BitBender has published a short article comparing the latest drivers from Nvidia; Detonator 42.01 using DirectX9 versus the Detonator 41.09/40.72 using DirectX8.1.

I gave these new video drivers that appeared on the web this week a going over and got some good improvements over the 41.09 set I had been using. I had installed DirectX 9 earlier this week and was anxious to see if these new drivers, which support DX 9, made any improvements. We need to remember that benchmarking is a tool to keep track of changes made to our systems in order to tell if drivers, tweaks, etc, are actually hurting or improving performance. Often, benchmarking will show an improvement in scores but there will be problems when playing games, poor 2D image quality, or overall color degradation

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