Which drivers should I use?

Syborg1211

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I have a 3d prophet ddr-dvi overclocked to 155/360 with my guillemot drivers. I get around the low 6000, high 5000 range in 3dmark 2000. My question is if I get the latest detonator drivers versus the guillemot drivers, which would score better in 3d mark? I run the default test for it. I do have the latest guillemot drivers.

And, if I get the detonator drivers, does it have a built in overclocker or would I have to download something or change something to be able to overclock to where I am at now?

Would i be able to overclock more with the detonator drivers? I am thinking not, but who knows.

Would drivers have anything to do with my ability not to run at agp bus speeds higher than 81 mhz?
 

John

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I would use the Guillemot drivers if you use the tv-out, otherwise get the 6.31 detonators and use coolbits to add the hardware options tab in the display properties section of your drivers.


Regedits
6.31 officials
 

blurredvisionx

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An extra note, the reference drivers from Nvidia will let you overclock just like the Guillemot drivers will.
 

Syborg1211

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I dont use the tv-out at all. That's what i have my ATI card for :)

Can someone give me a link to coolbits and/or the latest detonoator drivers? I have no idea where to get them from.
 

Mem

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Syborg1211 ,for Nvidia drivers go here for coolbits go to the utilites section here .
Btw use the official 6.31 Nvidia drivers from the first link above.

:)
 

John

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Syborg, my original reply had the links to get the filez, LMAO. :)
 

Syborg1211

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Heck yea, the detonator drivers raised my scores from a measly 6000 or 5900 to a nice 6300. I love my card. I just made my friend with a gts mad since he is only like 500 points above me.
 

robisc

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For what it's worth, I don't know about the DDR but I've got a Hercules Geforce2 MX and I actually sat down and tried a bunch of Detonator drivers, then ran the 3dmark200 benchmark under default @ 1024x768 after each driver install with no tweaking and with vsync and antialisaing on I found the following resluts.

Detonator version 3dMark score
Hercules drivers 4042
533 3793
618 4156
626 4362
627 4795
631 4360

I am going to be using the 627 drivers, as far as stability goes I haven't had any problems and they are no doubt the fastest for my system. I haven't tried the 634 drivers.
 

Syborg1211

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robisc- Have you ever overclocked that card? I think it will help a lot with those &quot;low&quot; scores. The gf2mx should be doing close to a gf256.
 

robisc

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Syborg1211 yeah, it's OCed now at 215/210, and 3DMark is now 4934, a lot better but compared to others it should be a little better, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere right, I mean I am almost at 5000 3DMark and can play any game I throw at it yet we still want more, faster, faster, OH the sanity of it all, maybe I should use nitrous on this thing. The link to my scores is below if any are interested, I am even open to any constructive (or non) criticism or suggestions.

My 3DMark results