Notebook GFX (repost)
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2 Aug 2008, 16:06
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Hi's,
yesterday i installed BioShock , the game freezed while the intro was running with some weird colored pixel bugs D: , i didnt realy care so i uninstalled the game and ignored the whole action :p .... today my pc freezed while watching an youtube vid .. again some weird pink pixel appeared and i had to restart ... now , when iam starting a 3d programm dirx or opengl it takes 5 minutes till a small warning triangle "nvlddmkm.sys displayerror" with a followin bluescreen / system restart ...
i uninstalled the gfx driver / used also driver cleaner pro ... tried all possible new / old gfx drivers ... updated vista etc.... last driver gave me a mean hardware malefuncton bluescreen >:I dxdiag dont show any errors
RIP gfx or just random vista/driver shiet ... any clue what i can do ?
thx
Bulld0g:
Go to Windows/system32/drivers and find the nvlddmkm.sys file. Rename it to nvlddmkm.sys.old. Remove all drivers and install new version for Vista. It will now give you the proper nvlddmkm.sys file to match your drivers. This has worked for many users in the past worth a try!
this kinda worked for me yesterday was playing et / watching movies with out a problem for like 5 hours ... after i booted my pc today ... the weird pixel freezes are back >8( after 10minutes of idlin in a dirx game.
any1 got some new ideas or something tanx
yesterday i installed BioShock , the game freezed while the intro was running with some weird colored pixel bugs D: , i didnt realy care so i uninstalled the game and ignored the whole action :p .... today my pc freezed while watching an youtube vid .. again some weird pink pixel appeared and i had to restart ... now , when iam starting a 3d programm dirx or opengl it takes 5 minutes till a small warning triangle "nvlddmkm.sys displayerror" with a followin bluescreen / system restart ...
i uninstalled the gfx driver / used also driver cleaner pro ... tried all possible new / old gfx drivers ... updated vista etc.... last driver gave me a mean hardware malefuncton bluescreen >:I dxdiag dont show any errors
RIP gfx or just random vista/driver shiet ... any clue what i can do ?
thx
Bulld0g:
Go to Windows/system32/drivers and find the nvlddmkm.sys file. Rename it to nvlddmkm.sys.old. Remove all drivers and install new version for Vista. It will now give you the proper nvlddmkm.sys file to match your drivers. This has worked for many users in the past worth a try!
this kinda worked for me yesterday was playing et / watching movies with out a problem for like 5 hours ... after i booted my pc today ... the weird pixel freezes are back >8( after 10minutes of idlin in a dirx game.
any1 got some new ideas or something tanx
just doesn't work as it suposed to do, people can say it's faster but deff not better. It took me around an hour to get the ATI drivers to work. While in windows installing ATI drivers is clicking 5 times or smth and reboot, 5 mins of work.
some things works better in linux for me (such as wireless networking) but in general i don't like the way how they make it harder for people to use it.
+ that sudo thing is ridicules, you need it for almost everything, why not give root access directly? U only need user pass for sudo, not the root password anyway.
Too much things are way too hard for normal users, thats why linux will never hit the large userbase windows has.
who is "they"? linus, canonical, the ati devs? tbh gnu/linux never was intended for ppl to be easy to use, we already have atleast one "convenience os" (although with apple gettin more popular we now have 2 big ones). just dont believe in anyones marketingblabla.
u got a top-notch operating-system plus tons of software to run on it, plus u can poke around with any part of it. if you want top performance invest ur time n see where the problem lies(since ur talkin bout ati i have a feelin bout this already).
ur post is not bout ubuntu/linux in general, if u'd know how to handle it u get the requested results in et. how comes i'm/was playin wolf/et on linux since release of mp_beach demo with nrly all kernel-versions with framerates being envied by many win-users on my budget-hw?
if ur unhappy with it, stay with windooze, but plz blame your personal problems on ur lack of solving them.
