NVidia 177 drivers leaked...UT2004 stuttering solved? (Edit: No UT2004 stutter for me...yay!!!)

Extelleron

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Doesn't affect me personally, but if it ends up being fixed, good job to nVidia for dealing with an issue they could have simply forgotten about (though I don't understand why it took so long.)
 

Engineer

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Confirmed. No more stutter on my XP 32 bit machine with these drivers on 8800GT playing UT2004!!!! Best game I've played in 6 months!!! :D
 

vanvock

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Thanks for the heads up, I'm not comfy with leaked drivers but maybe they'll let this one go WHQL soon. (crosses fingers)
 

gamephile

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Originally posted by: s44
It apparently fixes a lot of Mass Effect issues, too.

Hot diggity, I'll install these tonight and report back. The issues I have with Mass Effect are mostly related to incredibly ugly facial shadows, especially with dynamic shadows enabled.

I'm using an MSI 8800gts 512 OC with the 175.16 drivers.
 

s44

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The facial shadows are an issue with UE3's shadow map handling. The fix is to change
DepthBias=0.012000 (NOT the one that's just 0.012, which appears not to do anything) to
DepthBias=0.030000

This eliminates self-shadowing on the face but keeps it everywhere else. Neato, eh?
 

gamephile

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Yeah! I just read that an tried it out. The faces look great, except dynamic shadows are still visible on the body...and exhibit the same ugliness as the ones on the face.