hi,

i'm getting random screen corruption when playing neverwinternights - the game runs fine, sometimes for hours sometimes for seconds, but sooner or later the whole screen will suddenly become garbled and i have to use ssh from my other pc to reboot the system

my specs are:
athlon800
geforce2mx
soundblaster live value
384mb ram
slackware9

i'm using the latest nvidia drivers and the pc is fine the rest of the time, i've been through the neverwinternights forums and checked various common problems (file permissions, agp enabled, xf86config trouble, etc) but nothing helps with this

i had a very similar problem on the same pc with windows a while back, the screen would freeze up, but the pc would still be running fine (i could join irc and see myself typing stuff on the "crashed" pc), but that happened all the time (even just sitting at the desktop) and was bad nvidia drivers

so does anyone have any suggestions? and has anyone else had any trouble with the latest nvidia drivers?

any help greatly appreciated =]

jb

Have you tried switching AGP between AGPgart and nVidia's native??? OpenGL crashes in otherwise stable systems are often due to AGP issues... and one's that aren't obvious right away.

Plus the GeForce2 MX has problems too. GeForce4s are cheaper now... you might consider upgrading.

/etc/X11/XF86Config has this line:

Option "NvAGP" "1"

which i assume means it's using nvidia's agp and i do have a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for loading agpgart, but it's currently commented out - i assume to switch i just comment one out and uncomment the other?

as for upgrading, i plan to build a new box sooner or later, but even if i got a new card, my gf would inherit the gf2 and she plays nwn too, so i'm best off fixing it =]

jb

I'd try switching to load AGPgart. nvAGP works with some chipsets and with others its spotty.