Incompatibility with GeForce MX440 (or Pentium4)?

Hello, I've looked in many places to see if anyone had the same problem, but couldn't find anything...

I used to run Project 64 (v1.6) with the "Jabo's Direct3D6 1.5.2" GFX plugin on my older computer - it was a Pentium 3, the video card was a simple TNT2-RIVA. Most games ran quite well (I was playing Majora's Mask with no problems at all).

I recently got a slightly better machine - a Pentium 4, with a GeForce MX440 8X... But for whatever reason, it's actually running worse than on my other PC. For instance, on Majora's mask, right when the game starts, the Nintendo logo on the opening has a transparent blue rectangle over it... Then, in-game, many textures will flicker... Anyway, weird stuff like that.

(Not all games run badly though - I've played Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 and they've worked fine.)

I've tried a bunch of different plugins and setups but by now I'm quite confounded... So, if anyone has any suggestions or info on this, I'd really appreciate it.

(Sorry for littering the forum with more first posts asking for help.)

I have version 93.71 of the nVidia Forceware installed... I never really had a graphics accelerator before, so I just went with the newest version that was compatible with the MX440...

(Yeah, I know we're in 2008. I'm poor, and from Uruguay - cut me some slack.)

Thanks for the tip, I'll check into that.

Thanks for the replies, very cool of you all. I installed Forceware version 52.[something] and didn't get any positive results (in fact, I got a "can not allocate memory" message or something like that, which I had never seen before). Then I tried with version 84.73 but... still no results...

What really irks me, as i mentioned in my first post, is that these games ran perfectly on my (even) older computer... with the Tnt-Riva that came with it and all...

Thinking about it, I have some recollection that using the MX440 on that older computer also worked fine... I'm somewhat tempted to install the tnt-riva on this pc, take it out, then re-install the MX440.

ps. Do you think it could have something to do with the version of Project 64 I'm using? (v1.7)

I just went even further back and installed version 43.45... presto! It worked. Or at least that darned Termina Field isn't a flickering inferno anymore.

Tjalian said:

Same here (actually, still do )

But anyway. I used to have the old MX440 myself (I wonder if you remember me having that card, cool ). Not a bad card at all to be honest, despite what some people say. Anyway, with Jabo's 1.5.2 plugin, try turning off antistropic filtering and get rid of Emulate clear. Also, try turning down the resolution. Don't know if this will help any, but it's worth a shot.

I wish my old PC with my MX440 in it still worked (yes, I still have it! ), but it's gone all crazy and doesn't work any more (the PC I mean). I remember having a couple of issues myself with flickering, it seemed to have its good and bad days. Check back here and tell us if this works!

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I think I already turned all of those things off (along with everything else), in an attempt to see what screwed (or fixed) the game up But in the end, like I mentioned before, "downgrading" to an older Forceware appears to have done the trick (version 43.45.)

Yesterday I borrowed the original drivers CD of a MX4000 from a friend, with a slightly newer FW version (56.##)... If I can have a newer driver that still works, better.