Guest hopefull Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Hi All, I have a Inspiron 8100 P3 1Ghz that I upgraded a while ago from a geforce2go to a quadro4go 700, works great with the 45.84 drivers, very stable no problems. However I cant seem to get any 50 or 60 series drivers to work with Direct3D, in dxdiag if I run the test for direct3D with a 50 or 60 driver (must have tried around 5 of each including 65.73) it locks up after a rotation or two of the cube, works perfectly with the 45 driver, anyone have any suggestions or am I doomed to 40 drivers. Im trying to upgrade it in the hope that Rome total war may run a bit better with directx 9 compatable drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 It has to be said, Uninstall driver (via control panel) before installing new driver. Especially important when changing drasticly between diffrernt series drivers. Install SP2, DX9c latest Intel chipset drivers, BIOS upgrades (system & video). You are now ready to play, if D3D works in 40's drivers it will also work in 50's and 60's. Hope this helps, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hopefull Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 i do always uninstall first, everything else is up to date (sp2, dx9.0c, system bios etc..) although I dont think the video card bios has been updated, anyone know where I might find a update for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 There doesn't seem to be a Video BIOS upgrade for the Quadro, that I could find. This is very odd that 4x.xx drivers have D3D and 5x.xx+ don't. Try installing working driver then over the top install a newer driver (even though I said not to do it earlier) We'll have this beat, also get hold of a guy at the dell forums called 'tentonine' he sometimes visits here, he's a guru in this kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 I will have a bash with overwriting the old with a new driver when I get home from work, I will post an update later, thought it might be something obvious i was missing but I guess not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hopefull Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 installed 61.8 over the old 45 drivers works fine :) strange but im glad its sorted, thanks for the tip :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 If it works, stick with it. In the future just install drivers over the top (not reccomended normally) There is something wrong for this to happen, but a bit hard to diagnose from here. Enjoy the 60's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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