What chipsets are the new 5.41 drivers comp to?
Ok, I´ve been reading this forum for a few weeks now. It seems that the new 5.41 drivers are not compatible to some chipsets. Can anybody tell me what chipsets they are not compatible. I´m using an ASUS K7M MB and i´m having trouble playing Q3A. With the standard drivers it´s OK but I cant switch to 32 bit colors. If I do the menues are just black, green and pink ===> very strange. When using The TurboGL drivers I just get a White flickering screen and still can hear sound. I know I should try the 5.30 drivers, but why. Is it cause the 5.41 are incompatible with my (VIA/AMD) chipset or does it havea different reason?
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If you can do it then do it...
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Asus K7M,Athlon 500, Terratec XLerate, Toshiba 8x DVD, SONY CRX100E CDR, ZIP 100 ATAPI, Terratec TerraTV+, Matrox Millenium G400 DH 32MB, EPSON Stylus Color 740, EPSON Perfection 1200 Photo Scanner, 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100MBit, Promise Ultra 66, Maxtor 20 GB 5400 RPM, IBM 20 GB DJNA 7200 RPM, Elsa Quickstep 1000 ISDN, 128 MB PC-100 RAM, Logitech WheelMouse, Cherry GDDG81-3000 Keyboard with blue LED´s (looks pretty cool)
Windows 98 SE, Caldera Linux 2.3, BeOS 4.5 amdministered by System Commander 4.03
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It's an issue with the VIA chipset and 5.41. You are correct, 5.30 is what you want to try...Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494s -
There are new via 4 in 1 drivers available from the via website, though i cant remember the exact url now :O(
there is a thread entitled new via drivers around though search for it they are new as of today, 3-1-00
perhaps these fix the probs???
we can hope so il ltry when i re-install tomorrowWindows XP Pro + SP1 - Pentium 4 3.1gig - 1024mg DDR 333 2 cas - Thermaltake Xaser Case - Parhelia 128 - 3x Phillips TFT Monitors - Audigy 2 Platinum - 6.1 surround speakers - RTx100 - 5 HD 7200rpm (420gig) - Pioneer A03 - Partridge in a pear treeComment
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that URL would be: www.viatech.com/drivers/ But I'm not really sure that is for Athlon based motherboards. I think it is for MVP3 (K6-x) boards
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would be a better choice, and btw, the 4-in-1 drivers also include software for not only mvp3 chipsets, but the pentium 133 chipsets, as well as (it will meaning) the kx133 chipset from VIA
For the K7M I think you'd need the IDE Busmastering and USB drivers, no more, no less.Comment
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Ok yeah youre right - The Asus MB does only use the VIA PCIset chip, which is used for ISA, IDE, I/O Ports etc.
For AGP the AMD 751 chip is used. The AGP miniport drivers for this one can be found on the AMD website ( http://www.amd.com/support/software.html )
Anyway these drivers do not seem to work with my system. (for system spec see "openGL again... posted today (04.01.2000)).
Q3A with standard ICD starts and then freezes in the menu after a few seconds. But it also works without the AGP miniport driver and the standard ICD (Pretty fast(At least faster than the shitty TNT 2 I had before))If you can do it then do it...
Home system:
Asus K7M,Athlon 500, Terratec XLerate, Toshiba 8x DVD, SONY CRX100E CDR, ZIP 100 ATAPI, Terratec TerraTV+, Matrox Millenium G400 DH 32MB, EPSON Stylus Color 740, EPSON Perfection 1200 Photo Scanner, 3Com Fast Etherlink 10/100MBit, Promise Ultra 66, Maxtor 20 GB 5400 RPM, IBM 20 GB DJNA 7200 RPM, Elsa Quickstep 1000 ISDN, 128 MB PC-100 RAM, Logitech WheelMouse, Cherry GDDG81-3000 Keyboard with blue LED´s (looks pretty cool)
Windows 98 SE, Caldera Linux 2.3, BeOS 4.5 amdministered by System Commander 4.03
and a SONY F-400 19" FD-Trinitron Monitor.Comment
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