So i've tested the NEW detonators against older detonators with 3Dmark 2001.. and i must say.. i'm a little disappointed about the new 2 detonators. We know few things about them. The nView Tabs! both new detonators have them. But the 27.10 has GeForce 4 support and the 27.00 doesn't. So if ya wanne know about the scores.. click on Read More

I've tested these new 2 drivers against: 22.40, 23.10 & 23.11 The PC i tested these drivers on was a:
AMD Athlon 1333Mhz (non overclocked)
MSI K7T Turbo (KT133A chipset)
256 MB RAM ECC
VisionTek GeForce 3 (overclocked at 235/535)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
VIA Drivers 4.37 & VIA AGP Driver 4.10
DirectX 8.1
These are the settings i used.
All the settings were default except:
Vsync = Off
Monitor = 75Hrz (only on 27.10 i used 60Hrz because 3DMark2001 would not run under 75Hrz)
And here are the scores:
22.40 = 6545
23.10 = 6541
23.11 = 6549
27.00 = 6479
27.10 = 6336
So you see the new detonators are much lower!!
The Nature Test was very bad!! Normal i get over 30FPS but with the 27.10 i was under 30FPS.
I thought maybe if i could turn off "nView" but that didn't change the score (it was even lower with few points)
And the new detonator are very unstable on my system, it crashed and freezed allot. So i'm gonna back to 23.10 those are the most stable one's for me. (but every computer is different, so maybe on other computers they work good) TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Greetings,
SUPR3M3