Nvidia 93.71 Drivers

**AlfonsoVIII** · November 06, 2006, 07:43 PM

I have tested these new drivers and I am undecided on performance with the M2TW demo. I get lower frame rates, but my 3dmark score went up to 8487 from 7459. It looks like it helps, but my card can cream the visual aspects of M2TW. Other thoughts for people using this driver?

**Titus** · November 06, 2006, 07:56 PM

I am using it but can't really tell the difference playing the M2TW demo seems the same to me!

**Trajan** · November 07, 2006, 12:35 AM

I'm using the Tweakerized 93.71, haven't tested it yet with the demo but I doubt I'll see any improvements if you guys are not. The 93.71 is a good driver though. It's not the fastest but it has really good IQ. Looking through the Tweaks R Us forums, a lot of people are happy with it.

**Lugotorix** · November 07, 2006, 12:53 AM

A driver came with my 7600GS Nvidia card. By default the card's driver overid my existing 93.71.
My question is whether the card's driver is superior to the 93.71, for Medieval II performance.
The card's manual was outdated, so I'm leaning towards re-activating the 93.71.

**Spartan** · November 07, 2006, 03:41 AM

For multi-monitor users (At least for me) the refresh rate is always at 60hz for the second monitor on H-span. This is very disconcerting to say the least.

**Germanicus75** · November 07, 2006, 05:36 AM

Originally Posted by AlfonsoVIII

I have tested these new drivers and I am undecided on performance with the M2TW demo. I get lower frame rates, but my 3dmark score went up to 8487 from 7459. It looks like it helps, but my card can cream the visual aspects of M2TW. Other thoughts for people using this driver?

Hi Alfonso, I generally saw a lower performance in benches when trying these drivers. I went back to 91.47.

**Arakorn** · November 07, 2006, 10:57 AM

Which driver should I download if I have the 7600GS for Windows XP home? And live in Finland? Does the international and Go 7-series/Geforce and XP Pro/Xp actually matter?

**Spart** · November 07, 2006, 11:12 AM

Just get the latest WHQL XP driver from nVidia homepage. Click

I've heard lots of complaints about bad performance in Medieval 2 with latest drivers, so do you all have this problem? It might be something like messed up default settings in those drivers. Hmm...

**Trajan** · November 07, 2006, 05:26 PM

Intel Pent. 4 Processor 540 w/ HT 3.20GHz
Win XP Home SP2
2 GB DDR SDRAM Dual Channel
XFX GF 7900GT 256MB 560MHz/1.65GHz
XG Tweakerizer 93.71
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
200 GB SATA 7200 RPM HD
Antec 480w PSU

I would like to know if my game profile for the M2TW demo is good. Take a look at it and tell me if I should change something. I want to preserve the excellent graphics of M2TW while getting the best performance I can get. BTW, I'm playing the demo with everything maxed except no shadows and no bloom.

Antia settings: Application-contr.
Anisotropic filt: Application-contr.
Image settings: Quality
Vertical sync: off
Force mipmaps: None
Conformant text clamp: on
Extension limit: off
Hardware aceleration: Single-display mode
Trilinear optimization: off
Anisotropic mip filter opt: off
Anisotropic sample opt: off
Gamma correct anti: off
Transparency anti: off
Triple buffering: off
Negative LOD bias: Clamp

So what do you guys think? I plan on using this profile for the full game. Should I change anything?

**Germanicus75** · November 07, 2006, 06:20 PM

I went for image settings: Performance. Otherwise I can't really comment on most of the other options. I'd be interested to hear the expert views on this too

**AlfonsoVIII** · November 07, 2006, 07:12 PM

Trajan, I have changed my driver to match yours, will report in a little bit.

**Trajan** · November 07, 2006, 07:14 PM

Cool man, I'll be looking forward to your report.

**AlfonsoVIII** · November 07, 2006, 07:17 PM

Quick check by matching yours, I gained 1fps.

EDIT: Will be checking the profile and posting results.

Antia settings: Application-contr. (Does not matter with driver and game setting, all the same performance)
Anisotropic filt: Application-contr. (Does not matter with driver and game setting, all the same performance)
Image settings: Quality (Loss 2fps going from quality to performance. Should be changed to High Performance.)
Vertical sync: off (No change with driver if vsync is on in the game)
Force mipmaps: None (No change)
Conformant text clamp: on (No change)
Extension limit: off (Cannot change)
Hardware aceleration: Single-display mode
Trilinear optimization: off (No change)
Anisotropic mip filter opt: off (No change)
Anisotropic sample opt: off (No change)
Gamma correct anti: off (No change)
Transparency anti: off (Lost 10 fps by changing from off.)
Triple buffering: off (No change)
Negative LOD bias: Clamp (No change)