New Nvidia Detonator Drivers Released Today! BAD?

[Techie333]

See this post that was locked because I posted in wrong area, but anyway...I got problem when installing new drivers

 

[NYHoustonman]

Yes, you can uninstall the drivers using Add/Remove programs in the control panel, then use detonator destroyer to erase anything else, then restart and reinstall. They worked just fine for me.

 

[Rexxenexx]

Humph, the first game I tried -Race Driver- quits out after the intro I tried tweaking the settings for both Race Driver and the Nvidia settings, but no go...
Well off to try the next game crossing my fingers.

EDIT: Ok got Race Driver working by restarting a second time, maybe the det drivers are tarded that way. So if you have a prob. set your settings and restart again for good measure.

 

[holdencommodore]

I tried the 45.23 (Win 98SE) on my Geforce 4 Ti 4200.

Compared to the last official drivers, 3D Mark 2001 results went down from over 10500 right down to 9800. I uninstalled the drivers then ran the "Detonator Destroyer" utility. Both times, the cards were overclocked to the same level using the coolbits overclocking utility.

Cheers

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: holdencommodore
I tried the 45.23 (Win 98SE) on my Geforce 4 Ti 4200.

Compared to the last official drivers, 3D Mark 2001 results went down from over 10500 right down to 9800. I uninstalled the drivers then ran the "Detonator Destroyer" utility. Both times, the cards were overclocked to the same level using the coolbits overclocking utility.

Cheers

I tried the drivers and dropped 600points with 3dmark 2001 compared to 44.03 and 30points with 3dmark 2003. GL Excess was the only gain with a huge? 255 point increase.

I havn't had much time to benchmark games yet because I'm busy packing so all testing will have to wait until the weekend.

 

[Mem]

Hmmm I think you guys are getting too hooked on 3Dmark scores,the bug fixes are the IMPORTANT thing look,

Significant issues resolved in driver version 45.23 are listed below:

The display exhibits corruption in the Unigraphics 18.0.5.2 in drafting application.

Continued model rotation results in increased memory usage in Unigraphics 18.05.2 and NX 1.02.3.

I-deas 10 crashes in the process nbb.exe after a large virtual memory allocation.

Running "The Sims 2" creates a blue-screen crash.

Think3 requests Control Panel enables "use block transfer" option for OpenGL buffer flipping mode.

CATIA certification issue: Problem with display list compilation causes incomplete visualization.

A dragon model is missing from the Dragothic test in 3D Mark 2001 SE.

The "Add OpenGL" tab shows a "Stereo DIN pin" option that is not available.

Character truncated in NVIDIA Properties "Direct3D" tab under Windows XP Japanese.

In Windows XP Portuguese (Brazilian), there are localization errors on the main NVIDIA Properties tab.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City exhibits significant corruption after a couple of minutes of play.

The walls in Splinter Cell have anomalous textures.

Quake II flashes on GeForce 256 systems.

Switching output devices on a desktop that has been rotated resets the resolution to 640x480 from 1024x768.

"Command & Conquer: Generals" shows corruption during scene-to-scene transitions in story mode.

When 3D Mark 2003 is set to 2/4 sample antialiasing, its demo mode introduction is not rendered properly and it pauses between demos.

Playback of AVI in full-screen mode tears on a T221 monitor.

Digital flat panels go out of sync or blank when the Screen Adjustment scaling is changed.

A Quadro4 980 XGL system hangs or stops when running a PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire script.

On a Quadro NVS 400 running Windows NT 4.0, all monitors go black for 1-2 seconds during logon.

On a Quadro NVS 400 running Windows NT 4.0, the monitor ordering has changed from 1234 to 1324.

The water in Splinter Cell is not rendered correctly on GeForce FX 5xxx systems.

The nView Menu Options choice is not available from the title bar with Exceed 7.1 or 8.0.

NVKeystone can take two minutes to start under Windows XP.

EDS I-deas Master Series 7 does not start on a Quadro4 980XGL because of an application error.

Black screen displayed when Rally Sport Challenge launched under Windows ME.

Flash of corruption seen if 3D screen saver previewed when 2X or NVIDIA Quincunx antialiasing is set.

Direct3D applications exhibit flickering lines of corruption when antialiasing is set to 2x or Quincunx in 16-bit modes.

A Macrovision error occurs when DVD movies are played using the 41.09 drivers.

In Windows XP Chinese, a DMCPL.EXE error occurs when one of two Overlay Controls windows is closed.

Logging on as nonAdministrator causes NVcpl.dll loading error: "One or more arguments are invalid."

 

[Mitzi]

I don't know about you guys but I've stopped upgrading the driver for my GF4 4600 a few revisions ago unless I have a specific problem. Most performance enhancements and fixes relate to the FX series of cards and have a negative effect on older generation cards.

 

[MDE]

My 3DMark 01 dropped from 14,000 to ~13,000 on my Ti4600. Didn't see any other noticeable improvements, went back to the old drivers (whatever they were ).

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Yes, you can uninstall the drivers using Add/Remove programs in the control panel, then use detonator destroyer to erase anything else, then restart and reinstall. They worked just fine for me.

i just upgraded from a gf2tipro to a gf4ti4400. i was using the 44.xx version detonator b4. i just started using 45.xx one. my question is where can i download the detonator destroyer from?

EDIT: and which driver should i be using?

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: Aharami

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
Yes, you can uninstall the drivers using Add/Remove programs in the control panel, then use detonator destroyer to erase anything else, then restart and reinstall. They worked just fine for me.

i just upgraded from a gf2tipro to a gf4ti4400. i was using the 44.xx version detonator b4. i just started using 45.xx one. my question is where can i download the detonator destroyer from?

EDIT: and which driver should i be using?

http://download.guru3d.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=202
I usually go to guru3d.com for alot of that stuff (benchmarks, demos, and the like).

 

[Megatomic]

Your best bet when uninstalling drivers is to use Driver Cleaner. This program is installable, and with it you can uninstall NV graphics, all ATI, NV chipset, VIA chipset, and Creative audio drivers. It even comes with CAB cleaner, it allows you to take old POS versions of ATI and NV drivers out of Windows cab files so that when you reboot Windows doesn't install them on you - allowing you to clean install your new drivers.

I don't know if you can tell but I really like Driver Cleaner.

 

[Aharami]

what programs can i use to OC my gf4? i was using NVMAX for my gf2...but that doesnt work for the new drivers

 

[Naruto]

I still like the 44.03 drivers, I think they are the best for the geforce 4 ti line up.

 

[nweaver]

I installed these drivers...reboot time went to over 5 mins (every reboot) from about 1.5, and about 1 in 2 or 3 times it blue screens with nv4.display causing the problems. Anyone else had trouble?

I have a Gigabyte Ga7vrXP
Athlon 1900+
768 MB ram (1x256, 1x512)
onboard sound
GF3TI200
Cheap NIC
WinXP (fully patched)
latest 4 in 1's

nothing is overclocked, memory is running conservativly...don't know what the problem was, but after uninstalling and installing the version before I was fine.

Odd thing, these where WHQL'ed, the others arn't.

 

[Mem]

nweaver,try Driver Cleaner 2 from
here it might help.