best det driver

wI-OSMAN- · May 9, 2002, 11:24 AM

what's the best det drivers for my computer?
i want full windows xp support and dx8.1 support

here is my system specs:

Motherboard:Tekram P6PRO-A+ VIA Apollo Pro133 ATX

Bios date: 2000/3/29 V1.04 from http://www.tekram.com.tw

OS: Windows XP Professional MSDN CORP + 49 pre-sp1 fixes + ie6 sp1 beta build 2800.1005

CPU: Pentium III@700E MMX SSE

Memory: 1x128mb pc-100 1x256mb pc-133 384mb pc-100 sdram 168pin total

Graphics Card: Visiontek Nvidia Geforce2 MX400 T.V/s-video out 64mb sdram
Driver Version: Nvidia Ref 28.32 Whql OFFICAL Det XP

Monitor: Relsys Re772 Res at: 1280*1024*32bit*60hz

Hard drive: Western Digtel 40gb ata 66 7200 rpm

CD-Rom: Samung 32x

CD-RW: LG CED 8042B 4x4x24x

Speakers: PRO-168-3D

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128
Driver 5.12.1.4113

Game Controller: Gravis PC GamePad

Keyboard: Samsung 104 Win98 Keyboard

Mouse: Genius EasyMouse+
Driver: 1.2.0.0

Modem: GVC 56.6k PCI V.90 Model: PM560LH
Driver: 5.98A GVC

VIA 4in1 4.38(2)v(a)
VIA 4.11 BETA AGP driver
VIA 1.50 BETA INF driver

This comp runs 24/7

plz reply back as soon as you can thanx

Mark_Fox · May 9, 2002, 11:56 AM

Its really hard to say which driver would be best for you. The thing about nVidia drivers is that they perform different on different systems and if you want to find best one, I'm afraid its by trial and error. Try the latest 29.20, some people with geforce2mx liked it better then 28.32. You can also check out 28.90 and 29.11 if you're not happy with 29.20. Run some benchmarks, play some games and report back on whether the 29.20 or 29.11 or 28.90 was better then 28.32.

You can find all of these drivers over @ Warp2Search here - http://www.warp2search.net/download....download&sid=2

LINK · May 9, 2002, 02:51 PM

i have geforce 2mx and the 29.11 and i liked them better then the rest,
they have the best Performance and i don't have any bugs, yet,

Look, try all the newest drivers, i mean the 28.90 and the 29.11/20

wI-OSMAN- · May 9, 2002, 06:15 PM

thanx guys
i just tried the 28.84 driver and it stops my crashing in UT when i load a map up
i tried those other ones and i got a low score
3dmarks 2001se pro

28.84- 2340
29.11-1056

:P

p.s i forgot to save the results sorry

SsP45 · May 9, 2002, 10:38 PM

Well, you only have a GeForce 2MX, so I wouldn't expect stellar performance from it.

Ray-Ban · May 10, 2002, 12:55 AM

Quote:

what's the best det drivers for my computer?
i want full windows xp support and dx8.1 support

Yeah buddy... sorry.

Your GeForce2 MX isn't going to get you far in the world with full directx8.1 support. The card doesn't have the pixel shaders to handle the kinds of flashy crap that's in dx8.1 now.

Also, the 29.20 beta drivers are good drivers, but probably not for the geforce2. It seems that they're really geared towards the geforce3/4 cards because I can see a 10-20 FPS increase in the nature demo (a dx8 benchmark). Just don't expect so much out of your card. Stick to older games right now, then hit up someone for a geforce4 ti4200.

~~HawK~~ · May 19, 2002, 08:41 AM

For me it is 29.40 (W2K) Stable & Fast
but by the time you read this, there will be newer,better,faster

For you W2K + Athlon users, there's an old AMD AGP-patch here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...09^871,00.html
that still does a very good job for me, stability wise

digitalwanderer · May 19, 2002, 02:32 PM

My GF2 MX400 likes the 29.41 set just fine, thank you very much. I'm of the opinion that the "You have a GF2? You should use the older drivers." philosophy is a myth for people who aren't in to wreckless driver experimentation.

HoTw!rEd · May 23, 2002, 06:11 PM

As the rest of you'z I Test Bench jump to the next driver go back to the old one then the older etc... To find the perfect Driver/Performance for Ahem GREAT GAME PERFORMANCE!

No-One knows which is better for the system you are running, due to so many variables the best is follow what range of driver works da best for your card (From following the postings and tests from other members) Then test 'em out and see which one givesthe greatest performance without sacrificing the LOOK/FLUIDITY of the games ya like!

