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New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

Mike Zamaroc

New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

by Mike Zamaroc » Tue, 16 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Check out this review and benchmarks:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

Looks like maybe I should go back to the latest Hercules drivers. GPL was
working ok with those.

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Mike Z

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David Ript

New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

by David Ript » Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:00:00



>Check out this review and benchmarks:

>http://www.rivastation.com/results/detonating_e.htm

Yep, the "30% performance improvement" is hot air.  More like "30%
improvement in a couple of areas where our previous drivers were
pathologically bad.  But not GPL mirrors."

I had frequent crashes in GPL past 640x480 with the 0.48 reference
drivers.  The Detonator drivers fix them.  A few percent one way
or the other doesn't really matter; stability does.

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rob

New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

by rob » Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Thanks for the pointer.  Very worth reading for TNT owners.

rob.


Mike Zamaroc

New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

by Mike Zamaroc » Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Actually Dave, I had the opposite happen. I could do over 640X480 with the
Hercules drivers based on the .048, but with the Detonators I keep having a
GPF with the NV4OGL.DLL file.


> I had frequent crashes in GPL past 640x480 with the 0.48 reference
> drivers.  The Detonator drivers fix them.  A few percent one way
> or the other doesn't really matter; stability does.

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Bria

New Info on TNT Detonator Drivers - NOT GOOD

by Bria » Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I had no problems running GPL (OpenGL patch) with TNT Detonator drivers, but
my framerate in GPL dropped slightly (by about 1 fps at startline) compared
to the .048 drivers.

However, the graphics quality in MGPRS2 was considerably worse (I tried all
the Direct3D settings) with a lot of visual tearing.  Going back to the .048
drivers fixed the problem (setting 0 mipmap level and disabling mipmap
dithering).

Brian


>Thanks for the pointer.  Very worth reading for TNT owners.

>rob.


>>Check out this review and benchmarks:

>>http://www.rivastation.com/results/detonating_e.htm

>>Looks like maybe I should go back to the latest Hercules drivers. GPL was
>>working ok with those.


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