I believe there were no official Nvidia drivers in 1997. As far as I can tell the card released with OEM specific drivers.
At some point in 1998 Nvidia released universal drivers.

i think the same... the v3000 drv would be also fine (it should be v1.x).

i did some research:
aug 1997 - https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/vga/nVidia … 9_agp-v3000.zip - asus v1.00 drv
oct 1997 - http://ftp.tekwind.co.jp/pub/asustw/vga/agp/v … dpv3000-102.pdf - asus v1.07 drv
nov 1997 - http://www.thg.ru/graphic/19971130/print.html - here it looks every vendor uses the same version: 4.10.01.0221 (maybe oem based)

My guess is Nvidia supplied vendors with drivers and they't implement it into their own installer or tweak it and distributed it as a card specific driver.
You could try finding an installer for a more generic card (that doesn't incorporate any tweaks like Elsa or Diamond most certainly applied), extract the drivers from the installer and manually install them with other Riva 128 cards.

arncht wrote on 2020-08-21, 08:42:

nov 1997 - http://www.thg.ru/graphic/19971130/print.html - here it looks every vendor uses the same version: 4.10.01.0221 (maybe oem based)

Since they received the review board they probably got unmodified reference drivers as well even if the public wouldn't.

i found diamond driver: VIPER V330 W95 v4.10.01.0011
the reference part looks from aug 1997 and the vendor part is from oct 1997

Try them out and report back! 😁

the stb works on the asus v3000 😀

Awesome, thanks for reporting back!👍