Just my experience. I installed the reference drivers from nvidia on my Creative TNT2 Ultra and it worked, but there was some problems. (Not seeing barbed wire in Rogue Spear was one of them) I then went to the Creative site and got the latest drivers and all seems to be well.

Of course your situation and mine may not have anything to do with each other. My advice is to try both and see which works better. If anything, you could always benchmark your card with both drivers and if you need absolute proof. Good luck!

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