Screaming Good Drivers

[Chaznic44]

I think this is the right forum to post this........
I have a vanilla 32 meg G400 with an SS7 Epox MVP3G-M board with a K6II 400, 128 megs of ram. With considerable effort (2 days) I got this to work with my system, and everything seems to be working well. I'm running Powerdesk 5.21 right now - is there any advantage to upgrading to a newer version of Powerdesk?
Thanks a Million

Charles



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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?

[dsp]

Charles,

There are advantages to running newer drivers, for instance faster gameplay, bug fixes and better compatibility. PD6.01 is the best driver (so far) for Via chipsets, and it runs faster than old systems. Basically 3D is where the major improvements have gone in to, so upgrade if you want to. I believe its worth it.

dsp

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AMD K6-2 350@450MHz
128MB Generic PC-133 RAM
13.6GB Maxtor 7200RPM Hard Drive
1.5GB Quantum HD
Toshiba SD-M1212 6X DVD ROM
ACER 2X/2X/6X CD-RW
SB Live Value w/digital out
Matrox G400 32MB Dualhead Vanilla @ 157/210/157
15" Daytek 1531D
PD 6.10
Win 98SE
10Base-T Ethernet card (Realtek 8029)
10/100 Ethernet card (D-Link)
DSL (Yahoo!!!!)
Microsoft Intellimouse Exploerer (YAAAA!!!! finally)

[Charles Lister]

How reliable is PD6?

I have been burnt before by dodgy drivers that won't install and create an hours worth of hassle putting things right again (I used to own a G200)

I would like to use the lates drivers but not at this price!

At present I use 5.41. Which driver best combines speed with reliability?

[dsp]

Charles,

I haven't noticed any problems with 6.01.010 not 6.01.015, and install is easy, never had a problem installing using the proper uninstall procedue. Like I said stability is a bit better with Via chipsets (search the forums for this) and I find it runs great. Speed is also either the same or faster, not much improvement (but look at what I'm using).

dsp

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AMD K6-2 350@500MHz
128MB Generic PC-133 RAM
13.6GB Maxtor 7200RPM Hard Drive
4.3GB Quantum HD
Toshiba SD-M1212 6X DVD ROM
ACER 2X/2X/6X CD-RW
SB Live Value w/digital out
Matrox G400 32MB Dualhead Vanilla @ 157/210/157
15" Daytek 1531D
PD 6.01
Win 98SE
10Base-T Ethernet card (Realtek 8029)
10/100 Ethernet card (D-Link)
DSL
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer

[This message has been edited by dsp (edited 28 July 2000).]

[Charles Lister]

Thanx I'll try the new drivers. Hopefully I will be able to report similar success

I run:
Intel PII 300Mhz
128MB Generic PC-100 RAM
20GB Maxtor 7200RPM Hard Drive
6.2GB Seagate HD
Generic 32x CD ROM
4x8x24 YAMAHA CDRW
Sonic Vortex 2
Matrox G400 32MB Dualhead
Generic 17" monitor
Win 98 (all the updates & patches)
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Microsoft Sidewinder Perecision Pro (USB)



[This message has been edited by Charles Lister (edited 28 July 2000).]