New Features in 21.80's?? 3Dmark2K1 differences seen!

[ShOcKwAvE827]

Anyone else notice that in image quality pictures taken with the Det 4's that in the truck picture there are shadows added, and in the Max Payne picture there is a muzzle flash added??? Or is it just me. I have all the default settings b4 and after, I wonder what has changed?

 

[Alex]

dhude!! read the review on the site its gotta a whole lotta benchmarks n stuff!! plus all changes etc!

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1516&p=1

 

[PotNoodle]

"Anyone else notice that in image quality pictures taken with the Det 4's that in the truck picture there are shadows added, and in the Max Payne picture there is a muzzle flash added??? Or is it just me. I have all the default settings b4 and after, I wonder what has changed? "

Hrm - considering 3DMark is a benchmark tool I'd like to think nothing has changed!

 

[BenSkywalker]

The shadows look like they have been cleaned up a bit, but I didn't notice any added ones.

"Hrm - considering 3DMark is a benchmark tool I'd like to think nothing has changed!"

AFAIK nVidia is still the only company running specular lighting in 3DMark2K giving them a performance hit noone else takes. Different boards running different features in 3DMark is nothing new, nor is the concept of things being altered in driver revisions(I remember how POed a lot of people were when nV enabled dynamic lighting in 2K and they saw their scores drop by a few hundred points).