Vista gaming problem Customizing Vista Discuss Vista gaming problem in the Windows Vista forums; Uninstall "EVERYTHING" in the system under VIDEO... uninstall everything simply tells Vista to reinstall the DEFAULT Drivers, and then if Vista has any update/upgrade drivers.. it will ...

[Snuffy]

Uninstall "EVERYTHING" in the system under VIDEO... uninstall everything simply tells Vista to reinstall the DEFAULT Drivers, and then if Vista has any update/upgrade drivers.. it will install them...
Other wise DEFAULT and no drivers from the NVidia site... then see if your games work correctly... many times all the nice upgrades are not signed...
and OS's simply do not like unsigned drivers....

Now go to control panel ->system->device manager and uninstall all and display adapter & VIDEO stuff...
then reboot.. and let Vista reinstall the default drivers... then play your game.. the MS installed v97.46 drivers work GREAT for me... the NVidia website v97.46 drivers CRASHed my system... I have tried the v100.41 NVidia drivers an my 3d Memory-Video Graphics hunger games.. plays like crap...

[stevennodalo]

By doing this, will I be able to install the NVIDIA stuff again if I wanted to? If so, then I will definitely try it out.

[crabby]

Yes you can Do you know what motherboard your PC is btw?

crabby

[stevennodalo]

No, I have no idea what a motherboard is. I know it's sad. I know it has something to do with a computer though.

Also snuffy, one more question. If I go to device manager, under the sections that say batteries, computer, disk drives, etc... which ones exactly do i have to uninstall. And do I have to uninstall the whole section? For instance, if you want me to uninstall disk drives, I have to uninstall everything under disk drives, such as Toshiba MK blah blah blah, and WD 16000BE, correct?

[crabby]

The fact that you don't know about computers is a bit scary I want to know your motherboard chipset so I can get you the correct drivers for it. You should be able to find out from your manual etc... if not you can look at the device manager or install 'everest' from lavalys and find out

crabby