Difference in games with new 6.50 and 5.51 drivers?

[Evil_Donnyboy]

ppl are talking about the new DualHead features of the drivers. I couldn't care less aout DH since I have a single head card.

So whats diffent in games? Any speed diff? Any problems fixed/created?

[drzaius]

i'm not sure, i'll run Q3bench and get a bunch of results and compare them to the ones i got when i used 6.23.
i'll show all my specs when i post the new ones. BRB

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

[drzaius]

well from what i can see, there is no difference between the scores, but i'll post them anyway.

normal high MAX
640x480 78.2 75.6 73.4
800x600 71.5 60.6 59.4
1024x768 50.5 39.0 38.4

this is with PD driver 6.23

normal high MAX
640x480 78.3 75.9 73.5
800x600 71.9 60.5 59.4
1024x768 50.3 38.8 38.1

these were done with the new 6.50 drivers

the program i used was Quake3bench and whatever MAX settings are i don't know, but they don't seem to be any more taxing then high settings.

system specs are:
celeron 566@850
Abit ZM6
128meg Infineon RAM cas2 @100
G400 32meg @160/200
3dmark (with 6.26 drivers) 3293

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

[This message has been edited by drzaius (edited 27 February 2001).]

[drzaius]

and to actually answer your question, or which is better 6.50 or 5.52 (well even that wasn't your exact question)

normal high max
640x480 78.6 76.2 73.4
800x600 72.0 60.8 59.7
1024x768 50.6 39.1 38.4

done with PD 5.52 drivers
and i'll just tell anyone reading this that, these aren't the most accuate of benchmarks, because i only ran them once.

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

[Evil_Donnyboy]

Looks like no reason to upgrade from my PD6.21.

Not gonna bother upgrading until there's a solid 2-3FPS increase in something, or fixes bugs.

[Maggi]

Every driver release contains bug fixes and optimizations.

Just because you don't see a FPS increase in Q3 doesn't mean that other applications won't benefit, you know ?

[drzaius]

that is very true Maggi, remember that the oni demo owuld not work properly unless you got the 6.21 drivers.

and has the "Alice" demo/game been fixed in these newer drivers? or do we still have to do that little trick to get that to work?

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

[dZeus]

it's been fixed