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"Mad.Mutt" <put.my.name.here@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Athura wrote:
> >>I saw somewhere this is an issue with some nVidia cards and Athlon CPUs.
> >
> > I
> >
> >>have all the latest drivers installed including motherboard chipset
> >
> > drivers
> >
> >>but I have also tried backdating to all versions, they all give the same
> >>problem.
> >>
> >>My system:
> >>Windows XP Home SP1a
> >>nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600
> >>512Mb RAM
> >>AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1668GHz
> >>Creative Soundblaster Audigy 5.1
> >>Socket A motherboard, A7A266-E, ALiMaGiK 1 Chipset, DDR RAM / SDRAM
> >>
> >>Cheers, Gaz.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > I have a similiar system (XP Home SP1a, xp2000 and a ti4400, sb live
value)
> > and have no problems with doom 3 or any other game like you describe
> > I'm using the 53.03 drivers for the video card.
> >
> >
> Yeah, I'm on a marginally faster Athlon and an nVidia MyVIVO card.
> Lighting is ok - in line with what everyone else is bitching about :)
>
> I'm using a very early, very raw version of XP Pro without any service
> packs, other than a security plug from grc.com.
> No crashes at all. Based on the feedback I've heard, I'd blame SP1 !!

I think you could be right there, I've been having the problems since late
last year even after a clean install of XP, SP1 and all the critical
updates.  If SP2 doesn't fix it then perhaps one day I'll try running the
games on a raw version of XP just to see.