anyone try Nvidia 7.17 drivers ?

[haute 0]

how are they, any improvment from the 6.XX. Also noticed they have better DX8 Support

[CrazyKillerMan 0]

...yes...the screwed my cpu...had to reinstall 631z

[temo 0]

Evil drivers, don't use them with DX8 RC1... :

[ledzeppel 0]

Didn't work for me either in Win2K, they did some strange things. Even had trouble setting the resolution and color depth sometimes. Couldn't play Counter-Strike, it would just crash right after it finished loading. Are you saying they suck with just Directx 8 RC1, or with all of the betas of Directx 8? Let us know if anybody has some success with these things. My experience was horrible I went back to 6.47.

[*Iblis* 0]

i haven't had any trouble with them, running dx8 build 219, but the only games i've tried have been q3 and cataclysm. they do seem slower in q3 and occasionally the res and colour depth reset on the desktop but that's about it.

[ThC 129 0]

Well these are the 1st in the series of probably detonator 4 drivers. All of the 1st builds in a series are always buggy and focus on stability not performance. These are also FULLY DX 8 compatible so if your not running DX 8 then its frivolous to run em. Im using whistler beta 1 and they work fine for me

[JediBaron 0]

I didn't have any problem using the with Dx8Rc0. But they did cause a BSOD if I went into the color correction tab in the advanced setting . I went back to old 6.47.

[three 0]

Installed the 7.xx driver, seems to be running much more smoother(stable) than the 6.xx drivers, they really sucked on my pc giving my frequent BSODs. Haven't really had time to test it out on games but being stable is what I was looking for in the first place since I've been having ALi/TNT problems ever since I installed W2K. Saw a registry tweak, will install that later and see if it boosts perfomance.

[INFERNO2000 0]

They gave me an increase of 2 fps in UT, but they crashed my CS on loadup.

 

I went back to 6.47

[CUViper 0]

I tried them and went back to 6.47, as the 7's removed the option for 1152x864 screen res.... I'm curious, is anyone else running 7.xx able to get that resolution?

[ThC 129 0]

i am

[DosFreak 2]

Run good here on 7.17 and Directx8 build 219. (Haven't tried final yet)SIGNIFICANT increase in performance in D3D. Same performance in Opengl.

 

64m Aperture no longer blue screens for me.

Clipping in UT OpenGL is fixed. I'm happy.

 

 

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[Splat 0]

Nope Soldier of Fortune froze, back to 6.47 plus reports coming out of serious performance hits if you use these drivers so lets try DX 8 and see....

[haute 0]

well i tried them out here are my results with a Geforce2 MX:

In 3dmark2000 there was no improvment from 6.47

The only game i play half life(TFC) would freeze

[DosFreak 2]

Direct3D Hardware T&L

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz

 

Directx7 SP1

Directx 8 Build 219

 

 

6.47 Directx7

 

3DMARK

3232

 

Game 1 Low/Medium/High

66.1/46.1/22.4

 

Game 2 Low/Medium/High

74.6/37.5/22.6

 

High Poly 1/4/8

1815/1679/1011

 

6.47 Directx8

 

3DMARK

919

 

Game 1 Low/Medium/High

4.1/0.5/0.2

 

Game 2 Low/Medium/High

58.2/13.1/0.6

 

High Poly 1/4/8

9512/5163/2850

 

7.17 Directx7

 

3DMARK

3877

 

Game 1 Low/Medium/High

71.4/54.2/32.7

 

Game 2 Low/Medium/High

88.2/47.2/29.4

 

High Poly 1/4/8

8439/5255/2869

 

7.17 Directx8

 

3DMARK

3921

 

Game 1 Low/Medium/High

72.9/55.2/33.6

 

Game 2 Low/Medium/High

88.0/47.7/29.5

 

High Poly 1/4/8

8442/5255/2869

[DosFreak 2]

I call a 700+ improvement pretty good. Dunno about you guys.

[JediBaron 0]

Dude, rock on!

I just installed Dx8 final today with the 7.17 drivers and my video's jammin. Just the programs that I've tried so far are much better. UT in OpenGL now runs completely smooth durring gameplay, before it was bad jerky, almost unplayable. Red Alert 2 no longer pauses during some sound effects when playing and the video runs 100% smooth now! I've played Counterstrike too and it seemed to help out the new model lag problem alot. This rocks, things are running much smoother now. My Direct3d is stil running slower than a Win98 machine by about half, but everything in general is running really good and smooth.

 

Operating System: Windows 2000 Pro sp1 (running fully PNP w/ ACPI)

Processor: AMD K7 T-Bird 800@900(1.88V,+4degC) w/ 256 Megs PC133

Motherboard: Asus K7a (1004c BIOS) w/ the newest Via 4 in 1, ASUS Promise 100 drivers b32

Hard Drive: Maxtor 1536H2 on the Promise 100

Video: Asus 6600 SGRAM w/ Asus sba bios (AGP Geforce 256,32meg - Nvidia drivers v7.17)

Sound: SB 128 PCI (1373 chip w/ 5.12.01.4035 WDM drivers - certified)

Modem: USR 56K PCI

Network: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (PCI 10/100 card)

SCSI: PCI Advansys SCSI Host Adapter

CD Burner: Smart&Friendly 4x SCSI

Printer: Epson Stylus 740 (USB)

Scanner: UMAX Astra 1220U (USB)

Misc: Creative PC-DVD 5X drive, USB Intellimouse Optical w/ intellipoint 3.2 (ver. 3.20.0.484), Gravis Xterminator gamepad with 4.2.0.2 driver

DirectX: 8.0 (4.08.00.0400)

[INFERNO2000 0]

for the life of me, I can't get 7.17 to work in CS.

