Holman Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Hi all, I've heard that 30.82 is the last driver that works for CMBB without "blackouts" under WinXP. Then I've also heard that 30.87 works. Is there a benefit to moving up to 30.87 from 30.82? Is there a driver above these that also allows CMBB to work with WinXP? I know from experience that 40.72 does not. (I'm looking for drivers that include the "texture sharpening" option, which seems to be necessary for CMBB to look its best on my machine.) My specs: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz CPU 256MB RAM (more on the way) WinXP Home edition GeForce4 Ti4400 128MB video card NVIDIA 30.82 drivers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiggles Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 Originally posted by Martyr: Hi all, I've heard that 30.82 is the last driver that works for CMBB without "blackouts" under WinXP. Then I've also heard that 30.87 works. Is there a benefit to moving up to 30.87 from 30.82? I've tried both, couldn't really tell the difference. By "blackouts" I assume you mean missing text with FSAA turned on? If so, both 30.82 and 30.87 work fine, anything over 40.00 doesn't (so far). Is there a driver above these that also allows CMBB to work with WinXP? I know from experience that 40.72 does not. Depends what you mean by "work". I've tried every 4x.xx driver out (officially or unofficially) so far, and with most of them (all far two IIRC) CMBB will "work", in the sense that it'll load and run and all that jazz. But all suffer the "whoops where's my text gone?" with FSAA enabled. At least one of the driver sets dropped my frame-rate to ~1fps (from 20fps on the same scenario). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Posted February 16, 2003 Share Posted February 16, 2003 I use 3087 and it's fine. Can't say FSAA or AF does anything for me however. I've turned both off. Any problems I did have can't be that great (I didn't notice them) but I did notice fine lines running down each side of my targeting lines with FSAA/AF on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 30.87 is fine. It was originally offered via the MS's WINDOWS UPDATE Webpage. Its a Microsoft varient (probably WHQL certified) version of the 30.82 series drivers. Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodman Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Hi, I would highly recommend that you stick with 30.82 drivers if that is what you have installed. The 30.87 drivers are so similar in performance that upgrading to them is pointless. If it aint broke don't fix it certainly applies here. As far as texture sharpening goes, I do beleive that you are referring to anisotropic filtering. I use a utility program to enable that feature with the 30.82 drivers. I can't remember the name of the program right now, but when I get home I will look up the name and post the link here. Hope this helps Bodman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodman Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Hi, The link I was referring to in the previous post is http://www.3dcenter.org/atuner/ Click on the american flag in the upper right hand corner of the page to get the english version of the web page. The name of the program is A-tuner. It works quite nicely. Good luck Bodman [ February 18, 2003, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: bodman ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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