Geforce4 users this is the Best driver

DivineDark · Mar 13, 2004, 06:04 AM

Athlon xp 2.2ghz
Geforce 4 TI 4200 8xagp 64mb @ 305/655

I have been looking for that so called golden driver for a very long time. One that is faster than all. In my long journey I have found very fast drivers and very slow drivers. Some of the fastest have also turned out to be the most buggy. Everyone says that Nvidia started optimising for the geforcefx at the 50.xx drivers. What I have found is, starting with the 44.03 drivers 3dmark2001 score dip by over 1000 points on my system. The nature demo seems most evident of this and only gets 60-70 fps on my system. Nvidia must have used the last of the 40.xx drivers as testing grounds for the upcoming GeforceFX. Here are the drivers I have tested so far.

Omega Drivers: 42.30, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23a, 53.03BETA

StarStorm Drivers: 44.67q, 53.03xq,

Nvidia WHQL: 40.41, 40.72, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23, 45.33, 52.16, 53.03, 53.04

3rd party Drivers: 41.09, 42.70, 43.30, 44.71, 45.24

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I have been testing these as they come along for quite some time as a personal quest to get the most out of my video card. The winner out of all of these is the Omega 43.45. Coming in on a close second is the Starstorm 44.67q. The Starstorm 44.67q is not that much slower than the Omega 43.45 but lacks much of its quality. I am getting 12,000+ 3dmarks in 3Dmark2001 with what I call the golden driver for the Geforce 4. The Omega 43.45, The king of all drivers. Download link to omega's page below.

http://www.omegacorner.com/

Kalisto · Mar 13, 2004, 04:08 PM

wow man how long did it take you to do these :P

DivineDark · Mar 13, 2004, 09:17 PM

heheh I knew that was coming. I just made sure it was the best. I would'nt give up. I had to try as many as I could. This way its easy and you dont try every driver under the sun. I also discovererd Themal throttling also happens with a GF4. I tried the Beta Omega driver and oc'ed my card to a point it would normaly lock up but it did not. It just gets lower and lower 3dmark scores the further you go. I was under the impression this only happened with the GeforceFX

tek · Mar 14, 2004, 06:53 PM

Thank you, I'm gonna take your advice and use the Omega 43.45's on my Ti4200 128MB.

realjessy · Mar 15, 2004, 05:54 AM

i dont like omega's anisotropic..it's s h i t

and i got 12000 marks easily on 56.57

DivineDark · Mar 15, 2004, 10:15 PM

What card are you using?

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DivineDark
What card are you using?

see the title.....GF 4 only

DivineDark · Mar 16, 2004, 04:58 AM

Hook it up with the system specs.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 05:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DivineDark
Hook it up with the system specs.

well...system config got nothing to do with the anisotropic quality...except G card itselt

crlorentzen · Mar 16, 2004, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by realjessy
well...system config got nothing to do with the anisotropic quality...except G card itselt

If that were true why are you complaining about the drivers...they are not the "G (I assume you mean Graphics) card itself” The Drivers are part of system configuration.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by crlorentzen
If that were true why are you complaining about the drivers...they are not the "G (I assume you mean Graphics) card itself” The Drivers are part of system configuration.

the graphic card is drived by da driver, u understand?

crlorentzen · Mar 16, 2004, 03:28 PM

I understand that the drivers control the graphics card, and IMO drivers are part of your system configuration...and your statement discounted that. Sorry to everyone for dragging this out.

Asmoday · Mar 16, 2004, 03:45 PM

Hey...play it nice guys..

no need to get rude...

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by realjessy
the graphic card is drived by da driver, u understand?

well i didnt mean to hurt anyone, and u dont need to argue with me, if i would use omega driver or not, that's my matter.......got nothing to do with u..............

i didnt say that u guy must not to use omega driver, did i?

so dont hound me, ok?

zerodamage · Mar 16, 2004, 06:52 PM

RealJessy, check your PM.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 07:16 PM

so plz hound me now....

if u got different opinion

Asmoday · Mar 16, 2004, 07:28 PM

toddsmack2k · Mar 16, 2004, 07:32 PM

No realjessy, no one is hounding you. Your tone at times is out of line and you need to tone it down. We welcome everyone here and those with different opinions. You are more then capable of stating your opinion and explaining it in a reasonable fashion, so please do so. All anyone wants to do is help each other out here not get a wise arse response when they ask a question.

