• Registered: 2007-06-27
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Topic: Are the nVIDIA display drivers modded?

Hello. These driver packs are amazing! Recently, I noticed something that has surprised me. I have an unattended XP setup with all driver packs included (method 2). I replaced my card with an old GeForce2 MX-200 card and I saw that the system automatically installed the appropriate display driver: But not the well known driver from XP SP2 (version 5x.xx date 2004), but the latest official driver 93.71 (date 10/2006)!
      The first note is that obviously the system, after the XP installation, keeps the Sneaky's drivers somewhere (where?). The second note is HOW is possible to install such a new driver to such an old video card? I want to add that the latest official driver with support for GeForce2 is 66.93 (10/2004). The official nVIDIA 93.71 drivers CANNOT be installed in a system with a GeForce2. So, I suppose that these Sneaky's drivers are modded, so that can be installed on almost every display card. Is that a fact? I didn't know that Bashrat is tweaking the drivers, I thought that he only put them all together. Thanks.

PS: I want to add that previously, I had tried with many other modded display drivers from Guru3d. I really wanted to update the driver for my old GeForce2 cards. The result? Nothing, every time the driver was causing a BSOD (nf4_disp.inf) at the end of the installation process. I tried in three systems and with two different GeForce2 cards. Now I am very happy with these Sneaky's drivers, which seem to be stable.

  • From: Cambridgeshire, UK
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Re: Are the nVIDIA display drivers modded?

Hmm,
That's odd.  We don't modify the nvidia drivers.  We only add another .inf file to support mobility chipsets.  If your card was not supported, it would not be listed in the .inf. 
nvidia was the first (I think) to create a unified driverset back in the '90s to support any current and future cards.  Lately, they've been splintering their driver releases so that older cards use the older drivers and are not supported by the newer driversets.  This is a pain for us.

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Re: Are the nVIDIA display drivers modded?

harriscs wrote:

The first note is that obviously the system, after the XP installation, keeps the Sneaky's drivers somewhere (where?).

Hello and welcome to the DriverPacks!
May In introduce you to KTD (Keep The Drivers)? wink

If you did not modify the default path, it should be %systemroot%\DriverPacks

The second note is HOW is possible to install such a new driver to such an old video card? I want to add that the latest official driver with support for GeForce2 is 66.93 (10/2004). The official nVIDIA 93.71 drivers CANNOT be installed in a system with a GeForce2. So, I suppose that these Sneaky's drivers are modded, so that can be installed on almost every display card. Is that a fact?

The driver installation routine won't allow you to install, that is correct.
This does not mean, however, the HW is not actually supported by the drivers.
As we do not call the original setup.EXE to install the drivers, this "problem" can be circumvented.

I experienced the same with a GF4MX400, and from what I can tell, it does not have any problems running on these newer drivers (granted, I don't do much 3D with it but the DXconfig test runs through as well as 3DMark and Google Earth).

I suppose if you were to manually install these drivers by right-clicking on the INF file, hence not using the setup.EXE, it would also work.

Give it a try sometime! smile

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