nv4_disp.dll driver stuck in infinite loop.

[caravel]

Sorry to hear about your troubles... You have my sympathy. Can't help much, though, I'm afraid, since I'm running really old hw, and I wasn't even aware of the bug you mentioned.

Neither was I until I first saw the BSoD. The next thing I was following a paper trail all over the web with this problem all over the place but no real solutions. There is even a petition for this problem.

I agree with your statement that Nvidia has much better Linux support than ATI.
Can you run *TW on Linux though ? I thought the main reason for buying the card was so you can play the TW games in a reasonable manner - do they all run under Linux ?

You can't run TW under Linux natively. I think you can barely get RTW and M2TW running under Cedega but don't quote me on that one. The reason I bought this card was to kill three birds with one stone a) because my old card was overheating and dying b) because I couldn't get the fglrx ATI driver up and running under Ubuntu no matter what I tried and c) to play RTW and MTW on WinXP. MTW crashes on the loading screen for both battles and campaign. Instead of the loading bar moving across it hangs at that screen with an empty load bar and that's it. If I leave it long enough XP will throw up the BSoD error. RTW locks up after about 20 seconds in a battle regardless of settings and about 1 or 2 seconds after loading a campaign.

I'm sure you've spent a lot of your time looking online, are there no card settings that you can further tweak (similar to the fast writes) ?
Silly question perhaps, but what about much older drivers ?

I had to enable the fast writes again for Linux. Because basically it would crash at the login prompt otherwise. Working fine now, and I have compiz/beryl running also with the highest quality settings.

I'll look around online, although I'm sure you've already done a much thorough job with that, if you've spent so much time on it already.

I'd appreciate if you (or anyone else) can come up with anything but it looks like I won't be able to play TW again for quite a while. I've tried older drivers but with no difference. As I understand it, newer drivers are the way to go. There are reports of users "upgrading" to Vista and the Vista drivers eradicating the problem entirely. (I will not be going to Vista!)