I love the new detonator drivers.

[CStroman]

I finally got around to installing them, and my 3dmark 2001 score went from 3006 to 3311. Then I overclocked my GTS-V to 200/333 and I got 3504.

 

[BFG10K]

That's nice but 3DMark is meaningless. Try some real games and see how they work.

 

[Jeff7]

At least you like them; with them installed, my GF2 system can't boot to Windows - locks up in the process, and displays a red and green cursor block.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

my system locked up with the new drivers. maybe cuz i'm overclocked pretty high...

 

[rogue1979]

Right on BFG10K, I also believe everyone else puts too much stock in the 3DMark scores. I was at a French site earlier reviewing benchmarks and this is what I found. The new Gainward Geforce2 Ti 500 beat a stock speed Geforce3 Ti 200 in every benchmark in about 5 different games. However, the Geforce 3 killed it in the 3Dmark 2000 and 3Dmark 2001 scores, big deal! The Geforce2 Ti 500 was overclocked to 300/520, the Geforce 3 Ti 200 was at stock 175/400. Now of course when the Geforce was overclocked it surpassed the new Gainward, but it was pretty impressive for a Geforce 2 chipset. If you just looked at 3Dmark you would think the Geforce 3 Ti 200 was much faster, but in real world gaming that just isn't true.

 

[Mem]

The new official drivers seem ok to me,tried lots of games and seem to work fine,however I tried some old games on my new XP OS that just won`t run so don`t really know yet which ones are incompatiable with XP rather then driver problem.But all the ones that are known to run fine in XP are working ok.

 

[Newmannium]

I've tried a couple of Detonators above the version that ships with WinXP:
21.83 (both nVidia's and Creative's), 22.80 and the official 23.11 drivers.
As far as performance goes they rock. Refreshrates are once again normal too (>75Hz).

One major problem though: my monitor refuses to enter standby mode after the specified time in the "Turn off monitor"-setting has passed.
This did work with the standard XP nVidia drivers (12.41 or 12.90 if I'm not mistaken).
Now my monitor will turn black but remains in full power mode :|.

Anyone who knows how to tackle this problem?