qaxons
11-18-2007, 05:13 AM
I didn't see this anywhere, and, well, it's a big issue... Well, to me <.<
Okay, here's the story... I'm running a Dell (currently bemoaning the choice) with an Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU, 2.00gb of RAM , Windows XP Media Center Edition with Service Pack 2, and an nVidia GeForce 7900 GS video card. This last bit has been the source of problems for nigh-on a year now, and I still can't get it fixed...
It started back when I got WoW. It would, occasionally, lock up, or go glitchy, or just bog down the framerate. Then it start giving me a BSOD saying that "nv4_disp.dll has been caught in an infinite loop" whenever I tried to play. Sometimes, hours after I had stopped playing that day my computer would slow way down and then BSOD.
I managed to get a temporary fix by using a different driver version that was just new enough to work, but old enough that the nv4_disp.dll wasn't an issue.
Now, however, with The Orange Box, I was forced, by Steam, being the evil little thing that is, to update my drivers to the newest (163.75 for the record) and, apparently, least stable.
I'm getting more graphical artifacts, frakups and general "wtf"s and a whole bloody lot more BSODs, most commonly after about an hour of playing Vanguard.
Seeking help previously and more recently has led me to realize that nVidia has no live support, and no matter who I talk to (SOE, nVidia, Dell, et al) they send me to someone else to see if they have a fix.
This bug is old, and nVidia has stated that they don't have a fix even PLANNED at this point, at least as part of a driver.
I've got two options at this point. Seek a new video card (well, different brand, about 200 dollar budget) and work that way, or try to find a 3rd party hotfix.
Does anyone here, greater tech support people than I, have any solutions, sources, or suggestions on a new-ish video card?
For the video card... I play The Orange Box games, Vanguard, Tabula Rasa, Command and Conguer 3, and Freespace 2 pretty much exclusively (occasionally Halo 1 & 2), so, if anyone knows a good-ish, cheap-ish one that works well with those...
tl;dr Sorry for the wall of text, nv4_disp.dll is evil, HELP!
Okay, here's the story... I'm running a Dell (currently bemoaning the choice) with an Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz CPU, 2.00gb of RAM , Windows XP Media Center Edition with Service Pack 2, and an nVidia GeForce 7900 GS video card. This last bit has been the source of problems for nigh-on a year now, and I still can't get it fixed...
It started back when I got WoW. It would, occasionally, lock up, or go glitchy, or just bog down the framerate. Then it start giving me a BSOD saying that "nv4_disp.dll has been caught in an infinite loop" whenever I tried to play. Sometimes, hours after I had stopped playing that day my computer would slow way down and then BSOD.
I managed to get a temporary fix by using a different driver version that was just new enough to work, but old enough that the nv4_disp.dll wasn't an issue.
Now, however, with The Orange Box, I was forced, by Steam, being the evil little thing that is, to update my drivers to the newest (163.75 for the record) and, apparently, least stable.
I'm getting more graphical artifacts, frakups and general "wtf"s and a whole bloody lot more BSODs, most commonly after about an hour of playing Vanguard.
Seeking help previously and more recently has led me to realize that nVidia has no live support, and no matter who I talk to (SOE, nVidia, Dell, et al) they send me to someone else to see if they have a fix.
This bug is old, and nVidia has stated that they don't have a fix even PLANNED at this point, at least as part of a driver.
I've got two options at this point. Seek a new video card (well, different brand, about 200 dollar budget) and work that way, or try to find a 3rd party hotfix.
Does anyone here, greater tech support people than I, have any solutions, sources, or suggestions on a new-ish video card?
For the video card... I play The Orange Box games, Vanguard, Tabula Rasa, Command and Conguer 3, and Freespace 2 pretty much exclusively (occasionally Halo 1 & 2), so, if anyone knows a good-ish, cheap-ish one that works well with those...
tl;dr Sorry for the wall of text, nv4_disp.dll is evil, HELP!