Flitterkill October 31, 2007 Share Flitterkill GC Board Member October 31, 2007 http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadrivers.aspx?lang=en-us 169.04 -Fk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly October 31, 2007 Share dragonfly Member October 31, 2007 Wow thats fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty October 31, 2007 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member October 31, 2007 For some reason I can't run Very High on the Water setting, it freezes every time. I don't know if it's something with Vista, video drivers, DX10, or the 64-bit version of the game. Interested to see what you FPS would be like in XP, rather than Vista... Online benches are showing a 10% or more FPS hit using DX10 vs. DX9... IMHO, the eye candy with DX10 is hardly noticeable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanon October 31, 2007 Share Allanon Member October 31, 2007 For some reason I can't run Very High on the Water setting, it freezes every time. I don't know if it's something with Vista, video drivers, DX10, or the 64-bit version of the game. Interested to see what you FPS would be like in XP, rather than Vista... Online benches are showing a 10% or more FPS hit using DX10 vs. DX9... IMHO, the eye candy with DX10 is hardly noticeable. Srsly? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6...h&plindex=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty October 31, 2007 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member October 31, 2007 Um, some vid that "shows" the DX10 grandeur (which I've seen before) doesn't convince me of anything. It's not on my machine, it's not at my native resolution, and it has been scaled down anyway...even if it is "HD." I went through screen caps (dozens of them) in DX9 and DX10 and I fail to see anything "astounding." Like I said, IMHO. I would like to see some GC guys post screen caps in DX10 and DX9 at same res (full res) and we can judge for ourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC October 31, 2007 Share VooDooPC Member October 31, 2007 DX10 and DX9 both on High or DX10 on Very High and DX9 on High? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanon October 31, 2007 Share Allanon Member October 31, 2007 Well for some reason I got my next issue of PC gamer extremely early, has a review for Crysis in it. While I know that this doesn't mean it will be exactly like it says it will, PCgamer gave it a 98%... I'm really looking forward to this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly October 31, 2007 Share dragonfly Member October 31, 2007 Um, some vid that "shows" the DX10 grandeur (which I've seen before) doesn't convince me of anything. It's not on my machine, it's not at my native resolution, and it has been scaled down anyway...even if it is "HD." I went through screen caps (dozens of them) in DX9 and DX10 and I fail to see anything "astounding." Like I said, IMHO. Even the god-rays are awesome. I guess it depends on how you define "astounding". It's not like a jump from dx8 to dx9.0c. It shouldnt be anyway. These are some of the first dx10 games out, so it's more like the potential is there right now. Even the crysis developers said that they dont have a gfx card out yet that can handle absolutely everything maxed with best textures, soft shadows, EVERYTHING and still have good frame rates. I can see a diff between dx10 and dx9 - the shadows alone are obvious. Maybe not "astounding", but still obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracid October 31, 2007 Share Tracid Member October 31, 2007 Have you guys try that DX10 on XP link I posted on page 1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack November 1, 2007 Share bushwack Member November 1, 2007 While trying to figure out my monitor probs I unistalled the beata drivers and reloaded current drivers. Rerunning the benches I got better scores: Athlon X2 @ 2.3 - 8800 GTS 320mb - 1 gig DDR 1680x1050 all on high Bets drivers: CPU= 10.9 GPU=7.75 163.44 drivers (oops with vsync on) CPU= 20.49 GPU=20.86 Might want to try current stable drivers all! Big difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC November 1, 2007 Share VooDooPC Member November 1, 2007 In the options of the beta drivers it defaults to, "Multiple display performance mode", when I put that to, "Single display performance mode", my FPS was much higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty November 1, 2007 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member November 1, 2007 This is interesting... I popped in another 2 x 512 ddr today, to bring the system total up to 3 gb (2.73 for win XP) and I got this: All setting medium @ 1680 x 1050 MIN 12.96 MAX 37.75 AVG 24.50 Now if you remember previous post, I was AVG of 20.88... I just jumped 20% by adding another gig of ram. FTW...how is that a GPU bench? I am still using 163.71 drivers btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly November 1, 2007 Share dragonfly Member November 1, 2007 Yeah, i dont believe the tests 1 bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leveller November 1, 2007 Share Leveller Member November 1, 2007 I just applied the new drivers and scored within 5fps of my previous scores for both GPU and CPU...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly November 1, 2007 Share dragonfly Member November 1, 2007 Yeah, the drivers shouldnt affect your cpu score at all. Maybe they just labelled two identical programs with different names? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tek-Almighty November 1, 2007 Author Share Tek-Almighty Member November 1, 2007 I just applied the new drivers and scored within 5fps of my previous scores for both GPU and CPU...... Higher or lower?...And what % is that compared to orig. Hmm...also changing resolution has an almost equivalent (1:1) affect on those benches... e.g. I went from 1680 x 1050 to 1440 x 900 and gained about 25% faster avg fps, which is pretty telling, as those resolutions are about 26.5% diff in pixel count. Good to know...some games don't scale like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leveller November 1, 2007 Share Leveller Member November 1, 2007 Well, my original scores were: CPU= 30.51 GPU= 32.75 at 1680x1050 with everything on high, I don't have the exact numbers in front of me and I did only run 1 pass on both the GPU and CPU benchmarks last night, but they came in around: CPU 32ish GPU 35ish I didn't run the tests with everything on medium and I did notice the "multiple display" post after I'd run it, I'll probably run them again this evening, let them run all the way through and make sure it's set at 1 monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC November 4, 2007 Share VooDooPC Member November 4, 2007 (edited) Now that I figured out my performance problem I redid the Crysis benchmarks. New test numbers are in bold. GPU all setting on High at 1680 x 1050 Min: 10.83 Max: 29.27 AVG: 22.86 GPU all setting on High at 1680 x 1050 Min: 12.82 Max: 37.68 AVG: 29.42 GPU all setting on Very High (Water on High) at 1680 x 1050 Min: 5.96 Max: 11.51 AVG: 10.32 GPU all setting on Very High (Still no Very High Water ) at 1680 x 1050 Min: 3.35 Max: 19.97 AVG: 16.32 Much better... besides that min FPS on Very High, but I can look passed that. Edited November 4, 2007 by VooDooPC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo November 9, 2007 Share anonymo Member November 9, 2007 but I can look passed that. Yes...and very slowly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laz.e.rus December 14, 2007 Share Laz.e.rus Member December 14, 2007 IM assuming you guys know about this: http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars...ysis-demo-on-xp a copy/paste that enables DX10 crysis demo on a DX9 machine it seems...been seeing it pop up here and there for a while, so I assume you already heard about it...but I wonder what it means about DX10.. Makes you wonder a lil bit about microsoft and DX10....Their wording things certain ways gets a lot of gamers to upgrade to Vista for DX10....when maybe it wasnt so neccesary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC December 14, 2007 Share VooDooPC Member December 14, 2007 Where's our dumb patch that we were supposed to get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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