http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_40.41
People in the nvnews forum are getting 1000 point increases in 3dmark scores, I'm off to bench :)
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http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_40.41
People in the nvnews forum are getting 1000 point increases in 3dmark scores, I'm off to bench :)
sweet cant wait to get home and start the d/l then its off to see the "actual" results in sof2!
31.00
No AA 10695
4x AA 6265
New 40's
No AA 11488
4x 6762
xp1700 oc'd
Gainward 4600
Win XP
Abit Kr7a-raided
My lowest fps almost doubled on nature for No AA. As happy as I am to see the boost in numbers, I'm just as unhappy to see that they have been holding out on us.
We don't know that they have been holding out. At this time we don't know what the drivers changed. They could have just as easily changed the LOD or something else to gain these extra points. Also, 3DMark is a common benchmark. Most card makers try to optimize drivers for games/programs used most commonly in benchmarking. Unfortunately, when this is done it rarely translates into increased performance across the board for all programs.Quote:
Originally posted by h
31.00
No AA 10695
4x AA 6265
New 40's
No AA 11488
4x 6762
xp1700 oc'd
Gainward 4600
Win XP
Abit Kr7a-raided
My lowest fps almost doubled on nature for No AA. As happy as I am to see the boost in numbers, I'm just as unhappy to see that they have been holding out on us.
I'm so anxious to test these right now :D
My 3DMark 2001 SE score was 10757 with the 30.82's (Whichever the last official release was), and it jumped up 1000+ to 11815 with these new Detonator 40.41's.
I too noticed the huge increase during the "Nature" portion of the benchmark.
I also updated the link in my sig. if anyone wants to compare scores.
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I score 6705 with 4XAA Enabled
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My impressions so far: These drivers suck.
First off when you benchmark with Direct3D under "Best Performance" mipmap details everything gets pixelated, similiar to what you would expect if your playing a game without hardware acceleration.
Second off, these drivers delete my favorite resolution of 1280x960. No Nvidia driver to date has done this.
Third Impression: I've done the usual benchmarks, Quake3 and 3DMark2001SE. Quake3 remained about the same and I lost 160 3DMarks at 1024x768@32-bit with my GeForce3 Ti200 at 220/465.
*edit* I've tried 2 other Mipmap details, Best Image Quality and Blend. Both of them do not give pixelated graphics. Previous Nvidia drivers to date did not pixelize graphics when set under "Best performance" in Direct3D, only made them slightly more blurry.
Nvidia refresh rate & RivaTuner's refresh rate fix do not work on the 40.41's. Anyone know a program that doesn't need to be running in the background (i.e, RefreshLock) to fix the refresh rate?
*edit 2* Seems like these drivers aren't optimized as well as for GeForce4's. 22.80's back I go. Not only do those offer better performance but better image quality.
That res works fine for me :confused:Quote:
Originally posted by jagojago12
these drivers delete my favorite resolution of 1280x960. No Nvidia driver to date has done this.
Hey guys I just installed and banched the new detonators!
I got 6910.
My specs are below. I don`t think it`s a bad score. Unfortunately I cannot compare it since MADONION is not loading up. Sucks.
Anyway let me know what do you think!
That's not a bad score. It's just about right for the hardware in your system.Quote:
Originally posted by Emanuele
Hey guys I just installed and banched the new detonators!
I got 6910.
My specs are below. I don`t think it`s a bad score. Unfortunately I cannot compare it since MADONION is not loading up. Sucks.
Anyway let me know what do you think!
From around 8800 to 9725. Nicely done :) My nature avg fps nearly doubled as well as other improvements in other areas. :eek:
any word on if these will be released on win 9x or win me? i think i deserve some extra 3dmarks too:P
If I get over 10k with these drivers.. I'm going to party big time!!!
Boy, it's a good thing ATI came out with a super fast card. Otherwise, we'd being seeing some deja vu.
hmmmm I only got about 300 extra 3dmarks. also, the tests seem jerkier than usual... every few seconds the screen skips. anyone know what im taking about? well whatever you call it, it got alot worse with the new drivers even though my scores went up a bit.