Video Card Drivers?

[blahtripout]

Hi community,

I would just like to find out what the best drivers are for my existing video card. I have what I consider to be a "reasonable" system for flightsim, and I will be doubling my RAM shortly, however, there seems to be a lot of different opinions about Nvidia reference drivers at the moment.
My main gripe is that at this time, I have "Shimmering" that in annoying the ##### out of me!

System Specs:
ECS Mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton Core)
512Mb PC-2700 (Going to 1GB soon)
80Gb Seagate SATA drive
GeForce4 Ti4200 8xAGP with 128Mb DDR RAM
Windows 2000 Professional SP2
Nvidia 45.23 drivers


At some stage in the future, I would like to move to an ATI Radeon 9800, but with a list price of $850 here, and me currently being unemployed, I might be waiting a while..... :-)

As usual, all help appreciated.

P.S: Is it woth me using RivaTuner?

Thanks all.

[wsieffert]

I am using the 53.03 drivers without problems on the same graphics card specs you have.

I would look at your MOBOs controller chips drivers to see if you are using updated drivers, i.e., Intel, VIA, SiS, AMD, ALi. These drivers provide the proper interface between the CPU and GPU. It may be that updated drivers won't fix your problem.

What Vertical Frequency are you running your monitor; what resolution? I have had later graphics adapter driver updates return the Vertical Frequency to 60Hz. I usually run it at 85Hz. From your administrator account, right click your desktop, select properties, settings tab, advanced button, graphics monitor tab, monitor settings, select the highest vertical frequency you monitor will operate (NOTE: ensure the safety checkbox is selected to eliminate higher settings that may damage your monitor), Apply. Select the Adapter tab, list all modes, and select the resolution and monitor speed, OK, and OK again to exit the menus.

I would also check to ensure you are using DirectX9.0b.



W. Sieffert

[blahtripout]

W. Sieffert,

Thanks for your help on that. As such, I do not have a PROBLEM,
I just wanted to know if I could push a few more frames out. There are so many dissagreements about video drivers, just on this board alone, that I'm sure you'll understand what I mean!

Will probably update them tomorrow.

Many thanks indeed.

Andrew.

[TheFlightMan]

Andrew,

I would always stick with reference drivers or those supplied by you card's vendor, anything else is a waste of time. Remember, those third party websites that offer beefed up NVidia drivers don't go throught the rigorous testing as NVidia would. They don't have the standards or resources to deliver such quality in a final product. Yes, they work but the results are not solid and vary from system to system.

TheFlightMan

[Zevious Zoquis]

Try the 40.72 dets. I was having shimmering issues and stutters with the 52.16s but the 40.72s seem real solid...I have the same card as you btw, a 128meg GF4Ti4200.