I recently wiped everything off my computer, and now, I cant play any games w/o it getting all choppy. I have all drivers but some multimedia driver, but I dont know if thats the reason. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

retsoksirhc

Did you get the missing driver installed yet? Just wondering, as it *might help* (crosses fingers)

Also, did you reset anything in the BIOS when you reformatted? the 512MB Video card should be plenty for most games out now. With 2GB of RAM, I doubt the pagefile would be an issue...

I'm still thinking it might be with the video drivers. You might want to try to find a little older version of the drivers, uninstall the current ones, and install those. Who knows, maybe your card has an issue with sthe new drivers. Other than that, I'll think about it, but I'm not really sure where to go from here.

audiguy82

I havent gotten the missing drivers and I'm pretty sure now that must be it. I had a different graphics card when I re-installed everything. I just recently changed it out, the changing of graphics cards had no effect. I just dont know what these missing multimedia drivers are are where to get em.

retsoksirhc

If you double click on it in device manager, it may have a "Details" tab. If so, there will be a list of somthing like PCI\VEND_1002 and a whole lot more. If you can see that, chenge the dropdown box to Hardware ID's, and look for somthing like this:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0171

With just the PCI, VEN and a number, and DEV and a number. Punch that whole thing in on google, and it will probably bring up a few pages with the name of the device.
If you don't see a Details tab, that takes a littl ebit of configuring, depending on what operating system you use.

audiguy82

I tried to do what you suggested but in my device manager, I couldnt find the option you suggested

Megalomaniac

First of all, "multimedia" is a broad category and can define a lot of different things, from video cards to sound cards, game ports and everything in between. Do you know what kind of device the driver is for?

Secondly, is it a particular game that you're trying to run that's having trouble? Or is it any 3d graphical game? If it's all games, then double check that you have the newest version of directx, which can be found at DirectX

Third, you can try using windows update to see if it can automatically recognize and download the driver for you. Depending on which version of windows, there are slight variations on how to do this, but in general follow these steps and you should be able to figure it out:

Right click on my computer
Click on properties
Select the Hardware tab
Click Device Manager
Find the problem device (which will be indicated by a yellow question mark)
Right click on the device and select update driver
From here the options vary, but in general it will say something to the effect of "Search Windows Update for drivers"

After you've done all that, let me know what happened and if the problem is still occurring we'll go from there.

audiguy82

I cant get any more specific because thats excactly what the device maganger says "Multimedia Driver" under the "other Devices" tree.

The only games I have played were battlefield 2142 and Sims 2. I haven't tried reloading any others, because these two used to run fine, and now they don't, so I didn't really see the point of trying any others. Although if you think it a worthwhile I will.

Windows cannot find the 2 "Multimedia Media" drivers that I'm missing.

retsoksirhc

Try this link
How to Configure Device Manager to Display Detailed Information

And see if you can get to the details tab afterwards. I know I've had problems with that in the past, somtimes it isn't show by default.

If the above steps don't work, try adding DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS=1 under Control Panel, Syustem Properties, Advanced, and Variables (opr environmental variables, can't remember what the exact name is)

If it's just got a list of text, use this:
DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS=1
If it's got names like Path and SYSTEMROOT and WINDIR, with folders listed, then use this as the name:
DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS
and this as the value:
1

That is, if you do it like the link above, and it doesn't help.

That should let you see the details tab, which will show you the ID of the devices that it can't find drivers for.

jstrike

Did you check with MSI for the drivers your looking for? They have a utility that will automatically download the latest drivers for your motherboard.
MSI -- MICRO-STAR INT'L CO., LTD.

The multimedia driver probably has something to do with one or more features of the onboard audio adapter. Even if you have sound you could be getting it through a standard windows driver which could possibly explain poor performance. Since this is a built in adapter you will need to go through MSI for the driver.

audiguy82

Ok, I followed the link and now my device manager shows the details. Here are the details for the 2 drivers that I am missing.

PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&SUBSYS_000316BE&REV_01
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&SUBSYS_000316BE
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&CC_048000
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&CC_0480

And the second device ID

PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&SUBSYS_000516BE&REV_01
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&SUBSYS_000516BE
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&CC_048000
PCI/VEN_1131&dev_7134&CC_0480

I will also try the Motherboard drivers and up date, if that works.

audiguy82

I went to the website for the motherboard, and downloaded the updater. I downloaded the newest driver, but with no avail. The two ? drivers are still ?, and I tried to play BF2142 unsuccessfully.