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3D Mark2001 SE Score Gets Lower with every new driver release!!
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I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Nothing else has changed on the system so i am confused as to why this is the case!!! Regards Matthew |
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Even though that benchmark gets lower do you also see a reduction within the
games that you play. After all you can't play a benchmark. I too found that 3D mark 2001 performed the best for me with the an older revision of drivers, 43.51's, and got around 15200 plus with my Ti4200 but didn't see any difference in game performance between those and the newer 52.16's - and surely that is what counts..? -- Regards Morgan My noisy drive is noisy no more... www.flyinglizard.freeserve.co.uk "Matthew Foster" wrote in message ... Hi I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Nothing else has changed on the system so i am confused as to why this is the case!!! Regards Matthew |
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"Morgan" wrote in message ... Even though that benchmark gets lower do you also see a reduction within the games that you play. After all you can't play a benchmark. I too found that 3D mark 2001 performed the best for me with the an older revision of drivers, 43.51's, and got around 15200 plus with my Ti4200 but didn't see any difference in game performance between those and the newer 52.16's - and surely that is what counts..? -- Regards Morgan You may be right, it just seems odd that the score goes down on every new release. Regards Matthew |
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"Matthew Foster" wrote in message ... Hi I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Nothing else has changed on the system so i am confused as to why this is the case!!! Typically, the newest series of drivers gives a performance boost, subsequent driver corrections slightly trade that performance gain for stability, compatibility. Think of it this way...you trade in your car for a newer one. You stomp on the gas and take it for hard drives, to seee what it can do. After a time you learn to handle it better, avoid the police (!), know when to accelerate/brake properly. You and the car become better as a unit. The longer you have that car, the better it performs, but maybe not at the highest speed on the odometer when you first got it. |
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3D Mark2001 SE is a DX8 benchmark program. As the drivers are released they
are being optimized for DX9 programs and cards such as FX5900 and 3D Mark2003. Although the new drivers support your card you can rest assured that NVidia is no long concerned with GeForce 4 Ti performance they are looking ahead. "Matthew Foster" wrote in message ... Hi I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Nothing else has changed on the system so i am confused as to why this is the case!!! Regards Matthew |
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The 52.16 is designed to optimize the LATEST nvidia cards (5600, 5700, 5900,
5950). NOT the older cards. Stick with your original driver. -- DaveW "Matthew Foster" wrote in message ... Hi I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Nothing else has changed on the system so i am confused as to why this is the case!!! Regards Matthew |
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"Matthew Foster" wrote
I thought new releases of drivers were supposed to improve performance not reduce it. I have a Geforce 4 TI4200 which gave a score of 10949 with 4072 drivers and it has got steadily lower until today i installed th 5216 drivers which gave a mere 9689. Yeah, I thought too that the latest detonators do have some kinda cheat-optimizations concerning 3DMark2001 that makes GPU render only the very visible parts of the tests giving abnormally higher scores... |
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