How are the beta drivers needed for Crysis?

[Jellyneck]

I never use beta drivers but they apparently are required for the
Crysis SP demo. Any problems thus far with the beta drivers for Vista
32-bit?

[ANT...@zimage.com]

No problems in my XP. It did give me about 2-3 FPS boost on my GeForce
7950 GT KO card.
--
"We are anthill men upon an anthill world." --Ray Bradbury
/\___/\
/ /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site)
| |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net
\ _ / Please remove ANT if replying by e-mail.
( )

[Joe Mama]

No problems here on Vista Ultimate 32bit with an EVGA 8800 Ultra. YMMV,
caveat emptor, etc, etc.

[Access]

"Jellyneck" <jell...@strangers.with.candy> wrote in message
news:25idi31t81r8dpt4o...@4ax.com...

>
> I never use beta drivers but they apparently are required for the
> Crysis SP demo. Any problems thus far with the beta drivers for Vista
> 32-bit?
>

No problems with Vista Home Premium and a GeForce 8800GTS (640MB version).

[gamefixer]

Actually helped frame rates a bit in Vista Home Premuim 32 here. Didnt
try the beta drivers in XP.

Matt

[Patrick Vervoorn]

In article <25idi31t81r8dpt4o...@4ax.com>,

The Crysis demo worked fine with the last WHQL XP Drivers (167.71 or
something), but just for the heck of it I upgraded to the beta drivers.

Both 169.01 as 169.04 worked fine for Crysis, but both also break a Glide
Wrapper I'm using for a much older game (Diablo II). Since the wrapper
does nothing but convert Glide calls into OpenGL calls, it seems the
OpenGL support in those 169.01/04 drivers is broken a bit...

I. unfortunately, did not discover the existance of the cpu/gpu benchmark
.BAT files in the Crysis Bin32/ directory while still running the WHQL
drivers, so I can't say whether they improved performance.

No problems with HL2 either.

Regards, Patrick.