I know you need the older 4-in-1 drivers for that chipset.
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx...D=1&CatID=1070

It's the retro drivers, option at the bottom. Sometimes you had to drop the
AGP port from 4x to 2x, for stability.

LS

"PlowBoy" > wrote in message
news:bDASg.2721$eZ4.17@dukeread06...
> Having helluva time getting my geforce 7800gs (let alone my 6600gt) card
> to run NR03 (papy). Neither in ogl or dx...
>
> I know this motherboard is older VIA P4M266A / VT8235 chipset with 2.8
> Prescott chip on it (478 motherboard) and AGP. Anyone else remember
> having problems with Vid card stop errors, causing drop to hard reset
> rebooting, and how to fix it? Tried new drivers, dx9c and old drivers.
> get into car, hit throttle up to 4000 on tach, or idle & roll carefully
> forward until you reach 10 simulated ft, out of the pitstall, and you find
> yourself and the PC's bios boot screen.
>
> Never in my long history of Papy nascar ownership, (since my 1st version
> of the original on floppies to the last incarnation) have I had this
> problem before... and GTLegends work better than my old POS & now dead
> gaming machine.
>
> I wont suffer long, but admit I hoped the PC Im using while my parts
> arrive for newer game rig, would allow me to run some races at the house
> when I have visitors, via the nework... & the wife and kids would have a
> PC of thier own...
>
> Lastly as I asked on RSC, anyone explain to me what the
> PWF_BGNvolumetricfix.exe did? I have it archived because I was on dialup
> back then, wondering if I needed it nowdays or not, I dont recall it
> needing it with Nvidia cards?
>
>
>