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People with Nvidia cards please visit the nvidia forum and let them know we are having problems with the cards/drivers. All of the nvidia cards are crashing an older golf game called Microsoft Links 2003. I would place a safe bet that Drivers for series 5000 to 9000 Nvidia Geforce AGP and PCI-e cards are the problem. I have posted my two cents at Nvidia's forum but they don't seem to want to respond to the few of us who have gone there to post our issues. Links 2003 is an old golf game that plays "perfectly" on late ATI cards. So you might say switch, right? NO way. I have a great system set up with all types of upgrades around my AMD Athlon 64x2 5000 dual processor and 8800 OC GT 512 MB PCI-e graphics card and 4 GB RAM. Not one glitch with the card in Windows 7 Home Premum 32 or 64 bit (except Links 2003). To replace the 8800 GT's would be another $200.00 for an ATI card that I do not/should not have to purchase. The 8800 GT is a work horse and still commands a might dollar in used condition at eBay.

Just a thought, does the card only crash on microsoft links 2003? what about other game? Btw did you try using win 7 default drivers instead of those at nvidia site? Alternatively try running the game or drivers in xp or vista compatible mode in in win 7

I am a Power User and have tried all attempts to rectify the problem. It's a driver issue.....

Did you follow the link to Nvidia? Did you research their site for ideas? Did you visit other Mfg's sites that use Nvidia chips to see if they are getting tired of the complaints? When I post something in a forum, it's done so after exhaustive research. Try it yourself first before attempting "canned" answers.

I have spent the last 2 years on the NVIDIA Forums. In the two years I have found several things that I found to be quite interesting.

1) The forums it almost 99% User to User, which means that for the last two years, I have been their TECH SUPPORT response as well as a few others. So, pretty much what I say is neither canned, nor official, but the most Official answer that your prolley going to get.

2) Your an ASS. As you did not read that previous response to your inquiry, you expected some magic fix-all.

3) Your magic fix-all is as simple as knowing that the problem is indeed a drivers issue. It is a two fold issue....Yes, the driver and your own stupidity.

As the newer driver works perfectly for the newer cards and the newer games, your stupidity tells you to keep updating the driver for no other reason than it is the latest driver.

Simple rule of thumb, when it aint broke, release a driver and let others break it. If it works, STOP F'ing with it.

So, that said, locate a MUCH older drivers and install that. Youll be amazed that you loder games work, and oddly enough, so do the newer games. For anyone that says, BS, I was just recently using my 7600GS with the 93.71 and playing all the games I tossed at it. I just did this same driver crom the XP package on my Windows 7 32bit installation to use with my GeForce Ti4200 AGP. It is now installed and working. Unfortunately I have no game installed on that one, but system is identifying all items.

I am also using the 9.16 chipset driver on my XP machine without issue.

4} The last thing I find perculiar about the POWER USERS and non-techies that appear on the forums is that thye have this inate stupidty to believe the newer drivers are better than the previous versions and a refusal to step backwards even when problems that did not exist prior to the update appear. But they will spend countless hours working for a solution and bitching about it, ignoring the facts that face them even in their own assessment of the issue at hand.

OK. This is my last post to t his answer. The question has been answered eslewhere, not here. You young people need to think outside the box. There is no canned script for this answer, it's an oversight or laziness on the part of nVidia not to fix the problem. There are more games and other applications not running Win7 due to Nvidia problems with drivers.

We'll consider this answered. If Links 2003 can play in Vista it should also be able to play in Win7 with new drivers for Nvidia cards. This is an Nvidia problem, not an end-user problem.

If it can play in vista, of cos it can play in win 7 as i mention earlier on just run it on compatible mode

Are you not hearing me? I said "I did all the normal tweaks" and it does not work. You're just posting to annoy, stop it please.

Greybear wrote:Well for a TECH guy he is obviously not to smart.

1) What is the exact error presented when running the game?
2) Older drivers, not newer are what is needed.
3) It was a known issue that Microsoft had to issues patches for its own games with VISTA, so its a Microsoft issue before it is a nVidia issue.

Mr. Chris wrote:The Steam Forums can get a little bit "hot" at times. People pissed at Steam because a game they bought there doesn't work, and they seem to think it's Steam's fault, and Steam should fix the game or refund it. Then they get pissed at those of us there that are trying to help, gets frustrating.

SCAVENGER1 wrote:

Mr. Chris wrote:The Steam Forums can get a little bit "hot" at times. People pissed at Steam because a game they bought there doesn't work, and they seem to think it's Steam's fault, and Steam should fix the game or refund it. Then they get pissed at those of us there that are trying to help, gets frustrating.

lol are you thinking im gulity of this by chnace ? well yeah i know but still i think they should be able to refund or exchange a game if it does not run or what ever reason it is i think..