Question for John Lewis, or anyone else who cares to reply..

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What do you think of the 56.64 Forceware drivers for the GeForce FX 5700
series cards, and how good are the current 56.72 Windows 2000/XP drivers
with the same series of card? Any specific issues with newer or older
games? How do nVidia's video card drivers compare to ATI's nowadays?
Thanks!

 

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Oops, when I mentioned the 56.64 drivers, I meant for Windows 98/ME, as
those are the newest ones available right now for those OS's.

 

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:32:51 -0600, "NightSky 421"
<nightsky421@reply-to-group.com> wrote:

>What do you think of the 56.64 Forceware drivers for the GeForce FX 5700
>series cards, and how good are the current 56.72 Windows 2000/XP drivers
>with the same series of card? Any specific issues with newer or older
>games? How do nVidia's video card drivers compare to ATI's nowadays?
>Thanks!
>

Thanks for asking. Not qualified to comment on the FX5700, but the
56.72 drivers are stellar under WinXP on the FX5900. Bypassed the
56.64 drivers..............

John Lewis

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"John Lewis" <john.dsl@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks for asking. Not qualified to comment on the FX5700, but the
> 56.72 drivers are stellar under WinXP on the FX5900. Bypassed the
> 56.64 drivers..............
>


I appreciate the reply!

 

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:42:35 -0600, "NightSky 421"
<nightsky421@reply-to-group.com> wrote:

>Oops, when I mentioned the 56.64 drivers, I meant for Windows 98/ME, as
>those are the newest ones available right now for those OS's.
>
>

I use Win ME (fully updated) on my Voodoo 5 5500 machine, which I use
for all my Internet, email, newsreading ( now !) and word processing.
And also for my DOS and Glide games................. !! WinME gets a
bad rap from some. I have seen more "recover from major error" on my
Win XP machine than blue screens on this one.

So again I am not qualified to properly answer your question. A bit
like a wet rag really..........very sorry..........

John Lewis

 

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"John Lewis" <john.dsl@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I use Win ME (fully updated) on my Voodoo 5 5500 machine, which I use
> for all my Internet, email, newsreading ( now !) and word processing.
> And also for my DOS and Glide games................. !! WinME gets a
> bad rap from some. I have seen more "recover from major error" on my
> Win XP machine than blue screens on this one.
>
> So again I am not qualified to properly answer your question. A bit
> like a wet rag really..........very sorry..........
>
> John Lewis
>


Thanks anyhow...and no worries about the Voodoo5 or Windows ME. I was
running a Voodoo3 in an old box until recently and know that you can only
do retro gaming with those cards! For fun one day, I tried installing and
running 10 different games released in the last year and a half, and only
one of those games ran on the Voodoo3! Not really a surprise, but still
amusing (the game that did run was Deer Hunter 2004). As for Windows ME,
I bought it the day it was released and I have no complaints about
stability. I'm running it as part of a dual boot on my second machine
here with a boatload of older games installed and still remain quite happy
with my experience with it.