Nvidia releases Detonator XP drivers

[VERT]

Well having tested in 3d mark 2001 I have lost a massive 650 points!!! as well as my higher resolutions for the monitor, I am most displeased.

my specs are
T-bird 800@900
256mb pc133
Geforce 2mx 32mb
via 4 in 1 4.33
Windows 2000

ps I am comparing these drivers to my previous which were 11.01

[This message has been edited by VERT (edited 09-11-2001).]

[VERT]

Ok after a fresh install of these drivers and a clean with NVCleaner, I have managed to lessen that loss to -380 marks

[VERT]

After a bit of mucking around and some more testing, I have come to the conclusion that the new Via 4 in 1 drivers have stuffed up my 3d mark. I am finding the same performance in the new XP drivers as in the 11.01s. I am however gonna go back to the 11.01s due to the fact the XP's take away my higher resolutions.
well thats my 2 cents, whats yours?

[Pulsar]

Used them on my T-bird 1 gig with a geforce 256 and improved my 3Dmark by over 400 points.

[daveleau]

Woohoo! http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif

Dave

[BBA]

I got over 500 points in 3dmark just by switching to the new drivers.

[Chys]

In my case, performance seemed to have gone for the worse.

[Pers0nage]

I installed the new drivers. Something is now drastically wrong with my sytem. It locks up after anywhere from 10seconds to 15min. I'm hoping its only a driver problem, and none of my hardware is damaged.

[Sennin]

Im not very pleased either. I'm using a Gainward GF2 MX card with Windows 98Se. When I install the D4 drivers I am unable to OC my card. I go into my display properties, go to advanced, then to clock frequencies.....it says my card is clocked @ -0/-0. I am only able to adjust the sliders to 100/100. I usually clock my card @240/240 w/ 12.90's.

[BBA]

So...am I seeing this right...

Those with GF3 and XP are seeing drastic gains while those with GF2 or Win9x are seeing the opposite?

Oh well...another reason to like XP then.

[earnie86]

With my GeForce 256 card and XP. I have experienced an increase of more than 400 pts. in 3DMARK 2001. I like the new drivers .

[wizard9]

Well not what I’ve expected current system is 2 PIII 900 @1008MHz GeForce2 Ultra Elsa W2k Pro X-Gamer Sound 56K CDRW DVD the works. And that just system number one of nine is there an AAA for computer compulsive construction or is it CCC what ever. Loaded XP drivers and
Ooooppss melt down Diablo II Expansion didn’t work so I ran Video test and no modes were found MMmmm now what it almost look as if their trying to pull the old Kyro II trick and it’s not functioning right well back to the old drivers until something more compatible comes along Dam.

[Gibs]

That's odd. I have seen nothing but increased benchmark scores posted on the web (especially with 3DMark 2001)with these new drivers. Personaly, I went from a score of 5526 to 6670 in 3DMark2001. I have an ECS K7S5A mobo, Athlon 1.4 GHz, 512MB Crucial DDR RAM, and a VisionTek GeForce3 video card. This system is not overclocked.

[MoxManiac]

Score before installing Det 4's: 22xx

Score after installing Det 4's: 22xx

Some improvement. http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/frown.gif

[ganicholson]

Check your AGP speed, the new drivers seem to disable the 4x AGP bus Speed to 2X only. The fix for this is posted on www.tweaktown.com/articles/via_agp4x/index.shtml (http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/via_agp4x/index.shtml)

Hope this helps,

Glenn

[jun]

I could not run Microsoft midtown madness 2 after upgrading to the new NVIDIA drivers. The Graphics become garbages, it's a mess.

I switched back to Y2000 version of NVIDIA and thank goodness, i could play again.

What do you think is the problem?

my system:

P3- 450
128 MB RAM
32 Mb Inno3d TNT2 NVIDIA
VIA AGP chipset

[Catbird]

On my Asus K7M266 with a 1.4 T bird and 512 of PC-2100 DDR Ram, I picked up 600 points over the 12.90 drivers I was using, which had worked the best of all of them so far on my machine anyway. I now get 6600 3DMarks 2001 points. They work for me!!

[ticktack]

but I do noticed good quality images produced even with my old GF256 on Det XP.