Reading along I see all sorts of yap yap about cards.... Some truth
Each series of chip and card maker makes the performance, Okay some thought
GForce 2 Ti from Herc, 8GB Bandwith 64 DDR (So for the Tech's NV15DDR) 2Mill Tx Per sec
Not the good 'ol 1 Mill per sec , core clock @ 250Mhz, Ram 400 Mhz, Runs Better than the Xtasy GF4 440MX the 275 Core Clock etc.... Ramblings Truth the next gen of cards are sweet and will most certainly give you the speed/Performance When you get the Mid and Top of the card line! I guess where I am going is USE IT! MAX IT Enjoy the card Ya Gots Then when you are ready to move UP Cha Ching Buy the next $$ and do the same. (This Ramblinga result of a comment 'bout Gforce 2 not gonna cut it) I dissagree. and before I get boo'ed by eyerone. I am pointing out to some of the NEW Power Hungy Users and Newbies to Vid Overclockings etc... That there are variations in cards and The Higher GForce 2,3 Will still kick butt on the Lower GF4's. Of course My Next Venture Will be the GF4 4600 or What comes next... But Still Happy with My GF2 Ti from Hercules!

Drivers Been there Done That! Getting Awesome FPS with 23.11 Still .... gone up to 29.40 and Down (Must have atleast 400 MB's of Det Drivers) ---LOL
:o
(RivaTuner enabled Refresh Fix enabled) (85Hz)
Quake3 Arena Getting 125FPS @ 1024x768 Full Graphichs no comprimise ,cept 16BIT!
Wolfenstein 1024x768 Full Graphics all details , (16 Bit in game) (Without Timedemo 1) @ 90 - 99 FPS
Both OPGL
Unreal Tournament runs it's best in DX rather Than GL Cuz of the config I Have I wont list my FPS too many people will question! LOL anyhow needless to say I am a addict to UT and I get Way awesome FPS's

My Toy In Progress
Asus P4T 1.3Ghz P4 (Going 2Ghz in near future) 400MHz FSB
512 RD ram PC 800MHz
60Gig Hd 7200 Maxtor UDMA5
40GIG Maxtor 7200 UDMA5
Yamaha 20x10x40 2200 Writer
Samsung DVD 12x
Herc GForce 2 Ti 64DDR
SB Live 5.1
WinXp Pro, etc.... (Nothing overclocked)
1 suggestion anyone with a intel chipset try the App Accelerator, For some wierd Quark
it seemed to take some load of the system and increase the performance a weee bit!
Whats the worst that can happen (You uninstall it??) LMAO

digitalwanderer · May 23, 2002, 07:12 PM

Wow! A new guy who is intelligent, knowledgeable, and utterly surreal in his posts!

Welcome to Driver Heaven, it's nice to have ya around. I look forward to some weirdness and educating from ya.

HoTw!rEd · May 24, 2002, 07:58 AM

Back at you digitalwanderer! Pleasure is all mine! Here's to future posts made with intent to get some facts ,answers (without insults) so we can drive the madness & Performance of (AGAIN) Da Gaming (is that not what it's all about??) -- LMAO

Treats and spoils to Ya

HoTw!rEd (on CoFfEe) LOL

Chaos · May 27, 2002, 04:48 PM

I have tried pretty much all the Detonator's also from 12.41 to 29.40. 23.11 or 22.80 have been the best overall for my system. I have owned 4 different nVidia cards from the TNT2 to the GeForce 3 Ti200. While I do get the best performance out of the GeForce 3 Ti200 the difference between that and my GeForce 2 Ti are really not that noticable except in some benchmarks. I can run UT just about as fast with the GeForce 2 Ti getting frame rates that vary from 40-75 FPS @ 1024x768x32 bit. I guess what I'm saying is I agree with HoTw!rEd's post. If you have a slower processor lets say from 1GHz or less the GeForce 2 line is still a good option. If you have a system that can take advantage of faster bus speeds (266MHz) and DDR, then a GeForce 3 or GeForce 4 are a better choice if you have the cash.

My current rig:

Windows 2000 Professional SP2
Athlon 1GHz 200MHz FSB
Volcano 7+
MSI 6330LE MB
512 Meg PC133 Cas 3
Maxtor 20Gig 7200 HD
MSI GeForce 3 Ti200 (3DMark 2001 SE 5789) 23.11 Detonators
Inno3D GeForce 2 Ti (3DMark 2001 SE 3988) 23.11 Detonators
Sound Blaster Audigy
Linksys 10/100 Nic
Creative Inspire 2.1
LG 16x10x40 CDRW
Pioneer 10X DVD

Forge · May 30, 2002, 05:02 PM

The very best Nvidia drivers are the 2.08's. Forget all this newfangled 1*.** and 2*.** crap, the 2.08s are still the fastest and most stable Detonators.

