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Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Staga on February 08, 2001, 07:16:00 PM

 http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/htmlmedia/detonator3.html (http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/htmlmedia/detonator3.html)

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: straffo on February 09, 2001, 01:54:00 AM

My frame rate jumped from 55 to 65 with this driver  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
std test B17+6*1K in south hangar at A1

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: rosco- on February 09, 2001, 06:59:00 PM

 Hmm I installed em and didnt notice one bit of difference in framerate. Was a bit dissapointed as it took 5 tries to download the stupid thing, nvidia doesnt support resume downloading...Why in heck not is beyond me.

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: airspro on February 10, 2001, 07:40:00 AM

Have them now , ty . No problems here .

cheers spro

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: straffo on February 12, 2001, 02:14:00 AM

I've gone from 7.17 to 6.50 wich perhaps explain why I've seen an frame rate improvement.

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Ripsnort on February 12, 2001, 09:32:00 AM

Thks Staga!

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Skuzzy on February 12, 2001, 01:27:00 PM

Anyone figured out how to enable vsync in D3D mode with these drivers?  Surely you guys are not running with vsync disabled.

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Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: jihad on February 12, 2001, 02:29:00 PM

 

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Originally posted by Skuzzy:
Anyone figured out how to enable vsync in D3D mode with these drivers?  Surely you guys are not running with vsync disabled.

  NVmax (http://www.tweakfiles.com/video/nvmax.html)


[This message has been edited by jihad (edited 02-12-2001).]

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Pollock on February 12, 2001, 02:55:00 PM

Call me chicken but I thought i have heard here some of the newer drivers can hose SGE for the satantek x36.  I am so used to total hotass set up that I forgotten the keyboard commands for this game.  If any one is using DX7.0A with X36 saitek please let me know your results...

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Skuzzy on February 12, 2001, 03:02:00 PM

Thanks jihad.  Ok,..so now I have yet another set of benchmarks to run.

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Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: airspro on February 12, 2001, 03:27:00 PM

Pollock , I have just what you wrote . No problem here with them .

cheers spro

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Spatula on February 12, 2001, 04:50:00 PM

Anyone tried them with Diamond cards?

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: jihad on February 12, 2001, 05:46:00 PM

Anyone tried them with Diamond cards?

 V770 TNT2 here, 6.50 drivers and DX 8.0a, IMO visual quality has dropped and FPS is slightly up.

 I would stick with the 6.31 version.

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Skuzzy on February 13, 2001, 01:40:00 PM

Jihad, check the Mipmap setting in the D3D settings.  It defaults to "Best".  Change it to "High image quality" and the video image looks much better, without any perceptible decrease in performance.

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Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
President, AppLink Corp.
http://www.applink.net
skuzzy@applink.net

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: Ripsnort on February 13, 2001, 01:47:00 PM

Skuzzy, what does 'V-Sync off' do?

FYI: I didn't notice any difference with quality but picked up 3 FRS with the new drivers (Creative Labs TNT2)

Title: NVidias Official 6.50 drivers released
Post by: 214thCavalier on February 13, 2001, 02:19:00 PM

Vsync off stops the refresh rate of your monitor restricting your FPS. Basically if you wanna do FPS tests disable Vsync, but if you wanna play enable Vsync as switching it off seems to produce rubber bullet effects and not just in AH either.
Usually with Nvidia cards its best to set all options to maximum as the display improves with minimal if any noticeable decrease in FPS.
Except FSAA of course maxing this out will have dire consequences for most Graphics cards on the market.