New Detonator Drivers

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• you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar : KinetiK
• [o.o] : usedillusion

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• i definatly noticed the colors looked different. : Turd Ferguson
• There's some new setting in te controlpanel for this. I haven't meesed with it to see if it helps. : chuk
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  yep.. same dullness in quake3 for me too.. no cursor problems though.. however i did notice a lot of flic... : tangles
  • flickering=60hz bug most likely pick up reforce, its linked a little ways down this very thread. : Polish Sausage
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  My digital vibrance turned off when I installed the new drivers. I searched a few times for the bloody t... : Barnahog
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    It's in the color correction control. And yes Quake3 is more colorful now! : chuk
    • No color correction control here, nor a "digital vibrance" option. : _AgenT_
• its like there are no more yellows in quake3. Everything looks greenish : chunken_master
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  YES! I looks so dull :( : moshman
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    turn the digital vibrance on in the control panel ... BIG difference in colors! : onemind
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      drivers great for me but i cant turn on digital vibrance because my color correction tab aint there! anyo... : =BlanK=
      • Aye, I do not have it either: GF2MX. Anyone? : _AgenT_
• yep ill probably reinstall the old ones. it messed up q3 color bad. and no its not digital vibrance, gf2 ... : foof

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  WHOA, signifigant improvements in quake3 with and without anisotropic filtering. Quake III Arena 1.31 ... : Turd Ferguson
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    Wow, that's pretty impressive! : Tissen
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      yeah, i was very suprised. i wasn't expecting anything in this ballpark. : Turd Ferguson
      • Now I need to know if it works on my swedish XP pro, and if it works with BF1942. People around here seem... : Tissen
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    what about quack3? : indeego
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      good question, i duno. maybe [H] will check it out. : Turd Ferguson
      • I'm only partially kidding... why would a vendor do that now? The bad PR would offset any advantage. : indeego
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    the big question is quake 3 the only damn game nvidia ever optimizes for : -=kodiak=-
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      with so many licsenees it is a smart thing to optimize for. : sharkII
      • i guess... but those games more or less are so heavily optimized themselves i mean, jkII is still a cp... : -=kodiak=-
  • repost Detonator 30.82 3DMark2001SE 11072 Comanche 4 55.29 ... : brutal
  • I'm willing to bet that you aren't comparing apples with apples.. : dn__

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• yes : Draugluin

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  NVRefreshTool is indeed broken with the new drivers. However, this program works fine: http://www.pagehos... : aggressor
  • Thanks Aggressor! IT WORKED! *MarksmanX performs Mansex on Aggressor* : MarksmanX
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    Using this program will break BF 1942, right? : diehlr
    • Someone please answer this man. : SatansFist
    • Yes it will. : airrob
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    Sweet, someone should mark this post as informative. : bigimp
    • Someone did! : brutal
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  RivaTuner works just fine, as well. : aphelion
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    and does RivaTuner break BF1942? : JennasBush
    • Yessir, it's quite beautiful. I'd prefer to think of it as the buggy beta's fault. : aphelion

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  Can someone confirm this b4 i install the new dets?? : smax
  • well i just tried it there on my 2mx witht he new drivers and it worked fine... : marku5
  • works here. : timmXXX
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  Works fine here : ovrlrd
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    Yeah, just tested it. Works fine for me 2 : pun][sher
    • me also (gf2gts) : foof
• not here. not sure why but the game seems to be chopping up a ton : jedi_27
• Works fine here : Sparhawk6

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  I didn't. What'd they screw up ? : brutal
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    aside from it being a somewhat "alien" gui that feels utterly out of place within Windows? : Toraz Chryx
    • I agree. No sir, I don't like it! : diehlr

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  oc your FSB, increment your multiplier by 1, get a half gig of DDR (versus PC133), oc your video core/mem... : warren
  • So you're saying those scores are normal for my non-oc'd machine? That's all I'm wondering. : bigimp
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  In 1024x768x32, my 1800+, 512mb DDR, GF4 ti-4400 (all unoverclocked, with the exception of memory at CAS2... : davew2040
  • That's about what I get. : Wolfanoz
  • Cool, thanks for sharing. I guess my scores are more or less normal then. Cheers, BigImp. : bigimp
• I have a 1400 T-Bird and a Ti4400, and I get around 8600, so your system is probably working fine. : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
• 3dmark2001se scales a lot with cpu and you don't have enough cpu to be getting 10k, you're numbers are in... : Old_Fart

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• I am. those are very good drivers for the gf4 line of cards and they are whql'd. : brutal

