What version drivers do you find give the best performance and what card are you using?

i have a Geforce 4 MX 440 with the brand new drivers for ForceWare. I get excellent performance with a lot of the features turned up and 1024Res. The only problem i have with unreal2k4 may be with my 256megs of DDR ram, but i don't think there are any perforamnce issues with my video card

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Originally posted by El~ZaPo What version drivers do you find give the best performance and what card are you using?

I have a GeForce FX5600 256MB. Not sure what version the drivers were that I rolled back to, but they were released on Dec 9th, 2003 I believe.

I'm running full settings @ 1024 res on the old drivers and it's running perfectly.

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I'm using a GeForce 4 Ti4200 and it runs pretty good except I find the larger outdoor areas like Torlan run a lot slower than the indoor ones.

advice from a guy who build pcs for a living, DO NOT BUY NVIDIA GEFORCE FX OF ANY KIND.

the chipset has serious rendering problems with lots of games, thats why the framerate blows, they released those drivers to try and help with the games that came out almost 5 months ago, now there is a whole new set of problems with the drivers, get ATI chipsets they are near flawless for gaming, and the TIs I still personally recommend, I've had my Ti4800 for a while now and I'm still probably not going to upgrade until HL2 comes out.

I guess you could try 56.82

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Originally posted by DJ Prophizize advice from a guy who build pcs for a living, DO NOT BUY NVIDIA GEFORCE FX OF ANY KIND. the chipset has serious rendering problems with lots of games, thats why the framerate blows, they released those drivers to try and help with the games that came out almost 5 months ago, now there is a whole new set of problems with the drivers, get ATI chipsets they are near flawless for gaming, and the TIs I still personally recommend, I've had my Ti4800 for a while now and I'm still probably not going to upgrade until HL2 comes out.

what ATI has more problems with games, thats why new CATs are always coming out to fix certain games. Same thing applies to the DETs but less often as GeForce was/is the standard. Remember how 3Dfx/Glide used to be the standard and nVidia was the problem? Niether is perfect. IIRC since the start of this year ATi's CAT releases fixed about 20 games, while the DETs... erm Forceware only fixed around 5. Check the actual press releases if you dont believe me. Unless you know something I don't know and can provide a link, I call BS.

Also nVidia has better Linux support that ATi

Just to note, I own two ATis and one nVidia card (although not FX)... I'm being fair and not biased unlike FOX News Channel (unless 3Dfx was in the mix )

Forgot to add, it depends on the which FX card you are talking about. The 5200 is crap as it is essentially a DX9 GFMX, but not the 5600.

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Originally posted by rizen The 5200 is crap as it is essentially a DX9 GFMX, but not the 5600.

Well you'd have to be an idiot to purchase an MX-style card in the first place. They're pretty much watered down, under-powered, cheaper versions of the good nVIDIA cards.

But I've owned two nVIDIA cards so far and haven't had much of a problem with neither of them. I've noticed that my computer has some problems when running HALO at full graphic settings, but that's not due to the card...it's Micro$oft's bad coding.

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Well it's actually Bungie who coded it, but the real problem with Halo is that its being emulated if i remember right. It's just a port. Check out the old Halo videos before M$ made it XBox exculsive, it even ran smooth on an old Mac!

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Originally posted by rizen Well it's actually Bungie who coded it, but the real problem with Halo is that its being emulated if i remember right. It's just a port. Check out the old Halo videos before M$ made it XBox exculsive, it even ran smooth on an old Mac!

I am Bill Gates, behold my monopoly and array of poorly programed software! My applications are Visual Basic thus with the ease of being hacked.

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Originally posted by rizen Well it's actually Bungie who coded it, but the real problem with Halo is that its being emulated if i remember right.

I dunno about emulated. To emulate something you have to use something that is 8 times more powerful than the original source. PCs are not 8x more powerful than XBox, yet.

Sony's next-gen console, PS3, will emulate PS2...that's gonna be one hell of a system.

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