Driver installation, overrides graphics card driver/bios.

shamus087 · 08-24-2008, 01:48 PM

Hello, here's my issue.

Last night while playing Lotro online, i decide i want to record what is going to happen tonight and so instead of buying Fraps, i start looking for a free alternative. I end up finding one which worked really well for the most part. although i do end up not liking what it does, i started to get a slight frame drop, which made me turn the process off. i don't like lag at all really. and what made the lag wasn't really a performance issue it was some kinda driver screw up. well anyway the night went smooth and i didn't give it another thought till morning. which when i logged on game i noticed it again, the choppy lag. i knew right away what it was and got rid of it. I shutdown the process and still had that really bad lag. so i though i'll uninstall the stupid thing. which i did and STILL i had the lag and then i remembered it saying it had to install a "mirage mirror driver" so i went into add/remove programs, and looked for it there, i couldn't find it so i thought maybe it'll show up in devices, and sure enough it was there..... it was registering as one of my Graphics cards.... now i wasn't really thinking that if i uninstalled the driver it would delete the device too, well it did and i haven't been able to register the device anyway through windows default options. i got a 3rd party program to find it but nothing else. i've tried installing the latest drivers and reinstalling the mirage mirror driver to maybe get a chance to install a ATI driver over it, to no luck. so now i'm asking you for help please think of something because right now i'm outta ideas.

system hardware are as follows,

Processor AMD quad-core Phenom 9850.
2 Sapphire HD 3870 graphics cards.
windows XP SP3 home edition.
4 gigs of 1066 Ram.

Houndog777 · 08-24-2008, 02:31 PM

Hi, Shamus
If you go into Device Manager, up top, click on View and select Show Hidden Devices.
Now go down to the Hardware Tree and click on Non-Plug & Play Drivers.
Find the driver for this mirage mirror, right-click on it and select uninstall.
Reboot and hopefully it will be gone.

If it doesn't we may have to use the RegDelNull program from Sysinternals, but try the above first.
What's the name of the Program that installed this mirror driver?

ebackhus · 08-24-2008, 02:43 PM

Print screen key?

I'm wondering what you got to do your screen caps because your system is pretty beastly. My room mate has the same CPU with a single 4870 and it tears through everything we throw out it.

08-24-2008, 01:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
shamus087 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP3 HE	Driver installation, overrides graphics card driver/bios. Hello, here's my issue. Last night while playing Lotro online, i decide i want to record what is going to happen tonight and so instead of buying Fraps, i start looking for a free alternative. I end up finding one which worked really well for the most part. although i do end up not liking what it does, i started to get a slight frame drop, which made me turn the process off. i don't like lag at all really. and what made the lag wasn't really a performance issue it was some kinda driver screw up. well anyway the night went smooth and i didn't give it another thought till morning. which when i logged on game i noticed it again, the choppy lag. i knew right away what it was and got rid of it. I shutdown the process and still had that really bad lag. so i though i'll uninstall the stupid thing. which i did and STILL i had the lag and then i remembered it saying it had to install a "mirage mirror driver" so i went into add/remove programs, and looked for it there, i couldn't find it so i thought maybe it'll show up in devices, and sure enough it was there..... it was registering as one of my Graphics cards.... now i wasn't really thinking that if i uninstalled the driver it would delete the device too, well it did and i haven't been able to register the device anyway through windows default options. i got a 3rd party program to find it but nothing else. i've tried installing the latest drivers and reinstalling the mirage mirror driver to maybe get a chance to install a ATI driver over it, to no luck. so now i'm asking you for help please think of something because right now i'm outta ideas. system hardware are as follows, Processor AMD quad-core Phenom 9850. 2 Sapphire HD 3870 graphics cards. windows XP SP3 home edition. 4 gigs of 1066 Ram.

08-24-2008, 02:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
Houndog777 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 2,683 OS: XPpro sp3 My System	Re: Driver installation, overrides graphics card driver/bios. Hi, Shamus If you go into Device Manager, up top, click on View and select Show Hidden Devices. Now go down to the Hardware Tree and click on Non-Plug & Play Drivers. Find the driver for this mirage mirror, right-click on it and select uninstall. Reboot and hopefully it will be gone. If it doesn't we may have to use the RegDelNull program from Sysinternals, but try the above first. What's the name of the Program that installed this mirror driver?

08-24-2008, 02:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
ebackhus Manager, Design Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SATX Posts: 14,255 OS: WinXP Pro SP3/Windows 7 RTM My System Blog Entries: 28	Re: Driver installation, overrides graphics card driver/bios. Print screen key? I'm wondering what you got to do your screen caps because your system is pretty beastly. My room mate has the same CPU with a single 4870 and it tears through everything we throw out it. __________________ ----------------------------- There are no dumb questions, unless a customer is asking them. Help in the fight against cancer and other serious illnesses.