Geforce drivers for windows 2003 server?

[OldSchool38]

Hi guys, while I have a linux os as my main system right now, I was wanting to redo one of my other towers to play xp games on.  Since windows 2003 server (32 bit) always seemed to be a little faster in operation compared to xp, I was planning to use that-however I can't seem to find any compatible nvidia drivers to work with my Geforce 730 4gb card.  I tried the xp 32 bit versions but they wont install.  Is there any driver at all that will work with it?

Edited September 27, 2016 by OldSchool38

[Dibya]

You have to edit .inf file.

Download Geforce Pakage

Extract it

Go to Display.Driver

open nv4_dispi.inf with notepad

find following line

[Manufacturer]
%NVIDIA% = NVIDIA_Devices,NTx86.5.1,NTx86.6.0

Change NTx86.5.1 to 5.2

Save the inf file then install with device manager

Even you can edit inf to get TitanX, GTX 1080 work on XP & 2k3

BEST OF LUCK

[OldSchool38]

Okay, gave it a spin-I struggled briefly trying to get the device manager to find the thing (I unzipped it in a folder on the desktop).  Then I found the 'have disk' option and directed it to the driver file and made a successful installation!  There's no nvidia control panel, but after installing VLC, I played a dvd and a couple of video files and the graphics look good.  I'll see how gaming works out this weekend.  Thanks!

Edited September 27, 2016 by OldSchool38
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[OldSchool38]

So far so good, just installed and played Kingpin: life of crime and Star Wars the force unleashed 2!

[sdfox7]

If you are running Server 2003, is it the 32-bit version, or 64-bit version?

The official driver for XP 64 bit and Server 2003 64 bit is here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/105041

The official driver for XP 32 bit and Server 2003 32 bit is here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/105040 (there is no Server 2003 32-bit driver)

[OldSchool38]

Sorry I missed the last post-it was the 32 bit version.

[submix8c]

On 9/27/2016 at 1:40 PM, OldSchool38 said:

There's no nvidia control panel

Did you try to manually run "NvCplSetupInt.exe"?

[OldSchool38]

No, I didn't try that.  After finding out that Play on Linux would play my favorite game in Wine, I switched back to Ubuntu Mate.

[OldSchool38]

Okay, after deciding recently to give windows a spin again, I decided win2003 server would be a good choice.  With my core 2 quad it flies in terms of startup and seems to be more responsive than xp.  I did the tweak mentioned above on the zotac driver for installation.  I tried running NvCplSetupInt.exe but nothing happens.  It's no problem though, Youtube and my games work perfectly fine!