zoooom

84 Posts
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Joined 2000-03-04

#61317

2001-09-11 00:49

Uh huh huh. Cool man. Me 2 .

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kingtrey

104 Posts
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Joined 2000-04-03

#61318

2001-09-11 01:25

i got 'em too; haven't installed them yet ... how are they working?

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Xiven

690 Posts
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Joined 2000-05-21

#61319

2001-09-11 01:42

YES! They've finally fixed the problems with refresh rates on certain monitors that were introduced by the 7.xx series drivers.
 
Don't need powerstrip any more...

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sapiens74

1915 Posts
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#61320

2001-09-11 01:58

Open GL a lot faster.

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clutch

3857 Posts
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#61321

2001-09-11 02:12

About a 12% increase in framerate for Q3 for me. It seems even smoother using my tweaked config (removes a good deal of detail, increases FOV, etc).

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sapiens74

1915 Posts
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#61322

2001-09-11 02:41

Tried it on Everquest as well. with 4x AA enabled. Works great, finally no missing inventory with AA enabled.

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FrogMaster

450 Posts
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OP

#61323

2001-09-11 13:51

It seems improvement is similar to the one we saw long ago between the 5.xx and 6.xx series.
- Quake 3: +10 to +12% faster and very smooth in all circumstances
- 3dmark2000: roughly +500 points
- 3dmark2001: crashes to desktop when starting dragotic high detail scene
- UT: no change really noticeable in d3d, maybe a little bit smoother; opengl is ugly with very heavy banding and saturated colors, looking like running in 256 colors (that old UT engine!)
VGLMark: confirms Q3 results, 10/12% faster, gorgeous display.
 
Well, a little goodie for free better ogl, who would complain?

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Deviant

55 Posts
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Joined 2001-06-14

#61324

2001-09-11 15:31

Hi guys!
 
Any results for Detonators 21.81 & GeForce MX 400 & XP 2600 ?
 
I read something that there is performance boost for GeForce 3 but what abou MX 400 ?
 
Thanks and regards
 
D.

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Cryptonium

16 Posts
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#61325

2001-09-11 15:32

My 3DMark score jumped from 4755 (12.41) to 5981 (21.81). This is on an Athlon 1.4 with Visiontek GF3 under Win2k with the system having 512MB of ram.

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Dirty Harry

437 Posts
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#61326

2001-09-11 22:54

My score on 3Dmark 2001 went DOWN,
 
12.90 - 3484
20.81 - 3240
 
Not that significant, but still. Anyone have an idea what to tweak ?
 
System (not O/C at testing):
 
Essential specs:
 
KG7-Raid MoBo
Athlon 1400/266 (AIHYIA "Y" w25/01 cooled by a Swiftech MC462-A)
256 MB Mushkin Hi Perf. 2100 DDR CAS2-2-2-2 (one stick)
Asus V-7700 AGP (Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS), 32 MB DDR SGRAM
IBM 45,0 GB (75 GXP -DTLA 307045) 7200 rpm ATA100
IBM 27,3 GB (34 GXP -DPTA 372730) 7200 rpm ATA66
Windows 2000 SR-2

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Gambler FEX online

319 Posts
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#61327

2001-09-12 06:42

Det4 are mostly geforce 3 optimizations. Now finally driver for Gf3 have come out of beta and are being optimized.

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Brian Frank

3087 Posts
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#61328

2001-09-12 22:08

Dirty Harry:
I had to retweak everything when I installed the new drivers before things were back to normal again.

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Powermike

7 Posts
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Joined 2001-09-17

#61329

2001-09-17 20:28

Hm, no really performance gain here, +80 (3660) points in 3DMark2001, -50 points in 3DMark2000 (7620). And I got problems with my favorite game, Ubisoft F1 Racing Championship: Seems to run very smooth, but can start the game only once, secon time I get a lockup. So went back to the 12.90...
 
Powermike
 
P.S.: Nice to meet you again, Frogmaster

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