nv4_disp.dll driver stuck in infinite loop.

[caravel]

Damn. Suckier and suckier.
No, I'm convinced it's the driver & mb combo, I'm not doubting that at all, I was just hoping that by changing DirectX (or other things), it might not be _triggered_, that is all. Obviously I was wrong.

Guess I'm totally out of ideas for now :(, but I'll keep looking around, and if I come up with something, or an idea, I'll naturally let you know...

Thanks for the input, and concern, Blodrast, it is appreciated. I'm totally out of ideas myself. I'll probably have to wait until I can afford a new system before I'll be able to play TW again. I'm not about to go and stick the down-clocked Radeon 9800 back in again, now that I've got Ubuntu running so well.

@Motep: There is not a chance in hell that I'm paying for Vista and I don't want to go to the hassle of acquiring it by "other means" and messing around trying to circumvent M$'s WGA, so that's not even an option. Also spending good money on an OS simply to "upgrade and downgrade" is out of the question.

[Motep]

Thanks for the input, and concern, Blodrast, it is appreciated. I'm totally out of ideas myself. I'll probably have to wait until I can afford a new system before I'll be able to play TW again. I'm not about to go and stick the down-clocked Radeon 9800 back in again, now that I've got Ubuntu running so well.

@Motep: There is not a chance in hell that I'm paying for Vista and I don't want to go to the hassle of acquiring it by "other means" and messing around trying to circumvent M$'s WGA, so that's not even an option. Also spending good money on an OS simply to "upgrade and downgrade" is out of the question.

I did not consider the cost, I am sorry. I got vista and xp disks free with this computer so I did not give it much thought.

[caravel]

I did not consider the cost, I am sorry. I got vista and xp disks free with this computer so I did not give it much thought.

No problem, sorry if my response seemed a bit snappy, I didn't intend it that way.



An update on "the issue". Still no luck. I've been playing a few missions of Quake4 under Linux (natively as with Doom3), the textures are now hi res and the performance is much better than in Windows. I suppose this is pretty much my lot until I can find some kind of solution or workaround...

There is one more thing I can try, that I know of anyway, and that is to try Win98SE and hack the last Win9x driver version to force install for a 7xxx series card. The Win9x installation, updating, configuration, driver installs, tweaking, etc etc etc, will be an enormous task and at the end of it, it still may not work and as such would all have been for nothing. I'll probably have to do it on a separate HDD also to avoid having to format and reinstall XP again and mess up grub (Linux bootloader) in the process. I have seen some mention of this as having worked which is why I'm at least thinking about it. I won't be attempting it though until next weekend, if I even attempt it at all.

[Blodrast]

I thought Windoze versions from 2k or XP upwards no longer messed up lilo/grub...
Also, IIRC, you can relatively easy re-write grub even if it gets messed up, as long as you either have some installation disk (you could make a floppy, but floppies (drives and/or disks) have kinda disappeared...). I don't know if Ubuntu actually explicitly offers the option to re-write/reinstall grub in its installation menu, but even if it doesn't, you can just run grub-install. It's not _too_ inconvenient.

I like the idea about trying win98
How do you plan to force the install for your card, though ?