I did the same on both, clean instal, instal drivers, instal ET.
windows = happy gaming (well after pb update)
linux = spending hours to get evrything work properly
I would say windows owns linux on this one. I get more FPS in linux thats true, but the time spended to get them wasn't worth it tbh. And linux is still doing wierd things sometimes which I need to fix, while I finished my complete windows instal in only 2 hours (with all apps etc).
And I wasn't even able to play mp3 files out of the box with linux, I think a operating system aimed at normal people with like 5 mediaplayers installed out of the box has to be capable of playing mp3 files out of the box.
And yes this are just my things about linux, other people can disagree on them what they want, it's what I noticed. And I don't hate linux or smth, I just think windows is better in general for 99% of the people.
in windows many other problems occur, so ....
"convenience-os" vs. real mens os ;)
linux is free like in free-beer. if u dont want to invest the time to get drunk then its ur prob.
this aint a technical but a legal problem that some distributions dont dare to put the existing and in europe totally legal codec in the distri. adding another repository to ur sources.list aint that hard though.
i just don't like generalizations on this toppic since its too complicated itself. and surely u have to find the right tool for the task u want to do, for the majority it seems to be an m$-solution. but plz dont try to take my freedom editing config-files in some terminal-based texteditor like "vi", this is my choice and the choice of the ppl developing it. plus it works perfectly for +30yrs now (referring to unix in general). u young punks just stay with ur "regedit.exe" ;)
Ofc you can drink a lot of beer if you pick the linux way :D
And it's just a personal preference to use linux or windows. I know I can edit almost evrything in linux, which is not possible in windows + linux is free (atleast most distro's). But I also know most things just work out of the box in windows, and if you know smth about computers you don't need a fresh install of windows every month (mine did it perfect for 3 years after I decided to format everything and create a dualboot).
And I just installed ubuntu to take a look since we did everything on windows at school, so I wanted to see if it was hard to use linux (only used some livecds before).
Alot of people blame MS for their own stupidity. If you know how to work with it it works perfectly, think the same counts for linux.
it's all bout personal preference n the time u want to invest :> so i'd rather say after five hours of drinkin i can get so much more drunk than after only two hours ;)
dont get me wrong, i'd advise anybody with some interest in it/computing to have a good look at it, but if u dont like just leave it, there are plenty of other choices. atleast for me this os means earning my money n feedin my family, it does a pretty good job there n for my employees too it seems :)
Then I saw totum (ubuntu's mediaplayer) and I like the look and the option to watch youtube vids. But when I wanted to listen some mp3 I failed, was fixed pretty fast took me only 10-15 minutes. So that didn't matter, everything seemed to work pretty well when I installed all the codecs and stuff.
But then hell broke out when trying to fix the ati drivers, and I still don't get why I need to run ET with sudo to get decent fps. Smth with folder permissions? But I made myself owner of the enemy-territory and .etwolf folder so that shouldn't be the problem I guess :S
And I like the gnome gui, the menu's aren't such a mess as in windows.
I think if the ATI drivers were as good as they are for windows and it wasn't so hard to get ET working I would realy love to work with linux/ubuntu (based on what I've seen now). But for know I think there is still alot that needs to be done to bring linux to a place where windows is now, an OS every noob can use. (And don't say it isn't made for that, cuz especialy ubuntu is aimed towards the mainstream)
tbh there is a huge gap between atis windows n linux drivers. it's not rare to see ~100 EUR nvidia-cards outperforming atis high end cards easily. i wouldnt rlly blame the linux devs but ati for that (tbh atm nvidia got other probs here when it comes to 2d-performace of 8000er n 9000er cards, but thats another story, for et it's irrelevant)
i dont rlly think anybody serious involved in the development of linux would want that. its another system, has other targets. on none of my servers u will never find a ms-os, if there is no specific requirement that forces me to do so. Bout Desktops this is a whole other story (although i personally use it for both exclusively).