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Do Nvidia OpenGL drivers for Windows XP use SSE?

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Greeting all, sorry I've not posted in a while.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting anything that needs OpenGL to work in Windows XP sp3, on any of my PCI Nvidia cards (inc FX5200, GT210 and GT610). These are straight PCI cards not AGP or PCI-e.

Direct3D is no problem.

The system is a twin Pentium II 450 with 1gb of ram, and as such has no SSE instructions. I'm wondering if the drivers need SSE maybe?

If I put a 3DFX card in there then games like Q3 and RTCW work ok, but not with an Nvidia card. I get a BSOD as soon as it tries to load.

Has anyone had similar issues?

Thanks so much for your help

Reply 1 of 5, by elszgensa

Posted on Today, 16:50

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Can't say anything either way about those drivers, but if the cause for a crash/BSOD is SSE (or some other unsupported instruction) then I'd expect to see an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION.

Reply 2 of 5, by swaaye

Posted on 35 minutes ago

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Try an older driver such as between 45.23 through 56.64. Though obviously that's not possible with a GT210 or GT610.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Mouldotron

Posted on 33 minutes ago

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elszgensa wrote on Today, 16:50:

Can't say anything either way about those drivers, but if the cause for a crash/BSOD is SSE (or some other unsupported instruction) then I'd expect to see an EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION.

hmmm, the BSOD doesn't mention that, it's a Stop error with file nv4_disp.dll

It happens regardless of the Nvidia card I'm using, and I've tried a couple of different driver versions, all the same result.

Reply 4 of 5, by Mouldotron

Posted on 30 minutes ago

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swaaye wrote on 35 minutes ago:

Try an older driver such as between 45.23 through 56.64. Though obviously that's not possible with a GT210 or GT610.

Right, I can give that a go if I can find one, I think it's a version in the 300's that is on there now.

Reply 5 of 5, by swaaye

Posted on 26 minutes ago

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Another thing that comes to mind is your Pentium II motherboard is probably equipped with PCI 2.1? Those cards are likely PCI 2.2 or later. Though it's strange that only OpenGL is a problem if that is a problem.

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