20% increase in FPS with new V5 drivers ! ! !

[nippyjun]

My UT framerates:

1280x1024
Glide
old drivers 48 fps city intro demo average
new drivers 58

celeron 2 877

 

[Wingznut]

Yep, very nice increase.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=240817

 

[Maniac9127]

At least with 3dfx you don't have to pick from 40 different drivers to use, just one clear choice.

 

[Rigoletto]

Do you work for 3dfx by any chance?

 

[Finality]

Probably.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

dont bash 3dfx they just hit the wall meserably with thoir old voodoo 1 design(and .25 micron)they made great cards and might do like nVIDIA did(suck then get real good stuff)

 

[Rand]

Has anyone else tried out the new V5 drivers?
A few sites have reported a large performance boost with them. if anyone else has tested them out and benchmarked please post your results, I'd be very interested in seeing how it does.

 

[Wingznut]

I posted some here.

 

[snow patrol]

Rand - I don't suppose you have any links to any of those sites? Thanks

 

[Rand]

To be honest I don't really remember now, I passed most of them by without paying too much attention because they basically all said the same thing, that the new driver was giving a large performance boost. I think GA-Hardware had something about it but beyond that I'm not sure what other sites... I've visted so many hardware sites.

 

[Maniac9127]

Does who work for 3dfx?

And who said anything about bashing them?

 

[snow patrol]

Ok, thanks Rand.