Share your thoughts and your results over here.

So far for me this is the best Driver nvidia has released (even tho it's still in BETA) i got a boost of 500 points in 3d Mark 2001 SE

I've got a major problem with this driver. I've uninstalled my old before puting the 40.71 driver on. The only problem is that i can't go into the Nvidia Panel in the Display properties because I keep on getting a windows error saying can't run DLL as a program or somthing like that.

Really f**k'in annoying.

I ain't had any problems with other drivers only this one.

WinXP Pro/SP1
ECS K7S5A-SIS735/AthlonXP 2000
Samsung PC2700 512megs
Gainward Ti200@ 240/510

3DMark2001SE
40.41:7689
40.57:7999
40.71:8017

Defualt Settings :wink:

Yep sparkesy same prob here ummm

winXP pro sp1

was a little fix for 40.41 with simler sort of prob maybe 1 soon for 40.71 :roll:

with mipmaps set to quality rather than performance sispowered?

when i had the problem with 40.41, i had to use the default windows theme. It was a glitch with the cracked uxtheme.dll

They fix the darkness problem so I'm all over that.

Hey guys I've tried a few more tweaks. including the one suggested by Gonzo, as I checked the uxtheme file.

I still can't get into the control panel. Although I can't see an improvement in operation flashpoint even without tweaking the quality settings.

If anyone gets any suggestions on how to solve this Run DLL as an App thingy gimmie an email at jsparkes@ic24.net or ICQ on #27264947

my comment is those FAST SERVERS you posted are actually ALOT slower than the official one.

The drivers work fine, but how do we enable the coolbits? The coolbitswin2k.reg doesn't seem to work anymore.

Yeah,I never mess with the mipmaps,i leave everything on default.

DISPLAY
Platform NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None

OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low

RESULTS
3DMark Score 8017
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 126.3 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 47.0 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 121.5 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 63.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 121.8 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 56.9 fps
Game 4 - Nature 48.6 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 760.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1610.6 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 29.1 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 6.2 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 124.9 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 114.8 fps
Vertex Shader 49.8 fps
Pixel Shader 90.3 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 70.4 fps
Point Sprites 17.7 MSprites/s

Look for a file called " detonator4041coolbit.zip " I forget where it was at.




Anyways,I did a benchmark with best mipmap peformance.

RESULTS
3DMark Score 8181
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 126.8 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 47.2 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 123.0 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 64.5 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 121.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 56.9 fps
Game 4 - Nature 55.0 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 760.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1613.1 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 29.1 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 6.1 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 126.4 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 127.7 fps
Vertex Shader 50.2 fps
Pixel Shader 95.6 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 71.0 fps
Point Sprites 17.7 MSprites/s

Ok these are the 3dmark2001se b330 scores from 40.41 and 40.71

Check the scores then check the numbers of the fps rates. isn't that a bit odd?

40.41
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7104
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 85.1 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 26.9 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 145.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 77.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 83.9 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 36.3 fps
Game 4 - Nature 57.6 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 882.7 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1932.0 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 40.5 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 10.4 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 132.5 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 114.7 fps
Vertex Shader 82.1 fps
Pixel Shader 101.0 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 78.9 fps
Point Sprites 25.9 MSprites/s

40.71
RESULTS
3DMark Score 7035
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 85.5 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 26.8 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 141.9 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 76.4 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 83.1 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 36.3 fps
Game 4 - Nature 57.0 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 881.1 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1922.9 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 39.9 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 10.4 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 129.5 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 113.3 fps
Vertex Shader 81.1 fps
Pixel Shader 99.2 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 78.0 fps
Point Sprites 25.7 MSprites/s

These are the settings
DISPLAY
Platform NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None

I am truly sorry- in over excitment i misread the numbers....Theres nothing odd about my scores, except 40.41 seems better.

Ooops.

Sorry for the waste of space.