Official detonator 40.71 feedback thread

Installed them right over the previous 40.52's for WinME and nary a problem. Good performance boost for me, too... my aging geforce3 is running the UT2K3 demo like a biatch with 2xAA at 1024 and looking good!!

ooops... another mongoose in here!!

[slidey]

Is anyone still getting the flashing white frames in Battlefield 1942? Or is that fixed...

[rclenhardt]

I agree with saturnotaku. I just finished tweaking up the 40.52's, which are terrific. I think i will wait for them to be WHQL and hope someone hacks the drivers to english only.

[verncat]

This is getting to be a pain in the **s!!! The 40.41's worked ok, but the 40.52's won't even allow me to run Battlefield 1942. It gives me a black screen then the desktop. Now the 40.71's do it too. WTF? Is there a workaround or fix? I've tried the refresh fix someone mentioned before, about it only working in 60hz. No go with the two new sets. Every other game works ok. Someone HELP!!!

[combat_wombat]

this version of the drivers don't hose dark age of camelot, so i am happy

[slidey]

This is getting to be a pain in the **s!!! The 40.41's worked ok, but the 40.52's won't even allow me to run Battlefield 1942. It gives me a black screen then the desktop. Now the 40.71's do it too. WTF? Is there a workaround or fix? I've tried the refresh fix someone mentioned before, about it only working in 60hz. No go with the two new sets. Every other game works ok. Someone HELP!!!

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(Go to your BF1942 install directory)
-Open the videodefault.con file found in Settings\VideoDefault.con.

-Edit the line: renderer.allowAllRefreshRates # (where # can be replaced by 0 or 1).

-Changing this value to one will allow you to select the refresh rates from the Options>Video section of the in-game frontend. NOTE: the game will default to 640x480.
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Did you try the above procedure yet? If it works...let me know if you're seeing the white flashes during gameplay...

PS make sure you patched BF1942 to 1.1 before doing the above...

[verncat]

Did that yesterday. I can't even start the game up with the 40.71 drivers. I double-click the icon, the screen goes black for about five seconds, then I'm back at my desktop. No error messages, nothing.

Originally posted by SavagePaladin

I couldn't call the original 40.s unstable...they just had issues. 40.52 seemed perfect...and 40.71 probably will too.

As to why they're still beta, I couldn't say.

hopefully because the final drivers will boost performance more

i can hope, can't i?

[Max3D]

Originally posted by verncat
Did that yesterday. I can't even start the game up with the 40.71 drivers. I double-click the icon, the screen goes black for about five seconds, then I'm back at my desktop. No error messages, nothing.

Allow 800x600 @60 Hz in your refresh rate fix utility, win9x dont have this issue it starts with 800x600 @highest possible refresh.

[JamesDax]

The UT2k3 demo and Madden2k3 both run and look great @ 10x7x32 c/ 2xAA and texture sharping.

[intercede007]

Dear god, I went from an 11,892 to 9460 in 3DMark!!! I think I'll just roll these drives on back......

[tieros]

Initial feedback of 40.71 on WinXP w/GeForce4Ti4600:

Looks good



The new drivers seem to have fixed the flickering for me so far. It was worst in AC2 beta, so I'm going to try that next.

3DMark score is a bit higher, nothing significant.

For some reason, the image quality seems better to me than any of the previous drivers, and not just a little bit better. I first noticed it in the Dragothic scene of 3DMark, but was totally blown away in the Nature scene. My ansio is still set to 1x, and my mipmap is still on 'best quality', so I'm not sure what would cause it. Could be just too much caffiene today

If anyone else notices a major leap in image quality, let me know. I'm hoping it's the new driver, and not my eyes or brain