Nvidia drivers?

Stephen Lawrence

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Jan 30, 2002, 8:25:51 PM1/30/02

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I just purchased a Geforce2 Ti 64MB DDR ram ACP graphics card and was
wondering if their are any signed versions of the drivers. I went to the
nvidia site and downloaded the latest drivers from them (23.11 at least
that's what's in there download drivers section). My question, are these
drivers any good? They appear to be unsigned for winxp. Just curious as to
what people think and their experiences with these drivers. thanks.

Gail Ferguson

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Jan 30, 2002, 9:00:41 PM1/30/02

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There are updated bios for these cards. I have had a two week problem with
getting games to work. Check out www.abit-usa.com. Go to the windows xp
site. This solved my problem.

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OWA

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Jan 30, 2002, 9:38:58 PM1/30/02

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The 23.11s are good. There are supposedly some signed 27.x
drivers that you can find on the Windows Update site. I'm
currently using the 27.20 betas and they seem to be working
well. Before these I was using the 23.11s and they were fast
and stable.

BTW, I didn't see the WHQL drivers for the 27.x series on the
update site but I've seen a few posts and articles saying they
should be there. I'm not sure if you have to check a different
URL to find them or what.

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J. Johnson

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Jan 30, 2002, 10:14:27 PM1/30/02

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Signed or unsigned 23.11 work good on XP. J.Johnson

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Stephen Lawrence

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Jan 31, 2002, 12:12:11 AM1/31/02

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thanks for the input everyone.

Stephen Lawrence

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Jan 31, 2002, 12:27:23 AM1/31/02

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oh, I went to the windows update site and it offered 23.12 nvidia drivers.
they seem to be working.

gweber

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Jan 31, 2002, 11:03:09 AM1/31/02

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Hey what about the nVidia detonator XP drivers? comments?

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> thanks for the input everyone.
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Stephen Lawrence

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Jan 31, 2002, 12:23:31 PM1/31/02

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i went to windows update and it offered 23.12 drivers they appear to be
good, in open gl mode in quake 2 they work good.

Stephen Keen [MS]

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Jan 31, 2002, 12:31:11 PM1/31/02

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Signed vs Unsigned drivers

Signed version of drivers mean they have passed the extensive testing with a
given operating system. And they meet minimum standards of test. These
are approved by Whql, a department of Microsoft. (Signed to work with OS)
Unsigned means they have not or do not meet testing standards by the same
test group.
This does not make them junk, it just means they have not completed tests.
Unfortunaely, it takes time to test and some of the unsigned will become
signed in time, some will not. Drivers are continously being upgraded and
build for performance and fixed. So often Unsigned will work beautifully,
problem is. They may be hard to get support for as they have not met Whql
specifications.

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James Hinkley

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Jan 31, 2002, 1:31:29 PM1/31/02

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they exist no signed nvidia drivers yet. Some are WHQL but when installing
any nvidia driver you will get a warning that they are not WinXP certified.
Ignore that message. All drivers work flawlessly, just the 23.xx, 26.xx and
27.xx have a D3D small perspective correction problem, but usually you won't
notice the problem...

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Robert Crew

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I'm using a GeForce2 MX200, and have had little problem with most games, but
had endless problems trying to get RTCW to work.

It turns out my problem was that I stuck to microsoft-signed drivers.

When I chose the non-signed driver version (the one produced by nVidia,
rather than the microsoft one), OpenGL worked again.

My system is a P3-450 w/- 256 MB, and I now get silky-smooth graphics in
Wolfenstein at max resolution.

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James Hinkley

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Feb 2, 2002, 7:10:53 AM2/2/02

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> >
>
> I'm using a GeForce2 MX200, and have had little problem with most games,
but
> had endless problems trying to get RTCW to work.
>
> It turns out my problem was that I stuck to microsoft-signed drivers.
>
> When I chose the non-signed driver version (the one produced by nVidia,
> rather than the microsoft one), OpenGL worked again.
>
> My system is a P3-450 w/- 256 MB, and I now get silky-smooth graphics in
> Wolfenstein at max resolution.
>

jup, should be known now by almost all people that the drivers which came
with WinXP, do support hardware acceleration but it is disabled for most
popular games

Graham

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Feb 2, 2002, 1:36:32 PM2/2/02

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Just been on the update site and they is a signed driver update available

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