Detonator XP driver problems

[daveybrat]

Does anyone have a fix for the detonator XP drivers? for me... It was like night and day... or should I say day and night... its sliced my 3dmark2001 Score in HALF from like 2400 to below 1200 on a Geforce2MX.. PLEASE HELP.

 

[compudog]

I tried the Detonator XP drivers on my GeForce2MX (Asus V7100) on Win98SE and I noticed a **Large** improvement in 3DMark. It went from 2600 to 3200. I can't see why it would give you such a hit. Could it be an issue with your specific build of the card? What card are you running?

 

[Moemar]

I've had problems with the new drivers too. Just for your information:
Windows XP
Leadtek Geforce 2 GTS 32 mb
384 MB pc133 ram

 

[spdfreak]

I took a big hit with my GF3 too. It seems pretty random, but there are quite a few people who actually lost performance. Nobody seem to know why. I like the 12.90's best anyways, so I'll just keep using them-but I think nvidia rushed the det4's out too fast and missed something that is showing up on quite a few systems.

 

[Viditor]

Problems here as well...crashed Unreal Tournament religously. I'm back to the safe and sane "12's" until the next iteration...

 

[SilverThief]

New XP drivers upped my 3dmark2001 score by 300 points.

So far so good.

 

[Slingman]

I actually gained quite a bit of performance, but they came at the cost of severe system instability problems that were not there with the 12.90's installed. It's kind of strange, actually, because I've never had these problems with nVidia drivers, even their leaked "beta" versions. Dunno what the deal is but I've heard of a LOT of problems with these new drivers. Who knows? Back to the 12.90's for me (all is better since the change, by the way).

 

[chexi]

I often have problems booting up with the XP drivers, and when I do get into Windows I get a display error and reset to 640x480 in 16 color mode. It's BS. Nvidia really dropped the ball this time. BTW, this is on my Geforce3 system.