Nvidia's New Driver
 

here you go---> http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_52.16

anyone have any feedback on these drivers?
ie. preformance or stability...?
im scared to upgrade, everything 'seems' to be working ok.

and what are the compatible hardware?

everything?

you can get some of that info here

It can't do anything worse then the last version 45.23 did to my system (Windows took 10 mins to start and would just crash and restart continuously). However, that was the first time I ever had problems with Nvidia drivers.

grumpy=lab rat.

I have GeForce4 MX440 in an Athlon 1900XP system running Windows XP Home Edition. Downloaded and installed the new driver. Looks and works OK so far. No bad news = good news?

A friend of mine downloaded and installed it on his GeForce4 440 Go 64MB and reported a loss of about 300 points on 3DMark2001SE.

I haven't tried it yet on my GF4 Ti4600 -- no time to do so, but I'll probably end up doing it just to see what happens.

Set a restore point or go to device manager and roll back the driver. It's not going to explode, play around with it.

These are designed with the FX cards in mind aren't they? I guess I'll find out in a minute anyway :)

gain of about 100 points average on 3dmark2k3 from the 52.14's

amdxp barton 1.83@2.23
gainward gf4 ti4600 (NO oc)

drivers are never DESIGNED for all cards, so I would say give them a try and if u dont like em revert. About the 300 loss, perhaps Nvidia is actually doing something about there "optimizations" aka image quality cut on 3dmark2001/3.

I hope that's not a dig at my comment, if it is, read my comment again.

New nVidia Drivers
 

With the new drivers came the Media Center which attached itself to my startup menu. Do I need this Media Center running in order for the new drivers to work properly? Just wondering. Thanks

Detonator drivers are designed for all GF/FX/TNT cards. They're backward compatable.

Anyone install them on a FX card yet? I'd like to know before I do. I had a GF4Ti4200 128mb and moved up to a FX5600 256mb. I didn't see a real improvement in Q3 timedemos.

Nah, turns out my friend screwed up something. He figured out what went wrong and got a boost over his previous score.

I still haven't upgraded, way too lazy to reboot my computer, but I'll get around to it eventually.

I've tried it on my FX5900 and the increase is minimal, about 4-8 extra FPS in games like Jedi Academy and Freedom Fighters, however Halo now runs avg. of 18 FPS higher than normal (maybe due to DX9 implementation??).

About the same performance for me. Using a TI4400 128MB. Maybe a bit cleaner gfx.

Jesus christ a FX5900? Are you made of money?

Yea, from what I heard the latest drivers are mainly just DX9 improvements, as NVidia is about done coding driver improvements for DX8.

That would explain the Halo FPS jump.

I got a lot of flashy textures while playing desert combat, so i rolled back. FX5600 256mb is what i have, but the new ones do run halo/hl2 a lot better. Only got a 9fps jump, but some of the textures look a little better.

yellowgowild: 5900s arent all that uncommon....

After buying that card, no.

Just upgraded myself. After a brief problem with nView not working at all (crashing on attempts to change settings), I uninstalled fully before reinstalling and seems to be working fine... (ti4200)

The new drivers trashed my textures in some games (Desert Combat) so I guess I have to roll back. Certain textures just vanish in game and you can see the wire frame. It's like the old "wall hack" drivers that ASUS had a while back :)

Is there a correct way to roll back to a previous version and which version do you recomend?

Uninstall the new drivers, reboot, re-install the old drivers.

i'm pretty sure i haven't put directX 9 on my comp yet. should i not even bother with the new Nvidia drivers?

Yes, do put on DX9. Most games and utilizing it now. Just don't use the newest nvidia drivers with it.

You mean don't use the Det 50's with DX9? Why's that I wonder?

Aren't the new drivers suppose to take advantage of DX9?

I must find the release notes...

Edit: DX9 was inplemented in the previous version. Only a few enancements in this version.

Just got out of Desert Combat to test the new drivers. Holy shit, what a mess. These drivers fucked up Battlefield badly. I'll be going back to 45.23.

-Lasereth

Just today I installed the new drivers and lost about 120 3dMark2001. :( Now I gotta roll back. Oh yeah, this was on an old 64MB MX440SE