For all of you with Nvidia cards.! Detonator 3,68

It's running fine for me. I have a Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra. If a driver isn't workin' out for you, I suggest you just back out to the last driver that ran well...


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I have a Leadtek GeForce256 SDR, and they are working fine for me also.


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They're working for me, too.

Guillemot Xentor TNT2 Ultra.

Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra AGP. I use the new detonators in combination with the updated d3ddrv.dll and UT runs great in D3D. Make sure you're set to Direct3D and not software rendering. That could be your problem.


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I'm using a plain old TNT card & have found that anything (so far) after Detonator 3.53 really slows UT. I'd suggest rolling back to 3.53.

I have the Creative TNT2 Ultra and HAD been using the Creative drivers based on the nVidia 2.08 reference. I just switched over to the "official" nVidia 3.69 reference drivers from www.reactorcritical.com to see if they would help with the occasional lockups I was getting at death/respawn time. They in fact DID do the trick, although my before-after benchmark using www.madonion.com
3DMark shows the Creative drivers were actually significantly faster than these nVidia ones. Tough choice, no more lockups or faster...

Okay guys, i was just wondering if these detonator drivers are compatible with the spectra 2500 video card? I mean it runs on a TNT2 but i am just not sure if it is compatable because it is not an Nvidia

I have a Guillemot 3dProphet GeforceSDR card and the 3.68 drivers are a big improvement. Originally, when I played UT in D3D w/detail textures on, it would lock up and "stutter", but the new drivers fix this problem.

IMHO, you're generally better off to stick with the drivers provided by your cards' manufacturer. While nVidia makes the chipset, different card makers may implement the instructions and calls in a different manner hoping for better performance, greater stability, etc. Which is not to say you CAN'T use the reference drivers, some of us HAVE to, some of us prefer to and some of us are experimenting - (I'm in this latter group right now) Just know your chipset and choose the appropriate drivers - it shouldn't HURT anything to give it a try, just be sure to benchmark before and after so you'll know where you stand. (Try 3DMark from www.madonion.com for a good utility)

Hi Guys, I have been reading this forum for a while but haven`t posted much.One piece of infomation pertaining to the TNT II ultra`s that hasn`t been brought out here is the amount of Ram on your system. I first used the 3.68 and it helped most of my problems, the intro did still stutter once in a while if i let it run though. Also upon starting a game local i would see a stutter after about 15 seconds. This was explained to me as being caused by the amout of Ram I had. Nvida`s eat up Ram, at the time I had 128 I have since put in another stick and it runs like a scalded ape now FPS in the 60`s to 70`s on a PIII 500 at 1024x768. This is with 98 and no tweeking everything is bone stock no O/C, I do only use 16 bit as blind as I am I can`t tell the difference. But everything else is set middle range. Oh one thing I did do is go into advanced settings game engine settings, cachesizemegs and set it to 64, that seemed to help alot default setting was like 8 megs or so. HOPE THIS HELPS..


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