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Tycho
Wanna-Be Webmaster
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1041
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:40 pm |
A big thanks to Black Reaper for sending this information on the NVidia ForceWare Drivers that were just released.
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| Checked last for latest nvidia driver before UT2004 reaches my doorsteps. The new Forceware Driver 56.65 is now available. After benchmarking with 3dmark03, it looks like this is a winner. I have a 5900XT and noticed I significant increase in performance with the Nature, Troll, and Space Marines games. Tests that were giving me 9-15 FPS were giving me 25-40 FPS after the install. |
That is some very good news for all of our readers that still use NVidia cards. |
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Cheetah
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 25 Aug 2003
Posts: 2831
Location: Halfway between the gutter and stars.
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Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:02 pm |
what do you mean with, still use nvidia card... </suspicious>
i got a 5950 256 mb nvidia. and its great!
iv had some realy bad expiriance with drivers. do you think its worth instaling these? and do i need to do anything like uninstal the old one first? couse i had like 3 drivers instaled on my PC at once.. and it realy messed things up.. never instaled another driver since.. but if this can gimme a nice FPS boost im happy to try  |
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SirYawnalot
Rabid Poster
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 233
Location: England
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Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:17 pm |
Ah, but will Unreal games get a FPS boost? I seem to remember hearing that the previous ForceWare actually crippled performance in UT2003. Can anyone shed any light on this, or whether the new ForceWare is any good?
Also, can someone give me a link to that app which peals back NVidia drivers please? |
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JaFO
Guest
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Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:57 pm |
So how much do they sacrifice visual quality for 'performance' this time ?
Given past acts of cheating in drivers and benchmarks I'd be very careful with anything made by nVidia that claimed to offer increased performance ... |
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alpha2003
The Underworld God of Spamming
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
Posts: 748
Location: USA
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Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:13 pm |
i installed the pre release of these drivers a couple of weeks ago (made for gainward cards) and my demo crapped out on me. Im gonna give it another shot, this time with the full version. |
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SirYawnalot
Rabid Poster
Joined: 23 Oct 2003
Posts: 233
Location: England
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Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:56 pm |
Try completely deleting the old drivers before installing the new ones...
Anyone else suffered any performance problems with the new ForceWare? Or hear any rumours of it? The driver isn't WHQL-certified for non-FX cards, so I'm only interested in problems with FX cards. Also, if someone else has a FX 5600 or similar, and has these drivers, I'd appreciate it if you could leave a post saying how the drivers are doing- even if there's no difference. |
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