Detonator 5 out for you nVidia users

[MultimediaMan]

Trouble with Detonator 40...The poor Wittle dwivers...they fall dooown; go "Boom".

Read all the tripe here

NVidia is getting better than Enron when comes to cooking up numbers. Right now their level of integrity, in my mind at least, is lower than a two bit con artist.

NVidia's motto: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

These new drivers are just that: Bullshit. The intentionally coded these drivers to look good on the surface but of course we know that hardware that's out there: they "optimized" them to the point of instability.

Looks like their Marketing Weenies are getting desperate or something...

Whassamatter NVidia? You worried that there be no NV30 chipsets in time for Christmas? You better be.

[The Rock]

A lot of the improvements in performance are due to improved efficiency in the driver code that effect vertex and pixel shaders. That is why the jump in Nature. A big jump can be seen in Aquanox, too, another app that uses vertex shaders and pixel shaders. Apps that use pixel and vertex shaders also just happen to be the ones that are popular for benchmarking. Games that do not use vertex and pixel shaders may not see as significant of an improvement as games that do.

Brian Burke
NVIDIA Corp.

While I don't use my TV-Out on any of my video cards. Some rely on it for watching DVD's, etc... Especially in College Dorms. Anyways. Russell Morton shot off an email to us informing us that with all the hoopla regarding the benchmarks and such, Nvidia forgot to inform the people that these drivers Enable MacroVision Protection. This is what Mr. Morton had to share: One of the primary reasons I forked out the cash for a Nvidia Ti4600 was to use their "NVIEW" for tv-out and in, and they slip MacroVision Protection in? Well, back to the 30.xx series for me...

Thought I'd pass along these little tidbits.

Bart

[DosFreak]

Hopefully someone will hack the macrovison out....or will something like that be considered "illegal" under the DMCA?

[ZokesPro]

The Detonator 5 driver sucks ass, constantly locks up my system. My suggestion: Parhelia!

Edit: Want to know what else? Surprisingly enough I saw MASSIVE performance degradation with my MSI GeForce2 Pro card. A game that normally ran ultra fast lagged big time!

DO NOT get this driver it sucks!! And it cause my system to be almost un-usable!! (I just formatted today, if that helps)

[Technoid]

That's strange?
I use the nev drivers on a MSI GF2 Pro card and they are not faster or slower or more instable than the last ones...

[Admiral]

Finally they put a built in refresh utility, problem is it's just for Direct3D and for some reason it won't go above 85 Hz.
Now all the refresh utilities I used won't go over 85 Hz (have disabeled the built in one before using them).

Reverted to 30.82, I think I'll wait for the WHQL 40.41 and the refresh rate progs to catch up.