GeForce 4 MX440 8X 64 MB DDR TV-OUT

[Jjangthekid]

^ So I have this card and I installed it onto my computer and downloaded the latest drivers but when I play games such as WC 3 and Call of Duty, the game freezes and unfreezes and freezes again.

 

Any of you guys know what may be the problem here? Thanks in advance.

[Weirdy]

most likely, you

 

1)need a better card

 

2)installed the drivers incorrectly (not a damn thing should be left from the last drivers you had installed)

 

3)need to get a better card

[olaf]

You may need to upgrade your power supply, lots of modern video cards require a 500w(v? iunno) power supply, and I bet yours is only around 430. That could be the problem or a defective video card, check out the requirements for the VIDEO CARD first -- compare them to your system. If everything's okay, then you probably have a defective card.

[wacko_jacko]

Its definately not his powersupply, since that card doesnt use that much current. If it was the PSU, the entire system would be unstable all the time, not only during games.

 

The latest drivers won't be too much help for the card either, since they have stopped supporting it since the old detonator driver days.

 

Did you install the drivers over the top of the old ones? If you did, that can sometimes stuff it up so try uninstalling your drivers and then run driver cleaner to remove all registry instances of the old drivers. Then reinstall the new ones.

 

And if that fails, weirdy is right, get another card. Even an ATI 9550 would give you a massive increase in fps, and they retail at around 80 dollars australian, around 50 bucks US.

[Wizard]

a few things such as

1) get a better card

2) get a better card

and my favorite;

3) get a better card

[Jjangthekid]

Well obviously >_> Thanks for the great support =[.

 

This is the best I can do so far but I found out that my other computer parts aren't that "good," enough to support GeForce 4 (shows how ancient my computer parts are).

 

Well I decided to use Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro, the one that I'm using right now. When I try to play Call of Duty, it brings up an error message saying that my video card is missing a function, something like that. I know my computer meets the requirements for the game and have also played the demo.

 

So I went to Nvidia.com and downloaded the latest driver for my card and I first uninstalled the previous one and installed the new one. However whenever I try to run the setup, it states that my hardware is "wrong," and my drivers are incorrect... Hm..

[wacko_jacko]

Well I decided to use Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro, the one that I'm using right now.  When I try to play Call of Duty, it brings up an error message saying that my video card is missing a function, something like that.  I know my computer meets the requirements for the game and have also played the demo. 

 

Don't know the exact requirements for Call of Duty, though it may need a card with pixel shaders or hardware transform and lighting. I dunno if the tnt2 has any of those.

 

Also, just because you can play the demo fine doesn't neccessarily eman you can play the full game properly. My 6600gt played the FEAR demo pretty well, but is seriously struggling when i play the full game on the same settings.

[Wizard]

Well obviously >_>  Thanks for the great support =[. 

 

This is the best I can do so far but I found out that my other computer parts aren't that "good," enough to support GeForce 4 (shows how ancient my computer parts are). 

 

Well I decided to use Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro, the one that I'm using right now.  When I try to play Call of Duty, it brings up an error message saying that my video card is missing a function, something like that.  I know my computer meets the requirements for the game and have also played the demo. 

 

So I went to Nvidia.com and downloaded the latest driver for my card and I first uninstalled the previous one and installed the new one.  However whenever I try to run the setup, it states that my hardware is "wrong," and my drivers are incorrect... Hm..

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dude, what you did is ablsolute blasphamy. Removing a bad card for an even crappier card is way, well, stupid.

 

COD requires a

 

• 3D Hardware Accelerator Card required – 100% DirectX® 9.0a compatible 32MB Hardware T&L-capable video card and drivers*

• Pentium® III 700 or Athlon™processor or higher

• English version of Microsoft® Windows® 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP

• 128MB of RAM

• 8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers

• 181MB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 200MB for Windows swap file)

• 100% DirectX® 9.0a compatible 16 bit sound card and drivers

• 100% Windows® 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers

• DirectX® 9.0a (not included)

 

Important Note: *Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipsets listed here may not be compatible with the 3D acceleration features utilized by Call Of Duty. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX 9.0 compatibility.

 

SUPPORTED CHIPSETS:

• ATI® Radeon 7200, 8500, 9000, 9500, 9700, 9800

• All nVidia® GeForce™ chipsets

[Jjangthekid]

The reason why I took out the GeForce 4 was because the game freezes and unfreezes during gameplay and so I tried to play it with the TNT2. However they sent me an email saying that TNT2 isn't supported.

 

So I decided to upgrade my ram and get a cheap video card.

 

Thanks for the help though K'Dash.

[Shibathedog]

Man, 3DFX Cards, Soooo old yet they still work, Amazing

 

Screw Nvidia for buying them out.

[ken_cinder]

GeForce 4 MX = Pimped out GeForce 2.........no, honestly. MX bad! Bad MX! Die MX!

[Weirdy]

GF4MX is good enough for emulation purposes though

 

only PC games that ran ok were Melty Blood, Melty Blood ReAct, and Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, London 1968

Edited November 22, 2005 by Weirdy

[Wizard]

GeForce 4 MX = Pimped out GeForce 2.........no, honestly. MX bad! Bad MX! Die MX!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

At least they run COD. Very very very slowly!

[Madman]

I played CoD on my Athlon Thunderbird 1200 MHz with a Geforce FX5200 and that worked ok for me. An FX5200 isnt that expensive and supports DirecX9 and HSS 2 which CoD needs.

So an FX5200 may please you for CoD, but it wont run HL2 or D3 or FarCry.

[ken_cinder]

I played CoD on my Athlon Thunderbird 1200 MHz with a Geforce FX5200 and that worked ok for me. An FX5200 isnt that expensive and supports DirecX9 and HSS 2 which CoD needs.

So an FX5200 may please you for CoD, but it wont run HL2 or D3 or FarCry.

 

You sure must have one hell of a bloatware filled system in that case. You can't run Doom 3 or Farcry with an FX5200? Mind you that T-bird CPU is one hell of a bottleneck, and running that card on it gets you no further than a GeForce 3 would.

 

I can run Call of Duty perfectly fine on my P4 1.4Ghz with a Radeon 8500 and 512MB of RDRAM. Doom 3, configured properly, runs great on it as well on medium settings.

Farcry I can run with a mix of low and medium settings, smoothly. Half Life 2 runs smooht as well, albeit with all the details on low.

I sacrifice nothing with resolution, NEVER no damn 640x480......I can't bear that. 800x600 minimum.

 

When all fails, and you can't run the latest games with half decent hardware (Mine is and has been declared, OUTDATED LONG AGO) clean the crap up off your computer and getting it running better.