*winK*

May 9, 2002, 11:24 AM	#1
wI-OSMAN- DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	best det driver what's the best det drivers for my computer? i want full windows xp support and dx8.1 support here is my system specs: Motherboard:Tekram P6PRO-A+ VIA Apollo Pro133 ATX Bios date: 2000/3/29 V1.04 from http://www.tekram.com.tw OS: Windows XP Professional MSDN CORP + 49 pre-sp1 fixes + ie6 sp1 beta build 2800.1005 CPU: Pentium III@700E MMX SSE Memory: 1x128mb pc-100 1x256mb pc-133 384mb pc-100 sdram 168pin total Graphics Card: Visiontek Nvidia Geforce2 MX400 T.V/s-video out 64mb sdram Driver Version: Nvidia Ref 28.32 Whql OFFICAL Det XP Monitor: Relsys Re772 Res at: 1280102432bit*60hz Hard drive: Western Digtel 40gb ata 66 7200 rpm CD-Rom: Samung 32x CD-RW: LG CED 8042B 4x4x24x Speakers: PRO-168-3D Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 Driver 5.12.1.4113 Game Controller: Gravis PC GamePad Keyboard: Samsung 104 Win98 Keyboard Mouse: Genius EasyMouse+ Driver: 1.2.0.0 Modem: GVC 56.6k PCI V.90 Model: PM560LH Driver: 5.98A GVC VIA 4in1 4.38(2)v(a) VIA 4.11 BETA AGP driver VIA 1.50 BETA INF driver This comp runs 24/7 plz reply back as soon as you can thanx

May 19, 2002, 02:32 PM	#8
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Ah-hem..... My GF2 MX400 likes the 29.41 set just fine, thank you very much. I'm of the opinion that the "You have a GF2? You should use the older drivers." philosophy is a myth for people who aren't in to wreckless driver experimentation. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 23, 2002, 06:11 PM	#9
HoTw!rEd DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	GForce cards yappy yap and Drivers As the rest of you'z I Test Bench jump to the next driver go back to the old one then the older etc... To find the perfect Driver/Performance for Ahem GREAT GAME PERFORMANCE! No-One knows which is better for the system you are running, due to so many variables the best is follow what range of driver works da best for your card (From following the postings and tests from other members) Then test 'em out and see which one givesthe greatest performance without sacrificing the LOOK/FLUIDITY of the games ya like! Reading along I see all sorts of yap yap about cards.... Some truth Each series of chip and card maker makes the performance, Okay some thought GForce 2 Ti from Herc, 8GB Bandwith 64 DDR (So for the Tech's NV15DDR) 2Mill Tx Per sec Not the good 'ol 1 Mill per sec , core clock @ 250Mhz, Ram 400 Mhz, Runs Better than the Xtasy GF4 440MX the 275 Core Clock etc.... Ramblings Truth the next gen of cards are sweet and will most certainly give you the speed/Performance When you get the Mid and Top of the card line! I guess where I am going is USE IT! MAX IT Enjoy the card Ya Gots Then when you are ready to move UP Cha Ching Buy the next $$ and do the same. (This Ramblinga result of a comment 'bout Gforce 2 not gonna cut it) I dissagree. and before I get boo'ed by eyerone. I am pointing out to some of the NEW Power Hungy Users and Newbies to Vid Overclockings etc... That there are variations in cards and The Higher GForce 2,3 Will still kick butt on the Lower GF4's. Of course My Next Venture Will be the GF4 4600 or What comes next... But Still Happy with My GF2 Ti from Hercules! Drivers Been there Done That! Getting Awesome FPS with 23.11 Still .... gone up to 29.40 and Down (Must have atleast 400 MB's of Det Drivers) ---LOL :o (RivaTuner enabled Refresh Fix enabled) (85Hz) Quake3 Arena Getting 125FPS @ 1024x768 Full Graphichs no comprimise ,cept 16BIT! Wolfenstein 1024x768 Full Graphics all details , (16 Bit in game) (Without Timedemo 1) @ 90 - 99 FPS Both OPGL Unreal Tournament runs it's best in DX rather Than GL Cuz of the config I Have I wont list my FPS too many people will question! LOL anyhow needless to say I am a addict to UT and I get Way awesome FPS's My Toy In Progress Asus P4T 1.3Ghz P4 (Going 2Ghz in near future) 400MHz FSB 512 RD ram PC 800MHz 60Gig Hd 7200 Maxtor UDMA5 40GIG Maxtor 7200 UDMA5 Yamaha 20x10x40 2200 Writer Samsung DVD 12x Herc GForce 2 Ti 64DDR SB Live 5.1 WinXp Pro, etc.... (Nothing overclocked) 1 suggestion anyone with a intel chipset try the App Accelerator, For some wierd Quark it seemed to take some load of the system and increase the performance a weee bit! Whats the worst that can happen (You uninstall it??) LMAO

