Never heard of a Geforce 2 that needed special drivers. What version are you installing? I think ForceWare 71 was the last to support the Geforce 2.

Yeh I used the 71.84 drivers, 30.82 and the newest 81.98.
I found an original driver disk for the 7100 series that also contains the drivers for the V7700.

When I installed that one, everything was working fine.
Games don't crash, 3DMark runs normally. ( was crashing everytime when i wanted to start the benchmark ).

Think ill just stick to the Asus drivers than instead of the nvidia drivers.

When using newer drivers, you also might need to update directX (if you haven't already done that).

First IT job that I ever had, my boss always gave me a hard time for using "generic" graphics card drivers.

He ALWAYS insisted on using the drivers that came bundled with the card, Sapphire or Asus or what have you.

This would have been around 2001-2002, we built a lot of systems ground up back then and I always tended to download the most recent version from chip manufacturer website,
ie; ATi, or Nvidia usually.

Always ticked him off, 🤣.

That doesn't help at all but that's what this post reminded me of.

DirectX version has usually been the main reasons for direct3d not working when installing new drivers for me too. Install at least directx 7.0a and if that doesn't work try directx 8.1 too.

We have the 6.31c cd-rom for ours if you still need anything 😀

Hello Guys,

i think i'm in the same situation. I got my hands on a Geforce 2 GTS (ASUS V-7700) and i cant seem to find any driver that is working out of the box with Windows 98 SE.

is someone here willing to share his working driver / installation disc?

Thanks in advance.

Regards, Xearo

i have used several generic drivers with that exact card and they all worked. try this: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/detonato … win9x%7Cme.html

Thank You. Seemed to work fine. i wonder why my version from the nvidia site didnt work. Win 98 SE crashed while running 3d mark 2000 benchmark...well, maybe a other fault then the driver.

Generally Geforce2s break after Forceware 61.76. Any "supported" driver after that will break stuff as it feels like Nvidia didn't test them on Win9x at that point.

So the ASUS drivers for the V7700 offered here https://www.asus.com/supportonly/V7700%20Seri … lpDesk_download
also show the problem?

Right, if i search for a driver in this folder it will not find a compatible driver.
if i run the setup file it says something like success (after 2 seconds) and will restart my computer.

Well, at least the driver auron posted did work. But im curious why so many drivers i tryd couldn't find my hardware. i also tryd older versions.

Direct X 9 is installed.....on some other PCs i noticed driver installation issues when directx isnt installed.

I'm running mine just fine with forceware 30