New Dets?

[throdgrain]

Anyone tried 'em yet ? Any improvements ?

 

[FatBusinessman]

Seems to be some improvement, but that could just be me imagining it. Certainly don't seem to make things any worse...

 

[GDW]

Anyone tried those other drivers (cant remember their name)? They supposed to look visually nicer than Dets with only a small performance hit

 

[mank!]

I'm using them now, seem good.

What settings should I use? I always forget what the best setup is

Vsync on/off?
Anti-aliasing Off/2x/Quincunx(?!)/4x/4x5
Anisotropic filtering off 2x/4x/8x

Any other random tweaks?

 

[Will]

VSync on, AA on either Quincunx or off, depending on what res you like to run in, AF off.

At least, thats what I use. If you turn on AA, turn on texture sharpening too.

 

[mank!]

Wow quick.

Cheers Will, any other tweaks I can make?

 

[Will]

There is a registry key floating about that allows you to software overclock your card. But I don't have it at work for obvious reasons.

 

[leggy]

Will's settings make a massive improvement visually. I've tried them before. No noticable performance hit either.

 

[Will]

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"Coolbits" = dword:FFFFFFFF
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage" = dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage" = dword:00000001

Paste that into Notepad and save it as det40x.reg, then double-click.

Only tested with 41.09 drivers.

 

[leggy]

What damage will i do with that?

 

[FatBusinessman]

Your video card might melt, but nothing more dramatic than that

 

[Will]

It'll add a new page to the advanced driver options, letting you change the AGP settings and software overclock the card.

 

[leggy]

Oh nice.

*pokes gf4*

 

[Embattle]

Aka Coolbits hack.

 

[mank!]

Does that registry key work fine on the latest dets before I melt anything?

 

[Will]

Always make a backup.

 

[mank!]

You mean buy a new card?

I don't think I['ll bother, you've all made me too paranoid

 

[Will]

It'll probably work fine, but I've not tested it, so the smart thing for you to do is make a backup.

 

[mank!]

I'll wait for someone else to try it, I don't want to break anything ;D

 

[Will]

Works fine.

 

[throdgrain]

Ive installed the new drivers, I seem to get about 300 less on 3dmark 2001.
However Ill persevere fora bit, bit of BF1942 playing is in order i think.

 

[leggy]

3dmark is a lot of shite.



</expert opinion>

 

[throdgrain]

Didnt like em, Ive gone back to the previous ones ...

 

[Will]

I didn't notice any difference between these and the old drivers.

 

[Jonty]

Just a side note about 3DMark2003: to protest at what nVidia saw as a 'synthetic' benchmark, they modified certain driver releases (42.67, 42.68 and 42.69) to give a higher reading and thus illustrate how flawed the benchmark suite is. These versions have since been banned by Futuremark, and whether nVidia has included these 'optimisations' in the latest drivers is, as yet, unknown. However, if they removed them, it could explain apparent the drop in performance.

Kind Regards

 

[throdgrain]

My picture seemed to flicker sometimes.. i dunno, just didnt feel right, so ive gone back to 40.72.

 

[leggy]

You were drunk though.

 

[throdgrain]

Too drunk tbh m8 Sorry if I didnt make any sense ...

 

[leggy]

Strangely enough.. you always make sense

 

[Jonty]

FiringSquad's 43.45 Overview.

Kind Regards