No one has been out of line with you or gave you any wise remarks so you need to do likewise.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by toddsmack2k
No realjessy, no one is hounding you. Your tone at times is out of line and you need to tone it down. We welcome everyone here and those with different opinions. You are more then capable of stating your opinion and explaining it in a reasonable fashion, so please do so. All anyone wants to do is help each other out here not get a wise arse response when they ask a question.

well ...i think in a diffrent way.

u totally didnt get me.

ass wise? nuh...check other posts of mine.

toddsmack2k · Mar 16, 2004, 07:53 PM

I have went through your other posts. As when I recieve complaints about you and your posts it is my job to see what is going on and check them out. At times your posts are fine but lately it seems as you are taking somethings here way too personally and are coming off very harsh in your responses.

That being said I am not going to bicker back and forth with you in this thread about your attitude at times on this forum. Simply put you will follow the rules here at DriverHeaven and you have been asked and warned to tone it down.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 07:58 PM

yer my random crap tho.

DivineDark · Mar 16, 2004, 08:17 PM

Wow. thanks whoever for taking a big crap in my post.

realjessy · Mar 16, 2004, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DivineDark
Wow. thanks whoever for taking a big crap in my post.

sure u bet

Kalisto · Mar 18, 2004, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DivineDark
Athlon xp 2.2ghz
Geforce 4 TI 4200 8xagp 64mb @ 305/655

I have been looking for that so called golden driver for a very long time. One that is faster than all. In my long journey I have found very fast drivers and very slow drivers. Some of the fastest have also turned out to be the most buggy. Everyone says that Nvidia started optimising for the geforcefx at the 50.xx drivers. What I have found is, starting with the 44.03 drivers 3dmark2001 score dip by over 1000 points on my system. The nature demo seems most evident of this and only gets 60-70 fps on my system. Nvidia must have used the last of the 40.xx drivers as testing grounds for the upcoming GeforceFX. Here are the drivers I have tested so far.

Omega Drivers: 42.30, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23a, 53.03BETA

StarStorm Drivers: 44.67q, 53.03xq,

Nvidia WHQL: 40.41, 40.72, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23, 45.33, 52.16, 53.03, 53.04

3rd party Drivers: 41.09, 42.70, 43.30, 44.71, 45.24

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have been testing these as they come along for quite some time as a personal quest to get the most out of my video card. The winner out of all of these is the Omega 43.45. Coming in on a close second is the Starstorm 44.67q. The Starstorm 44.67q is not that much slower than the Omega 43.45 but lacks much of its quality. I am getting 12,000+ 3dmarks in 3Dmark2001 with what I call the golden driver for the Geforce 4. The Omega 43.45, The king of all drivers. Download link to omega's page below.

http://www.omegacorner.com/

id really suggest the 44.67 (BETAS) and see if any driver can beat that...-_GeForce 4 users only_-

oli84 · Mar 22, 2004, 07:31 PM

which 44.67 drivers do you suggest using, and why are they better than the 43.45 ones?

~~Justin21~~ · Mar 23, 2004, 01:26 PM

I really hope you are not basing "best driver" for gf4 users soley on 3DM2k1.... I have a Ti4200 and personnaly I see compatibility fixes in every new driver for the latest games.

DivineDark · Mar 24, 2004, 06:24 AM

No it isnt. I tested all titles by EA games and Microsoft from 1992 to date.
Well why dont you try it. If it doesnt give you any problems, its all good. That would be the obvious thing to do.

advantz · Mar 25, 2004, 12:13 AM

I can get 14k

no oc, but cpu-oc

starvinmarvin · Mar 28, 2004, 03:30 AM

Hi,

Read the post here about the best drivers for Geforce4 cards. I would welcome your thoughts on my situation. First, my system is:

ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe motherboard /
AMD Athlon XP2800+ w/333MHz frontside bus /
2 x 512MB KingstonVR PC2700 DDR memory / operating in dual-channel mode
Gainward U650XP Golden Sample (it's a GF4 Ti4200 128MB). Default settings - Core=250MHz Memory=444MHz.
WindowsXP Home edition
Maxtor 80GB hard drive / 7200 rpm / 8MB cache

Motherboard BIOS : System Performance setting = Aggressive. This is a very slight overclock of the cpu plus faster-than-normal timings for the memory.

Also, for certain "demanding" games I use Gainward-approved "enhanced" video card setting of Memory = 520MHz.

Generally speaking, performance and image quality are pretty good. Some games like QUAKE3 are run at 1600x1200 with maximum quality settings. The other extreme is, say, Colin McRae Rally 2 (very demanding!) which I'm running at 640x480 with medium quality/detail. Most games are actually running at 1024x628 with various quality settings.

