earlier
driver for now.
My real issue is two fold.
1) there is no option to disable on board graphics in the BIOS settings
..... and it seems to show that the 256Mb on the card is supplemented by
an additional wedge of RAM from the system
2) I simply do not seem to be able to get the highest setting on screen
in Far Cry -everything is blocky and angular and colours seem quite
basic which is some what disapointing.
I'm sure it must be something I'm doing or not doing.
Having said that, I'm not sure it's not some sort of problem witrh the
on card memory in conflict with the sysetm memory? I'm no techie.
All game settings are set to max.
Can anyone offer any practical advice please -in reasonably simple
English??
Thanks
Mick
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
(6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: AWARD_
System Model: AWRDACPI
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 1022MB RAM
Page File: 1206MB used, 1090MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Not much to say here. I am very surprised the 158.24 drivers refused to
install. Did you get them from nVidia.Com? Try the international version of
the driver: http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Window...ional_whql.exe
You can always soft-disable the onboard graphics through Windows Device
Manager.
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"Mick" <jev@,jb.com> wrote in message
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> Folks
>
> I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit having upgraded from XP a couple
> of months ago.
>
> My MB previosuly had on board AGB running a Nvidia chip.
>
> In order to take advantage of better graphics in games like Far Cry, I
> installed the video card as shown below.
>
> I then tried installing that latest Vista friendly drivers for the card
> (158.24) but found that they refused to install due to an error message
> saying that Windows Vista does not support Age of Empires II Update
> v2.0a
>
> This problem was caused by a compatibility issue between Age of
> Empires II Update v2.0a and Windows Vista.
>
> I've never had Age orf Empires - so the remedy of installing the update
> is a non starter.
> I can't get around this issue so have had to revert to an earlier
> driver for now.
>
> My real issue is two fold.
> 1) there is no option to disable on board graphics in the BIOS settings
> .... and it seems to show that the 256Mb on the card is supplemented by
> an additional wedge of RAM from the system
>
> 2) I simply do not seem to be able to get the highest setting on screen
> in Far Cry -everything is blocky and angular and colours seem quite
> basic which is some what disapointing.
>
> I'm sure it must be something I'm doing or not doing.
> Having said that, I'm not sure it's not some sort of problem witrh the
> on card memory in conflict with the sysetm memory? I'm no techie.
>
> All game settings are set to max.
>
> Can anyone offer any practical advice please -in reasonably simple
> English??
>
> Thanks
>
> Mick
>
>
>
>
> Operating System: Windows VistaT Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
> (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
> Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
> System Manufacturer: AWARD_
> System Model: AWRDACPI
> BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
> Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
> Memory: 1022MB RAM
> Page File: 1206MB used, 1090MB available
> Windows Dir: C:\Windows
> DirectX Version: DirectX 10
>
> Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS
> Manufacturer: NVIDIA
> Chip type: GeForce 7800 GS
> DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
> Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_00F5&SUBSYS_1FA419F1&REV_A2
> Display Memory: 504 MB
> Dedicated Memory: 248 MB
> Shared Memory: 255 MB
> Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (75Hz)
> Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
> Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
> Driver Version: 7.15.0011.5818 (English)
> DDI Version: 9Ex
> Driver Attributes: Final Retail
> Driver Date/Size: 4/12/2007 17:07:00, 4669440 bytes
> WHQL Logo'd: Yes
> WHQL Date Stamp:
> Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-43B5-11CF-FB6C-AF3F02C2CA35
>
> --
>
> Not much to say here. I am very surprised the 158.24 drivers refused
> to install. Did you get them from nVidia.Com? Try the international
> version of the driver:
> http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Window...eware_winvista
> _32bit_international_whql.exe
>
> You can always soft-disable the onboard graphics through Windows
> Device Manager.
@fraid this is the exact same driver that threw the error message re
Age of Empires.
Lack of proper 3D acceleration is sometimes caused by a bad/missing AGP GART
driver. What motherboard (make and model) are you using? If it has an
original nForce1 or nForce2 chipset, then GART driver support under Vista
will be quite poor. Blame nVidia for not supporting its older chipsets.
--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
"Mick" <jev@,jb.com> wrote in message
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> First of One wrote:
>
>> Not much to say here. I am very surprised the 158.24 drivers refused
>> to install. Did you get them from nVidia.Com? Try the international
>> version of the driver:
>> http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Window...eware_winvista
>> _32bit_international_whql.exe
>>
>> You can always soft-disable the onboard graphics through Windows
>> Device Manager.
>
> @fraid this is the exact same driver that threw the error message re
> Age of Empires.
>
> Any ideas re lack of high end graphics?
>
> Regards
>
> Mick
>
> --
>
Mick wrote:
> First of One wrote:
>
>> Not much to say here. I am very surprised the 158.24 drivers refused
>> to install. Did you get them from nVidia.Com? Try the international
>> version of the driver:
>> http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Window...eware_winvista
>> _32bit_international_whql.exe
>>
>> You can always soft-disable the onboard graphics through Windows
>> Device Manager.
>
> @fraid this is the exact same driver that threw the error message re
> Age of Empires.
>
> Any ideas re lack of high end graphics?
>
> Regards
>
> Mick
>
This thread reports an error like that from an earlier installer.
The recommendation is to try the "UK English" installer.
> Mick wrote:
> > First of One wrote:
> >
> > > Not much to say here. I am very surprised the 158.24 drivers
> > > refused to install. Did you get them from nVidia.Com? Try the
> > > international version of the driver:
> > > http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Window...forceware_winv
> > > ista _32bit_international_whql.exe
> > >
> > > You can always soft-disable the onboard graphics through Windows
> > > Device Manager.
> >
> > @fraid this is the exact same driver that threw the error message re
> > Age of Empires.
> >
> > Any ideas re lack of high end graphics?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mick
> >
>
> This thread reports an error like that from an earlier installer.
> The recommendation is to try the "UK English" installer.
>
> http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion...hp?t24560.html
>
> So maybe this trick also works for the current release ?
> http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvi...158.24_uk.html
>
> Paul
Bless my soul. Problem solved.
I did some digging having been pointed to the other forum (thanks for
that) - and the answer was NOT to uninstall the previous driver prior
to installing the latest one.
I have always previously cleaned down my system of the old video driver
prior to running the latest install.
This time, I ran the install ver the old driver and let Nvidia software
uninstall the previous driver.
Worked a treat and i'm now running the latest drivers for Visat 32bit.
Geforce 7800GS issues 
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