Nforce mobo drivers take care of video card drivers?

Daniel Crichton wrote:
 > "fenceerx" <spamonot.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
 > news:B5idnQrk_tWJ-BLdRVn-uQ@comcast.com...
 >
  >>Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I
 >
 > got
 >
  >>an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l
  >>
  >>Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this
  >>time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed the
  >>nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the Nvidia
  >>website. A download of 12.9 MB
  >>
  >>
  >>Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are
  >>working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440
  >>
  >>This time the board is working much better
 >
 >
 > Have you tried any OpenGL games? IIRC the graphics driver that ships with XP
 > does not support OpenGL, only DirectX. The nForce motherboard drivers do not
 > include the nVidia graphics card drivers, you are simply using the default
 > one that comes with XP.
 >
 > Dan
 >
 >
that is not true if you look at the end of the nForce mobo driver page
you see that it comes with drivers. they should work..i have an nForce
2 mobo and 5700 Ultra and it works great. the drivers it comes with are
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"Ryan" <ryan5001sk8 DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
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 > Daniel Crichton wrote:
  > > "fenceerx" <spamonot DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
  > > news:B5idnQrk_tWJ-BLdRVn-uQ@comcast.com...
  > >
   > >>Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I
  > >
  > > got
  > >
   > >>an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l
   > >>
   > >>Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this
   > >>time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed
the
   > >>nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the
Nvidia
   > >>website. A download of 12.9 MB
   > >>
   > >>
   > >>Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are
   > >>working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440
   > >>
   > >>This time the board is working much better
  > >
  > >
  > > Have you tried any OpenGL games? IIRC the graphics driver that ships
with XP
  > > does not support OpenGL, only DirectX. The nForce motherboard drivers do
not
  > > include the nVidia graphics card drivers, you are simply using the
default
  > > one that comes with XP.
  > >
  > > Dan
  > >
  > >
 > that is not true if you look at the end of the nForce mobo driver page
 > you see that it comes with drivers. they should work..i have an nForce
 > 2 mobo and 5700 Ultra and it works great. the drivers it comes with are
 > old though

I stand corrected. I assumed that the nForce drivers would not include
display drivers as not every nForce based machine would have an nVidia card,
and therefore it would be silly to include them :\ However, the 52.16
drivers that ship with the current nForce drivers have known issues with
some games (most notably the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942), so I
personally wouldn't use them anyway.

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