Anyone out there seeing issues where Avid FX does not see the graphics card driver on Vista 64?

I went to the nVidia site for the driver but they only list a 2000/xp version and a Vista 32 version of the driver.  Is there Vista 64 support for this driver or should the Vista 32 version work fine?

Thanks for any and all insight.

For your informarion, I am running a newer driver on the Vista 64 since the 169.47 does not support the

FX4800 on our new system. Media Composer seems to work as it should.

We have been testing the new system for a few weeks and not yet having any issue.

ayakaonly:

For your informarion, I am running a newer driver on the Vista 64 since the 169.47 does not support the

FX4800 on our new system. Media Composer seems to work as it should.

We have been testing the new system for a few weeks and not yet having any issue.

What driver version is that?

The 169.47 driver ships with MC 3.5.1 (you'll find it somewhere in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Avid\... directories (utilities?) Can't remember and I'm not in front of the Avid at the moment.

C:\Program Files\Avid\Utilities\nVidia

Thanks... one mod:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Avid\Utilities\nVidia

(he asked about Vista 64)

hmm...

I know where to find the driver that installs with the Avid.  What I was concerned about was I cannot find 169.47 on nVidia as qualified for Vista 64, just Vista 32, so I was just looking for some clarification on a Vista 64 version. 

The reason I ask is Avid FX does not see the graphics card driver even after the reinstall of the vid driver, mabe the customer is installign the incorrect one.

Regarldess I'll give it another shot of installing from the Avid installed drive. Thanks for the insight guys.

The reason I mentioned the location of the driver (in the utilities directory) is because I'm running Vista 64 with MC 3.5.1 and the FX 3700 and I'm successfully using the 169.47 drivers (x64 package) that shipped with MC.

Find it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Avid\Utilities\nVidia\Vista64

You can't install a 32-bit driver on Vista 64.

BTW - How do you know Avid FX does not see the graphics card driver (what does that even mean?). Do you mean that when you run an OpenGL test, Avid FX reports 'unsupported configuration'?

Are you really talking about Avid FX or are you talking about Boris Continuum AVX (5.0.4)? BCC has a bug (recently discussed) that claims 'unsupported configuration' even on supported hardware/software (that's why I'm asking you this question).

Yes this is Avid FX, yes it is failing the Open GL test and in the open GL test the driver is blank.  In the past on Win XP you could solve this issue simply by reinstalling the driver...I've had the customer do this in this instance and the issue persists with the driver in the Avid folder.  Thats why I was asking if anyone knew if there was one from nVidia.  I wanted to have the customer download the driver from nVidia and try that one to test but all I can find is listed as Vista 32.

I'm aware of all the other BCC issues. I just wanted to try to find another place to grab the driver from to try.

Thanks

I go to the nVidia driver download page, select the 'beta and archived drivers' link in the lower half of the page. From there I specify the search criteria Quadro, FX series, FX 1700 (in your case) and then I specify Windows Vista 64 and perform the search. It actually comes up with two April 3, 2008 entries for 169.47 (and these are 64-bit drivers).

Is this the approach you took to finding these?

No, but now I know how to find it.  Thanks

With a new Dell Studio XPS running Vista Ultimate 64:

When I try installing 169.47 from the utilities/nvidia/vista64 folder - I get the error message:

The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your hardware. Setup will now exit.

At this point I have not installed MC on this (new today) computer. I replaced the ATI Radeon HD with an FX1300 and installed the Nvidia 96.85 driver from their website, and it works (although I have not tried with Avid yet).

Anyone?

I'm replying here because I have a different, but equally annoying problem.  I have a BRAND NEW recommended Vista Business 64 bit / NVIDIA QUADRO 3700M system.  When I start media composer, I receive the prompt to install an older version of the display driver:  169.47.  Indeed, this ships with MC.  However, when I try to install it -- EVEN AFTER UNINSTALLING USING CONTROL PANEL -- it says that since it has a 32 bit uninstaller, I can't do a thing.  Can't get the one from NVIDIA to install.  So I uninstalled the whole thing and let windows find what it wanted.  Probably 190? Dunno.  Seems to be starting trouble-free, though I haven't *done* anything, though I have all these old drivers populating my computer now.

Hmm - not much help, but I too am in the middle of a sys rebuild from XP to Vista 64.  I installed 169.47 and the screen went black!!!  I tried 'easing' out of the system to re-start and I do have two differnt displays now, rather than clones.  Its not right though, so will persevere to get it as good as XP!

My biggest issue is that I cant install Avid 3.1.3 as the downloads always seem incomplete or corrupt - as posted elsewhere.  Running Avid will tell me if NVidia driver is OK...

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