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  I got a 15 fps improvment running the time demo in Q3A! Not too shabby! : chuk
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    i got 30-40 fps increases in quake3, and my madonion score improved more than 10%, not too shabby. : Turd Ferguson
    • let me know how they hold up. : brutal
    • Detonator 30.82 3DMark2001SE 11072 Comanche 4 55.29 Quak... : brutal
  • let me know if there's anything else it improves : brutal
  • What card are you using?I forgot to ask before. : brutal

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• If they weren't buggy, that would be the reason that would convince me to upgrade. : gregorybrown

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• I thought the ultra was a good image card myself. : brutal

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• while you're worrying i'll be fraggin with my extra 10 fps!!! : barbs

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• Isn't that a good thing? : ovrlrd
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  I guess the folks at NVIDIA have internet connection too =) : SlamDunk
  • 56k! : iamgoat

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• nevermind... im a crack head : fuji-juice
• You did not completely uninstall previous detos. That is the reason. : SlamDunk

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  Hm...Seems like the games aren't ready for these drivers... : pun][sher
  • Some people actually think like that, you know. They would not appreciate your insolent sarcasm!! : davew2040

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  Go here for a fix, its a TSR but works great Refreshlock http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rl/ : Mawgui
  • nope, there's a better alternative my son: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5403427 BigT : BigT
• yea use refresh lock works with everything.. great tool for the win2k gamers : postal21

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• They are a bit buggy, but they are fast : gl2 drivers
• They are all talking about you. : iamgoat

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• They aren't buggy for most people really though. I don't care either way. Better performance from new dri... : ovrlrd

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  You probably already had old drivers in the nvidia temp folder (default c:\nvidia). Same happened to me. ... : timmXXX
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    nope no-go, prolly beacuse I have an non-english version of XP see: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=54... : BigT
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      no, I have an English version and it crashes for me to : koder
      • ok the solution is to uninstall and reinstall the drivers. : koder
• it changed where the advanced settings are, now you have to go to geforce tab, and click the green arrow ... : Turd Ferguson
• whoooa ! it works thanks to http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5404988 how the hell did that slip through... : BigT

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  Jesus dude you could triple that 3dmark score with a $110 GeForce3 Ti200 video card. You got all that ot... : Phil
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    Yeah, tell me about it :( Though I am getting a Radeon 9700 Pro on my birthday I think :) Which is Septe... : pun][sher
    • Cool! I have the AMD XP 1600, 512 ram, ECS K7s5a mobo (and the GF3 Ti200) and get about 7500. I bet wit... : Phil

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• MSPaint loads 2 seconds faster now. : MarksmanX

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• I had the same problem. I just swtiched my cursor set to a different type and it went away. I am using ... : quix
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  Great! Thanks a million, I guess it can't stand bitmap cursors yet. Why fix something that isn't broken? ... : ad0-q3m
  • Win2000, 512 megs o' ram, Geforce2MX : quix
• I had that problem too... and then when I tried loading into Q3, I just got a blank screen (Menus still w... : V3N0M

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  happens to me too... POS : moshman
  • check out www.warp2search.net They have a possible solution for the ones having the control panel cra... : carpediem
• i had the same problem - completely uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling seemed to work.. : marku5
• Same problem here. MSI GeForce4 Ti4400 : larcho
• This worked for me: Clear out the c:\nvidia folder. I had some old drivers in there, and those caused the... : timmXXX

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  Is this so important ? : larcho
  • It is if you don't want to hear me whine about refresh rates and x problem. : indeego

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  I don't wanna install 3DMark2001 :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Then wait 5 years for the benchma... : aggressor
  • Dude if you play FPS, just to a Quake III timedemo. I don't even bother with 3DMarks 2001 SE. : MarksmanX
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    yep that's me : rigg5kthx
    • oh, you sux ho ;p : aggressor

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  Perhaps it sharpens textures? : insta
  • omigod why didnt i think of that! : aggressor

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  Compare your old scores to your new ones. I bet the only real change was in the Nature game, and what gam... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
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    Quake 3 and games based on it's engine. : dafragsta
    • /me looks at his games folder. Nope, I don't play any of those right now :D It's pretty much just UT, ... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
  • There is a number of games that use shaders. I haven't found a game that uses shit yet though. : ovrlrd

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• It's been on FileshacK! : aggressor

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  are there improvements for geforce 2 mx too? : ventro
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    I have a Geforce2MX. I am downloading it now, and I will benchmark it in 3dmark for you guys comparing m... : pun][sher
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      k, thanks so much you rock : ventro
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        Installing now...Then restart, Benchmark, and the new post :) Should be done in about 8 min or so : pun][sher
        • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5404804 : pun][sher