driver problem...

[dgm6780]

hmm here goes.. I have a GeForce2 MX 400. I was using the 23.11 drivers. At that time I was able to use NVmax to OC the card, I could get it to 220/356 on MVmax. (have since learned that memory speed is for DDR cards, thus it was really 178) Anyways my 3D Mark 2001se score with that setup was 2770. I decided to tryout some newer drivers. I tired 2 from AOpen's website for the GF2 MX400 (my card manufacturer) and the 30.82 from Nvidia.com. They didnt score as well as my old one.

28.32 = 2433
29.42 = 2447

30.82 = 2271

Why I was trying to figure out the significant drop in score it dawned on me that my score of 2770 on the 23.11 driver was with the OC. But for some reason now with the new drivers I have downloaded the NVmax OC utility is wacked out. The speeds it reads out are 424 core and 500 mem. So what should I do? I tired to redownload the MVmax program to reinstall but couldnt find it now on thier site. Gonna try regclean and see what that does for me, any other ideas?

Thanks for the help

NOob

[Bigsexy]

Maybe you try to o/c your card with the Coolbits registry hack (available @ www.guru3d.com)!

[RedDeathDrinker]

The most succesful proggie I ever used for my old GeF2 MX was Powerstrip (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/files/pstrip.exe) .

I tried all the other stuff, like the coolbits hack, and NVMax etc, but none performed better than Powerstrip.....

[dgm6780]

I couldnt get Coolbits to download from there, looked like a broken link on their site. But I did re-download the newest version of NVmax, which looks differnet and looks like it will work but when I click to enable overclocking so I can adjust the mem/core speeds an error pops up.

Error in nvqtwk.dll : missing entry NvHWCtl.

Anyone know what this means?

[dgm6780]

wohoo, powerstrip did the trick, it even reports my mem speed correctly. I even got a new high score with my GF2 MX 400, 2873 on 3dmark 2001se. at 220/180. Thanks for the tips

[dgm6780]

just wanted to add that with Powerstrip and its correct memory speeds, I was finally able to crack (stably) 3000. Pushed it to 222/190 =) It might actually go faster but that was the max on the Powerstrip memory slider.