New nVidia Drivers

[SALvation]

44.03 are out

http://nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Anyone try these yet?

[Death-Dude]

I saw that, and was wondering the same....I hate being the first to dip my toe in the water, but this sounds, well, incredible!

Delivers an incredible 30% increase in performance over previous Detonator 40 drivers**

I might put them on for a hoot.

[OUTLAWS Tip]

Just installed them for my Ti 4600. I scored about 500 less on 3dmark2001 se and 60 less on 2003 from my best scores. Could have to do with not defraging first. No noticable difference, but I haven't played a game yet. Downloading the new Will Rock demo now.
Come on Netcode!!!
:angel:

[Grimmy]

are these drivers just for vid cards?? I have a NVidia LAN port, that why I ask.

[OUTLAWS Tip]

Yes

[Goober]

Help me remember the process of installation.
Do you uninstall the old drivers first, run detonator destroyer and then install the new drivers? Or is this not neccesary anymore?

[unforgiven]

This driver would work for my geforce 2 64 mb woldnt it :WTF:

[OUTLAWS Behind You?]

Originally posted by unforgiven@May 15 2003, 04:53 AM
This driver would work for my geforce 2 64 mb woldnt it :WTF:
Yes...

[ForrestFunk]

Originally posted by Goober DOA@May 15 2003, 11:27 AM
Help me remember the process of installation.
Do you uninstall the old drivers first, run detonator destroyer and then install the new drivers? Or is this not neccesary anymore?
i always install the new versoins over the older ones...never had problems so far, but i think its recommend to uninstall the older ones before

[Fred Bear]

thanks Sal for the info. I like to keep my drivers up to date. If you run XP you can always roll back the driver if it dosnt work out.

[EXEcution]

cool, hey tip do ya know if itll work for me?

[Crism]

here is a benchmark with the drivers...along with the gainward fx5900 card....1 SLOT!

http://www.vr-zone.com/#3017

[Sirc]

1.2GHz AMD Athlon
512MB Memory
GF4 TI 4400
DX9

41.09 Drivers, 3DMark2001 SE Score: 7546
44.03 Drivers, 3DMark2001 SE Score: 7416

My score drops every single time I update drivers. :bandhead:

Although it may be because the drivers are asking the CPU to do more, and it can't. :WTF:

[Crism]

i just tested out ut2k3...it seems a bit smoother....haven't tested fully though...

[SALvation]

Uh oh. nVidia might have been caught again inflating benchmarks.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...,1086025,00.asp (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1086025,00.asp)

This could be the Quake bug all over again...

[Crism]

what was the old bug?

[Sirc]

Originally posted by SALvation@May 15 2003, 09:57 PM
Uh oh. nVidia might have been caught again inflating benchmarks.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973...,1086025,00.asp (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1086025,00.asp)

This could be the Quake bug all over again...
Crimmany. So are my new scores even lower than indicated? Or is this just with the FX cards? :bandhead:

ATI is looking more and more attractive to me. I used to use them, then switched to nVidia. Maybe it's time to change back to ATI. :WTF:

[JIMINATOR]

i think they were dropping pixels on far away objects, or something to that effect.
the specs required they not do that. it was worth a few fps...

[SALvation]

The old cheat involved Quake 3. nVidia's benchmark program looked for the word "Quake" in its code and whenever it found it, it bumped up the scores a little. A programmer hacked the code, changed all the words "Quake" with "Quack" and recompiled. The recompiled version of the code gave lower benchmarks. nVidia coughed it up to a "bug".

The new card still looks kick ass but now I don't know what to believe.

[Death-Dude]

Originally posted by Crism@May 15 2003, 04:00 PM
here is a benchmark with the drivers...along with the gainward fx5900 card....1 SLOT!

http://www.vr-zone.com/#3017
That Gainward card looks like a heck of a package deal with all the extras thrown in....I'm waiting for the water cooled version, and saving up $700!


"This card supports VIVO functions with a digital video in IEEE1394 card and a 5.1 Sound card included. There is also a water cooling version of this card that costs $200 more."

(J/K, of course, 7 bills is more than I could condone, or even concieve, almost)

[JIMINATOR]

Originally posted by Death-Dude+May 17 2003, 03:12 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Death-Dude @ May 17 2003, 03:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Crism@May 15 2003, 04:00 PM
here is a benchmark with the drivers...along with the gainward fx5900 card....1 SLOT&#33;

http://www.vr-zone.com/#3017
That Gainward card looks like a heck of a package deal with all the extras thrown in....I&#39;m waiting for the water cooled version, and saving up &#036;700&#33;


"This card supports VIVO functions with a digital video in IEEE1394 card and a 5.1 Sound card included. There is also a water cooling version of this card that costs &#036;200 more."

(J/K, of course, 7 bills is more than I could condone, or even concieve, almost) [/b][/quote]
Yeah, you have to wonder what they heck they are thinking.
I guess they will price the cards at what the market will
bear, but like damn.....

[OUTLAWS Spike]

I don&#39;t know a whole lot about this driver stuff, but I found this over at Futuremarks site. link (http://www.futuremark.com/news/?newsarticle=200305/2003052405#200305/2003052405)
I have the 2.42 installed on Iris computer, so do I neeed to do something about this? meaning get another driver. :WTF:

[Death-Dude]

Originally posted by OUTLAWS Spike@May 25 2003, 10:13 AM
I don&#39;t know a whole lot about this driver stuff, but I found this over at Futuremarks site. link (http://www.futuremark.com/news/?newsarticle=200305/2003052405#200305/2003052405)
I have the 2.42 installed on Iris computer, so do I neeed to do something about this? meaning get another driver. :WTF:
This thread was about the video card drivers, not the nforce motherboard drivers, but that item is eye-opening....hope we soon find out why. I&#39;d say, if it ain&#39;t broke, don&#39;t fix it...yet, anyway. It would be good to grab the older drivers and read up on rolling back, which should be easy. nVidia has had flawed drivers before, to be sure, but usually just issue new-improved ones, rather than pulling them down, so there may be a problem....perhaps they were conflicting some hardware badly or something.

[Death-Dude]

AMDMB.com thread on the topic (http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227719)

This topic is pinned at AMDMB, apparently the problem is some systems not booting....I&#39;d call that major. Asus is on it at least with a roll-back procedure for those stricken.