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Article #732Re: Creative TNT2 Ultra + NT 4 + Detonator 2.08 = lockup
From: xic0
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00
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you have to use the win nt drivers cause the others use directx and win nt doesnt support directx u'll have to till win 2000 for directx supp in winnt -- "There is no GOD for i am here" xic0@home.com Gord Peters <jtear@_REMOVETHIS_home.com> wrote in message news:qHZH3.6196$oJ1.201577@news1.rdc1.ab.home.com... > I have a Creative 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra in a dual celeron system running > Windows NT 4.0 (Service pack 5). Everything works fine with the Creative > drivers, but if I install the Nvidia Detonator 2.08 drivers, any game I try > will lockup as soon as it starts up (or very soon thereafter). Quake 2 & 3, > Unreal, Half-Life... none work. > > I'd gladly use the Creative Labs Windows NT drivers if they weren't so out > of date (ie. if Creative ever updated them... hint hint). I have compared > the performance of my setup running the Creative drivers to a friend with > and equivalent setup (only difference is that he has a Xentor TNT2 Ultra) > running the Detonator drivers, and let's just say that mine doesn't even > come close. In Quake 2 and 3, he averages about 15fps higher in all > resolutions, with the lower resolutions (ie. 640x480) he's getting about > 40fps higher than mine (my performance with the Creative drivers seems to be > capped -- I get no performance gain dropping from 800x600 to 640x480 at > all). > > Here's my setup: > > ABit BP6 Motherboard > Dual Celeron 333 overclocked to 440 (5x88MHz) > [Yes, I did drop the CPU speed back to the default to see if that was the > problem -- no, it wasn't.] > Creative Labs 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra > 3Com 3C905 PCI network card > Sound Blaster Live Value > IBM UDMA 66 Hard Drive > Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (service pack 5) > > Thanks for any help. > > >
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