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Best driver for Geforce 2 GTS/PRO
To provide a gauge or timeline for this message I'd like to start off
by saying that the most current driver I can download from Nvidia today is 77.77 for 2000/XP and 77.72 for 9x/ME. I am running a Geforce 2 GTS 64Mb card (bios 3.15.01.02) on an MSI K7T lite with dual-boot Windows 98 SE and Windows XP SP2 and DirectX 9.0c. The computer is an Athlon 900Mhz; with 3.5Ghz processors out today you can certainly say that this is a low-end gaming computer. As a result I am playing classic games on it: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, High Stakes, Porsche Unleashed, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D, Shadows of the Empire, Battle for Naboo, and Episode 1 Racer. All of these games had a common problem with the Nvidia 75 series drivers, they either displayed no graphics or had missing 3D objects. An example of this is Porsche Unleashed. In Win98 there was no text on the menu screens so the game was unplayable. In WinXP there was menu text but I could only see the doors and hood on the cars. While racing I could see the sky and mountains but there was no road. It was as if half of the 3D objects weren't being rendered. This same problem showed up in every game mentioned, some graphics were missing or there were none at all. With Episode One Racer I could see just the horizon and my HUD, nothing else showed up on the screen. After trying numerous drivers from the Nvidia archive I can report that using any driver beyond the 50 series does not work on older DX6/DX7 and possibly DX8 games. Currently I am using revision 56.64 in Win98 and 56.72 in WinXP. This caused me quite some frustration so I hope the information is useful to others. |
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