New Nvidia Drivers 77.72 with OpenGL2

SL Recognises them as them being opengl2 too

OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce 6800 GT/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL Version: 2.0.0

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_77.72.html

Update June 23, 2005 - WHQL Certified driver available for download
Support for GeForce 7800 GTX and GeForce 6200 AGP
Improved SLI performance and broader SLI validation and optimizations for the latest games
Compatible with Intel and AMD dual core CPUs
HDTV Display Setup Wizard with preview mode
Fullscreen HDTV underscan control panel lets users optimize their high definition television for Windows desktops
Allows end users to keep or remove old driver application profiles when the driver is updated
Improved TurboCache™ performance
Support for inverse 2-2 pulldown detection and correction when using the the PureVideo Decoder
More control when creating custom timings for digital flat panels
nView Desktop Manager support during Windows Remote Desktop sessions
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
For a full list of other issues resolved, please view the driver release notes.

I had to go back to the previous version, it made the Yahoo! music videos look washed out. Other than that it works fine.

Seem to some kind of bug(?) with this driver , it sets your overlay gamma to either 0.5 , 3,61 , 6.00 , or max, slider is really awkward. Default = 3.61

Wich makes movies look like blarg ,

oh and it tend to do this after i restart SL a few times, only a complete reboot clears up that (gf6800gt)

-noprobe command doesnt do a thing, stop trying to detect my video card SL and just let me log in -.-

I'm getting the same weird behaviour of the overlay slider, but im not sure why it isnt detecting your video card as im using a nvidia 6800 gt too and its detecting it ok.

heres another one i get with those drivers, first time i ever see this (dont see them with older), had to relog and stuck in "cant detect blabla again"

Yeah it detects the vid card ok a few times then it just goes huh what card is this, i had about 5 relogs this time before i got it.

I've not had this problem yet fingers crossed of course lolol, maybe a reinstall of the drivers may help, although it could also mean that the detection program needs updating especially as these are the first nvidia drivers to be opengl2 compatible, and maybe that is messing the detection up

It messes up some videos I try to watch as well, makes them look washed-out.

P.S. I found out what was wrong, its a problem in Windows Media Player. I had to go into Options and click on the Performance tab then changed the Video Acceleration slider from Full to the middle posistion.

I would very much like to play SL on my laptop,I run a Trident Video Accelerator Cyber Blade i1 AGP video card in a compaq 1200 laptop,but when i try to login it tells me that i am running a GDI Generic, does anyone know if there is anyway i can play with the card i have?

Thats not even a video card i've heard of i dont think unless it was a while ago, im not sure if compaq have started renumbering their laptops, but i used to have a compaq presario 1234 laptop, which was 200mhz with 96mb ram and came with windows 95, its hardly ran windows 98 never mind trying to run xp

If you still play Half-Life 2 or any of the mods for it, don't get these drivers. I downloaded a mod called "Eclipse" and when I tried to play it, it said a couple of times "Switching to default settings" then finally said I was using a DirectX 7.0 video card when I have a GeForce FX 5600 256Mb card. I then tried to play just Half-Life 2 and it did the same thing.

Hi. I've tried to look up your laptop is this it: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00008446

Presario 1200T?

This is the list of supported hardware: http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=System+Requirements


If I've found the correct laptop then it won't run Second Life for several reasons:

SL needs a 800MHz or higher CPU. Yours has a max 633MHz celeron.

SL needs 256MB of memory - yours has a max of 288MB but comes with 64MB.

SL needs 32MB minimum graphics memory, that comes with 8MB max.

You need Windows XP or Windows 2000 as well - that one comes with Windows ME!

SL needs either Nvidia or ATI graphics chips/cards as well - it doesn't do the trident one as that is it's own chip...

In a nutshell your laptop is too old to run SL. In addition SL doesn't work with its graphics chip.

Its hard to say from the series number given, it seems compaq have recycled the number and the original poster hasnt replied, compaq have a much newer X1200, but all in all it having a trident graphics chip makes it incompatible i would have thought, being that sl needs ati/nvideo and i believe its compatible with intel extreme too.

Ok, for the gamma problems they updated the release notes

To fix the gamma/ washed out video

GeForce, Windows XP, Windows XP
Professional x64: NVIDIA Overlay gamma controls under Standard
mode do not work properly, resulting in overly dark or overly bright
video.
To work around this issue:
1 From the NVIDIA control panel, click the Color Correction menu tree
item.
2 From the Color Correction page, click the Apply color changes to list
arrow and select All, then click Restore Defaults.
3 Click Apply.

And the only bug for half life2 is this one

GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP: Half-Life 2 does not render
properly when antialiasing is enabled from the NVIDIA control
panel.

The new 77.77 NVIDIA drivers have corrected this problem, they just came out today.

Just as a note, that one is sorta a lie on LLs part... I know someone who ran quite succesfully on a 600 mhz computer until only a few months ago.