Hi everyone, I have a video card driver issue. (nVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 PCI Express bus 128 MB). I've had many people tell me the issue I was having was driver issues. Here is an example... I get very bad refreash rates with games like Warcraft 3, and WoW. but the dang thing plays Half Life 2 perfectly. PERFECT refreash rate. and Half Life 2 requires a hell of alot more then WoW or Warcraft 3. I've been told that if I go to a lower driver it would fix the problem. When I try to install an older driver, such as the one's recommended by blizzard that would work. it says its installign it then it just pops up to 100 percent and it doesn't apply the driver to the card, it doesn't do anything to it. then I try using the hardware wizard thing and that doesn't fix anything either I try updating the driver using the windows wizard thingy and it still doesn't work. I've also been told that reformatting may help this problem, is that true? I would rather not reformat I have alot of software that would be very hard to get back. What should I do?

the older drivers are downgrades of the newer ones so that might be the problem. if other people you know installed older drivers and had no problems than it a different issue.

"When I try to install an older driver, such as the one's recommended by blizzard that would work. it says its installign it then it just pops up to 100 percent and it doesn't apply the driver to the card" Did you uninstall the "newer" driver FIRST? It will not work if you try to install on older version without first uninstalling what you already tried.

Yes, I did uninstall the newer drivers. It didn't work at all.

OK.......I'm not into games but I do know that some of them allow you to change the refresh rate to accomodate your monitor's maximum hertz. What I'm suggesting is it may not be your gfx card, but your monitors ability to run those games at the settings you have it at. Someone else may speak more knowledgable about it, but I'm pretty sure this is the problem you're having.