Detonator Nvidia Detonator XP Drivers (Windows XP/2000) 21.83

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Hey

I was wondering if the spontanous restart problem linked to these drivers has be solved. In other forums it was speculated that the problem was linked to the SoundBlaster Live chipsets.

The newest Soundblaster WDM drivers are out and I was wondering if anyone had tried them out in connection with the Detonator XP.

Please include your driver information in your posts if possible

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Glix

VIA Chipset Driver - 4.34

SoundBlaster Live

Geforce 2MX -XP drivers

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Why don't you just use the 22.80 Nvidia drivers. I've been using those for a while and I have none of those problems. Oh and why would you install the Via chipset drivers? They don't do anything and some say the XP default drivers are better anyways. To solve most of your compatability problems take out drivers that aren't needed (except your video card drivers). If XP comes with a driver then use it and don't use something else.

#1 Rule: If it's not broken then why fix it! :ponder:

No need for Creative drivers or Via Drivers.

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The VIA chipset drivers are said to cause major problems in a lot of cases, with people ending up having to reinstall Windows again. I REALLY wouldn't mess with the VIA 'crap' unless you are already experiencing major problems.

Also, are the 22.80 drivers SO much better than the 21.85 drivers? I haven't really been up to date recently with Nvidia drivers and my SB!Live drivers were last updated from the WindowsUpdate site. Then again, I haven't played a demanding game in ages. I installed Operation Flashpoint the other day and found it played like crap [and I'm not downloading the 50mb of patches just to see if it makes a difference - I had a CPU score of 1400, though that means NOTHING to me... NE good?]... but Tribes 2 is reasonably playable [for a TNT2 :(].

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hello :)

i've been having some problem with my creative 3dblaster tnt2 ultra. since i update my driver to detonator 21.83, each time i launch any game or play movie the system just stops responding. It just froze. when i restart, there's a message saying that "Windows were unable to complete the drawing process". 22.80 or 22.88 also the same prob. any ideas how to solve this?? :ermm:

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Glix..the spontaneous restarts are a "feature" of windows xp. Go into Properties of My Computer..click the Advanced tab..click Startup and Recovery..and uncheck the box under System Failure called "Automatically Reboot"

Why they had it do that by default is BEYOND me...so many people ask this question.

After unchecking this, it won't solve your freezing but at least you'll see the blue screen error you're getting and might be able to go forward with the information.

btw..no freezes/bluescreens here

Visiontek GF3 - Detonator 21.83

SB Live! Value - updated drivers from Windows Update (unknown version..i'm at work)

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PS. one thing to try that seems to help some people is to go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services... scroll down to Nvidia Driver Helper Service, double click it, change "automatic" to "manual"...reboot

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Roger H. Veteran

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mortensen... are you crazy? Microsoft drivers aren't 3D drivers. So any drivers you get from MS Windows Update then those are just meant to improve 2D. They don't come with OpenGL or none of those other advanced features. I've only seen this in 1 case and it was with the ATI Rage 128 chipset and when i updated the drivers were fully DirectX and OpenGL compliant and played games beautifully.... but i've never gotten any drivers from MS for nVidia cards that weren't just meant for 2D.

CyberDude... yes i'm using those drivers. They work perfectly and they match XP too because they have the same look and feel of the rest of XP instead of them being a different color when you check the advanced settings.... :)

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Lun4

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all i know is that the newest OFFICIAL drivers from nvidia are HIGHLY unstable on my computer...causing full lockup within 2min of restart everytime...i usin 29.40s now....they wrk greay...

i think its cuz i needed to install latest via 4in1 drivers....all good now....29.40s are still better....

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