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FlipMoeJack
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 23 Jun 2002
Posts: 176
Location: New York |
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Anyone try out these new drivers yet? I'd like to know if there are any improvements over the 40.72. What is the difference? What was changed?
Did the new driver affect Morrowind at all? If so, in what ways? Better or worse?
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Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:31 am |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
On my system, i didnt notice any difference with those new drivers. I have a GeForce MX 440, that might be why... |
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Sun Dec 08, 2002 3:16 am |
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FlipMoeJack
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 23 Jun 2002
Posts: 176
Location: New York |
Hrm..I'm wondering when NVidia will release a detonator driver that actually has some noticable positive changes to games.
I'm running under 40.72
Anyone using Direct X 9 change their driver to 41.09 and see a difference between the drivers using the new Direct X?
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Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:22 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Yes, i installed DirectX 9 yesterday, and still using the same NVIDIA drivers, there is a very big increase in my FPS. I mean, its so smooth that i cant believe i am still using the same video card. DirectX 9 is impressive.  |
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Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:32 pm |
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Remus
Overgrown Cat
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
Posts: 1657
Location: Fish bowl |
Ammon, what is you video card?, GF2, 3 or 4?. I already have DX9 and it improved MW's frame rates, now i want to know how far newest nVidia dirvers would increase performances for different GF cards.  |
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Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:45 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
Remus, its a GeForce 4 MX 440, 64mb DDR, AGP 4X/2X -- not a very good card but with this computer system its the very highest i can possibly upgrade; i cant wait till September 2003 when i get my new computer that will have a GeForce FX on it -- WOOHOO  |
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Sat Dec 21, 2002 10:57 pm |
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hoyp
High Emperor
Joined: 02 Oct 2002
Posts: 501
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Directx 9 did nothing on my pc 
The new driver definetely improved my pc's perfomance on the Gothic 2 demo. |
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Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:31 pm |
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FlipMoeJack
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 23 Jun 2002
Posts: 176
Location: New York |
This may sound odd, but while still running the detonator driver 40.72, I installed Direct X 9 and found a 10-15 FPS increase in Morrowind. Its crazy! Direct X 9 is the greatest, and cheapest (free!) upgrade I ever gave my computer!
My videocard is a GeForce 3 Ti 500 64 MBs
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Sun Dec 22, 2002 4:23 pm |
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GhanBuriGhan
Noble Knight
Joined: 03 May 2002
Posts: 208
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I just upgraded both to the detonator 41.09 and DirectX 9, and to my misery it seems to have had a rather detrimental effect. I use this FPS Optimizer tool, and the now fog seems to roll in much closer to maintain FPS now (this is in Mournhold, BTW). Wish I hadn't listned to the talk on this forum.
This is on Win98se, GF4 TI 4400, 512 MB RAM, AMD XP 1800+ |
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Sun Dec 22, 2002 7:13 pm |
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InSaNe
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 09 Nov 2002
Posts: 174
Location: Netherlands |
ghan.. i dont really think you NEED to upgrade with that compu.. mine is 20x worse
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Mon Dec 23, 2002 3:41 pm |
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FlipMoeJack
Captain of the Guard
Joined: 23 Jun 2002
Posts: 176
Location: New York |
Ghan. I think you should upgrade to Win XP, I'm not sure if that would affect anything...
I have an AMD Athlon XP 1900+, 512 MBs DDR RAM, GF3 Ti 500 and Win XP Home Edition.
My detonator driver is at 40.72, I wasn't sure if I should upgrade to the next detonator driver cause it wasn't WHQL certified yet.
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Tue Dec 24, 2002 4:30 pm |
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InSaNe
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 09 Nov 2002
Posts: 174
Location: Netherlands |
im sorry but.. whats a detonator? does every computer need one or something? 
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Tue Dec 24, 2002 6:07 pm |
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InSaNe
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 09 Nov 2002
Posts: 174
Location: Netherlands |
oooh its a graphic driver.. i have all that
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Tue Dec 24, 2002 9:52 pm |
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Hagatha
King of the Realms
Joined: 10 Feb 2002
Posts: 456
Location: Burnaby, B.C. |
I'm not sure which it was, but either the newest NVidia drivers or DX9 caused my Morrowind game to reboot my computer right at startup. Also, several other games were having severe problems. I removed them both, and now use DX 8.1 and the drivers that came with my new video card, and Morrowind runs really well - better than ever before. |
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