NVidia Detonator Driver Discussion

[Four and Twenty 0]

i forgot about the 10.80 that is the only driver that works for me all around except for one thing. there is a little white square just below mid screen when i play need for speed. that is however the only issue with these drvers. i would use the 6.5 but those ones don't work with alpha blending at 32 bit for me and i use the desktop alot more than i play games.

[Homes 0]

I've got a Prophet 2 MX, and i'm using the 12.90 drivers with RC2. They do work well, except for the occasional blue screen error concerning the nv4disp.dll file.

[EddiE314 0]

just installed RC2 2526, the 12.41's work fine here, so do the 8.03's and 12.90's.

[gogeta4194 0]

If anyone has any problems try going to Tweakers Asylum's Detonator Drivers Section they have all drivers from 6 up to 12.41

[EddiE314 0]

just benchmarked the 8.04 drivers, i got a 246 3dmark increase in 3dmark 2000 v1.1.

 

Default benchmark:

1024x768x32bpp

 

12.41 - 5309

08.04 - 5555

 

 

get the 8.04's here:

http://www.maxreboot.com/download.php?op=viewsdownload&sid=12

 

 

BTW, i might add that all of my benchmarks are done with:

 

-cpu set at the default 667MHz (133) setting

-ram is set to cas2. pc133

[DosFreak 2]

The 8 det's are supposedly optimized for DX7. Since 3Dmark 2000 is a DX7 benchmark that makes since but I bet 3Dmark 2001 sees an increase too.

[EddiE314 0]

i don't like running 3dmark 2001 because i only have a GF2MX and my scores seem very low compared to a system that has a GF3. I might install 2001 and benchmark them, i'll have to do it later though.

[EddiE314 0]

okay, just benched the driver under 2001, don't laugh, my scores suck big time compared to GF3 scores:

 

 

3DMark 2001

 

Default Benchmark:

1024x768x32bpp

 

12.41 - 3531

08.04 - 3668

 

a 137 point gain going from the 12.41's to the new 8.04's!

[EddiE314 0]

Here is the driver comparison under 3DMark 2000 v1.1 (Default Benchmark):

 

1024x768x32bpp:

 

 

12.41 - 5309

8.04 - 5555

14.10 - 5188

 

I had to do the benchmark on the 14.10's twice cause i couldn't believe that they were that bad.

 

BTW, i might add that all of my benchmarks are done with:

 

-cpu set at the default 667MHz (133) setting

-ram is set to cas2. pc133

[Elin 0]

EddiE, Did you know if 8.04 will work for TNT2 Ultra (Diamond V770U)..I tried different drivers(6.5, 12.41 NON-WHQL, 14.10) but any drivers higher than 6x series will cause some random lockup (Win2k SP2)..Any suggestion for the driver that I can use for both Performance/Quality?

[EddiE314 0]

i know all about the TNT2-Detonator lockup/bsod problem, all i can tell you is to download the new 8.04's and give it a shot.

[EddiE314 0]

Here is the driver comparison under 3DMark 2000 v1.1 (Default Benchmark):

 

1024x768x32bpp:

 

 

12.41 - 5309

8.04 - 5555

14.10 - 5188

14.40 - 5180

 

I had to do the benchmark on the 14.10's twice cause i couldn't believe that they were that bad. Did the same with the 14.40's, the highest i got was 5180.

 

BTW, i might add that all of my benchmarks are done with:

 

-cpu set at the default 667MHz (133) setting

-ram is set to cas2. pc133

[DosFreak 2]

Eddie I dunno what graphics card you used for those benchmarks but with a GF3 and a 1ghz P3 I get about 7558 3dmarks in 3Dmark 2000.

 

Just in case you wanted to know.

[Gemfire James 0]

I think he has a 3D Prophet II

 

I think anyways.

[clutch 1]

He has an MX-based card I believe.

[EddiE314 0]

Hercules 3D Prophet II MX 32MB AGP4x (Core: DefaultMHz, Mem: DefaultMHz)

 

when i had my p3 1ghz and 512mb more ram and this card overclocked i got 6830 3DMarks in 3DMark 2000. pretty good for a budget card.

 

Here were my specs for the screenshot below:

 

"abit vh6, pentium 3 1GHz, alpha pep66t 38cfm hsf, 768mb pc133 cas2, 3d prophet ii mx 32mb (core:200 mem:210), hollywood plus dvd decoder, pioneer 16x dvdrom, plextor 12x/10x/32x, Seagate 30gb, windows xp pro rc1 2481, detonator 10.80 win2k."

 

 

[BanditXL 0]

Here are my results:

 

Windows 2000 3dmark2001:

 

3181 3dmarks (1024x768 32 bit no FSAA)(asus 12.60 detonator)

 

Windows XP 3dmark2001:

 

2863 3dmarks (1024x768 32 bit no FSAA)(nvidia 14.20 detonator)

 

I always thought windows XP was faser then windows 2000.

 

This was run on a AMD 1200 MHZ, MSI k7t pro 2a, asus v7700 deluxe, 512 MB memory.

 

Any comments on this?

[EddiE314 0]

its strange, my scores in 3dmark 2000 jumped 1900points going from Win2k to WinXP.

[Brian Frank 0]

I cracked on my XP animosity. I am installing RC1 on my duallie rig, and have a dual boot with Win2k as a backup.

I'll let ya know how my GF2MX200 scores. It's just a generic one by eVGA with 6ns ram, so I'm not holding my hopes too high.

Not ditching Win2k yet, but I'm trying XP again with the new release. Haven't done anything since Beta2 and my Voodoo3 (had to pull it out for XP )

[DosFreak 2]

Once you see that XP boot you'll definetly start thinking more about Linux. (THANK YOU MICROSOFT!)

[EddiE314 0]

what you you mean DosFreak?

[BanditXL 0]

I tested my system with 3dmark2000 v1.1 too the same results as with 3dmark2001 I get lower scores with XP then I do with 2000, it's really p!$$!ng me off, I don't know what I 'm doing wrong.

 

Anyway here are the results:

 

detonator 14.20 nvidia

 

3dmark2000 in W2K: 6758 3dmarks

3dmark2000 in XP: 6219 3dmarks

 

Do you guy make any tweaks or change anything to let XP fly faster?

I don't know what the problem is XP is even on a faster hdd (7200 rpm), normally this would be a advantage too.

[EddiE314 0]

try a different set of drivers, like the 8.04's, i found the 14.20's to suck compared to the 8.04's.

[Brian Frank 0]

I know the 12.41's WHQL ran UT fine, but they sucked *** when playing HL and that whole slew of addons. I've yet to try out Serious Sam, but if UT was any indication, its going to rock.

And this was on an MX 200 with only a 64-bit path. It sucked so hard under Win2k it wasn't funny.

[MiracleMan 0]

Look, 75% of this threads are dealing with 3DMark, but actually it are ONLY about syntetic benchmarks, with no true relations with real games speed/compatibility! Why do I'm saying that? Because when I changed from 12.41 to 12.90 I got almost 300 increment points with 3DMark2001, but games became slughish/corrupted. Then I tried 14.20. It gave me only 200 points than 12.41 but keeping game speed/stability (and coolbits works with it!!). SO, I think I make my point clear. Don't stick with 3DMark results cause we meant to play games, not watch fancy anymations (hmmm, sounds like Diablo 2 ), so relay more on gaming XPerience than syntetic b*ll $h!t.

 

My specs:

 

Asus A7V

Duron 750@1009

Hercules Prophet II MX (210/193)

Windows XP 2526