New NVida Detonator drivers released for winxp/2000 only

[Stezo2k]

Yep its official, nvidia have released a new set of drivers for win xp/2000 and they are suppost to give up to 20% speed increase compared to the other drivers.

Its all good, except i have a problem, i get an error message when starting up, i have a creative geforce 2 MX400 Pci 32MB and have coolbits tweaker and a refresh fix for windows xp. Does any1 kno what the prob is? cuz i havent had this prob before and i always update my detonator drivers as soon as theres a new release

Thanx



Stez

[B*A*G*G]

i had to switch back to the 30.82 dets cause the 40.41's made some of my games (quake3, sof2) look all washed out (low contast) and dark.
hope they fix this soon cause i got an extra 15fps in the 3dmark nature demo with the 40.41 dets

[Stezo2k]

damn, i got sof 2 aswell havent tried it out with the new drivers, i havent noticed much difference in speed tho. I wana get rid of this damn error tho :sly:

Stez

[Josep]

/me goes to www.nvidia.com

[Josep]

Originally posted by B*A*G*G
i had to switch back to the 30.82 dets cause the 40.41's made some of my games (quake3, sof2) look all washed out (low contast) and dark.
hope they fix this soon cause i got an extra 15fps in the 3dmark nature demo with the 40.41 dets

hey bagg what card do you have again? ti4400 no?

[sk8bloke22]

u need to uninstall any previous drivers. and u might need to delete any of the registry files, becos the new drivers dont use a few of the older files, including nvtweak.dll, which can cause issues like error msgs. its a bit ridiculous as they should tell ppl this.

i personally havnt tried the myet cos my ti4200 arrives on monday, and i dont see the point testing them out on my geforce 2 gts.

from reading a few forums i must say that this seems to be a very sneaky move by nvidia. if u look at benchmarks other than 3dmark2001, there hasnt been much of an increase (in some cases decreases) in speed. furthermore, it seems, just as ati optimised their drivers just for quake 3, nvidia hav done the same for the 'nature' demo in 3dmrk2001. still, gonna test them next week anyway. i dont think theres even been much of a performance increase for AF or FSAA. still any performance gain is decent for free.

[B*A*G*G]

Originally posted by Josep

Originally posted by B*A*G*G
i had to switch back to the 30.82 dets cause the 40.41's made some of my games (quake3, sof2) look all washed out (low contast) and dark.
hope they fix this soon cause i got an extra 15fps in the 3dmark nature demo with the 40.41 dets

hey bagg what card do you have again? ti4400 no?

acculy its a ti4600

[Josep]

hehe, ok just checkin

[Stezo2k]

thanx for the tip sk8bloke i managed to fix it, i like the new nvidia settings look does any1 know how to get coolbits to work with it, i gotta overclock

Stez

[Doomulation]

I also think that it's that old cards work bad with new drivers, wasn't it so?
Well, I dunno.