lousyliar on 2/9/2006 at 13:28
So, Windows 2003. I have it installed and apparently Thief 3 works on it, IIRC I've seen it mentioned on a thread here. Thing is I seem to have a problem with the drivers for my Geforce 5200. The NVIDIA site has drivers for Windows 2000/XP and Windows 2003 64 bit, but not for Windows 2003 32-bit (I can't imagine what's gotten into them, I seem to recall they had drivers for it a while ago). So, I tried to install the latest version for Windows 2000/XP, after all they're family. Well I can't tell who's to blame, but after installing the driver and rebooting, it stays stuck in 4 bit (that's 16 colors) 640x480 resolution. The color options are available but the driver won't apply them.
I can revert to the Microsoft driver, but I don't know if it works for games, the ones from XP don't.
Edit: Running the Thief installation checker says "Your card does not claim to support pixel shaders". Obviously it can't support pixel shaders because the drivers are not installed properly. What's even more annoying is that the drivers claim to install correctly, but obviously they don't.
So any place I can get Windows 2003 32 bit drivers, or do I have to reinstall my XP (again) because it's slowed down to a crawl?
lousyliar on 2/9/2006 at 13:43
Hmm. I found it. A search for "graphics acceleration in windows 2003" revealed the solution: Go to the troubleshoot tab and turn acceleration to "Full". And now I'm "ready to play", with the Microsoft drivers no less.
Vigil on 2/9/2006 at 15:14
It's a little surprising that it was anything other than Full to start with. Does 2003 default to that regardless of driver I wonder?
Briareos H on 2/9/2006 at 15:21
Surely setting up a server doesn't need accelerated graphics
New Horizon on 2/9/2006 at 18:05
Indeed, Server 2003 is pretty much scaled back by default and you have to do a bit of tweaking to use it as a standard OS, but once you do...it's much leaner and more stable than XP. As for the driver issue lousyliar, just use the XP drivers...they're the same thing and have always worked for me. I'm using the latest version from the nvidia site.
lousyliar on 3/9/2006 at 12:37
Quote Posted by New Horizon
As for the driver issue lousyliar, just use the XP drivers...they're the same thing and have always worked for me. I'm using the latest version from the nvidia site.
It was the one that I tried, but like I said, it defaulted to 16 colors and 640x480 and wouldn't let me change it. It could be that it didn't work because of graphics acceleration being turned off.
New Horizon on 3/9/2006 at 12:47
Quote Posted by lousyliar
It was the one that I tried, but like I said, it defaulted to 16 colors and 640x480 and wouldn't let me change it. It could be that it didn't work because of graphics acceleration being turned off.
I would say that might be a good possibility, the XP drivers have always worked just fine for me on Server 2003 and I've been using it since it came out.
lousyliar on 9/9/2006 at 14:25
I don't know man, looks like they're letting Windows 2003 slip into obscurity (Not surprising, considering Vista is coming). The latest driver, 91 something, won't install on Win 2003 32-bit, claims it can't find some files, even though they're clearly there.
