NVIDIA Detonator 40.41 Released (Official)

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:12 pm

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_40.41

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:01 pm

IMPORTANT ABOUT THSI DRIVER SET READ

http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.ph ... did=483073

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:42 pm

In one of thoe links

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic ... 0ce96b5a46

They are talking about some crazy perofrmance increase, but too early to tell, and i Have not read the whole thread yet.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:44 pm

Btw,

Have they stopped supporting win98?

They only have Det 4 drivers win2k/xp?

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:13 pm

What does those threads mean, did they lower an option to get awesome increase in FPS??

aagiants · Post by **aagiants** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:19 pm

it seems like 0x is the same as 1x

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:25 pm

My jaw's been on the keyboard since switching over to Omega's drivers for nVidia. Hardly a performance hit, matter of fact saw some benchmarks of their 30.30 drivers which actually beat nVidia's own.

But the visual quality increase....WOW!!!

http://www.omegacorner.com/

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:34 pm

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
My jaw's been on the keyboard since switching over to Omega's drivers for nVidia. Hardly a performance hit, matter of fact saw some benchmarks of their 30.30 drivers which actually beat nVidia's own.

But the visual quality increase....WOW!!!

http://www.omegacorner.com/

can u overclock with the omega drivers installed?

njeddiek · Post by **njeddiek** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:48 pm

If your going to try these new drivers be careful and set a restore point first. With the new drivers I could not run 3dmark 2001 se. I had to restore to the old drivers.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:54 pm

Originally posted by YARDofSTUF

can u overclock with the omega drivers installed?

Yup...same CoolBits reg hack I've done for years.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 10:11 am

http://www.icrontic.com/index.php?page= ... icleId=232

Decent article comparing them.

SLK · Post by **SLK** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 10:31 am

Anyone try them yet???? How are they?

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:04 pm

So does anyone know have Nvidia stopped deeloping for win98?

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 3:56 pm

Originally posted by davy19
So does anyone know, has Nvidia stopped developing for win98?

I'd like to know this as well.

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:35 pm

The Omega drivers caused some bizarre things to happen on my system. First off, my services.exe(W2K) went wild on occasion. Don't ask me how or why, it just did. Unreal would puke half of the time, other times it was seamless, just perfect. Might give em another dance soon, the pctures were SOOOO much prettier.

NICK · Post by **NICK** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 12:57 am

Im more of an FramesPerSecond ho so I'll stick with the 40.41's

Mutch · Post by **Mutch** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 1:19 am

My fps has seen an increase.. Of around 10 or 15 or so.. Good find Brent.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 1:55 am

these pics speak for themselves...

Det 30.xx

Det 40.41

Quite a performance boost... same specs same everything..

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 2:26 am

Acutally from what I have been reading from other sites, it looks like the majority of performance increase has only been with 3dmark2001. Very few noticaeble differences in games.

Supposedly if you compare the Gf4ti4600 with the Radeon 9700 it is only 1000 points behind the Radeon in 3dmark2001, and maybe Nvidia is just trying to hype up as much as they can, before they release the nv30, by pushing ATI to come up with better drivers, otherwise it might not sell as much as they hope if the nv30 is coming out real soon.

What do you think?