I dont know whats going on with you guys, but with my Ti 4200 I am seeing no loss in IQ.
Damnit, am I going to have to be the one to reinstall the old damn drivers to compare? :eek: :rolleyes:
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I dont know whats going on with you guys, but with my Ti 4200 I am seeing no loss in IQ.
Damnit, am I going to have to be the one to reinstall the old damn drivers to compare? :eek: :rolleyes:
I wasn't readily agreeing with the people who said that the IQ was decreased. But if you agree with the people who say that (I tend to believe what you say), I guess it's cheating on Nvidia's part.Quote:
Originally posted by KJY9
Well let's see....either you need to go get a Ti4600, or read this thread, because my experience with these drivers is that they give you a great 3DMark score, with a big sacrifice in IQ. Now I wouldn't exactly call that a "holding back on purpose." ;)
They only help you if you have a GeForce 4 I guess..Quote:
Originally posted by The_Great_YODA
ok i lost about 100 points in 3dmark
Depends on what you mean by "help"Quote:
Originally posted by GeForce
They only help you if you have a GeForce 4 I guess..
I nominate Kaotik as lead tester... YAY!!!!
I only got a 780 point increase what are the rest of you guys seeing?
ONLY?Quote:
Originally posted by ItsBacon333
I only got a 780 point increase what are the rest of you guys seeing?
lol thats a pretty big jump from a driver change bacon.
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Originally posted by Paladyr
Depends on what you mean by "help"
I nominate Kaotik as lead tester... YAY!!!!
Help improve preformance.
P4 owners are seeing a proportionally greater increase on average than AXP owners. That extra FSB bandwidth is no doubt a critical factor.
Yay for P4s.
I haven't read the whole thread..so sorry if I skipped over this part...but...does anyone have any benchmarks for games? I'm sorry but I hardly run 3dmark at all because I could really care less about it and 3dmark gets boring after 5 minutes but anyways...does anyone have some before and after benchies? because I mean 1000 points gained in 3dmark means that theres gotta be some performance gains in games...but from what I saw at www.vr-zone.com they only got a 7 fps increase in 1 game at best with the rest only getting 1-2 fps increase (and 1 decreased)...I'm not trying to start anything but I'm just wondering if any of you guys got different results...
I would say that this is an attempt by NVIDIA to pull the rug out from under the 9700. I ran the new drivers and yes it made the old score jump almost to 15000 but I dont think they needed to pull this stunt to keep folks around. I just read that the 9700 doesnt have video cap. I think thats pretty sh!tty on ATIs part to leave that out of such a good card. Its a nice score but I was sticking with my 4600 anyway. Good try NVIDIA...but you really didnt need to do it ;)Quote:
Originally posted by PointlesS
I haven't read the whole thread..so sorry if I skipped over this part...but...does anyone have any benchmarks for games? I'm sorry but I hardly run 3dmark at all because I could really care less about it and 3dmark gets boring after 5 minutes but anyways...does anyone have some before and after benchies? because I mean 1000 points gained in 3dmark means that theres gotta be some performance gains in games...but from what I saw at www.vr-zone.com they only got a 7 fps increase in 1 game at best with the rest only getting 1-2 fps increase (and 1 decreased)...I'm not trying to start anything but I'm just wondering if any of you guys got different results...
I've gone back to the 29.42's for me. To be honest, I don't even know what kinda jumb I got, as I formatted for my new mobo and immediately put the 40.41's on. But my score was pretty good, so I imagine it was partly due to the new drivers. But as I said before I have reverted back to the 29.42's for one simple reason. The everpresent refresh rate problem. I tried reforce, and though it works, it doesn't work properly. I'm stuck and 85hz @ 1024x768, and both my card and monitor can do 100hz. I'm bummed that my favorite utility rivatuner isn't compatible. Maybe when they make a newer version that supports the 40.41's I'll go back. But for now, playing games at 100hz is way more important to me than playing 3dmark over...and over...and over...you get the point.
Damn it i can't get the damned drivers to work properly...
I completely removed the old drivers, and installed the new ones clean, I even manged to run 3dmark2001 and got like a 300 increase.
First of all, why such a small increase? I have a ASUS A7A133 mobo, and i think that that may be why, but I am not sure. The other thing is that everything bluescreens when i turn on AA.
I am going back to the 29.42's and installing these when the rivatuner comes up with the settings for the 40's.
BTW I have a ti4200 in case it matters
I increased my GF4 4200 from 260/520 to 290/550 and installed the new 4041 drivers and my 3dmark2001 went from about 11300 to 13264. Very cool and I kick Pinchy's butt by 50 pts or so! :)
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2002/08/1.jpg
Thats a compare between my computer with the 40.41 drivers and the 29.42 drviers. The only diffrence is that when I had the 29.42 drivers my comp ran stable with DDR400, and with the 40.41's I had to take my RAM to DDR300 (not because of the drviers, but because I had lowered my Vmem) As you can see the only real bench that got a massive gain was the Nature benchmark, but then agian, the only real bench that the 9700 pulls ahead of the GeForce4 Ti is in the nature benchmark, at default settings. In some cases I actually lost performance, so how does a 20FPS gain in Nature merit a 600pt gain overall in 3DMark? Something is definately fishy here.