GeForce 3

Neeklus · 29 Sep 2006 at 20:45

Hi there,

I've got an ancient GeForce 3 on an old machine I'm setting up for LANning. Unfortunately, as the machine has been reformatted, I've lost all my overclocking programmes for the card, and it's now running slow. I've tried the regedit programme from somewhere, but it didn't work/install properly.

Anything else I can do, save buying a new card?

Indy500 · 29 Sep 2006 at 20:47

Depends what you mean by slow. It can still play things like UT2004, HL2, WoW, etc.

Minstadave · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:40

Just use coolbits with the latest drivers, that should do the job fine

Indy500 · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:41

Minstadave said:
with the latest drivers

Which dont support the GF3.

Minstadave · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:44

Ok then, the latest drivers that support the GF3 series + coolbits should do the job.

Indy500 · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:45

Should be on www.guru3d.com 's downloads section.

Xplo · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:48

Ive got a Ti500, Went to nVidia, got the latest drivers, worked fine!

Indy500 · 29 Sep 2006 at 21:50

Xplo said:
Ive got a Ti500, Went to nVidia, got the latest drivers, worked fine!

Yeah? Didnt work for me :confused:

HangTime · 29 Sep 2006 at 23:50

Get the latest beta ones:
http://uk.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_purevideo_32bit_92.91_uk.html

Supports everything from the gf2 onwards by the looks of it.

Neeklus · 30 Sep 2006 at 08:16

Thanks for all the responses. I am going to be trying some of the recommendations out this weekend.

To answer another question: I mean it's slow, graphically. Basically this machine used to be able to run NWN at top whack. It could also do WOW flawlessly at the middle-ish resolutions. After the reformat, however, even NWN is sluggish (at best) on the lowest settings.

Minstadave · 30 Sep 2006 at 10:11

Have you installed the latest chipset drivers?

Justintime · 30 Sep 2006 at 20:33

Minstadave said:
Have you installed the latest chipset drivers?

Good point, can make a drastic difference in performance.

Yrkoon · 30 Sep 2006 at 23:23

agp drivers installed?

Tute · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:46

One of the main reasons I don't go for nvidia cards.

Support pre-FX is flaky, you'll need to roll back until you can find a release that works.

Fantastic support for people who, once upon a time, paid £200 for these cards.

Indy500 · 1 Oct 2006 at 18:00

Tute said:
One of the main reasons I don't go for nvidia cards.

Support pre-FX is flaky, you'll need to roll back until you can find a release that works.

Fantastic support for people who, once upon a time, paid £200 for these cards.

ATi still have a similar issue with the Catalysts, they dont support pre-9xxx cards anymore.