Erik Lund Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 I'm sorry to say that i'm not impressed with the Nvidia Quadro 4 900 XGL. I just bought one made by PNY and my Elsa Gloria 2 (Quadro 1) card with the Maxtreme driver is much faster!! Why?!?! The only performance gain i notice is with textures and not geometry. Infact geometry performance is better on the Quadro1 with the Maxtreme driver. Anyone have this issue? Is there a Maxtreme driver for the Quadro 4 i'm not finding? I know this is an issue with the card and not my system. I feel jipped [ July 05, 2002, 02:55 AM: Message edited by: Erik Lund ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Hess Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 You have to setup the card in the following manner to get it functioning at spec. First off..... 1) Use the Add/remove hardware wizard to remove the card. Do this to remove all previous nvidia drivers in the system. I don't care if your using the latest driver or not, just do it . 2) Without rebooting, run a registry cleaning program, like regcleaner (Do a search on google for regcleaner), and remove all invalid entries. This helps clean up the old driver files. 3) Download the latest nvidia drivers. DO NOT doubleclick the EXE. Install winzip or another extraction program, and EXTRACT the files to a directory. 4) Reboot 5) When the found new hardware wizard pops up, point it to the directory of the files you extracted. 6) Stage 1 is done. Yay. 7) After installing the drivers and rebooting, you have to optimize the card. This involves..... Editing the 3dsmax oglfx.ini file and adding a 1 after Multitexture=1 (Instead of =0) Do a search in your max directory for OGLFX.INI Going into display properties and navigating to the nvidia rollout and editing the following.... Under OGL Fast linear mip mapping on, Dual Planes on Anisophic filtering OFF VSYCH OFF If there is a texture slider for Quality/Performance, flip to performance. Turn off Hardware OVERLAYS Under Antialiasing...Set to Manual SET TO OFF. Under Nview, Set to Disabled. If you want to learn out to setup the nvidia card to use dual displays AND do it in a fast and efficent manner, check out the discreet forum at support.discreet.com under hardware_OS. Lots of theads on the subject. By default however, nview can cause up to a 600% performance loss, basically crippling the card. Next step... Don't go in max yet. Its time to hit up the computers bios. Reboot, press del upon booting, look for the AGP setting section....[most boards have these set to compatability mode by default] Set AGP Size to 64 Fast Writes Enabled AGP 4X Enabled If your feeling lucky, you can try the Master Write Enabled (Different on each board) Now boot back into windows 2000. Make sure if its a via motherboard, that you have the latest via 4 in 1 drivers. If its amd760 or 761 get the latest amd drivers. If its an intel board, you'll have to download the intel agp and chipset drivers. If its win2k, you need service pack 2, along with all the compatbility updates. After all that.... www.nvidia.com type maxtreme in the search window, download the latest maxtreme and install it. If your performance is still slower after all that, then you've got a hardware/system problem...(Aka your trying to run a top of the line accelerator on a PII400, or something is seriously wrong with your system, like a device is sharing the video IRQ) MAKE SURE.... to disable nview in the control manual. Completely disable it. All the way, yes thats right, disable nview in the control panel...did I mention to disable nview in the control panel? There ya go, enjoy. One more note. I've never see a computer that didn't have a system issue. NEVER. The only machine's I've seen that can't be optimized any further, tweaked any faster, or made any more stable are the ones I've built. And even those are constantly evolving as I learn more about software and its interaction with hardware. That sounds like a boast, but I've worked on over 1500 machines, and all of them needed some lovin. [ July 05, 2002, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: Greg Hess ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Greg, you are the man thanks for sharing all the know how, it does help a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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