Drivers, DRIVERS AND MORE DRIVERS!!!

Raiden01 · January 5th, 2004

hey i got a nvidia fx 5900 and i was woundering if anyone can tell which was the best driver. i recently came across the stormstar or something and omega. the problem is i got the last nvidia onses 53.03 and i got blue screen with it so im afraid to upgrade again, but is it a big performance gane on 53.03 and i tried the storm star onses and they seem to have made a little diference on image quality but for me it just seen like these drivers turn on texture sharpening. can anyone give me advice on which driver i should be using at curent i am using 52.16.

**hushypushy** · January 5th, 2004

well if were you i would just use the newest forceware, 53.03, but i've also had very good experience with Omega's drivers too

Phoenix · January 5th, 2004

yeah the latest 53.03 official ones, make sure you uninstall the current drivers on your computer before updating or downgrading the drivers.

Raiden01 · January 5th, 2004

yes but i had problem with 53.03 witha blue screen should i dare try installing again

PS also when i install them using driver update on system it dosnt detect the 53.03 :cuss2:

Phoenix · January 5th, 2004

Yeah that's why I said that you should uninstall them first, also try looking for registry entries (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Filters HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global. If you have nview profiles stored they'll be deleted too, sometimes deleting these registry key solve some issues like yours), that the normal uninstall can't wipe out. You can aid your uninstalling process with the 3x.xx to 4x.xx detonator fix, it deletes some archives and registry keys as well, grab it from guru3d.com. Also, once you ran the utility or uninstalled the drivers go to your windows\system32\drivers directory and delete the nv4_mini.sys, after that go to windows\system32 directory and delete the nv4_disp.dll, after deleting the files windows may compain that you're deleting vital files and it won't work bla bla, say yes and then install the 53.03.

EDIT: Remeber that this drivers are DX9 compliant, so you should have it installed.

Player-X · January 6th, 2004

What about the Omega drivers,I still keep my Nvidia card around Image quality is much better than the Forceware drivers

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Raiden01 RaZoR (The Manic Cow!) Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 788	Drivers, DRIVERS AND MORE DRIVERS!!! hey i got a nvidia fx 5900 and i was woundering if anyone can tell which was the best driver. i recently came across the stormstar or something and omega. the problem is i got the last nvidia onses 53.03 and i got blue screen with it so im afraid to upgrade again, but is it a big performance gane on 53.03 and i tried the storm star onses and they seem to have made a little diference on image quality but for me it just seen like these drivers turn on texture sharpening. can anyone give me advice on which driver i should be using at curent i am using 52.16. __________________ What is real? How do you define real?, if real is what we touch, feel then reall is nothing but electrical signals interprited by your brain. PC SPEC Gigabyte 8IK1100 motherboard:mg: NEW ABIT IC7-G 2X 512MB PC3200LLPT CORSAIR RAM Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHZ Processor with HT Seagate SATA 120GB Hard drive, Maxtor IDE 120GB hard drive Creative Nvidia Geforce FX 5900 Ultra Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro CDRW 52X24X52X DVD ROM 16x 550 WATT antec PSU

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Raiden01 RaZoR (The Manic Cow!) Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 788	yes but i had problem with 53.03 witha blue screen should i dare try installing again PS also when i install them using driver update on system it dosnt detect the 53.03 :cuss2: __________________ What is real? How do you define real?, if real is what we touch, feel then reall is nothing but electrical signals interprited by your brain. PC SPEC Gigabyte 8IK1100 motherboard:mg: NEW ABIT IC7-G 2X 512MB PC3200LLPT CORSAIR RAM Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHZ Processor with HT Seagate SATA 120GB Hard drive, Maxtor IDE 120GB hard drive Creative Nvidia Geforce FX 5900 Ultra Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro CDRW 52X24X52X DVD ROM 16x 550 WATT antec PSU

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Phoenix Ada... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: GDL, MX Posts: 2,229	Yeah that's why I said that you should uninstall them first, also try looking for registry entries (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Filters HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global. If you have nview profiles stored they'll be deleted too, sometimes deleting these registry key solve some issues like yours), that the normal uninstall can't wipe out. You can aid your uninstalling process with the 3x.xx to 4x.xx detonator fix, it deletes some archives and registry keys as well, grab it from guru3d.com. Also, once you ran the utility or uninstalled the drivers go to your windows\system32\drivers directory and delete the nv4_mini.sys, after that go to windows\system32 directory and delete the nv4_disp.dll, after deleting the files windows may compain that you're deleting vital files and it won't work bla bla, say yes and then install the 53.03. EDIT: Remeber that this drivers are DX9 compliant, so you should have it installed. Last edited by Phoenix; January 5th, 2004 at 22:06.

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January 5th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
Phoenix Ada... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: GDL, MX Posts: 2,229	yeah the latest 53.03 official ones, make sure you uninstall the current drivers on your computer before updating or downgrading the drivers.

January 6th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Player-X Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: From Kuching in Malaysia now stuck in Houston Texas Posts: 9,110	What about the Omega drivers,I still keep my Nvidia card around Image quality is much better than the Forceware drivers