R_vanta

Hi i got a Nvidia Vanta TL and i cant find drivers that works..i have tried n nvidia website but wen i shall begin the install it says that the drivers aren matching and that they cant be installed..but i can install e older driver with nvidia vanta..I hav3 Win xp sp2 and i need help..I just want Open GL to work so i can play Call of Duty..please help me..

Matth

According to the site, and all other resources, the Forceware (formerly Detonator) drivers should cover the old TNT models (including Vanta).

To use the SETUP, you have to take it back to standard VGA.

I've always found it more successful to unpack the installer using one of many archiver programs, and install them the Windows way using the inf file (update driver, have disk or whatever it is now in XP) - that way, it usually seems you can go over existing drivers without trouble.

R_vanta

And how can i do that? what upgrade files should i use? can you tell med please

Matth

Looks like 7-Zip ( www.7-zip.org ) can open the archive, so then you can save the contents to a folder.

Not sure how well a Vanta would handle COD though - even the most basic current card now is many times more powerful, and even some that come up secondhand (unless you're stuck with PCI, when PCI versions of something even half-decent are quite rare), would be way better.

Anyway, I'd try "breaking out" the latest, or maybe going back a few, since they stopped tuning them for the older cards a long time ago.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html
Maybe even as far back as 28.32, 29.42 or 30.82 - the drivers before 40.x are likely to be better tuned.

43.45, I remember as a good, stable driver in Win98, for my old Geforce 2MX
The 53.x were ok, but 56 and later were problematic - I wonder if that carries throug for all lower cards, so maybe the 53.04 is worth trying first, apart from tearing open the one you have.


Once you've successfully split the driver open, so you can see a directory of files, then you go to the display properties.
(Rightclick desktop, properties)
Choose SETTINGS, then ADVANCED
ADAPTER tab, PROPERTIES, DRIVER tab
Update driver, NO to Windowsupdate (actually, you could try that!), Advanced
Now you can either point the search at the path you extracted the driver to, or use "don't search", and then point to them using "Have disk".

- The search way, will only offer an apparent, reasonable match, the "Have Disk" way means that you can force it though that is normally unwise.

adntorres

They help - This also is my problem. Which ForceWare to use in this Nvidia Vanta?