Ugh, Video Card Problems.Follow

I hope this is wehre I post for this probelm. But anyways, Ok, I haven't been on EQ in about 1year and I missed it so I decided to start playing again, I installed all my games and patched (16hours of patching, damn 56k) Then after that I had DirectX problems. Then I fixed that. Then EQ wanted me to update my video card drivers. so I spent an hour and a half downloading those. This is where everything goes downhill. When I try to install them it says the drivers are not windows xp logo certfied drivers. But they were the only drivers they had. Sometimes they get finished installing but they still don't work and sometimes they start to install then my PC just restarts itself. I am getting really frustrated at my PC, I just want to play EQ and everything has gone to hell. So could someone please help. I have windows XP and Asylum GeForce FX 5200 256mb video card. Even the drivers the video card came with aren't working right.

Thanks

Porcoa

Those are the ones I got, But you don't have to pick your card. I guess their drivers are compatible with all cards. But I can't get those ones or the ones on my disk to install correctly. Thanks for replying though.

This thread from EQ tech support boards has an excellent overview of the driver upgrade process.

I'm using winXP and a GeForce FX5600 with DX9.0c and nVidia 61.77 drivers with no troubles at the moment.

Don't forget to uninstall your old drivers so when you install the new ones they update.

I have never updated my drivers. More people have trouble after updating drivers than using out of date drivers. As a local computer company told me....it it works don't fix it.

SOE has brainwashed everyone to think the first thing you must do is update all your drivers until then that is your problem. I would suggest trying to log onto the game without updating and see if it works. If so forget the rest of the process. If you have and it doesn't chances are it isn't the drivers but then I guess it could be.

I have the one universal driver from the website and one on disk. I remember when I first upgraded to new HDD. More Ram, XP, and a new video card I had problems installing them. My dad had to take our PC to the tech guy at his work. But. I run dxdiag and it doesn't recognize the video card it just has n/a in all the slots but it has information on the dirvers. So I don't know. I keep uninstalling and installing then my pc reboots by itself before the drivers are finished installing. I will search in BIOS maybe theres a problem there. Thanks everyone

Porcoa

If you have onboard video that is not being used, do yourself a favor and disable it in your BIOS, not just in windows. This might solve other problems as well.