21.85 results

[Joseph/Elizabeth Gutenkauf]

Poorman's analysis of the new 21.85 drivers...

With the 21.81 from Nvidia, I went from 43 FPS to 60 FPS in Quake 3. When I
put in the 21.85, I went down to 49 FPS in Quake 3. I wonder if the 21.85
drivers offered are hacked...

GF2 Ultra used.

[Chensu99]

The 21.85s ARE SLOWER that the official nvidia ones, but you get back
fogging and the nasty banding is gone from 3Dmark.

Also Max Payne had a funny where the texturing looked quite green (I know
sounds weird) but its true. The 85s fix this.

From what I can make out, it looks like nvidia skimped on quality with the
XPs just to be faster than the imminent release of ATIs new cards. The 85s
give us back the quality at a slight speed cost.

Personally I'd rather have quality i.e. nice looking textures & proper
fogging, rather than afew extra fps.

Chensu99

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[Joseph/Elizabeth Gutenkauf]

Thanks for the quality explanation...
Joe

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