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nVidia GeForce 2 MX 200 problems

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by seomus 3 views

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OK... first, let me tell you what I've got:
1. AMD K6 2 500 underclocked to 450 because the board won't take more than that.
2. 128 mb of PC100 mem
3. Of course, the GeForce
4. Windows ME
5. An ASUS motherboard I've never been able to find the exact specs on.

In any case, the vid card works fine... until I try to play Mech Warrior 4, Wheel of Time, or Vampire. It's at that point that the beginning movies will work fine, but when you get into playing, it all goes to hell ( pardon ). Lines and triangles flashing on and off the screen, it basically looks like it may be trying to draw the screen and failing miserably to do so. I've tried the updated drivers from nVidia's site, but that's not working, tried lowering the graphics settings on all these games, nothing works there. It's an AGP card and I only have one slot, so I can't try moving it to a different slot, either. I've set Init Display First in the BIOS to AGP - also tried VGA there. Neither work. I have become stumped. Help?

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by estebandelatorre

Don't be afraid!, Mechawarrior 4 works fine with a gforce2mx.
I have the same problem some time ago with Speed Busters and have to reinstall DirectX (the version was 5.0, now you should load 7 of better) and also change a Game parameter that in Speed Buster was defined as "Smoke & reflections"

by ecvs85

This is maybe the temperature in your cpu case is to high, that makes the geforce2 mx200 gpu and the memory on the video card card in a high temperature, this will cause artifacts like lines and triangles flashing on and off the screen, especially in 3d games. So try the following:
1. Lower your video card speed (core speed and memory speed).
2. Provide a better cooling solutions in your pc.

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Hope this will help you!

by ecvs85

This is maybe the temperature in your cpu case is to high, that makes the geforce2 mx200 gpu and the memory on the video card card in a high temperature, this will cause artifacts like lines and triangles flashing on and off the screen, especially in 3d games. So try the following:
1. Lower your video card speed (core speed and memory speed).
2. Provide a better cooling solutions in your pc.

Percentage of succession :0-40%

Hope this will help you!

by mskiproductions

Also, there can also be compatability problems with motherboards and graphics cards. One sulution may be to find out the exact make and model of your motherboard and to update the bios. Also, your graphics card also has an upgradeable bios, this can be found at the card manufacturers website, I had trouble with my GeForce2 MX until i upgraded (flashed) the bios, which sorted out my probs.

Hope this helps you in some way.

Matt.

mskiproductions@yahoo.com

by mskiproductions

sorry, to add to my last comment, if you have a Via chipset on your motherboard, download thier "4 in 1" drivers. This may also help you get the most out of your CPU as wel as fixing your display problem.

Matt...............

mskiproductions@yahoo.com

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