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Hi!

I have an old (ancient), Nvidia GeForce 4600 Ti. Celestia was working fine with previous drivers then I installed 93.71 forceware and things are not working right. This is what Celestia is returning:

Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce4 Ti 4600/AGP/3DNOW!
Version: 1.5.7
Max simultaneous textures: 1
Max texture size: 4096
Point size range: 1.000000 - 63.375000

Supported Extensions:

GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_paletted_texture
GL_WIN_swap_hint

The extensions list was longer with the older driver.

CTRL-V does nothing at all, night lights are not working, anti aliasing seems not to be working, anything else seems to be working fine.

Any ideas on how to fix this without reverting to old drivers? I need the new forceware driver for other applications.

Thanks!

Edil

You'll have to do at least one reinstall, whichever version of driver you finally wind up using.

The usual cause of these kinds of symptoms is not rebooting the system before and after installing the new drivers. Not rebooting prevents the old version of the low-level drivers from being deleted. If they aren't compatible with the new version, the usual symptoms are as you describe. Sometimes they are somewhat compatible, which causes people to get the misimpression that reboots aren't necessary.

Here's an abbreviated description of what has to be done from an account with administrative priv's:

1. use the Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs menu to delete the current graphics drivers.
2. Reboot
3. Cancel out of XP's offer to install new drivers.
4. Run the Installation program for the new drivers.
5. Reboot
6. Configure desktop resolution and other desirable features.

selden wrote:You'll have to do at least one reinstall, whichever version of driver you finally wind up using.

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Here's an abbreviated description of what has to be done from an account with administrative priv's:

1. use the Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs menu to delete the current graphics drivers.
2. Reboot
3. Cancel out of XP's offer to install new drivers.
4. Run the Installation program for the new drivers.
5. Reboot
6. Configure desktop resolution and other desirable features.

Oh Man!!! Do I'm gonna have to do all that again?!?! :x

What a remedy, so be it! :roll:

:lol:

Now seriously Selden thank you very much for your help appreciated.

edilcs wrote:
Oh Man!!! Do I'm gonna have to do all that again?!?!

How about learning to do it right the first time! There is an installation/updating instruction for new drivers by NVIDIA, which is meant for READING...

Bye Fridger