The new dets are out!!!!!

[Liquidsky]

Go get them at nvidia.com

[proze]

the site seems to be down... it won't load for me. oh well, i'll try again later. thanks for the heads-up, though! :)

[Placid]

Page cannot be displayed.
Should I be suprised :)

Here is a ftp link but for some reason no drivers where they should be.

ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/Windows/

[proze]

s'okay... get them at guru3d.com (http://www.guru3d.com/)!

[Da Whip]

Just downloaded now, I am going to switch over and check them out.

[Mike the first]

they gave me 5Mhz more om me powercolor 245/550
those drivers rule.shweeeeet :D

[proze]

welcome to the forum mike-the-first-from-belgium-with-the-funny-sig! :D that's your first post ever and all! :)

[Placid]

Yes XP drivers :)

[TranceBear]

Got them, wow that took awhile, bandwidth is gone on any of these sites...LOL

[Placid]

Previous drivers 12.90 score 6113.
Video cards not overclocked.

[Silversinksam]

Placid thanks for posting that link to the FTP server!!!

Somebody give Placid a cookie for posting this link (ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/Windows/)


Those new drivers ROCK !! Got my highest 3dmark2000 score of 7690 (previous high was 7540)

Gotta run but will test 3dmark2001 tonight.

Many of the satelite locations and NVIDIA.com are inaccesable due to the demand and once again thanks Placid, your the man!

[Pinky]

Was someone going to let me know?

Oh yeah, that's right, I'm using a radeon now :).

For kicks I added them to my downloads site.

[Placid]

Radeon should have new drivers within 3 months Pinky :D

[Mord-Sith]

lol ati makes new drivers ?? I thought they only released 1


I think I might try upgrading to xp tomorrow and see how many 3d marks I get

Ill throw in a test HD and install xp to that.

(by upgrade I mean downgrade and by downgrade I mean downgrade :) )

[mr00bill]

I only got a 3Dmark2001 score improvment of about 100 points.. :( guess they optimized it for GF3.. :rolleyes:

[Placid]

I totally forgot to redo my driver settings after I upgraded and got another +100 to my score after I did.

[AtomicGuY]

Those new XP drivers RULE!!!

my 3dmark2001 went from 7250 to 7906!!!!!!


What da heck did they do right? I hope they pull out some more super drivers man!

[proze]

i didn't see much of an increase at all with either my gf pro or my gf2 mx400. and coolbits doesn't work any more. bit of a let down, so i'm gonna go back to 14s again... :( :(

[WillysNut]

Originally posted by proze
i didn't see much of an increase at all with either my gf pro or my gf2 mx400. and coolbits doesn't work any more. bit of a let down, so i'm gonna go back to 14s again... :( :(

I'm noticing the same thing Coolbits and/or NVMax are not working w/ my Visiontek card. Gotta dwnld powerstrip and give that a shot. But, I am noticing that a flicker/fade issue that I was seeing before is gone.

[Tacoman667]

My scores went from this (http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?1325054) to this (http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?1566105) with JUST thos drivers. THX NVidia!

[mr00bill]

Initially my coolbits stopped working, but after 20min of tinckering i was able to get it working again. *Had to restart about 8 times* ;)

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by Placid
Previous drivers 12.90 score 6113.
Video cards not overclocked.

What kind of video card do you have to get that kind of score? I can barely creak over 3000 with my GF2 Ultra! (And this is after resolving a driver problem that prevented my card from achieving a score of more then 550.)

[Sohryu Asuka Langley]

youve got something wrong there, i make 2500 on a MX with a celeron!

[Über~PhLuBB]

Yeah, tell me about it... You have any suggestions for me?

Like I said, I already had a problem before, where I couldn't get more then 550 3DMarks. I used a 4 in 1 package from AMD's website (The VIA 4 in 1 wouldn't work), and it helped ALOT, getting me up to ~6000, but even setting the res low (I usually do all my testing using the default benchmarking settings) at 640 x 480, I can barely achieve 6200.

[oc jason]

make sure AGP is at 4x i get abot 3000 with AGP at 1x (all my board will do), maybe the drives issue is not resolved? completely

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by [OC] Jason
make sure AGP is at 4x i get abot 3000 with AGP at 1x (all my board will do), maybe the drives issue is not resolved? completely

How can I check to see my board is at 4X? I know the difference between 2X and 4X is barely noticiable, like 50 3DMarks.

I've looking in BIOS, and there's nowhere to set the AGP speed, just the AGP aperature size, which I already have at 128MB (Optimal for my system).

I dont think I want to trust the status on the Adapter page id display properties, because... well, I just dont trust it. I dont understand what else the problem could possibly be.

[redduc900]

One thing to note about these new drivers is...they don't like it when fastwrites is enabled. I was running the 12.90's, uninstalled the drivers like I normally do...and installed the new XP drivers. I then set up the drivers like usual and ran 3DMark01...only for it to lock up hard and present me with a BSOD.

I'm running the newest Nvidia reference BIOS for my card, so I thought that might be the problem. I re-flashed the card with the latest Leadtek BIOS (which disables fastwrites by default), uninstalled and then re-installed the XP drivers. This time 3DMark completed, but 300 points lower than my usual score with the 12.90's and with screen tearing and flashing.

Well, after a couple of hours of trying to figure out what the problem was...I finally determined that fastwrites needed to be disabled in the BIOS. The reference BIOS enables sidebanding, which the new drivers don't seem to mind. The reference BIOS also enables support for fastwrites, the Leadtek BIOS doesn't.

So I'm back to using the reference BIOS, just with fastwrites disabled.

[Placid]

Sisoft Sandra will show what the agp rate is set to for most motherbords.

Download it here:
http://speshalk.dyndns.org:18012/programs/

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by Placid
Sisoft Sandra will show what the agp rate is set to for most motherbords.

Download it here:
http://speshalk.dyndns.org:18012/programs/

AWESOME! It says AGP is at 1X!!! lol I know I shouldn't be happy I have a problem, but I'm damn happy that now I know what that problem IS!

How can I up the AGP speed? One would think it would be highest as a default... but it's not.

As far as I know (from the manual, which I still have) it says the mobo is 4X

[Über~PhLuBB]

Screenshot.

[Valid]

Try reinstalling your 4-in-1 package. At least with the VIAs when it comes to the AGP drivers, it's something like "normal" and "turbo." Turbo of course being the one you want.

[MrOOBiLL]

4x sure does make a difference, at 1024x720x32 i got 6700