nvidia geforce 7900 gs.. WON'T RUN GAME! Please help me!

[magnus28]

hi guys.
i've tried updating to latest driver.. rolling back a few drivers, changing settings to lowest, re-installing, deleting 2 geography files, unpacking game, installing straight from dvd. patching to only 1.2, patching all the way to 1.3, reformatting my HD!!! Nothing works!

sometimes the game will run fine for 10 mins, but mostly locks up after 2. Game either gives me an unspecified error, or a nvi_disp_dll error - and goes back to 4 colors!

my 7900 gs has 256 MB memory.. and is only 1 year old! I tried my game on a friends computer who is running an ATI Radeon X800, and he has no problems. I know the problem lies in my video card, I run Oblivion on max, or BF2 on max without a problem. For some reason M2TW does not like my video card. I would like to know what is the best driver to use for 7 Series nvidia drivers. currently running 163.75, i tried a few 9xx drivers but not any difference.

I would appreciate any suggestions that I have NOT tried.
thx

[lalalax3]

buy 2 hd 2900 and put them in crossfire mode

[Demokritos]

I have a GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB card (although "the fastest 7600 on the market") which runs M2TW with ALL video settings on max without problem. That's with Forceware 91.47, triple buffering enabled in the card's 3D settings and a program called RivaTuner set to start with Windows startup.

[Vimes]

I am not sure that I can only provide suggestions that you have NOT tried as your list of things that you have tried isn't that comprehensive but...

Run dxdiag, from the Start / Run just type dxdiag in and then save the information. ATTACH that here so that I, and others, can have a look at it. I have placed emphasis on attach so that you don't copy and paste the huge file as that is way too long to place in that way.

Consider in the meantime...

How many start up applications or AV's, firewalls, etc etc etc that you have running before you start the game.

If your PC is overclocked in any way then, for this purpose, place it back to std.

Consider how hot your system, CPU and GPU are getting. You might be able to post those temps back here.

That will do for now, until you provide more info my help can't be much more specific.

Good luck