May 23, 2002, 07:12 PM	#10
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	Welcome to Driver Heaven HoTw!rEd Wow! A new guy who is intelligent, knowledgeable, and utterly surreal in his posts! Welcome to Driver Heaven, it's nice to have ya around. I look forward to some weirdness and educating from ya. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 24, 2002, 07:58 AM	#11
HoTw!rEd DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: BC, Canada Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Re: digitalwanderer Back at you digitalwanderer! Pleasure is all mine! Here's to future posts made with intent to get some facts ,answers (without insults) so we can drive the madness & Performance of (AGAIN) Da Gaming (is that not what it's all about??) -- LMAO Treats and spoils to Ya HoTw!rEd (on CoFfEe) LOL

May 9, 2002, 11:56 AM	#2
Mark_Fox RIP Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 308 Rep Power: 0	Its really hard to say which driver would be best for you. The thing about nVidia drivers is that they perform different on different systems and if you want to find best one, I'm afraid its by trial and error. Try the latest 29.20, some people with geforce2mx liked it better then 28.32. You can also check out 28.90 and 29.11 if you're not happy with 29.20. Run some benchmarks, play some games and report back on whether the 29.20 or 29.11 or 28.90 was better then 28.32. You can find all of these drivers over @ Warp2Search here - http://www.warp2search.net/download....download&sid=2

May 9, 2002, 02:51 PM	#3
LINK DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: some where over the rainbow Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	i have geforce 2mx and the 29.11 and i liked them better then the rest, they have the best Performance and i don't have any bugs, yet, Look, try all the newest drivers, i mean the 28.90 and the 29.11/20

May 9, 2002, 06:15 PM	Thread Starter #4
wI-OSMAN- DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	thanx guys i just tried the 28.84 driver and it stops my crashing in UT when i load a map up i tried those other ones and i got a low score 3dmarks 2001se pro 28.84- 2340 29.11-1056 :P p.s i forgot to save the results sorry

May 9, 2002, 10:38 PM	#5
SsP45 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Well, you only have a GeForce 2MX, so I wouldn't expect stellar performance from it.

May 19, 2002, 08:41 AM	#7
~~HawK~~ Banned Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 2,092 Rep Power: 0	For me it is 29.40 (W2K) Stable & Fast but by the time you read this, there will be newer,better,faster For you W2K + Athlon users, there's an old AMD AGP-patch here: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...09^871,00.html that still does a very good job for me, stability wise

May 27, 2002, 04:48 PM	#12
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Det's I have tried pretty much all the Detonator's also from 12.41 to 29.40. 23.11 or 22.80 have been the best overall for my system. I have owned 4 different nVidia cards from the TNT2 to the GeForce 3 Ti200. While I do get the best performance out of the GeForce 3 Ti200 the difference between that and my GeForce 2 Ti are really not that noticable except in some benchmarks. I can run UT just about as fast with the GeForce 2 Ti getting frame rates that vary from 40-75 FPS @ 1024x768x32 bit. I guess what I'm saying is I agree with HoTw!rEd's post. If you have a slower processor lets say from 1GHz or less the GeForce 2 line is still a good option. If you have a system that can take advantage of faster bus speeds (266MHz) and DDR, then a GeForce 3 or GeForce 4 are a better choice if you have the cash. My current rig: Windows 2000 Professional SP2 Athlon 1GHz 200MHz FSB Volcano 7+ MSI 6330LE MB 512 Meg PC133 Cas 3 Maxtor 20Gig 7200 HD MSI GeForce 3 Ti200 (3DMark 2001 SE 5789) 23.11 Detonators Inno3D GeForce 2 Ti (3DMark 2001 SE 3988) 23.11 Detonators Sound Blaster Audigy Linksys 10/100 Nic Creative Inspire 2.1 LG 16x10x40 CDRW Pioneer 10X DVD __________________

May 30, 2002, 05:02 PM	#13
Forge DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: King of Prussia, PA, USA Posts: 107 Rep Power: 0	The very best Nvidia drivers are the 2.08's. Forget all this newfangled 1.* and 2.* crap, the 2.08s are still the fastest and most stable Detonators. winK __________________ [COLOR=lightgreen] Vargr64[/COLOR]: Core 2 Q9450@3.2 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] OCZ Dominator [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] 4GB G.Skill 800MHz [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] eVGA GeForce 9800GT [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Raptor150+Seag750+Seag640+Seag320+Seag320 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1H [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1S [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] TT Armor+ [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Corsair TX750W [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Gigabyte EP35-DS4 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Logitech Z-680 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Vista64 Ultimate SP1 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Ubuntu 8.10 x64