 

 

 

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NECESSARY EVIL

--Custom Built [H]ard|PC--

<Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1, IE5.5 SP1, DX8>

Intel Pentium III Coppermine(FCPGA 370) 800eb @ 954 (with an original ThermalTake Golden Orb heatsink)

Asus CUSL2 motherboard(no onboard sound)Rev 1.02 BIOS; rev 1004.003 (Beta)

256MB PC133 SDRAM (1x256 Mushkin Rev2 CAS 2:2:2 5t/7t @ 159mhz)

SuperMicro 760A Full Tower(Modded for more fans and painted Rustoleum Hammered Black)

SP301-RA 300W Athlon Approved Redundant Cooling Power Supply

IBM15-7 15GB UDMA/100 7200RPM hdd & 30GB MAXTOR Diamand Max UDMA/66 7200 RPM hdd

7 80mm,3 92mm, and 2 120mm High Output fans(along with 2 80mm in Power Supply, CPU, and GeForce fans) spewing out well over 1000 CFM

Creative Labs SB Live! X-Gamer running on Liveware 3

Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Annhilator Pro GeForce256 DDR on Detonator 7.17

Logitech Itouch Pro Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard

Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer(Gen 1) & Everglide (HL Giganta)

Logitech Soundman G1 Powered Speakers & AIWA HPX222 Headphones

D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

Compaq V720 17” (1280x1024) Monitor

Hewlett Packard 660Cse Printer

Iomega 8x4x32 CD-RW & Pioneer 6x DVD/ 32x CD-ROM

Hauppauge WinTV Go

 

-=BetaSystem=-

<Windows 98 and Whistler Advanced Server Beta1>

AMD K6-2 450 @ 480

FIC PA 2013 motherboard

160MB PC100 SDRAM PNY RAM

case frame

Deer 300W Athlon Approved Power Supply

Compaq JBL speakers

SMC 2102 USB 10mbs Ethernet Adapter

Packard Bell 14" (800x640) Monitor

Memorex 4x2x24 CD-RW

>Looking for a keyboard, mouse, video card, sound card, and harddrive

[Ryo-Ohki 0]

I have DX 8 installed, and the 7.17 drivers, and when I play CS, I get mottled green/blue guns and player models, same in any other Halflife mod. Also, when I try to go into the color config in display properties, it bluescreens my computer. Any ideas?

 

Diamond Viper 770 Ultra

Pentium II 400

Tyan Tsunami 1830S

256 PC-100 SDRAM

Intel InBusiness 10/100 Ethernet Adapter

3Com 509b NIC

IBM 30.0 GB HD

Maxtor 13.1 GB HD

Quantum 12.7 GB HD

Creative Labs DXR3

Creative Labs DVD-ROM 8x

Yamaha 6x4x16 CDRW

Adaptec 2906 SCSI-2 Controller

Creative Labs SB Live! Value w/Digital I/O Card

[Ryo-Ohki 0]

Oh, in addition to that previous post, I'm running Windows 2000 SP 1.

[haute 0]

here are mine

Test DX8 640 DX8 647 DX8 717

Rendering Platform NVIDIA GeForce2 MX NVIDIA GeForce2 MX NVIDIA GeForce2 MX

Resolution 1024*768 1024*768 1024*768

Color Depth 16-bit Color 16-bit Color 16-bit Color

Texture Format 16-bit 16-bit 16-bit

Z-Buffer Depth 16-bit 16-bit 16-bit

Frame Buffer Triple buffering Triple buffering Triple buffering

Refresh Rate VSync Off VSync Off VSync Off

CPU Optimization D3D Hardware T&L D3D Hardware T&L D3D Hardware T&L

3DMark Result 1622.70 2195.92 2118.46 3D marks

CPU Speed 101.20 151.92 148.92 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 31.87 37.32 35.70 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 22.46 28.45 27.35 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 11.19 21.00 20.19 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 40.42 58.00 55.83 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 18.32 23.95 23.34 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 10.96 14.29 14.13 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 325.45 325.11 325.15 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 636.08 635.84 635.81 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light) 1454.32 6853.67 6991.62 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 1564.75 4554.35 4553.77 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 884.94 2503.75 2503.21 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed 169.42 168.48 159.82 FPS

16MB Texture Rendering Speed 90.54 90.22 85.20 FPS

32MB Texture Rendering Speed 46.44 46.39 43.92 FPS

64MB Texture Rendering Speed 0.00 0.00 0.00 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass) 88.34 90.32 92.91 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass) 127.36 131.69 134.30 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass) 234.50 234.44 234.49 FPS

Bump Mapping (Environment) 0.00 0.00 0.00 FPS

 

 

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[This message has been edited by haute (edited 11 November 2000).]

[JediBaron 0]

I'm also experiencing a problem with Counterstrike 1.0. If I try anything but software mode it crashes when the screen normally curtains upward after you connect. I'm going to try some of the older 7.xx drivers and see if I can't get it to work.

[DosFreak 2]

I'd suggest going back to the 6.34's for the most stability. 7.17's have slowdown's and memory leakes.... all 7.xx+ do.