What driver to use?

Ronin13

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I have a feeling there is no clear answer to this, but here goes:

I've ordered a Creative Labs Annihilator2 GTS, and while I'm waiting for it, I'm looking for which drivers to use.

I have 3 options: (The 2 Creative drivers can be seen here: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1255&p=1 )

Creative's own Blaster Control, which should be pretty userfriendly and highly tweakable, but latest update is 5 months old.

Creative's own Fast Trax, which has a simpler interface, and build around nVidia's Detonator drivers. Latest is 1 1/2 moths old and based on the 12.90 build.

Lastly I could go with a Detonator driver, though I'm not sure which.

The good thing about the Creative drivers, is they come with tweak options for overclocking and AGP settings, so I don't have to install Coolbits and AGP Wizard.

(Since I'm using a BX board I will need to set AGP speed to 1x or 2x)

It seems the 12.90 is a pretty good build, so should I go with the latest Fast Trax drivers or wait for the Detonator 4 and get the AGP Wizard? (I'll get the card in about a week)

All advice wellcome

~R

 

SilverBack

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I'm currently using the 12.90's on my 3 systems with no problems.
I tried the 14.00's , but they showed artifacts while playing DVD's, so there some kind of a overlay problem there.
 

jonma

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I'm also using the 12.90 for my GTS, and it's pretty stable. I've tried out few of the 14.xx... The performance did not really increase that much... and I remember that 14.10 got me into some minor problems... So right now I'm staying with the 12.90.