NVIDIA driver slowdowns

CrimzonZero · #1 12-11-2006, 08:58 AM

hey I currently use omegadrivers... they have not been updated since last yeat 2005 since nvidia I guess threatened the creator...

http://omegadrivers.net

but any drivers I use for my video card that are new or that did not come with windows xp regulard drivers would tend to crash and slow down my pc...

omega drivers when installed give you 2 options

graphics options which make the graphics a bit better
and
performance options...

I have used both settings but decided to stick with the performance ones...

the drivers even though not really new are a compilation of the best drivers that nvidia had at the time and are also tweaked for better performance so even selecting graphics would still have a bit better performance than normal...

but the drivers are about a year and a half old and have not been updated forawhile...

omegadrivers.net

spydrct02 · #2 12-11-2006, 09:23 AM

I've never found any benefits to using the Omega drivers in the past as far as frame rates in 3D games. I don't think they work with my card, though they did with my older GeForce 5200 FX card. I'll try real quick, but I'm pretty sure they don't work on mine. Strange though, 66.00 works fine, and these are based on 66.93. Maybe ReBorn could test it, but then again, I doubt they support 64bit XP. You could help as well, since you've got them already. What's your card and processor?

Yeah, just tried installing and it doesn't work with this card.

spydrct02 · #3 12-13-2006, 03:14 AM

I just tried manually installing them "manually" through device manager, and I got it to work like that. The load times are somewhere around 300-500ms (noticable) longer than 66.00. I don't think there's really anything that can be done but wait for an OpenGL and/or Direct3D mode in future versions. Maybe the developer(s) could make a quick test version for us with them.