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Lock Up After Upgrading NVidia Drivers

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Post Mon Aug 04, 2003 2:27 am

Lock Up After Upgrading NVidia Drivers

I have a GeForce 4, DirectX 9.0, with Win 98SE on a 2.2 Intel.

If I try to install NVidia drivers more recent than 41.09, I always get a black lock-up screen at the start of FreeLancer loading. I searched the forum, but don't see any matches to this problem. All other program/games run fine with the new drivers.

Does FreeLancer have a re-configure function somewhere; can this be done manually to allow video driver upgrades?

EDIT NOTE: The drivers that I've tried without success are the official NVidia drivers 43.25 and 44.03.

Edited by - hoovsbin on 04-08-2003 03:41:56

Post Mon Aug 04, 2003 9:24 pm

Hoovsbin,,
Check the other Gforce 4 Thread That should fix it i.e. the latest NVidia drivers are a pain.


"Its Better To Burn Out Than To Fade Away"

Edited by - plasma on 04-08-2003 22:24:35

Post Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:02 am

Thanks for the tip, plasma. I'll read the other posts.

Post Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:06 am

Use only WHQL certified drivers and you should be fine.

Post Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:23 am

Had the same problem, when running plain Dx9.
Microsoft has just released an Update to DX9a, and after installing that, the new (44.03) Nvidia drivers works fine..

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Edited by - Dutch63 on 05-08-2003 11:23:52

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