New GeForce3 can't get 3dmark 2001 to work

[DoGMaN]

I just bought a Visiontek geforce3. It installs fine boots fine, but when I try to run 3dm2k1 it crashes after the second game and gives me an error "can't initialize 3d graphics device" " Error out of memory"

I installed the 21.81 drivers right off the bat. WTF is wrong, is this card bad?

[Eil Atan]

Did you try reinstalling 3DMarks 2k1? It might still be trying to initialize your old Radeon drivers or something? Just a suggestion you have a good system I can't figure out why it would be doing that...

great temps by the way!!!!

[-=HN=- Wild9]

i am having the same error, i have a geforce 2 mx 400 64 megs sdram and i noticed you are running win2k
so am i , used to work fine with win 98 but, i think it has something to do with some drivers or direct x with win2k
been racking my head all day on this one.

[-=HN=- Wild9]

i did notice that the detonator drivers are non-whql certified
maybe it has something to do with that and win2k pro
dogman , does it run like through the trucks then gets to the dragon and dumps to that error msg?

[DoGMaN]

Thats exactly what happens. It runs the 2 truck demos, then craps out. Works fine with 12.90 drivers:confused:

[Placid]

Seems to be a somewhat common problem.
Here is a thread about it.

http://www.nvnews.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=000520

[-=HN=- Wild9]

nooooooooooo i dont wanna reinstall windows :(

[-=HN=- Wild9]

well i just figured it out, i have my detonator xp drivers running and i ran 2dmark 2001 with no problems
just go through and remove ANY file that even mentions the word nvidia in it . i even cleaned out the registry, restarted and the reinstalled the detonator drivers, yah its a pain but for me it was better than a format.

[Pinky]

Originally posted by Placid
Seems to be a somewhat common problem.
Here is a thread about it.

http://www.nvnews.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=000520

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