Detonators 21.81!

[FrogMaster 0]

Just dowloaded them from Nvidia website

They are for Win2k and XP!

Gonna install'em

[zoooom 0]

Uh huh huh. Cool man. Me 2 .

[kingtrey 0]

i got 'em too; haven't installed them yet ... how are they working?

[Xiven 0]

YES! They've finally fixed the problems with refresh rates on certain monitors that were introduced by the 7.xx series drivers.

 

Don't need powerstrip any more...

[sapiens74 0]

Open GL a lot faster.

[clutch 1]

About a 12% increase in framerate for Q3 for me. It seems even smoother using my tweaked config (removes a good deal of detail, increases FOV, etc).

[sapiens74 0]

Tried it on Everquest as well. with 4x AA enabled. Works great, finally no missing inventory with AA enabled.

[FrogMaster 0]

It seems improvement is similar to the one we saw long ago between the 5.xx and 6.xx series.

- Quake 3: +10 to +12% faster and very smooth in all circumstances

- 3dmark2000: roughly +500 points

- 3dmark2001: crashes to desktop when starting dragotic high detail scene

- UT: no change really noticeable in d3d, maybe a little bit smoother; opengl is ugly with very heavy banding and saturated colors, looking like running in 256 colors (that old UT engine!)

VGLMark: confirms Q3 results, 10/12% faster, gorgeous display.

 

Well, a little goodie for free better ogl, who would complain?

[Deviant 0]

Hi guys!

 

Any results for Detonators 21.81 & GeForce MX 400 & XP 2600 ?

 

I read something that there is performance boost for GeForce 3 but what abou MX 400 ?

 

Thanks and regards

 

D.

[Cryptonium 0]

My 3DMark score jumped from 4755 (12.41) to 5981 (21.81). This is on an Athlon 1.4 with Visiontek GF3 under Win2k with the system having 512MB of ram.

[Dirty Harry 0]

My score on 3Dmark 2001 went DOWN,

 

12.90 - 3484

20.81 - 3240

 

Not that significant, but still. Anyone have an idea what to tweak ?

 

System (not O/C at testing):

 

Essential specs:

 

KG7-Raid MoBo

Athlon 1400/266 (AIHYIA "Y" w25/01 cooled by a Swiftech MC462-A)

256 MB Mushkin Hi Perf. 2100 DDR CAS2-2-2-2 (one stick)

Asus V-7700 AGP (Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS), 32 MB DDR SGRAM

IBM 45,0 GB (75 GXP -DTLA 307045) 7200 rpm ATA100

IBM 27,3 GB (34 GXP -DPTA 372730) 7200 rpm ATA66

Windows 2000 SR-2

[Gambler FEX online 0]

Det4 are mostly geforce 3 optimizations. Now finally driver for Gf3 have come out of beta and are being optimized.

[Brian Frank 0]

Dirty Harry:

I had to retweak everything when I installed the new drivers before things were back to normal again.

[Powermike 0]

Hm, no really performance gain here, +80 (3660) points in 3DMark2001, -50 points in 3DMark2000 (7620). And I got problems with my favorite game, Ubisoft F1 Racing Championship: Seems to run very smooth, but can start the game only once, secon time I get a lockup. So went back to the 12.90...

 

Powermike

 

P.S.: Nice to meet you again, Frogmaster :-)