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honestjohn wrote:Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.

I will test this for sure. I never liked the phrase "up to" though.

honestjohn wrote:Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.

I don't like the sound of that, probably cutting corners. GRID is extremely shader-intensive and is an ATI-dominated title. A single HD4870 can beat a GTX280.

honestjohn wrote:I love it, in the other driver releases you came down on Nvidia for repeatedly using the same performance increase numbers comparing the 180.xx sets to the 178.xx driver sets. Now they finally update their performance increase estimates and you say they are probably cutting corners and you don't like the sound of it.

Just with that one title. NVIDIA cheats in many games for performance increases so I'm always suspicious when large performance increases come in games where their archaic architecture (in the sense that they prefer brute force over intelligent design. ie. high-speed ROPs over superscalar design) is simply not good enough to run it well. Although not related to shader-heavy games exactly, in Crysis NVIDIA uses only 4 AA samples (8xCSAA) when the ingame AA level is set to 8x, while ATI hardware uses 8 samples (8xMSAA).

honestjohn wrote:Also what else can they say besides "up to"? If they said this instead....

That's nothing against NVIDIA, it's just a pet hate of mine wherever it shows up because I know the real figure is usually far below that

honestjohn wrote:Really? When ATI does it, it's called optimizing.

When AMD "optimises" thing, they end up with drivers that don't uninstall properly and CrossFire that run in single-card mode AMD's drivers are horrendous

has anyone tried the 182.06? i have the XG version right now. and i now have my all time high PB in 3dmark06 14380 which is like 302 points higher then the driver i used a while ago. nvidia has it on there site. well in xp it is the fastest and best driver but in vista it seem to slow down on my system.

i did not get a chance to try the 182.05 since i did not hear to much that was good about it. but after the 182.06 came out and i herd a lot of good thing about it. i tried them and now for my system with xp its the driver for me. since i gain 302 points in 3dmark06. guess from what i have herd is that. my 8800gtx is whats holding my system back in vista. that is why i lost over 200 points in vantage. also herd that it is another bad point for my old 8800gtx is that DX10 game do not like it as well. so that is why i get such a huge lost in fps from DX10 to DX9 type games.

since i have the same games on xp and vista. so i can compare them between the 2 OS.guess when i can i will try and get the gtx285 maybe this summer? not sure since i am not sure if i will still be here. since i may loose my house since the deal i have on mortgage ends this coming month. so it will go up over $200 more amonth for it. which i can not afford to pay out. and since i have only 2 items that i splurge ojn, cell and net. which wont matter if i stop them or not i will still my loose my house. but i am trying to remake the deal again.

i only hope i can. another reason why i have not been here posting as much. been busy with phone calls and paper work.

honestjohn wrote:XP 32-Bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.05_beta.html

XP 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_182.05_beta.html

Vista 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_182.05_beta.html

Vista 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.05_beta.html


New in Release 182.05:

Recommended for the best experience in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.

Boosts performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 182.05 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.

Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.

Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.

Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.

Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.


Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.

Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.

Cool HJ!!

I'll wait for the final WQHL release, but increased performance in a few games is always a good thing.

Especially FO3, it can be taxing at times, not bad by any means, but a tad,

Thanks for the Info!!

Blue

honestjohn wrote:

BlueMonster wrote:Cool HJ!!

I'll wait for the final WQHL release, but increased performance in a few games is always a good thing.

Especially FO3, it can be taxing at times, not bad by any means, but a tad,

Thanks for the Info!!

Blue

NVIDIA GeForce 182.08 WHQL Released

XP 32-Bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.08_whql.html

XP 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_182.08_whql.html

Vista 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_182.08_whql.htm

Vista 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.08_whql.html

LOL HJ!!

I Just was gonna post that info, as I just installed the Certified Drivers, 182.08 What a Trip!!



Thanks Again!!

Blue

BTW they seem great!! Also just played Fallout3 and YEP, it's faster, better etc,!!