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NVIDIA FORCEWARE v66.93 REVIEW

"In this review we test the Nvidia Forceware driver 66.93 to 61.77 and 56.72 using 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, 3dmark 2005, Doom3, Tribes Vengeance, Xpand Rally, Colin Mcrae 2005, Painkiller, Prince of Persia, Rally Trophy, Scrapland and Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War."

NVIDIA FORCEWARE v66.93

In this article we compare the recently released 66.93 drivers to the previous 61.77 and 56.72 drivers using software such as 3dmark 2005, Doom3, Tribes Vengeance, Xpand Rally, Colin Mcrae 2005, Painkiller, Prince of Persia - Warrior Within, Rally Trophy, Scrapland and Warhammer 40K - Dawn of War.


GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON XP 3200
VIDEO CARD MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v66.93
FORCEWARE v61.77
FORCEWARE v56.72
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK K7S8XE+
MEMORY 2x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c

3DMARK BENCHMARKS

3DMARK 2001 SE

v56.7213782
v61.7713458
v66.9313909

3DMARK 2003

v56.725050
v61.774956
v66.935014

3DMARK 2005

v56.72966
v61.77957
v66.931001

v56.72 v61.77 v66.93

COMMENT - "The 66.93 driver performs the best in two out of the three 3dmark benchmarks. The 66.93 driver delivers a performance increase of 4% with 3dmark 2001 SE and 5% with 3dmark 2005. Using 3dmark 2003 the 66.93 driver lost out to the 56.72 driver which delivered a performance increase over the 61.77 driver of only 2%."
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

3DMARK 2005

1024x768 Resolution
No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
No Fixed Framerate

GEFORCE 6600 GT SPECIFIC

HLSL VS Target 3_0
HLSL PS Target 3_0

DOOM III

ADVANCED OPTIONS DISABLED

v56.7236
v61.7763
v66.9363

ADVANCED OPTIONS ENABLED

v56.7229
v61.7743
v66.9343

v56.72 v61.77 v66.93

COMMENT - "The best drivers for use with Doom3 are the 61.77 and 66.93 drivers which delivered identical performance. The 56.72 drivers are a very different story and they resulted in a 43% performance drop with advanced options are disabled and a 33% performance drop with advanced options enabled."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

1024x768 Screen Size
Fullscreen Enabled
Vertical Sync Disabled
Demo1 Benchmark

OPTIONS DISABLED

Bump Maps Disabled
Shadows Disabled
Special Effects Disabled
Specular Disabled
Antialiasing Disabled

OPTIONS ENABLED

Bump Maps Enabled
Shadows Disabled
Special Effects Enabled
Specular Enabled
Antialiasing Disabled

NVIDIA FORCEWARE v66.93 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - NVIDIA FORCEWARE v66.93 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - TRIBES VENGEANCE AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004
PAGE 3 - OTHER GAME BENCHMARKS

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