3DMark2001se score is usually around 12550.

Now, about the drivers...... I'm currently using 42.30 WHQL from Gainward's website. Gainward lists them as being the "final" drivers for my Ti4200.

Earlier drivers are slightly less good. Have tried 44.03 drivers and found no improvement; in fact a slight drop-off in one 3DMark test. Also tried either some 52.xx or 53.xx drivers from nVidia's website and they were significantly WORSE !!

Now I don't mind changing drivers again but, as I said above, newer ones don't seem to give any improvement. So, should I just stick with what I've got until I can afford a new card (Radeon 9800 Pro I hope!) ?

Comments and suggestions are welcome....

Regards

Mar 13, 2004, 06:04 AM	#1
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Geforce4 Users "Golden Driver" Athlon xp 2.2ghz Geforce 4 TI 4200 8xagp 64mb @ 305/655 I have been looking for that so called golden driver for a very long time. One that is faster than all. In my long journey I have found very fast drivers and very slow drivers. Some of the fastest have also turned out to be the most buggy. Everyone says that Nvidia started optimising for the geforcefx at the 50.xx drivers. What I have found is, starting with the 44.03 drivers 3dmark2001 score dip by over 1000 points on my system. The nature demo seems most evident of this and only gets 60-70 fps on my system. Nvidia must have used the last of the 40.xx drivers as testing grounds for the upcoming GeforceFX. Here are the drivers I have tested so far. Omega Drivers: 42.30, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23a, 53.03BETA StarStorm Drivers: 44.67q, 53.03xq, Nvidia WHQL: 40.41, 40.72, 43.45, 44.03, 45.23, 45.33, 52.16, 53.03, 53.04 3rd party Drivers: 41.09, 42.70, 43.30, 44.71, 45.24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have been testing these as they come along for quite some time as a personal quest to get the most out of my video card. The winner out of all of these is the Omega 43.45. Coming in on a close second is the Starstorm 44.67q. The Starstorm 44.67q is not that much slower than the Omega 43.45 but lacks much of its quality. I am getting 12,000+ 3dmarks in 3Dmark2001 with what I call the golden driver for the Geforce 4. The Omega 43.45, The king of all drivers. Download link to omega's page below. http://www.omegacorner.com/ Last edited by DivineDark; Mar 13, 2004 at 06:29 AM.

Mar 13, 2004, 04:08 PM	#2
Kalisto DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 98 Rep Power: 0	wow man how long did it take you to do these :P __________________ Kalisto...

Mar 13, 2004, 09:17 PM	Thread Starter #3
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	heheh I knew that was coming. I just made sure it was the best. I would'nt give up. I had to try as many as I could. This way its easy and you dont try every driver under the sun. I also discovererd Themal throttling also happens with a GF4. I tried the Beta Omega driver and oc'ed my card to a point it would normaly lock up but it did not. It just gets lower and lower 3dmark scores the further you go. I was under the impression this only happened with the GeforceFX Last edited by DivineDark; Mar 13, 2004 at 09:28 PM.

Mar 14, 2004, 06:53 PM	#4
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Thank you, I'm gonna take your advice and use the Omega 43.45's on my Ti4200 128MB. __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]

Mar 16, 2004, 03:28 PM	#12
crlorentzen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 1,201 Rep Power: 0	I understand that the drivers control the graphics card, and IMO drivers are part of your system configuration...and your statement discounted that. Sorry to everyone for dragging this out. __________________

Mar 15, 2004, 05:54 AM	#5
realjessy DrvierHeaven Driver Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	i dont like omega's anisotropic..it's s h i t and i got 12000 marks easily on 56.57

Mar 15, 2004, 10:15 PM	Thread Starter #6
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	What card are you using?

Mar 16, 2004, 04:58 AM	Thread Starter #8
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Hook it up with the system specs.

Mar 16, 2004, 03:45 PM	#13
Asmoday Demonic Join Date: May 2002 Location: In the cold, dark north... Posts: 5,198 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	Hey...play it nice guys.. no need to get rude... __________________ How You can help Hardwareheaven by using Digg

Mar 16, 2004, 06:52 PM	#15
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	RealJessy, check your PM.

