Oh NO! My nVidia card doesn't work!

[Jammrock]

Has anyone checked out the battle.net support forum? Almost every nVidia card in the world has troubles playing Diablo II, which has sold more copies in the opening week than Quake 3 has sold total.

The TNT 2's get garbled video in Win9x because the video card doesn't regulate the refresh rate, so the card pumps out more frames than any monitor can handle, so all they get is garbled video. There is a temp fix, but it requires hacking the registry.

GeForce based cards can't run D2 in Win2k in D3D mode. 2D mode works for most people. In Win9x most GeForce based cards don't even work.

TNT cards are having troubles, but there aren't many around. And people keep complaning about Matrox drivers and then move over to nVidia cards. SUCKERS!!!

Guess what all you fps geeks? I've been playing Diablo II every day since last Thursday when the game came out. It looks better than it ever will on your nVidia garbage, it has never crashed and I can play it in D3D mode without hacking the registry first!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Jammrock

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Athlon 650, Biostar board, 128 MB PC133 (Crucial), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, 10/100 NIC, lots of case fans, etc...

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

that's the difference between putting cards out everytime you have a new feature or can make it a little faster and putting out a truely "new" card when it's ready
jim



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Abit BE6-2 with P3 700(cb0) @ 7*150=1052 using an MC-1000!
15.3 gb Maxtor ata66 and Twinmos 128mb pc-133 ram
G400 vanilla 32mb @ 168/210 @ 2x
Sblive with Altec Lansing speaker combo
384k DSL and Realtek nic
Windows 98se with DX7a
Worn out reset button :O)

[Snake-Eyes]

Sorry to disappoint you folks, but I haven't had a single problem with this game and my GTS card.

Course, that could be because I haven't got the game yet, either, hehe! Figure I'll let the rest of you suckers trouble shoot the beta software while I wait for the price on it to drop a little bit, and for nVidia to fix whatever driver problems people are having with the game (lol). Not to mention that I just seem to stay too busy playing UT to care too much about Diablo II (yet- I loved Diablo, but a little wait isn't a problem for me.)

Hope you know I was just kidding about the suckers part, too, heh.

(on the other hand, maybe the guys you're reading about are a minority, like a lot of the folks with problems here, and possibly just a little slow to figure out how to set things up correctly?)

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Ace

[paulcs]

Well, it doesn't seem to be compatible with CD ROMs either.

From the CD ROM issues page:

"Users with Kenwood TrueX CD ROM drives please check the Kenwood Information page."

From the Kenwood Information Page:

"Users experiencing problems should first read the information available on the CD ROM Issues page."

More information is eventually given, but I thought that first line on the Kenwood information page was entertaining. Can you see the more hopeless nVidiots clicking back and forth between the two pages.

It does go on to tell Kenwood 72X users to flash their BIOS, and users of Kenwood 52X and 40X ROMs that they're pretty much screwed until Kenwood delivers the Diablo2 firmware update. It seems there are problems with other ROM devices as well.

And, of course, the Soundblaster Live. I suspect, at this point, it is better to put out a game with no sound then to put out a game with SB Live issues.

One guy posted a request for specs from people who have it working. Two people responded. The first, pleased as punch, claimed he got it to work by replacing his CD ROM and running the game in 2D mode on a Millennium II.

Blizzard's official response to nVidia/W2K issues is to download the 5.30 *leaked* set. NVidia's got to love that.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Jammrock]

There are problems with the SB Live!? I haven't had a single problem with mine, I have one of the first ones ever made Maybe it's the nVidia drivers conflicting with the Liveware...

Jammrock the Barbarian.

[mj12]

Jammrock - Your post was very lame. The problems with D2 all seem to point back to D2 being the problem and not the Nvidia cards as much as you'd like that. And D2 is bug ridden as any game I've seen in a while. Go read the postings on blizzard.com
s forums and you'll see what I'm talking about. Just as much as I don't like overly zealous Nvidia users, I feel the same about Matroxs'. I use to own a g400max and sold it for 175 and picked up a GeForce2 64mb for 290 and I couldn't be happier. I'm made at Matrox for making me buy a Nvidia card. I would of more than loved to buy running some next gen Matrox card right now if it weren't for them not wanting to make one. And I remeber many times with my g400max when a nice bug would prevent me from running a game when all the Nvidia users had no problems.

[This message has been edited by mj12 (edited 08 July 2000).]

[dZeus]

I yet have to find a game that does not run on my G400 (except of course for Glide games)...

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- What do you get when you put N nVidia whores in a circle and each one pats the person on their right on the back and says "nVidia wins 3dfx and Michael Knight any day of the week!" ?

- You get N people with a boosted ego, and no-one loses anything; keep up the good work, boys!

[Jammrock]

mj12,

Nice try. I have read the boards at Blizzard and the only people complaining about video troubles are nVidia users. They're bitching as bad as some Matrox users when Quake 3 came out. So let's look at this shall we. nVidia cards are the only ones having troubles after the newest drivers are updated. They are having troubles in both 2D and 3D mode and on all OS's. No other card is having the trouble. Hey, let's blame it on Blizzard. I think not.

Yes Diablo II has some bugs, but don't blame Blizzard for an nVidia problem. Don't get me wrong, I put nVidia cards in peoples computers all the time. Depending on what the person wants is what I tell them to buy. If you want the fastest 3D accelerator on the market, the GeFarce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR card is your dream. If you want pretty graphics at a slower frame rate, get a G400/450.

The main reason I wrote the post in the first place was because so many people sold off their G400's for nVidia boards when Quake 3 came out. Now all those people are having troubles with Diablo II while the Matrox'ers are running it flawlessly. Just thought it was a strange twist of fate.

Jammrock