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NVIDIA FORCEWARE v61.76 REVIEW

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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 FX 5900 XT VTD128
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

GAME BENCHMARK
4xAA & 8xAF

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - BRIDGE OF FATE

v53.0394
v56.7294
v61.7697

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - COLOSSUS

v53.03108
v56.72108
v61.76111

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - CONVOY

v53.0346
v56.7250
v61.7649

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - RANKIN

v53.0380
v56.7280
v61.7681

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 - TORLAN

v53.0360
v56.7259
v61.7661

SERIOUS SAM SE - GRAND CATHEDRAL

v53.0391
v56.7291
v61.7690

SERIOUS SAM SE - CITADEL

v53.03104
v56.72104
v61.76104

SERIOUS SAM SE - ELEPHANT ATRIUM

v53.03104
v56.72104
v61.76103

POSTAL 2

v53.0337
v56.7236
v61.7636

DESERT RATS v AFRIKA KORPS

v53.0377
v56.7274
v61.7677

COLIN MCRAE RALLY 04

v53.0330
v56.7232
v61.7630

PAINKILLER

v53.0358
v56.7258
v61.7652

HAEGEMONIA - LEGIONS OF IRON

v53.0368
v56.7274
v61.7672

v53.03 v56.72 v61.76

COMMENT - "The 61.76 driver start off strongly with Unreal Tournament 2004 and it wins four out of the five demos tested. Serious Sam SE performance is very close between all of the drivers and there is no clear winner. Postal 2 performed better on the 53.03 driver by a tiny 1fps. Desert Rats v Afrika Korps perfomed better on the 53.03 and 61.76 driver by 3fps. Colin Mcrae Rally 04 performed better using the 56.72 drivers but only by 2fps. Haegemonia Legions of Iron performed better using the 56.72 driver which finished 6fps faster than the 53.03 driver. The best driver for 4x Anti-aliasing and 8x Anisotropic Filtering was the latest 61.76 driver which scored 963, the 56.72 driver scored 962 and the 53.03 driver scored 957."

TOTAL PERFORMANCE

OVERALL SCORE

v53.032493
v56.722498
v61.762493

v53.03 v56.72 v61.76

COMMENT - "The v53.03 driver released 09.12.03 were the first driver to support the GeForce 5900 XT although by then any performance increase for the GeForce 5900 range was already at it's peak. The 56.72 driver released 01.04.04 mostly increased Far Cry and colin mcrae rally 04 performance. For the 5900xt the 61.76 driver released 20.07.04 mostly contained bugfixes and in some cases resulted in a small performance increase. The reason there are no image quality comparisons is because all three drivers delivered the same image quality so it would of been pointless."
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