Anyone try the new det. 40.41 drivers?

[RamonGTP]

Was reading a forum and found out they're officially released now.... I installed them and my 3dmark2k1 score went from 9720 to 10382. My current specs:

EPoX 8K3A+
AMD Athlon XP1700+ (not OCed)
PNY GF4 Ti4400 (OCed to 280/300)
512 MB PC2100

Not sure how they'll work with the different GF series out there. From what I read, everyone with a GF4 Ti series got a nice performance boost from them.

-Ramon

EDIT: These drivers are actually still in beta, but are available from the nvidia website.

[grimfandango]

from what I hear these drivers are real fast...!!


too bad they only for 2000/xp!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Read the following thread:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=115592

--Jakk

[NDD]

I noticed something weird with those drivers today.
In advanced control panel (kudoz on design ), there is now a new setting in "3D Antialiasing settings" called "Texture Sharpening".
Now, it was available in RivaTuner when AA was activated, but now it's there even without AA.
So I tried running 3DM2k1 with and without it, and what do you think ?
When I benched WITHOUT, I got about 250 points more compaired to older v30.82.
BUT when I checked this option, my scores got back to what they were with v30.82

ANOTHER FAKE ?!?!

Now, I know my GeForce3 Ti200 is bottlenecked by my 1GHz T-Bird. So my question is : can somebody with faster CPU and better videocard verify it ? Just do what I did and post it back here.

[RamonGTP]

Originally posted by ND
I noticed something weird with those drivers today.
In advanced control panel (kudoz on design ), there is now a new setting in "3D Antialiasing settings" called "Texture Sharpening".
Now, it was available in RivaTuner when AA was activated, but now it's there even without AA.
So I tried running 3DM2k1 with and without it, and what do you think ?
When I benched WITHOUT, I got about 250 points more compaired to older v30.82.
BUT when I checked this option, my scores got back to what they were with v30.82

ANOTHER FAKE ?!?!

Now, I know my GeForce3 Ti200 is bottlenecked by my 1GHz T-Bird. So my question is : can somebody with faster CPU and better videocard verify it ? Just do what I did and post it back here.

10443 WITHOUT
9398 WITH

-Ramon

[AllGamer]

i just got the drivers installed, but still at work, can run tests yet



will post back later with some numbers

[OpK Chowdy]

holy poop! am i stupid? or did the drivers just help A LOT?

3dmark 2001 build330 on 30.82? (blah, whatever drivers came before 40.41) on a Geforce4ti4200 128MB

without 8199pts
with 9119pts

!!!!



how is that possible? that's amazing! i have screens if ya want!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Jebus Cripes

Thats the biggest leap ive witnessed thus far in the benches everyones stated so far -- 100marks

--Jakk

[jmichna]

40.41s -- 11,939
29.60s -- 11,298 (were previously fastest drivers on my system)

XP2100+ @140fsb (1.830gHz), AX7/Sunon 80mm@3900rpm/50cfm
EPoX 8K3A+, vcore@1.85, vmem@2.90, DDR@350mHz
MSI Ti4400, core@300, mem@600

Seems they helped a bit over previous best. Tried to push the vid card to core@310, mem@620 but 3D2K1se wouldn't complete test.
jmichna

[jmichna]

Originally posted by jmichna
40.41s -- 11,939
29.60s -- 11,298 (were previously fastest drivers on my system)

XP2100+ @140fsb (1.830gHz), AX7/Sunon 80mm@3900rpm/50cfm
EPoX 8K3A+, vcore@1.85, vmem@2.90, DDR@350mHz
MSI Ti4400, core@300, mem@600

Seems they helped a bit over previous best. Tried to push the vid card to core@310, mem@620 but 3D2K1se wouldn't complete test.
jmichna

UPDATE
Went back to 29.60s. Was experiencing random lockups and BSODs with the 40.41s... even with no OC and just doing stuff like email and word processing. These new drivers are fast but buggy on my system.
jmichna

[NDD]

Anybody else ? Can you please write down your CPU/videocard as well ?

[AllGamer]

all i can say is that the new ones are great.

all my 5 PCs got an inclease of 35+- flames

no problems either, ran all test for 3DMarks and PCMarks with no errors