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NVIDIA FORCEWARE v61.76 REVIEW

In this article we will compare the recently released v61.76 drivers to the previous 50 series releases. We have used a wide range of games which include titles like:- unreal tournament 2004, serious sam second encounter, comanche4, x2 the threat, unreal 2, postal 2, desert rats v afrika korps, far cry, colin mcrae rally 04, painkiller and haegemonia legions of iron. I think we have succeeded in testing the drivers with a good range of different types of games both new and old.

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 3200
VIDEO CARD	MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v61.76
	FORCEWARE v56.72
	FORCEWARE v53.03
MOTHERBOARD	MSI K7N2 DELTA-L
MEMORY	2x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0b

3DMARK BENCHMARKS

3DMARK 2001 SE

	15245
	15059
	14713

3DMARK 2003

	5089
	4956
	5140

v53.03 v56.72 v61.76

COMMENT - "The best driver for 3dmark 2001 SE was the 53.03 driver which finished 532 points or 4% faster than the 61.76 driver. Using the latest version of 3dmark which is 3dmark 2003 the best driver was the 61.76 driver, it finished 184 points or 4% faster than the slower 56.72 driver."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2001 SE
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit color
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Double Frame Buffer
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

GAME BENCHMARK

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - BRIDGE OF FATE

	118
	118
	117

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - COLOSSUS

	118
	117
	117

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - CONVOY

	57
	58
	57

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - RANKIN

	87
	87
	87

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - TORLAN

	82
	80
	79

SERIOUS SAM SE - GRAND CATHEDRAL

	106
	107
	107

SERIOUS SAM SE - CITADEL

	129
	129
	129

SERIOUS SAM SE - ELEPHANT ATRIUM

	128
	128
	126

COMANCHE4

	57
	55
	56

X2 THE THREAT

	94
	91
	88

UNREAL 2 - THE AWAKENING

	90
	87
	88

POSTAL 2

	72
	74
	74

DESERT RATS v AFRIKA KORPS

	109
	105
	105

FARCRY

	48
	54
	53

COLIN MCRAE RALLY 04

	53
	60
	62

PAINKILLER

	108
	106
	109

HAEGEMONIA - LEGIONS OF IRON

	80
	80
	76

v53.03 v56.72 v61.76

COMMENT - "Unreal Tournament 2004 performance was very close and there was no clear winner. Serious Sam SE performance was also very close apart from the 2fps difference with the Elephant Atrium demo. Comanche4 ran worst using the 56.72 drivers but only by between and 1 or 2 fps. X2 The Threat showed a fairly big difference and the 53.03 drivers outperformed the latest 61.76 drivers by 6fps. Unreal 2 The Awakening also performed best using the 53.03 drivers but this time only by 2fps. Postal 2 performed best with either the 56.72 or 61.76 drivers by 2fps. Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps performed best with the 53.03 drivers outperforming the 56.72 and 61.76 drivers by 4fps. Far Cry performed best using the 56.72 drivers and the worst was the 53.03 drivers which was 6fps slower than the 56.72 drivers. Colin Mcrae Rally 04 performed best with the latest 61.76 drivers which finished 9fps faster than the 53.03 drivers. Painkiller also performed best using the 61.76 drivers which finished 3fps ahead of the 56.72 drivers. Haegemonia Legions of Iron performed best on the older 53.03 and 56.72 drivers and they finished 4fps ahead of the latest 61.76 drivers. It was a very close result with the 53.03 and 56.72 drivers both scoring 1536 points, the 61.76 drivers performed slightly worse scoring 1530 points or 1% slower."

NVIDIA FORCEWARE v61.76 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - NVIDIA FORCEWARE v61.76 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - GAMES SOFTWARE AND FINAL RESULT

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