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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 31, 2005, 11:58:56 AM

Title: new Omega drivers, old GeFarce card
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 31, 2005, 11:58:56 AM

I'm very hesitant to install new drivers since what I have does work. However, I've been having some serious problems with gunnery lately (especially since AH II version 2.02) and I'm willing to take a shot at swapping drivers to get better performance in hopes of at least maybe seeing what I might be doing wrong.

I have on older GeFarce 3 Ti 200 64MB 4x AGP card, on a Soltek SL75FRN2-RL board with an AMD Mobile 2500+ Barton, 512MB of PC4000 DDR, and a Raptor RAID HD system. I'm running Windows 2K Pro. My current drivers, on the advice from Skuzzy when AH I was still up, are the 3x.xx series official drivers.


Anyone know if the new Omegas will work, and if they will give me better performance?

I'm going to build a new system later this year, and send this one to college with my daughter, so I don't really want to waste money on a new AGP card, when I'll be going PCI Express on the next rig.

Title: new Omega drivers, old GeFarce card
Post by: zmeg on January 31, 2005, 12:20:46 PM

The old g3 cards are very picky about their drivers, if you have one that works well you should stick with it. FYI I installed the newest omega driver for my ti4200 to check it out and lost performance over the latest invidia driver.

Title: new Omega drivers, old GeFarce card
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 31, 2005, 12:22:53 PM

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Originally posted by zmeg
The old g3 cards are very picky about their drivers, if you have one that works well you should stick with it. FYI I installed the newest omega driver for my ti4200 to check it out and lost performance over the latest invidia driver.

Thanks. Not what I wanted to hear, but what I needed to know.

Title: new Omega drivers, old GeFarce card
Post by: humble on January 31, 2005, 02:00:24 PM

I'm running a Ti-4200 with a Athlon 64 3200+ (my cpu fan died last month and system cooked)...I have the current driver loaded and its OK...but I think a small step back from my older drivers. I get ~58 fps at default with very little drop....but I think I was getting more with my older 2500+ barton core before.

Title: new Omega drivers, old GeFarce card
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 31, 2005, 02:46:57 PM

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Originally posted by humble
I'm running a Ti-4200 with a Athlon 64 3200+ (my cpu fan died last month and system cooked)...I have the current driver loaded and its OK...but I think a small step back from my older drivers. I get ~58 fps at default with very little drop....but I think I was getting more with my older 2500+ barton core before.

The current Nvidia WHQL driver or the current omega driver?