Dets 21.85 vs 22.80

merlocka

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I recently upgraded to a Geforce3 (from Geforce2 GTS).

I had been using 21.85 on the GTS and had no problems so I though I'd try the same for the GF3.

Everything seemed fine, until I started playing with resolutios, filtering, etc.. I noticed that performance at resolutions higher than 1024x768 dropped rappidly. I used Q3 demo to benchmark and my result was about 60fps at 1600x1200x32b default settings, texture compression On.

Kinda low, I figure it shoulda been above 100.

It seemed that while running the benchmark, there were about 10 occurences when the fps would drop to 10-30 fps. Something was whacked. I checked the openGL properties to make sure everything was default, didn't find anything. I also noticed some weird stuff when benchmarking 3dmark2001 at 1600x1200, but not at 1024x768.

Because I'm generally lazy and would rather things just worked right I downloaded and installed v22.80. Problem went away. Benchmarks all correlate to what I've read on online reviews. 22.80 seem stable so far. I like the new aniosotropic selection box.

Either I had something messed up in the driver setttings that wasn't going away, the driver install was messed up, or 21.85 has a problem with 1600x1200.

Anyone else see anything like this before?
 

Nupraptor

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The 21.85's didn't seem to agree with my GF3 either: Sacrifice refused to run and I was getting questionable performance in some games. So I, too, got the 22.80's and have no complaints so far. It's the drivers, I guess.
 

merlocka

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OK, so now im back on 22.50

With 22.80 I noticed a problem with RTCW.

On the beach level (the one that's included with the demo), I get flashing textures on the sides of the mountains. Not really flashing textures, I guess I don't know the terminology well. There is supposed to be a gradual blend between the green (grass) textures and the gray (rock) textures on the mountains.

With 22.80, it goes instantly from green to gray, and the texture which "blends" them together flashes in and out.

Doesn't happen with 22.50
 

Quetzalboat

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I heard from other netters that 22.80 is a driver for XP, and it's a beta version
Some of our friends met trouble with 22.80 but some didn't.
The official driver in NVidia site is still 21.83
 
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