What can I say? It works for me...

Well, it simply may be because I have a different Nvidia-based graphics card than you.

I have Geforce2.

Mine is a GeForce 3 Ti 200.

if you have a geforce 2, you shouldnt really bother updating the nvidia drivers.. the new ones only really change stuff for newer cards - and like you found out, they can even be worse for the older cards

Anonymous wrote:

if you have a geforce 2, you shouldnt really bother updating the nvidia drivers.. the new ones only really change stuff for newer cards - and like you found out, they can even be worse for the older cards

Indeed. Same for GF3Ti200. I have a GF3Ti200 and still use 4x.xx drivers. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Freddo wrote:

Indeed. Same for GF3Ti200. I have a GF3Ti200 and still use 4x.xx drivers. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I commonly use several different Nvidia drivers. I like 30.82 (my oldest version) and 45.23. I was involved in a beta test of a recently released game. So I tried numerous versions. Every version I used worked. My "standard" is version 45.23, but Planescape:Torment does some odd spell effects with that driver. It runs just dandy with 30.82. FYI: Planescape:Torment is my all time favorite computer RPG, and Betrayal at Krondor is a very close second. There are a lot of my older DOS games I wish to replay. I'm thankful that DOSBox makes that possible, and it does a fine job at it. I'm currently running three different DOS games: X-Com (the original), BaK, of course, and Ultima VII. I may even add Serpent Isle to the mix. I use Exult for the Ultimas, tho. It is completely full screen and at my choice of resolutions. I use 512x384, tho I could use 800x600. I like the added touches.

Other older DOS games I'm planning to replay using DOSBox are: Master of Magic, Civ I, Master of Orion, and maybe Ultima VI.

What are you talking about?
I have Geforce2 and I always upgrade and never had any troubles with that.
Every once they add nice things even for older versions.
For example, there was no taskbar icon until some versions ago.

But most importantly, 66.93 was the first Microsoft approved version!
That means no more warnings by Windows when installing.
And that's good not only because it's much less annoying...finally, Nvidia bothered to follow the standards. I hope that means much less potential troubles now.

Anonymous wrote:

But most importantly, 66.93 was the first Microsoft approved version!

No, it's not. They have released several WHQL (Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs) certified drivers over the last 2 years.

If you install some of the newest games out there and that ask for certain direct-x version (mostly newest ones - 8.1-9) you may run into errors with some older drivers that don't support a given direct-x version. Alone in the dark 4 comes to mind.... I had to uninstall good ole 30.82 for it.

These drivers are really buggy for me, I'm sticking with 61.77 for now.

Theres a 67.0x in the beta list does that have the same problem for you?

ElfPhoenix wrote:

FYI: Alt-tabbing DOSBox with Nvidia's newest drivers (66.93) causes DOSBox to crash (for me, anyway). My OS is WinXP SP2. I reverted back to the 61.77 drivers which corrected the problem.

If you start dosbox with the -noconsole option, the output is redirected to stdout.txt. After a crash, it is filled with error messages that give info about the crash. It may help the developers if you tell what messages appear.

JAL

jal wrote:

If you start dosbox with the -noconsole option, the output is redirected to stdout.txt. After a crash, it is filled with error messages that give info about the crash. It may help the developers if you tell what messages appear.

JAL

That's something to keep in mind if I run into any other problems. I have so many different Nvidia reference drivers, it really doesn't matter to me which one I use to get the job done. However, I am not experiencing any problems with any games that I am playing (that I hadn't solved, that is).

jal wrote:

If you start dosbox with the -noconsole option, the output is redirected to stdout.txt. After a crash, it is filled with error messages that give info about the crash. It may help the developers if you tell what messages appear.

@JAL, now see what you did 😀

MiniMax wrote:

@JAL, now see what you did 😀

I don't get it! 😀

JAL

i also have nvidia 66.93 installed on my win me-machine.

the problem is that everytime i run dosbox 0.63 my pc crashes and often i am only able to reboot in the security mode to restore an older system point.

i also set up my machine completly from scratch, so therefore i should have the latest drivers.

does anybody have an idea what i can do to make dosbox 0.63 finally work on my computer? cause i'd like to play the old great games again from time to time.... 😉

thanks in advance