8800GTS driver help!

[joffy]

Just installed a Leadtek 8800GTS.
I removed my ATI card drivers and used Driver Cleaner.

The problem is I cannot get the latest Nvidia drivers to install on Vista 32bit.
It goes through the install process, reboots but in device manager the card shows as a standard vga adaptor.

I updated the drivers automatically letting search online and it installed some drivers, rebooted and all was fine, card shws as a 8800GTS but it isnt the latest driver.

So tried installing latest again, it detected old drivers, removed, rebooted, Vista loaded in 4 colour mode! but it went through the install process, reboot, standard vga detected again!

Where am I going wrong?????

 

[joffy]

Well it seems the latest drivers have a serious bug. I got a .45 verson from Guru3D and they worked fine

 

[Heretic1322]

New Drivers

I just got my Leadtek 8800 GTS 640 and I plugged it in and turned on my pc. The display was in a really low res. I uninstalled CCC that my old 1800XL used, from add-remove programs, which was quite tricky as the resolution was really bad. Then I downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia website, ran the program, installed the drivers. It asked me to reboot. When it loaded up all was good.

Must say this is a very nice card and i'm real happy with it hehe

 

[weringo]

Well it seems the latest drivers have a serious bug. I got a .45 verson from Guru3D and they worked fine

Try the American drivers? Work fine for me.

 

[stoofa]

I have an 8800GTS however I run under Vista64 rather than Vista32.
I doubt very much that there is any "serious bugs" with the latest drivers or else we would be seeing this issue reported everywhere.
The inability to actually install a driver when there will be thousands and thousands of 8800GTS/Vista32 users out there would have been reported pretty quickly.
The latest drivers work absolutely fine under Vista64.

I cannot say where you went wrong, however all indications would be a bad driver download or even wrong driver download for your OS.

 

[Legionaire68]

I'm using 158.42 beta I got off guru3d.com and they seem to work O.K. The only problem I have is Medieval Total War 2 sometimes drops out on some battles, not sure if the drivers the problem but was O.K when I played a while ago.

 

[joffy]

A Google shows that I'm not the only one with the problem. It's weird cause it throws up a error warning about Age of Empires II for those that get it which I've never ever installed!

 

[Gog]

A Google shows that I'm not the only one with the problem. It's weird cause it throws up a error warning about Age of Empires II for those that get it which I've never ever installed!

Heh, that confused the hell out of me when it popped up. I just rolled back to the older drivers as I've had no real issues. Im sure there will be an update shortly - well within the year knowing NV....

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I just got my Leadtek 8800 GTS 640 and I plugged it in and turned on my pc. The display was in a really low res. I uninstalled CCC that my old 1800XL used, from add-remove programs, which was quite tricky as the resolution was really bad. Then I downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia website, ran the program, installed the drivers. It asked me to reboot. When it loaded up all was good.

Must say this is a very nice card and i'm real happy with it hehe

Its best to remove the drivers first for the old card before swapping them over.

Add/Remove, delete the Display Drivers, dont reboot when it says its need to, and remove the CCC from the Add/Remove to, then boot into safe-mode and run Driver Cleaner pro and select ATi, then once done shutdown and swap cards, then boot up as normal, cancel the found new hardware wizards and install the Nvidia drivers, as you may still have remnants of the ATi drivers in there still, like in the registry etc.... and they could cause problems.