Im getting ready to install a card..

[Clab2021]

...hey fellas..I ended up buying a 9600 xt..I hope it will give me what want. Anyway I am going to install it now I want to back up my old drivers...uh where can I find those I found this

C: > Nvidia > WinXP-2K > 45.23

I copied that 45.23 folder to my desktop...is that the folder with the drivers in it.

[Starfury_2260]

i hope you got the one with hl2 bundled

that directory most likely is the directory with the driver installer. just look in it and see if theres a setup.exe or install and double click it, and if it brings up a driver installer then thats what you want to hold on to. you dont need to copy that folder (it's just the installer), just remember where it's at if you need it.

[washe]

Well your drivers will be parsed on the Drivers folder inside the windows folder.... but it would be much easier if you just download the drivers from the website... that way you can reinstall them with out any problem....

That ATI card will surely give you very good performance, my 9500 is very good I assume that yours will be better.

That one comes with the HL2 voucher correct..... damn I envy you....

[Bill in SD, CA]

WinDriversBackup

Bill

[Cookiemaker]

Nice. I plan on getting the same video card as you. Post and tell us how it runs.

[CanNiBaL513]

lol cool clab..
i got my 9600 XT today too!!
i already installed it..
i upgraded from a gefroce4 mx420
the card is good but i dont think im VERY impressed...
i saw an improvement in 3dmark01 SE and 3dmark03 score
3dmark01: from around 4200 to 1200 (pretty good)
3dmark03: from...lol...30.. to 3700 (good increase but i didnt see much of and improvement in framerates... some tests went even down to 1 FPS!!!)

my system is 2500+ Barton
512 kingston DDR pc2700
80 gig hd raid
asus a7n8x mb
9600 XT

any1 have similar system with different results???

[CanNiBaL513]

lol, hey clab...
in the red manual...
does it say "installing a RADEON 9700/9500 Series"
and "installing a RADEON 9800 Series"

lol cuz i think i got the wrong manual...
in it, it doesnt say anywhere 9600 XT... lol

[Clab2021]

Yep CanNibal I noticed that too...oh well it was quite easy to install. It was my first tiime ever doing anything to the inside of a computer. I was scared and nervous. Espically when I saw nothing about 9600 in the manual. But me being the way I am I just had to put that bad boy in. Thank god I dint break anything.

I too upgraded from a gefroce4 mx420. All I really play is StarWars Galaxies and let me tell you the graphics are amasing now!!!Im in love. The water detail itself was worth the $.

As far as how it runs...well for me great. With the cards settings maxed, and the games settings maxed as well I get 10-15 fps. With out maxing the settings its in the 20's. I have nnot tried that "overclocking" stuff, I just dont know how too yet, but am interested if it will help bring fps up. Also have not done those "watermark"? tests on it. Once I learn how to ill do that stuff to seee what it can do.

I have a P4 2.6, and 512 of ram...

And Yes I did get the free copy of HL2