zaher

Hi
I have Geforce2 MX 400 64Mb DDR,what are the omega drivers version which give me very fast performance than the others?

do I need to download the latest Omega drivers or there is another version which is more faster for my graphic card?

please I care about performance when playing new games on my old card


but also I don't want drivers which have graphics errors or something like that

thanks alot

Matth

I doubt that there's any more than a few percent in it, and you can forget modern games unless they have options intended for underpowered systems.

I've run a GF2 MX - and now, as I found one very cheap indeed, a Geforce 4 MX440- 8x ... no more capable, but a bit faster.

I found drivers later than 53.04 to be unstable on a 2MX - and while I tought it may have been a Win9x driver issue, the moment I mentioned it, someone else had the same trouble on XP - and knew of others - but some people do find that later drivers are ok.

The performance of the old cards, stopped improving with drivers ages ago - if you're lucky, later dariver may improve software compatibility, and not lose performance.

I'd always try to run one that matches the version of DirectX - drivers for a later version don't run well with earlier, and using an old DirectX 7 driver version under DX9 may lose some compatibility.

The part of the driver version number that appears before the Nvidia version tells you the DirectX level
I currently have 4.14.10.5304

That indicates:
Win9x (4) (6=WinXP)
DX9 (14) (scales all the way down to 10=DX5)

Not sure if it makes much difference, but I set the driver modes to "High performance" and "Blend" for the mipmap level - the default seems to be high quality for mipmap, and I find that blend is ok, but anything lower looks a bit rough.

The_Neon_Cowboy

Your so much better off with newer card!
you really should upgrade!

Drivers can only do so much....

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zaher

thanks for the info but u didn't give me a solution
I know that Omega are faster than nvidia(as I read on Omega homepage) but I don't know if the latest omega drivers 61.77 will give me more performance 4 my card than the older versions or not...I need answer to know which version I must download
also is there a difference in performance between the win9x and winXP drivers?

thanks

Stop It

the 45.23 omega drivers appears to be decent for older cards, search them up.

BTW, the 9x and WinXP/2000 versions of drivers are incomparable (unless if you have a dual boot of course) cause the Win9x wont work on XP/2000 and the Xp/2000 ones wont work on 9x.

Oh, and Neon Cowboy, could you not tell EVERYONE with an older system to upgrade, most people have higher priorities in life than constantly buying PC parts, that and not everyone uses their pcs to play the latest games, and dont need to upgrade, but a perf boost is always welcome, please, think of that before you post in that fashion.

The_Neon_Cowboy

We know but looking at drivers for any added performance wich such a card is almost pointless. I assume the systems out of date as well. All you can really hope for is stabilty and bug fixes...

That card lacking alot of hardware support, features and over all power
Forking out about $50 for a newer card would work far more wonders

find a geforce4 mx or maybe a 5200FX
maybe even turnig to ebay if you want to take chance maybe geta good deal

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Matth

A Geforce 4 MX would not be much of an upgrade - more speed, but no real improvement in hardware capability.

If you can pick one up without paying silly money, a Geforce 3 is DX8 hardware - and unless DX9 capababilities are critical, will probably blow the socks of the FX5200 as well - and never refuse a cheap (but working) Geforce 4 (not MX) - still a very strong DX8 card.

jasonbourne

u really need to consider about buying a new video card, don't waste your time testing drivers for your video card , without a shadow of a doubt you won't notice any diference with the latest drivers.

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