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Bires
07-24-2002, 10:29 PM
Just ran 3DMark2001SE with the 29.80 drivers and with the new 30.00 (not 30.30beta) Detonator drivers.

29.80 = 10268
30.00 = 10521

Not too shabby a driver release.

BTW: The Ti4200 is running at 290/590...I don't know how far it will OC...
sbp
07-24-2002, 11:42 PM
What about other benchmarks like OpenGL and Direct3D games?
Bires
07-25-2002, 07:06 AM
I didn't have Serious Sam or MDK2 installed and I don't own Quake3.
I don't know how to bench any of the other games I have.

Code Creatures rose only about 0.2 FPS (16x12) to 2 FPS (10x7).
sbp
07-25-2002, 07:40 AM
Here's the thing: 3DMark2001 is overrelied on. It has been for quite a while. Its only one Direct3D benchmark and doesn't mean a driver is good overall. By that I mean the driver could be good {optimized} for 3dMark but not for anything else. So it doesn't mean Direct3D and OpenGL games fps increase with image quality counting also.
Bires
07-25-2002, 10:48 AM
Originally posted by sbp
3DMark2001 is overrelied on.

I aggree. I don't know all the scripts to bench many of my games. If Codecreatures had a little compare feature like 3DMark2001, it would be the thing to use to test graphics subsystems.

For those that havne't run this demo...http://www.codecult.com/ it's vicious on video cards because (one reason) it renders thousands of individual blades of grass and leaves, amounting to hundreds of thousands of polygons a second.