Nvidia 66.93 winXP

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

THESE REVIEWS ARE STRICTLY FOR EQ2 PERFORMANCE, I AM AWARE BUT DISINTERESTED IN, CITY OF HEROS, ISSUES

Here is yet another driver review, sorry I stoped doing these a while back, but I plan to continue now.

the Nvidia ForceWare 66.93
what can I say aside from "grats!" and "ding!" on my card NX5700LE, it seems a far improvement over then even recently beta driver 66.81 which everyone and their duck should be running since the install of EQ2 most likely.

The only downside I heard was from 4 of my friends who are running Nv5200 cards made by eVGA, they said the driver just kept crashing the game.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_66.93

http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/6...ease_Notes.pdf

[Tarrax Ironwolf]

But the question remains is, how good are they with GF4 Ti 4200? They claim its for my card, but everytime I use a new driver, something screwy ends up happening (i.e., tearing, graphics disappearing, etc). So then I have to go back to the 61.76 driver, where I know it works... Though I occassionally get tearing in EQII, but not that often (maybe once or twice during a game session) compared to the supposed newer WQHL drivers, which tear continuously...

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

Originally Posted by Tarrax Ironwolf

But the question remains is, how good are they with GF4 Ti 4200? They claim its for my card, but everytime I use a new driver, something screwy ends up happening (i.e., tearing, graphics disappearing, etc). So then I have to go back to the 61.76 driver, where I know it works... Though I occassionally get tearing in EQII, but not that often (maybe once or twice during a game session) compared to the supposed newer WQHL drivers, which tear continuously...

Sorry Tarrax I only have 1 friend who still runs a TI series and his is the 4600.

Do you still tear even if you have cl_refresh_sync true set?

[Tarrax Ironwolf]

Are you referring to the eq2_recent.ini and eq2_default.ini files? If so, there is no listing of cl_refresh_sync true within those files...

[Sir Taleisin The Seer]

Originally Posted by Tarrax Ironwolf

Are you referring to the eq2_recent.ini and eq2_default.ini files? If so, there is no listing of cl_refresh_sync true within those files...

place that line somewhere in the eq2_recent.ini it will help with your tearing issues.

I found 2 people who still have TI4200 cards, one machine the driver worked just the same as 66.81 driver did, the other we clocked a slight improvement.

The machine that had a slight improvement had 32more MBs of system ram and was a AMD proc at 1.33Ghz

the machine that was just the same as the old driver was a Intell machine running at 1.4Ghz

[Tarrax Ironwolf]

Great many thanks for the help Tal! This will help most dramatically... I'll pop in later to post how it went... Now to find some time to play. *chuckle*