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Old 10-23-2003, 01:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Nvidia's New Driver

here you go---> http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_52.16
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Old 10-23-2003, 01:55 PM   #2 (permalink)
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anyone have any feedback on these drivers?
ie. preformance or stability...?
im scared to upgrade, everything 'seems' to be working ok.
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Old 10-23-2003, 02:15 PM   #3 (permalink)
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and what are the compatible hardware?

everything?
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Old 10-23-2003, 03:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
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anyone have any feedback on these drivers?
ie. preformance or stability...?
im scared to upgrade, everything 'seems' to be working ok.
you can get some of that info here
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Old 10-23-2003, 03:13 PM   #5 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-23-2003, 04:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 10-23-2003, 04:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-23-2003, 06:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Set a restore point or go to device manager and roll back the driver. It's not going to explode, play around with it.
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Old 10-23-2003, 10:17 PM   #9 (permalink)
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These are designed with the FX cards in mind aren't they? I guess I'll find out in a minute anyway
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Old 10-24-2003, 08:35 AM   #10 (permalink)
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gain of about 100 points average on 3dmark2k3 from the 52.14's

amdxp barton 1.83@2.23
gainward gf4 ti4600 (NO oc)
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Old 10-24-2003, 03:58 PM   #11 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-24-2003, 07:37 PM   #12 (permalink)
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drivers are never DESIGNED for all cards
I hope that's not a dig at my comment, if it is, read my comment again.
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Old 10-24-2003, 09:47 PM   #13 (permalink)
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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
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Old 10-25-2003, 06:09 PM   #14 (permalink)
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drivers are never DESIGNED for all cards...
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.
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Old 10-25-2003, 07:09 PM   #15 (permalink)
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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.
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.
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Old 10-25-2003, 08:32 PM   #16 (permalink)
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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.
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??).
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Old 10-25-2003, 09:20 PM   #17 (permalink)
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About the same performance for me. Using a TI4400 128MB. Maybe a bit cleaner gfx.
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Old 10-25-2003, 09:30 PM   #18 (permalink)
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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??).
Jesus christ a FX5900? Are you made of money?
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Old 10-25-2003, 09:48 PM   #19 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-25-2003, 10:36 PM   #20 (permalink)
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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....
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Old 10-26-2003, 12:24 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Jesus christ a FX5900? Are you made of money?
After buying that card, no.
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Old 10-26-2003, 12:25 PM   #22 (permalink)
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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)
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Old 10-27-2003, 12:19 PM   #23 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 10-27-2003, 02:40 PM   #24 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 10-27-2003, 06:03 PM   #25 (permalink)
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i'm pretty sure i haven't put directX 9 on my comp yet. should i not even bother with the new Nvidia drivers?
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Old 10-28-2003, 08:44 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Yes, do put on DX9. Most games and utilizing it now. Just don't use the newest nvidia drivers with it.
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Old 10-28-2003, 01:49 PM   #27 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 10-28-2003, 01:54 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Old 10-28-2003, 08:26 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Yes, do put on DX9. Most games and utilizing it now. Just don't use the newest nvidia drivers with it.
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.
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Old 11-02-2003, 01:51 PM   #30 (permalink)
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The new drivers trashed my textures in some games (Desert Combat)
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.

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Old 11-02-2003, 11:43 PM   #31 (permalink)
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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
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