New Nvidia drivers (81.94)

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:05 pm

Nvidia has released their 81.94 drivers and, among other things, they supposedly improve Q4 performance. I haven't had a chance to test them yet but post if they help your fps at all.

Version Notes:
Adds support for GeForce 7800 GTX 512 and GeForce 6800 GS
Improved performance for Quake 4
Improved performance and compatibility for Call of Duty 2
Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI
TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI
Added support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI
Performance enhancements for dual-core CPUs
PureVideo high definition MPEG-2 de-interlacing support
Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes

Post by **jester!** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:57 am

They didnt really help. Test demo is the ggl demo from the consolidated time demo thread.

P4 3 gig
1 gig of ram
Geforce 3 Ti 200

Old Drivers - 8.1.8.5 - 10/10/2005

28.34 default.
49.93 tweaked.

After Update

29.71 default
49.96 tweaked

Default is whatever the game gives me by default, low settings at 800x600 I think.

Tweaked is fugly mode.

So if anything it helps render shadows just a touch better.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:41 am

Game performance usually benefits the higher-end card models. Oh and hmmm, looks like they released a 512mb version of the 7800. Damn, wouldn't mind having a gig of video ram in sli mode.

Post by **Deathshroud** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:20 am

dzjepp wrote:Game performance usually benefits the higher-end card models. Oh and hmmm, looks like they released a 512mb version of the 7800. Damn, wouldn't mind having a gig of video ram in sli mode.

For some reason I don't think that it would be used as a gig of RAM. However, I would think that both cards would need to load all the same instructions and texture sets in order to make use of SLI; hence why it would only really be 512 megs.

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:08 am

Yeah, you're right Death. But it sounds better the other way?

It is 1GB, but only used as 512.
That thing is fucking insane, though. Over 400 watts with 2 in SLI along with an A64 4400+. I'd hate to see 2 of them overclocked, along with an overclocked Prescott. Think they could top 600 watts?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:50 pm

Wouldn't it be better if each card processed half of the screen?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:13 pm

Toxic, please for the love of god look shit up before you post and make more of an idiot out of your self.

Seriously.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:23 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Toxic, please for the love of god look shit up before you post and make more of an idiot out of your self.

Seriously.

:icon14:

Post by **Psyche911** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:47 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Toxic, please for the love of god look shit up before you post and make more of an idiot out of your self.

Seriously.

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- wiping the tear from my eye.

Post by **Deathshroud** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:38 pm

Psyche911 wrote:
It is 1GB, but only used as 512.

That is what I meant.

Post by **Magestic** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:41 pm

The 512meg version not only has more RAM, but it also got seriously higher clockspeeds for both the GPU and RAM. It's ownage, and 2 of them in SLI snapped the 3DMark record like it was nothing...

Post by **Psyche911** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:30 am

Magestic wrote:The 512meg version not only has more RAM, but it also got seriously higher clockspeeds for both the GPU and RAM. It's ownage, and 2 of them in SLI snapped the 3DMark record like it was nothing...

$1,500 later...