Mar 16, 2004, 07:16 PM	#16
realjessy DrvierHeaven Driver Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	so plz hound me now.... if u got different opinion

Mar 16, 2004, 07:28 PM	#17
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Mar 16, 2004, 07:32 PM	#18
toddsmack2k It Never..... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,173 Rep Power: 0	No realjessy, no one is hounding you. Your tone at times is out of line and you need to tone it down. We welcome everyone here and those with different opinions. You are more then capable of stating your opinion and explaining it in a reasonable fashion, so please do so. All anyone wants to do is help each other out here not get a wise arse response when they ask a question. No one has been out of line with you or gave you any wise remarks so you need to do likewise. __________________ [color=blue]*Bleeding From the Inside Pouring Out, The* *DriverHeaven* Spiral, We Shall Never Let Go Of.[/color]

Mar 16, 2004, 07:53 PM	#20
toddsmack2k It Never..... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,173 Rep Power: 0	I have went through your other posts. As when I recieve complaints about you and your posts it is my job to see what is going on and check them out. At times your posts are fine but lately it seems as you are taking somethings here way too personally and are coming off very harsh in your responses. That being said I am not going to bicker back and forth with you in this thread about your attitude at times on this forum. Simply put you will follow the rules here at DriverHeaven and you have been asked and warned to tone it down. __________________ [color=blue]*Bleeding From the Inside Pouring Out, The* *DriverHeaven* Spiral, We Shall Never Let Go Of.[/color]

Mar 16, 2004, 07:58 PM	#21
realjessy DrvierHeaven Driver Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 110 Rep Power: 0	yer my random crap tho.

Mar 16, 2004, 08:17 PM	Thread Starter #22
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Wow. thanks whoever for taking a big crap in my post.

Mar 22, 2004, 07:31 PM	#25
oli84 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	which 44.67 drivers do you suggest using, and why are they better than the 43.45 ones?

Mar 23, 2004, 01:26 PM	#26
~~Justin21~~ Banned Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 112 Rep Power: 0	I really hope you are not basing "best driver" for gf4 users soley on 3DM2k1.... I have a Ti4200 and personnaly I see compatibility fixes in every new driver for the latest games.

Mar 24, 2004, 06:24 AM	Thread Starter #27
DivineDark DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	No it isnt. I tested all titles by EA games and Microsoft from 1992 to date. Well why dont you try it. If it doesnt give you any problems, its all good. That would be the obvious thing to do.

Mar 25, 2004, 12:13 AM	#28
advantz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I can get 14k no oc, but cpu-oc __________________ P4 2.4C@3600 300MHz@1.6v Abit IS7-E 13 + ThermalTake V7+ 6000rpm 50'C 2x256MB Corsair 3200LLPT 2-2-2-5 200MHz@2.7v PixelView Ti4200-8x ViVo 3dmark01se = 14112 : http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6729071

Mar 28, 2004, 03:30 AM	#29
starvinmarvin DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Has anybody tried 42.30 drivers for Ti4200? Hi, Read the post here about the best drivers for Geforce4 cards. I would welcome your thoughts on my situation. First, my system is: ASUS A7N8X2.0 Deluxe motherboard / AMD Athlon XP2800+ w/333MHz frontside bus / 2 x 512MB KingstonVR PC2700 DDR memory / operating in dual-channel mode Gainward U650XP Golden Sample (it's a GF4 Ti4200 128MB). Default settings - Core=250MHz Memory=444MHz. WindowsXP Home edition Maxtor 80GB hard drive / 7200 rpm / 8MB cache Motherboard BIOS : System Performance setting = Aggressive. This is a very slight overclock of the cpu plus faster-than-normal timings for the memory. Also, for certain "demanding" games I use Gainward-approved "enhanced" video card setting of Memory = 520MHz. Generally speaking, performance and image quality are pretty good. Some games like QUAKE3 are run at 1600x1200 with maximum quality settings. The other extreme is, say, Colin McRae Rally 2 (very demanding!) which I'm running at 640x480 with medium quality/detail. Most games are actually running at 1024x628 with various quality settings. 3DMark2001se score is usually around 12550. Now, about the drivers...... I'm currently using 42.30 WHQL from Gainward's website. Gainward lists them as being the "final" drivers for my Ti4200. Earlier drivers are slightly less good. Have tried 44.03 drivers and found no improvement; in fact a slight drop-off in one 3DMark test. Also tried either some 52.xx or 53.xx drivers from nVidia's website and they were significantly WORSE !! Now I don't mind changing drivers again but, as I said above, newer ones don't seem to give any improvement. So, should I just stick with what I've got until I can afford a new card (Radeon 9800 Pro I hope!) ? Comments and suggestions are welcome.... Regards