nv4_disp.dll driver stuck in infinite loop.

[caravel]

It's one of those rare occasions where I start a thread...

I've just spent half of last night and half of today trying to get MTW, RTW (and anything else for that matter) working on a 7300GT and WinXP with various drivers, setting and tweaks with no luck:...

Hello all,

I am having the same nv4_disp "driver stuck in infinite loop" BSoD problem. I have registered here to see if anyone has any idea at all how to solve this problem.

I've tried the service pack from VIA Technologies (link in the first part of this thread) to close off the register and though I have a VIA chipset that fix didn't work for me. The card I have is an AGP 7300GT 512MB which I got yesterday, running under Windows XP SP2. The nv4_disp "driver stuck in infinite loop" BSoD was occurring in all games including Medieval Total War, Rome Total War, Quake 4 and Doom3 among others. I have tried every kind of fix and tried several drivers including the latest and the 93.71 drivers which are supposed to be the best for 7xxx series and still the problem is there. I've tried a 256MB AGP aperture and this has made no difference either. I'd even considered going to back to Windows 98SE but the 7xxx series appears to have no drivers for this. I've also completely uninstalled AVG as I've seen that mentioned as a possible cause also, but that made no difference either.

The only thing that has partially worked for me is enabling fast writes. This get's Quake 4 and Doom3 working again perfectly (well not perfectly, the textures are still blurry low res rubbish - regardless of any of the settings I try, and my old Radeon 9800 had way superior image quality overall) but not Rome TW or Medieval TW, these still crash with the same old BSoD after a few seconds of starting a new game.

I'm pretty much at a loss now. I bought this card in the hope that it would at least work with the TW games (which is all I really want 3D acceleration for). I also bought it for Linux because I was sick of the ATI driver problems under that OS. Despite this, if there is no way to get this card working properly under WinXP without this error then I will have to go back to ATI.

It is the apparently infamous driver stuck in infinite loop problem. This appears to be a bug in Nvidia's drivers that they're not really interested in fixing. The fix from VIA to close the RX55 registerdoesn't work for me either. I wish now I'd stuck with ATI despite the problems I've had with their cards at least they actually work! I wasn't expecting amazing performance and visuals out of this card, I just expected it to work, and as I said over there, to work better under Linux (because the Nvidia Linux driver support is way better than ATI's).

So I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this here, or found a solution even?



-Edit: I'm about so see if this card will work in Ubuntu.