The Fast Trax Drivers are not a full driver suite, per se. Instead they are a slick interface dropped onto the reference driver releases. By using the reference core, Creative insures users that new driver updates will be available as Fast Trax downloads soon after Detonator updates. Currently, Fast Trax is running on the 6.34 build.

I recommend installing a set of reference drivers and then run the Fast Trax .exe file to set up your card's new best buddy. If you already have a Creative card and want to give the Fast Trax interface a run, click here

It's a quick .exe extract and a restart and you are now under the control of Display Director.

The Fast Trax interface is named Display Director, and rightly so. I praised Fast Trax and Display Director in the Annihilator2 review, and I am going to again.

Start at the task bar icon and double click to bring up the Display Director interface. Every settings is one or two clicks in depth from this point, from overclocking to color correction to AGP settings.

Here are the options for the next layer of driver settings. A couple of shots showing off the Direct3D and OpenGL options follow.

The FSAA settings are under the More Direct3D Options button.

Tick or untick, drop a menu and select, fast and easy...

Here comes my favorite window in the display director...

You can also check and modify your AGP settings to isolate problems you may be having with motherboard chipset compatibilty.

*This screenshot will explain my somewhat odd color scheme.

I am going to start with a few system benches to give you a manner in which to measure your system against mine and in areas like motherboard chipset memory bandwidth and CPU performance by using SiSoft Sandra.

Here come the charts and graphs...

Next Page: System Benches