Best drivers for nVidia 4400?

Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for a nVidia 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. --Steve Smith

"Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]... > Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for a nVidia > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > --Steve Smith > Well I was just discussing this with another user on an F1 2k2 mod forum. He was getting much higher benchmark numbers than I was. I had the first 40.xx version drivers for win9x and he had stayed with 30.82 because, he said, the newer drivers had transparency problems and he would wait till they achieved whql. So I motored over to the nvidiot site to grab the older drivers, but the newest 40.72 drivers were 'said' to be whql candidates so I took and chance and immeadiately gained quite a-bit. From 21m triangles per sec at 800x600 to 24 m triangles at 1024x740 So I'm fairly pleased with the 40.72's. dave henrie

Thanks, Dave. Maybe I shoulda specified > 30.xx but < 40.xx, as I've heard it's hard to install 40.xx over 30.xx without using an uninstaller like Detonator Destroyer, which makes me nervous. OTOH, I am just abt. to reinstall the whole freakin' partition, so maybe it doesn't matter. But 30.82, you say.... "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LYhq9.26328$rz6.3711@sccrnsc02... > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]... > > Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for anVidia > > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > > > --Steve Smith > > > Well I was just discussing this with another user on an F1 2k2 modforum. > He was getting much higher benchmark numbers than I was. I had the first > 40.xx version drivers for win9x and he had stayed with 30.82 because, he > said, the newer drivers had transparency problems and he would wait till > they achieved whql. > So I motored over to the nvidiot site to grab the older drivers, but the > newest 40.72 drivers were 'said' to be whql candidates so I took andchance > and immeadiately gained quite a-bit. From 21m triangles per sec at800x600 > to 24 m triangles at 1024x740 So I'm fairly pleased with the 40.72's. > dave henrie > >

The 40x have shown an improvment on my two systems. "Dameon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:04:13 GMT, "Steve Smith" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Thanks, Dave. Maybe I shoulda specified > 30.xx but < 40.xx, as I'veheard

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> >it's hard to install 40.xx over 30.xx without using an uninstaller like > >Detonator Destroyer, which makes me nervous. OTOH, I am just abt. to > >reinstall the whole freakin' partition, so maybe it doesn't matter. But > >30.82, you say.... > > I'm using 30.00 from my card manufacturer (MSI) which are Nvidia > drivers with their own OC tools added and have never had a problem > with them in any game yet. Don't know about performance though, but I > care more about stability than benchmarks.

Is the LFS problem fixed ? -Larry "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LYhq9.26328$rz6.3711@sccrnsc02... > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]... > > Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for anVidia > > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > > > --Steve Smith > > > Well I was just discussing this with another user on an F1 2k2 modforum. > He was getting much higher benchmark numbers than I was. I had the first > 40.xx version drivers for win9x and he had stayed with 30.82 because, he > said, the newer drivers had transparency problems and he would wait till > they achieved whql. > So I motored over to the nvidiot site to grab the older drivers, but the > newest 40.72 drivers were 'said' to be whql candidates so I took andchance > and immeadiately gained quite a-bit. From 21m triangles per sec at800x600 > to 24 m triangles at 1024x740 So I'm fairly pleased with the 40.72's. > dave henrie > >

When I tested the 40.xx drivers, I had no problem installing them... I run the 30.82's, though, until the release 40's are out and I'm sure the LFS problems with the 40's are fixed. -Larry "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1lkq9.20164$[email hidden]... > Thanks, Dave. Maybe I shoulda specified > 30.xx but < 40.xx, as I'veheard

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> it's hard to install 40.xx over 30.xx without using an uninstaller like > Detonator Destroyer, which makes me nervous. OTOH, I am just abt. to > reinstall the whole freakin' partition, so maybe it doesn't matter. But > 30.82, you say.... > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:LYhq9.26328$rz6.3711@sccrnsc02... > > > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]... > > > Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for a > nVidia > > > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > > > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > > > > > --Steve Smith > > > > > Well I was just discussing this with another user on an F1 2k2 mod > forum. > > He was getting much higher benchmark numbers than I was. I had the

first > > 40.xx version drivers for win9x and he had stayed with 30.82 because, he > > said, the newer drivers had transparency problems and he would wait till > > they achieved whql. > > So I motored over to the nvidiot site to grab the older drivers, butthe

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> > newest 40.72 drivers were 'said' to be whql candidates so I took and > chance > > and immeadiately gained quite a-bit. From 21m triangles per sec at > 800x600 > > to 24 m triangles at 1024x740 So I'm fairly pleased with the 40.72's. > > dave henrie > > > > > >

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:rtoq9.123198$[email hidden]... > Is the LFS problem fixed ? > > -Larry Crimenee -Larry. :) I don't know. I have my Heat DTM league to get ready for, my Bullrun 1000 N2k2 car to figure out(why don't those big tires like grass?) The SSM mod with Vipers and some 'other' inferior cars is out. I'm swamped! I'm barely braking(err...breaking) into the 4:00 minute mark at LeMans with big Snake-car{4:00.9}. Gotta trim some weight !! I haven't dloaded the last two LFS updates....What's the problem. and I'll tell ya if it happens. dave henrie

Steve, you may want to try here http://www.omegacorner.com . He tests and tunes all the drivers. He talks about the new 40 series drivers and gives them a thumbs down. Although, I needed to run the 40.72's to play Unreal Tournament 2003 for some reason. Everything else runs great with his latest release. Pete "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]...

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> Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for a nVidia > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > --Steve Smith > >

Thanks for the tip, Pete. I was abt. to d/l the 40.xx Detonators, but his caveat really put the chill in me. (I used to use his Voodoo drivers. They were great.) "Pete" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:QMMq9.3161$[email hidden]...

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> Steve, you may want to try here http://www.omegacorner.com . He tests > and > tunes all the drivers. He talks about the new 40 series drivers and gives > them a thumbs > down. Although, I needed to run the 40.72's to play Unreal Tournament 2003 > for some > reason. Everything else runs great with his latest release. > > Pete > > "Steve Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Ddgq9.18835$[email hidden]... > > Looking for some advice on the best drivers (30.xx or higher) for a

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> > 4400 card to go with a 1.3 T'bird system. Personal experience(s) or > > tightly-reasoned rationales welcome. TIA. > > > > --Steve Smith > > > > > >

Oh, you'll know if it happens :) -Larry "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:7Goq9.31152$NW3.5356@sccrnsc03...

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> > "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:rtoq9.123198$[email hidden]... > > Is the LFS problem fixed ? > > > > -Larry > Crimenee -Larry. :) I don't know. I have my Heat DTM league to get > ready for, my Bullrun 1000 N2k2 car to figure out(why don't those big

tires > like grass?) The SSM mod with Vipers and some 'other' inferior cars isout.

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> I'm swamped! I'm barely braking(err...breaking) into the 4:00 minute mark > at LeMans with big Snake-car{4:00.9}. Gotta trim some weight !! > I haven't dloaded the last two LFS updates....What's the problem. and > I'll tell ya if it happens. > dave henrie > >