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Re: Another Wretched Newbie

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From: Bob Knowlden
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 00:00
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The Nvidia drivers are for all their recent cards, including the Vanta, I
think.

You may want to give a look at:

http://www.geforcefaq.com/

which is for Geforce cards (originally, the Creative annihilator) but
there's stuff there that applies across the line, particularly to doing a
clean uninstall of the drivers (if you're up for a bit of Registry editing).

I hope that you find the Vanta to be a significant improvement over the V3
2000, but I'm not optimistic. 32MB of RAM adds color depths/resolutions to
3D games, but I doubt that a Vanta is a powerful enough chip to exploit it.
(The V3 got along nicely with 16 MB by not permitting 24 or 32 bit color in
3D games; I've not seen how well their "22 bit equivalent" mode works in
life.)

Have fun.

Bob Knowlden
Tucson, Arizona, USA

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"J Newell" <newelley@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8jt96g$85c$1@plutonium.btinternet.com...
> O.k, I've just boughta Creative labs TNT2 Vanta PCI 32Mb card from the
shops
> to replace my 16Mb Voodoo3 2000.  Now, after getting the card home and
> installing the supplied reference drivers, i set out to get the newest and
> upto date drivers.  Now i know that Nvidia supply the drivers so i checked
> there website and i'll be damned if i can work out which ones i'm supposed
> to download for my particular card. can anybody help.  also, i wanted to
> check if you can ude these drivers in a trial and error basis or if i had
to
> use the Creative labs ones?
>
> cheers guys, i know you'll all help me out !!
>
> newelley
>
>
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