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Question about future nvidia drivers?
Please excuse the ignorance, but are new drivers expected in the near
future? Is this something to do with Forceware? I recently purchased an FX5900, and I am trying to find out if you experts know if new drivers can give a significant performance boost. I'm into FS2004 and the anandtech bench marks show ATI to be way out in front. Is is possible for nvidia to release drivers that would at least approach the ATI performance. If not, I will try to change my card, or do I wait to see what happens next. Many thanks for your attentiom, Nick. |
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"nick" wrote in message ...
Please excuse the ignorance, but are new drivers expected in the near future? Is this something to do with Forceware? I recently purchased an FX5900, and I am trying to find out if you experts know if new drivers can give a significant performance boost. I'm into FS2004 and the anandtech bench marks show ATI to be way out in front. Is is possible for nvidia to release drivers that would at least approach the ATI performance. If not, I will try to change my card, or do I wait to see what happens next. Many thanks for your attentiom, Nick. They are currently working on a driverset that will give you 3 times the performance of any ati card, but you must be a lover of black/white, 800x600 and no Anti-aliasing and no aniso. Oh yes, forget textures....or lighting. But you get drivers that definitly beat ati cards. I can also reword it... "what is not in the hardware cannot be gained through software" Quite simple, to get more speed and power.....higher FPS...they will have to lower image quality! |
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They are currently working on a driverset that will give you 3 times
the performance of any ati card, but you must be a lover of I think they'll just advertise a "40% performance improvement". And I'll expect nothing less than 120% improvement over when I originally bought my card since I believe there have been two other sets of drivers which also offered a "40% performance improvement". |
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Better performance comes down to data throughput and computational speed,
which has to do with memory bandwidth, GPU speed, and memory speed. You dont magically get huge performance updates from drivers, you get it from faster vid cards... "nick" wrote in message ... Please excuse the ignorance, but are new drivers expected in the near future? Is this something to do with Forceware? I recently purchased an FX5900, and I am trying to find out if you experts know if new drivers can give a significant performance boost. I'm into FS2004 and the anandtech bench marks show ATI to be way out in front. Is is possible for nvidia to release drivers that would at least approach the ATI performance. If not, I will try to change my card, or do I wait to see what happens next. Many thanks for your attentiom, Nick. |
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"nick" wrote:
Please excuse the ignorance, but are new drivers expected in the near future? Is this something to do with Forceware? I recently purchased an FX5900, and I am trying to find out if you experts know if new drivers can give a significant performance boost. I'm into FS2004 and the anandtech bench marks show ATI to be way out in front. Is is possible for nvidia to release drivers that would at least approach the ATI performance. If not, I will try to change my card, or do I wait to see what happens next. Many thanks for your attentiom, Nick. Just use Quake III as the benchmark and forget about the rest of the hype. You'll be able to reach 400 to 500 frames per second at 640 x 480 and 16 bit color palette. It's so fast it's insane. Nvidia is currently working on the next Detonator serie which will be the best **** you'll ever see. |
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