HELLO GUYS.I HAVE A GEFORCE 4 MX420 CARD...ARE THE NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS COMPATIBLE WITH MY CARD???I THINK I DOWNLOADED THE LATEST VERSION, INSTALLED IT AND MY PC WENT TO 16 COLORS....AND A LOT OF TROUBLE.AFTER INSTALLING, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TO CONFIGURE??THANKS FOR YTOUR HELPDANIEL

Daniel,You might consider turning off your Caps Lock key. All caps convay that you are shouting. Just thought I'd let you know! Now, back to your problem, yes they are compatable to your card, but are they compatable to your operating system? That is what you need to check out. Also, a little more detail about what you did to install them may help us solve your problem.Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Support

Thanks Jim....Taking the advice on turning caps off.....I downloaded the drives, installed them and a screen poped up that the drivers were not compatible with XP....continued the installation, curious thing, because I selected XP/2000 from the download menu...????Daniel

All that message means is that the drivers haven't gone through the MS WHQL certification process. It doesn't affect a thing. You can ignore it.Doug

Doug:I alredy did that...and when I rebooted the display appeared in a 800x600 and like 16 colors....terrible resolution.Is there anything to configure after this..???Daniel

You now need to right-click anywhere on your desktop, then click on Properties/Settings and set the slider bar to the resolution you want.

There is also a great little freeware utility from EnTech that will let you change the resoultion, color depth, and refresh rate on the fly. http://www.entechtaiwan.com/files/multires.exeDoug

Doug:I alredy installed the new drivers and it worked, although I didn

That sounds about right Daniel. There will not be a big difference, if any, between driver versions. In fact, some newer versions seem to actually perform worse than the old ones on some systems. And the MX series of Nvidia cards will drop off quickly at higher resolutions with AA enabled. One of the tricks with drivers seems to be to find the ones that are the best match for your system. I guarantee you that some versions will perform better than others - and the newer versions aren't necessarily the better versions. You just have to try several different sets. I'd start with the 30.82's and the 40.72's as they are very stable and work well across a wide range of hardware combinations. You may also want to try the AA at 2X and the AF at 4X as that is a pretty good compromise for speed vs. quality and doesn't look that bad on a good monitor. Keep experimenting, you'll find the right combination (although most of us are still looking :-) ).Doug

Doug:What do you mean by AF at 4X..????Daniel

Anisotropic Filtering.