30% faster?

I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator drivers,
just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30% faster, but I
recon it's made it 300% more jerky
Actually, it couldn't have been smoother before, but now it's like i'm
running 10 Q3's at once.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem?

Also the Brightness/Contrast in the Overlay Controls now do absolutely
nothing, is 44.03 a joke?

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:32:20 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote:

I'd say that the 44.03's are not a worthwile pursuit.

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ChrisNews stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator
drivers, just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30%
faster, but I recon it's made it 300% more jerky
Actually, it couldn't have been smoother before, but now it's like i'm
running 10 Q3's at once.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem?

Also the Brightness/Contrast in the Overlay Controls now do absolutely
nothing, is 44.03 a joke?


Back up to 43.45 and see if the problems go away.

44.03 seem to have interesting problems, especially with WinXP.

John Lewis

--
Strontium

"Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it,
clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311

Bet they are fantastic for 3DMark03 however.
*runs and hides from the gay benchin fanboi club*

"Strontium" wrote in message
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I'd say that the 44.03's are not a worthwile pursuit.

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ChrisNews stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator
drivers, just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30%
faster, but I recon it's made it 300% more jerky
Actually, it couldn't have been smoother before, but now it's like i'm
running 10 Q3's at once.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem?

Also the Brightness/Contrast in the Overlay Controls now do absolutely
nothing, is 44.03 a joke?

--
Strontium

"Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it,
clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311

Why would you run, and hide, from a bunch of queers? Are you that much of
a wussy?

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Minotaur stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

Bet they are fantastic for 3DMark03 however.
*runs and hides from the gay benchin fanboi club*

"Strontium" wrote in message
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I'd say that the 44.03's are not a worthwile pursuit.

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ChrisNews stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator
drivers, just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30%
faster, but I recon it's made it 300% more jerky
Actually, it couldn't have been smoother before, but now it's like
i'm running 10 Q3's at once.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem?

Also the Brightness/Contrast in the Overlay Controls now do
absolutely nothing, is 44.03 a joke?

--
Strontium

"Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it,
clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311

--
Strontium

"Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it,
clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311

Fantastic, I put 43.45 back on, glad i kept the install too, and everything
is back to normal
Thanks heaps

"John Lewis" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:32:20 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote:

I'd say that the 44.03's are not a worthwile pursuit.

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ChrisNews stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:

I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator
drivers, just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30%
faster, but I recon it's made it 300% more jerky
Actually, it couldn't have been smoother before, but now it's like i'm
running 10 Q3's at once.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem?

Also the Brightness/Contrast in the Overlay Controls now do absolutely
nothing, is 44.03 a joke?


Back up to 43.45 and see if the problems go away.

44.03 seem to have interesting problems, especially with WinXP.

John Lewis

--
Strontium

"Shortcuts are self-defeating. Mean. If you cannot do it,
clean, you'll never reach your reward..." - 311

"Frode" wrote in message
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ChrisNews wrote:
I have a GeForce 2 MX400 in my XP1800/256MB PC.
Now, Quake3 used to run perfect until I got the 44.03 Detonator drivers,
just because on the Nvidia site it says that it'll be 30% faster, but I
recon it's made it 300% more jerky

The 30% performance increase is based on an FX5600 and almost certainly
applies only to the FX series GPUs, not the good'n'old GF2s I'm afraid.
It's listed in the footnotes on the download page.

And dosn't it relate to one aspect of the GPU's performance? Nvidia are not
saying 30% more FPS, even if that's what a lot of people might think.

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John Russell wrote:
The 30% performance increase is based on an FX5600 and almost certainly
applies only to the FX series GPUs, not the good'n'old GF2s I'm afraid.
It's listed in the footnotes on the download page.
And dosn't it relate to one aspect of the GPU's performance? Nvidia are
not saying 30% more FPS, even if that's what a lot of people might think.

They're listing it as the "performance increase" for the Antalus Flyby in
UT2K3 yeah. I don't see many other ways of interpreting that other than
FPS. Which, of course, they might have doctored the drivers for like they
did for 3DMark. But even if assuming they didn't then no it doesn't mean an
overall 30% increase, although it probably does mean a noticable one in
most games.


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John Russell wrote:
The 30% performance increase is based on an FX5600 and almost certainly
applies only to the FX series GPUs, not the good'n'old GF2s I'm afraid.
It's listed in the footnotes on the download page.
And dosn't it relate to one aspect of the GPU's performance? Nvidia are
not saying 30% more FPS, even if that's what a lot of people might
think.

They're listing it as the "performance increase" for the Antalus Flyby in
UT2K3 yeah. I don't see many other ways of interpreting that other than
FPS.
They have made these statements before with previous releses. When you check
you find they really meant things like "texture thoughput increased 30%",
or" polygon processing improved by 30%".
This has nothing to do with cheating, only misleading. Statements like those
above can be verified using specific tests. Nvidia cannot claim general
increases in FSP because that depends upon how each game is coded.