Maxi Gamer Xentor 32 Page 4 Lets install this baby Okay, after a very detailed look on the cards features, its clock and its memory it is time to shuffle this Ultra TNT2 into our system and see how it reacts with the plug and play feature of Windows 98 S.E. Thanks to a very 4-language (Spanish, Italian, Dutch and English) detailed manual it is absolutely no hassle to stick the AGP card into your system. From technical specifications, hardware installation, how-to replace your old video card to install the accompanied software, this manual has it all! Really, even a 12-year old kid could easily swith video cards with this manual. Everything is well explained, very in detail and with several pictures it is a gift from God. ;) However I did notice some mistakes in this manual. Oh yes, for example, it says in the manual that the Xentor 32 only has a 125mhz clock when we all know that it is in fact '175 Mhz'. Even the information on the backside of the Xentor 32's box says '150Mhz state-of-the art 128bit ....'. So, I was a bit confused the first time because was it now 125 mhz or 150 mhz? Well, thank God because it was 175 Mhz. Anyway I turned my system off, replaced my old video card with the Xentor 32, quickly connected the cables and turn it back on. To my surprise, Windows 98 S.E. (Special Edition) found my new AGP card as a VGA card and plug and play really worked. Installation of buggy drivers? Now it was time to install the drivers. The drivers on the Installation Cd (v1.0) were drivers that were based on a very old reference driver of nVidia. I think it was v1.30. Fortunately for me, I recieved a phone message from Guillemots Marketing Manager and he told me that I 'SHOULD NOT' use these drivers because of a bug with Internet Explorer. The problem was that when you installed those drivers and you also had IE, your system, once rebooted, wouldn't load Windows anymore. Guillemot was of course aware of this bug and they quickly released a fix on their website. However, for some people, that fix didn't work so what I did was installing true reference drivers directly from nVidia (version 2.08). With reference drivers from the Chip Manufacturer you can't go wrong. Every board vendor is using these drivers as a reference and they sometimes tweak it a bit more and add special features, for their card only. After a succesful reboot, I could test this card very thoroughly with benchmarks. Next Page Up Previous Page If you want to review your favorite game, or if you work with a computer game company and want your products reviewing, mail info@playdevil.com. All contributions are welcome. Any problems and/or suggestions are always appreciated on webmaster@playdevil.com Nothing of this entire Site, animation & logo's included, may be reproduced, stored, saved, transmitted, in any form or means, electronic, written or otherwise without the prior permission of PlayDevil. Other Logos & Names are Copyrighted Material of its respectful owners. All Rights Reserved. PlayDevil Productions © 199/8-199/9 "rip your own stuff"