spacey 0 Posted November 10, 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/default.asp Anyone installed it yet? I'm gunna try it out soon, I think the new 7.17 Detonators are suppose to work well with DX8. Share this post Link to post
DFB 0 Posted November 10, 2000 I'm using DX8, and the Det. 7.17 drivers did nothing but crash when I tried to play a game. Going back to 6.47 seems to have fixed the problem though. Funny how the RC1 didn't have a problem with 7.17 but the final did. Share this post Link to post
Down8 0 Posted November 11, 2000 I heard that th 7.10s worked better than the 7.17s for DirectX 8. -bZj Share this post Link to post
DosFreak 2 Posted November 11, 2000 If you want the most stable drivers use the 6.34's. The 7.17's have memory leaks (MAJOR) and slowdown's in some color depths. Share this post Link to post
JBoDEAN 0 Posted November 11, 2000 6.34 and Directx 8 , with WIN2k SP1 running here, No problems at all... ------------------ [Here is my system] Intel Celeron 566 @ 850 Abit BE6 Rv1 3d Prophet 2 Mx (6.19 drivers) Soundblaster Live! Value w/ cambridge 4 point speakers Pioneer 6x dvd / 12 x cdrom SCSI Drive 3com 905b-cmb network card Panasonic 4x scsi burner IBM Deskstar 13.5g 7200rpm DMA/66 Western Digital 14g 5400rpm DMA/66 256m PC-100 CS2 ram BoDEAN gizbug@sammyhagar.net http://www.sammyhagar.net Share this post Link to post
Bursar 0 Posted November 11, 2000 DX8 and Dets 631, no probs here either. ------------------ PIII 800EB FC-PGA Intel D815EEA Motherboard Intel® PRO/100 Integrated NIC 2x256MB PC 100 RAM Maxtor 92049U6 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66 Maxtor 52049U4 20.4GB 7200RPM UDMA66 Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra 64MB AOpen 52x IDE CD-ROM Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer USB Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Pro US Robotics Sportster Flash v90 External modem Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17 Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI controller Sound Blaster Live! Value (LiveWare 3) Windows 2000 Professional (SP1 + all updates) Share this post Link to post
Gambler FEX online 0 Posted November 12, 2000 viewing images with thumbs plus 4.01 now causes winamp to skip, just as the image loads. bigger images, longer load times, worse skipping. Im pretty sure it's the SB Live drivers, you know creative labs and win2k drivers hehee what a joke huh? Other than that every thing's jake. Share this post Link to post
Gerbache Kaznet 0 Posted November 12, 2000 I tried using the new DirectX 8 and the 7.17 drivers, but they didn't seem to like me very much. UT was really jumpy - it went from an average of around 45fps to around 15fps. Q3 wouldn't even load - it BSOD's on me (that was the only BSOD I've EVER gotten with win2k, though, so it's not -that- big a deal I suppose). I downgraded back to the 6.47 release, and now I'm back up to normal speeds, with a slight boost in UT speed. Has anyone tested sound acceleration under DX8? I know with the SB Live drivers before, EAX was practically unusable in some games. I'm hoping it'll be fixed with DX8 because lord knows when creative will get around to releasing new drivers! Share this post Link to post
MarksmanX 0 Posted November 12, 2000 I have had it easy I guess I have no problems with Det. 7.17 drivers, performance wise I didn't notice any different from 6.47. Quake III has a minor increase of 2 FPS. The sound skipping is still there with my Sound Blaster Live card. I guess we have to wait for Creative to release new drivers. ------------------ Supermicro P6DBE Rev 3.0 Motherboard Dual Intel Pentium III 850 512 MEGS of ECC RAM Sound Blaster Live! Adaptec 29160 SCSI Card GeForce 2 GTS 64MB IBM DMVS18N Ultra 160 Hard Drive Western Digital 20.5GB Hard Drive Razer Boom Slang 2000 (USB) Roland Sound Canvis SC-55 3COM 3CR990-TX-97 with 3XP Processor 10/100 PCI Network Interface Card Plextor Plexwriter 12/4/32 Pioneer 10X DVD-ROM Sony GDM-F500R Monitor Share this post Link to post
