Dream scapes

new vid card not working

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 by eeie4 | Discussion: Stardock Support General

I presently upgraded to vista and had purchased deskscapes which worked fine but today got a new nvidia graphics card GeForce 8500 GT and now can’t load any animated wall paper I am using v2.0 any clue what I can do to get it running again?

Philly0381
Reply #1 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 5:06 PM
Is it just me or is there some important imformation missing here? Are you seeking help, making a point, what?  
CarGuy1
Reply #2 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 6:41 PM
If you supply details of your problem with your system specs, someone other than support may be able to help fix your problem. There's a lot of knowledgeable people on these forums that may have had the same issue and may know the cure.  
eeie4
Reply #3 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 7:55 PM
oop i just didn't look at what i was copy pasting its been a long day i've edited the post now...
eeie4
Reply #4 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 7:56 PM
was just up late i've edited the post now is there more info i should post?
Philly0381
Reply #5 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:06 PM
It has come up before that nView from nvidia has caused problems. Look and see if it's enabled and shut it down and see if that doesn't clear it up.  
CarGuy1
Reply #6 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:30 PM
Did you uninstall the previous video card drivers prior to installing your new card?
If not, you needed to uninstall them even if they were nvidia drivers.

What drivers did you install for the new card?
If you installed what came with the new card or Microsoft's default nvidia drivers, you may want to uninstall and try these new beta Nvidia drivers that were relesed on 3/27/08.

Every time you swap a video card make sure to fully uninstall all video drivers that you have installed prior to installing new ones.

BTW, I am using the new beta 32bit drivers and they are working great for me.

Nvidia GeForce Release 174 Vista 32bit beta drivers


Nvidia GeForce Release 174 Vista 64bit beta drivers

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