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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Hamish on January 29, 2002, 11:07:37 AM

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Hamish on January 29, 2002, 11:07:37 AM

I have a GF2MX Vid card and (dumb) dowloaded the new detonator drivers and now AH plays choppy as hell, is there a better (older) version of the drivers out there i can download ?

Wierd thing is, my frame rate (under cloud cover) is 30 avg, but the display is choppy as i fly, It didn't do this until i installed the new drivers. with the default ones (i don't know what they were when i bought the machine) there was some screen flicker, but it was at least playable :(

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: forgot to mention :

Win ME P4 1.4Mhz
GF2 MX (64MB)
Need any other info?



Hamish!

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Furious on January 29, 2002, 11:31:10 AM

I think the newest drivers (23.11?) work best with DX8.1.

I think the 12.90 driver is the best of the batch.  It usually benchmarks the highest of the older ones.

F.

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: jaus on January 29, 2002, 11:46:34 AM

I had that exact experience (good fr, but choppy action) when I installed the 23.11 drivers for my GEForce 2 card.

I re-installed the 21.83 drivers and that cured the problem.  I had the drivers on cdrom but I think they are also available at the nvidia website.

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Hamish on January 29, 2002, 12:20:47 PM

thanks guys, will try them out and report back :)



Hamish

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Hamish on January 29, 2002, 12:36:00 PM

The 21.83 are the ticket, fixed the stutter, and now smooooooooth again, thanks a million and cya's up :)


Hamish

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Lephturn on January 29, 2002, 02:31:29 PM

Sorry.. been busy in the Help and Training forums. :)

http://www.otakupc.com/downloads/nvidia_drivers.shtml

I get 'em here.  I always recommend the WHQL certified versions where possible, but if you get a set that works good for you, DON"T SCREW WITH IT!  :)

Never put on the "latest" Detonators unless you have to, and even then try to stick with WHQL certified versions.

Title: Bloom25, Lephturn, Anyone! Help!
Post by: Hamish on January 29, 2002, 03:17:43 PM

Hey Leph, thanks, but when i tried to go to that sight, none of the links on the download page worked, I was going to try out some of those other sets, because i found out my wife's "Everquest" game is FUBAR in only 640x480 resolution with this set of drivers.  (it looks all offcenter and over-sized for the screen but looks just fine in 800x600 and 1024x768)



Hamish