maxreboot nvidia drivers do NOT have fixed refresh rate!

[oldspice 0]

Can anybody tell me how to fix the refresh rate. I get 60hz in games with the drivers on the NTComp front page. nvrefix does not work of course. I have my monitor set to its brand, etc. How do I fix this problem with the new detonator drivers?

[oldspice 0]

I got the 27.70 drivers from the german website and nvreffix works on these and they look good and are stable as far as I can tell. My games nowplay at high refresh rates. Anybody who wants these can just search the news pages for detonator and will find the link for the 27.70 drivers. I use Win2k by the way.

[Hammer91 0]

i got the 27.52 drivers from Maxreboot,they work fine,install driver,and than use Nvrefix,works like a charm. i tryed the 27.70 drivers,and they were making my system unstable(self-rebooting),all is well with the 27.52's.

[thymios 0]

The refresh problem in win2k makes me wonder about the innability of the majority of large companies like Nvidia or ATI, making a correct working driver for this. It's quite funny don't you think?I mean they update the drivers and solve way bigger problems than this, and they choke on that?

[SHS 0]

No thymios you should be putting the dame on MS after all they didn't add an oplimal refrash rate setting like what Win9x has.

So no matter what nVidia or ATI or any other video manufacturers do it not going happing in tell MS fix this problem which had been around in good old of WinNT4.

Min of us beta tester cry about that when testing both Win2000 and WinXP as you can it still has not been fix.

[oldspice 0]

I think MS took out the optimal setting because people were choosing monitors with higher refresh rates than theirs could handle and then when their monitors blew up they were complaining to MS. There is always a reason why a company does not do something...i have found. I think it is sad that nvidea can't come out with a simple refresh rate setting inside the advanced display tabs. I think they are the losers on this one.

[oldspice 0]

nvidia that is.

[Four and Twenty 0]

i edit my drivers manually to set the refresh rate

 

here is a bit about how to do it that i pulled off some messageboard

 

Edit the .INF file of your TNT/TNT2/GeForce drivers (AFAIK it only works with the NVidia reference drivers

(this includes all the misc Win2k drivers from NVidia themselves, Asus, AOpen, etc.), it might not work with

any Creative or Diamond custom drivers).

 

Look at the end of the file, all the different card types supported by that driver are listed there under

the section "[strings]". What you need to know is the codename of the card, i.e. "NV4" for TNT1, "NV5" for

TNT2, "NV10" for "GeForce" and so on.

 

Assuming you have a TNT2 (="NV5"), search for a rather large block of lines looking like this (note the

"NV5_Modes" string which indicates that these settings are for the NV5 cards):

 

 

code:

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HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 640 480 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 320 200 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 320 240 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 400 300 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 480 360 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 512 384 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 640 400 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 800 600 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1024 768 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1152 864 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1280 960 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1280 1024 60 70 72 75 85 100 120 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1600 1200 60 70 72 75 85 100 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1080 60 70 72 75 85 100 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1200 60 70 72 75 85 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 1920 1440 60 70 72 75 0"

HKR,, NV5_Modes, %REG_SZ_APPEND%, "16 2048 1536 60 0"

 

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This has already been edited by me. As you can see, you need to overwrite the undesired refresh rates

("60 70 72 75 85" in my case) with spaces, so the desired refresh rate at a specific screen resolution

is the lowest refresh rate number in the according line.

 

Here, I've deleted all rates below 100Hz for 640x400, 800x600, 1024x768 and 1152x864, and all rates below

85Hz for 1280x1024.

 

Note: there are multiple blocks of lines for different color depths: 8, 16 and 32. Listed above are only

the 16bpp modes. You should do this for all three color depths.

 

Then reinstall the driver with the new .INF file. This should solve the OpenGL refresh rate problem.

 

If you need higher refresh rates for DirectDraw/Direct3D games, run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool

(DXDIAG.EXE) and switch to the last tab ("More Help"), click the "Override..." button and enter the

desired refresh rate. I'm using 100 here, too.

 

This should solve the DirectDraw/Direct3D refresh rate problem.

[thymios 0]

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No thymios you should be putting the dame on MS after all they didn't add an oplimal refrash rate setting like what Win9x has.
So no matter what nVidia or ATI or any other video manufacturers do it not going happing in tell MS fix this problem which had been around in good old of WinNT4.
Min of us beta tester cry about that when testing both Win2000 and WinXP as you can it still has not been fix.

I agree. Put it this way though. MS is going to turn around and say that win2k is not intended for games! S A D.