Jenna

Hello,

I have tried your drivers (v0.6 and v0.7) and tested them with benchmarks GL Excess (went from 4900 to 5500!) and Final Reality. Helas, with both versions, I have this problem....no matter what game I play or during some parts of the benchmarks my screen flickers (horizontal lines accross the game screen). It didn't do this with the original NVidia drivers v71.84...

I would really like to get this fixed so i can use your wonderful drivers! Or...what would be the fastest original NVidia driver for my card? Or...should I try a older Omega driver? Can anyone out there help me out? Thank you!

I have a nVIDIA Geforce Fx5200 128MB; AMD TBird 1100; 384MB ram, Win XP

Sincerely,
Jenna

Regeneration

Welcome to the Forums.
Can you provide more information about your GFX Card?

Jenna

Hi,

In reply to your question:
My Club3D GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP specs:
Memory 128MB
Type DDR
Interface 64BIT
GPU 250 MHz
Memory 133 MHz
DVI Yes
TV-Out Yes
Video-in No
Ramdac 400MHz
OpenGL 1.5
DirectX 9.0c
Video BIOS version: 4.34.20.42
IRQ 5
AGP X1 (set to X1 do to mobo limitation)
Current ForceWare driver version 71.84

My monitor is a LCD Proview 15" @ 1024x768 75Hz, Windows XP Home Edition SP2

The info link of the manufacturar of my FX5200: http://www.club-3d.com/productshow_vga.php...ilter=&p=1_full

I hope this is enough info. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,
Jenna

eXtortion

I have the EXACT same problem,
I wanted to write about it too but I did'nt knew how to describe it :S....
I too have fx5200,
perhaps it a bug with fx5200s...

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Maverik

Same thing here. I have a XFX Nvidia FX5200 128mb AGP. But I dont think it's a FX5200 bug. I have a second PC with a GeForce MX4000 and same thing.
Greetz,

aap

I heard somewhere that horizontal lines during graphically intense scenes could be caused by the VGA memory temperature exceeding recommended levels...

aka those small black thingies on your graphics card are just too damn hot :grin:

and perhaps the driver is causing the temp. increase...
for example NGO-s 2.3 ati drivers made my well ventilated 9800pro so hot that it was impossible to overclock without getting any artifacts.

eXtortion

well.... my computer is pretty fucking hot with the official drivers...... (55 degrees idle) :cry:

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Jenna

I also heard about that. But not in this case I'm sure. Why? Well, for several reasons:
1) showed the same problem even if I turned on my PC the next day and I did the tests immediately after the boot sequence.
2) the GFX card does not show those horizontal lines all of the time. Some parts work fine and the desktop shows no problems.
3) I also opened my PC during another test (I tested a few other drivers then too) and the temp was ok (also the mem chips).

I know that some drivers tend to increase the temp somewhat but the lines I see on my screen looks more like somekind of sync problem. It are more like thick bands "superimposed" over the orignal images rather then thin lines.

Sincerley,
Jenna

Regeneration

Hi Jenna,

Unfortunately I don’t have an FX5200 around. But if you could contact me I will see what I can do to solve this issue. I will try to investigate it anyway.

Kind Regards,

P.S.
Does it effect both DirectX and OpenGL games?

Jenna

Hi Regeneration,

Thank you for your reply and efforts!
I just wanted to add that I did a test today with the Xtreme G 76.41 (ForceWare) driver and it showed exactly the same "problem".

Sincerely,
Jenna