Why say its cheating it could be just part of the driver optimizations for all we know. Theres so many dang drivers floating around and no "real" official ones til sometime next week probably.
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Why say its cheating it could be just part of the driver optimizations for all we know. Theres so many dang drivers floating around and no "real" official ones til sometime next week probably.
Wowowow. I didn't think they could get that good. Damn, thats nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by ownage
They likely have the old 158.18/.22/.24 drivers (they only state they have 158 drivers) that perform badly in Call Of Juarez. nVidia released new drivers and with those the 8800 GTS 640 outperforms the 2900.Quote:
Originally Posted by v_rr
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Originally Posted by ahmad
It's even better....Quote:
The latest 8.37.4.2_47323 drivers is supposed to implement a new intelligent algorithm that increases FPS while applying similar image quality when running Adaptive Anti-Aliasing. In Oblivion, performance several times faster than previous drivers using the new adaptive AA algorithm was claimed to have been acheived. New optimizations for HDR applications in general resulted in a 5-30% increase in performance.
Or is it?Quote:
With the 8.37.4 driver as you can see above we found 1600x1200 playable with 2X AA and 25% grass with HDR. When we installed the alpha 8.37.4.2 driver we still find these same settings as the highest playable game settings. We tried 4X AA but found performance to be unplayable in the same places we found it unplayable with the 8.37.4 driver. We tried pushing the grass up higher but found the same performance problem with grass.
Screenshots of Oblivion with performance from http://www.computerbase.de/news/trei...ibervergleich/
Holy :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:!! :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by ownage
where did you get these pics?
I hope these are true:D
You are complayning about Nvidia drivers don´t be the lastest xpto when ATI is runing pre-release alpha drivers with very performance flaws in many games....Quote:
Originally Posted by Noobie
DoneQuote:
Originally Posted by Baron
Lol, made me laugh, done.Quote:
Originally Posted by del_fuego
Your wrong! ATI is pre-release zeta drivers, whilst nVidia is pre-release beta drivers. :stick: :stick: :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by v_rr
But time goes on, and history repeats like a river.....
Both general and game-specific driver-optimization goes on forever. Some new game arrives, they need to make optimizations for that game again. Call Of Juarez arrived, nVidia spent resources to make a new driver for it that boosts performance for that game. I haven't heard about any other game increasing in performance due to the new nVidia drivers. I am sure nVidia can do the same over and over just for that one game. I am sure ATI can do the same.
There's a point in here somewhere, but I lost it.
In conclusion: ATI will spent time to do driver optimization for Lost Planet and the performance will improve a lot!
With both programmable architecture of both card i think they can go even further with drivers optimizations;)
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Originally Posted by triple_A
I'm calling BS on the Oblivion bit, combo of no FPS numbers, dolt reviewer likely forgetting to turn up the grass and once again only running the test at 1280x1024.
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Originally Posted by triple_A
"Allem Anschein nach hat ATi aber Bildqualität zu Gunsten von Leistung geopfert, indem man ein wenig am AAA gewerkelt hat. Da dieser Treiber offiziell aber nicht freigegeben wird, soll dieser ausschließlich zu Testzwecken genutzt werden. Wie sich das mit der Performance und der Bildqualität in offiziellen Treibern zeigen wird, bleibt abzuwarten."
In english
" However, apparently ATi has sacrificed image quality in favour of from achievement, while one has pottered around a little in the AAA. Because this driver is not released officially, however, this should be used exclusively for test purposes. As will appear with the performance and the image quality in official drivers, remains to wait. "
http://www.computerbase.de/news/trei...ibervergleich/
Wow, talk about NV30 revisited.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gorgul
This is the best comment of driver i have read since Nvidia have release the G80 first beta driver.,.. really.. I just take the comment of Nividia send to jurmalist and say they have resolve 450 performances problem in Vista ( and around same with XP, ) since the driver "official" they have release when G80 was out... (Taken on FUD publish by Nvidia and send same days of Tunis ATI by Nvidia to Jurnalist)
Can i hook up my power amps to HD2900XT and get 5.1 surround sound?
Or do i need a decoder?
Rumors has it that it has a 5.1 soundchip onboard. Do a Google search for "built-in HDMI and 5.1 surround audio", or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600 . But I haven't heard anything official about it. It's better to wait for a review on it anyway. For all we know it might overheat during gaming and cause stuttering sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opteron96
None of those drivers go to the public. They are only for testers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Periander6
For public is only the CD driver and cat 7.5 that will be launched in 10 days.
thx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noobie
Heat is not a problem, living in North of Norway and need heating all the time, even in the summer :p:
Looks likt its time to use water Cooling on the gfx card, and not only on the cpu. And some FAH when it gets really cold ;)
I'm getting excited about this card. Heading to my local computer center today to see if they have it for a reasonable price.
Wait for oficial drivers in 10 days to see if crossfire get some boost.Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
The GTX > The XT...Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
Keep what you have, no questions asked.
You'd be taking a step backwards in performance, and in image quality. Not a worthy trade-off.
If the XT preforms much better in Crossfire than GTX's do in SLI it would be worth it. For image quality I wouldn't say its busted yet, but then again I wouldn't hold out for a lot of hope, definitly wait til at least the 7.5's come out.Quote:
Originally Posted by DilTech
It's not the top of line but it's ATI's only offering at this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by R3APER
Also, what's the big deal about IQ? From what I've seen the HD 2900XT has better IQ when AA is used. When AF is used it looks about the same as G80.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2205.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2206.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2210.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2211.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2212.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2213.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2214.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2216.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2218.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2219.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2221.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1/IMG_2223.jpg
Anybody know where I can get 8.38 drivers? I only got 8.37 right now, and I want to do some testing...