New Detonator Drivers!

[D-Bone]

Just released today, nVidia's new Detonator drivers are now at version 43.45. From nVidia's (http://www.nvidia.com) site:

Release Highlights:

The industry?s best Microsoft? DirectX? 9 support
GeForce FX and Quadro FX support for cinematic computing
Ultimate ?The Way It?s Meant to be Played? experience
NVIDIA?s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) ? supports all products in a single driver binary
nView? 2.0 multi-display technology increases productivity and provides the necessary tools to control the way users access and view applications.
NVRotate? enabling image rotation on today?s advanced flat panel displays.
NVKeystone? allows for real-time image correction on portable projectors and heads-up displays.
Digital Vibrance Control? allows users to adjust color controls to achieve accurate, bright colors under all conditions.

Here's the links for you:
Windows XP/2000 - 9MB (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_43.45)
Windows 95/98/ME - 7.2MB (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=win9x_43.45)

[Dante]

Not sure if it's my system or not, but I'm getting a lower 3DMark score with these drivers. They dropped about 150-200 points.

[Malice]

Woah, that's no good. I'll have to check my system and see if that happens to me too.

[{OOE}Death]

Don't do it. I lost over 600 points on my system with DX9. I went back to 40.41s

[Dante]

I wonder what kind of quality tweaks they've done. We're not the only ones experiencing a slow down. I, for one, am not that bothered by the lower numbers only if the picture quality is better. But that still remains to be seen. I haven't seen anybody post comparison screenshots yet.

[D-Bone]

I agree Dante. I'm all for better quality as long as the game is still playable. So even if my framerate drops from 80 to 75 or 100 to 90, it doesnt matter because the game is still playable. In fact we just loaded these new drivers on the demo gaming system we are building at our shop and it has all the latest games on it, none of them showed any difference in play-ability. Anyway, just my opinion.

[{OOE}Death]

well after more testing I still am undecided I lost about 4fps in Q3 demo. NFS seems to have problems with DX9. I'm having problems with UT2003 with DX9 and these nes drivers. The screen flashes. I'll need to test more though. The games don't feel slower or faster with these. Just my $.02