Nvidia drivers!!

[OfficerDoofey]

Guys got this from the general hardware threads.. not my research but check this out

www.theinquirer.net/?article=16313

just passing on the msg. Fills in a bit of the gap if u ask me though... theres still one last question though...

where are the damn cards lol ?

 

[Corporate Thug]

"Apparently this will make this card faster then the red boys offer and might bring the long lost performance crown back to Nvidia."

interesting claim....

 

[OfficerDoofey]

Well i guess its only a day away so im sure we will have reviews galore... Im sure ATI FanBoi's with try and play it down though if it does give the 6800 anything near a 30% increase..

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: OfficerDoofey
Well i guess its only a day away so im sure we will have reviews galore... Im sure ATI FanBoi's with try and play it down though if it does give the 6800 anything near a 30% increase..

hopefully it will not come at the cost of IQ

 

[OfficerDoofey]

One can only hope.. Im not gonna get myself too excited by all this though..

believe it when i see it.. drivers/reviews/press releases are only the half way mark.. i wanna see the damn things on the shelves lol

 

[BFG10K]

It'll be interesting if it delivers. I hope the driver has more than just optimizations for a few key applications like Far Cry. Also it had better be WHQL certified.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
It'll be interesting if it delivers. I hope the driver has more than just optimizations for a few key applications like Far Cry. Also it had better be WHQL certified.

WHQL means nothing considering ati cheated for so long undetected!

 

[LTC8K6]

What makes you think MS was not aware of ATI's excellent algorithm?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Are these the 60.85 WHQL that have been at Guru3d for the past month?

 

[Genx87]

WHQL means squat. I think every catalyst release since 3.0 has been WHQL and it took them until 3.4 to fix a hardlock issue in HL.

It is a nice marketing gimic but hardly something worth fretting over.

 

[YBS1]

WHQL does mean squat because it typically means at the very least they are handling DX calls as they should be handling them. Think a while back to how well nVidia was scoring in 3D Mark, WHQL vs. non-WHQL driver versions.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
What makes you think MS was not aware of ATI's excellent algorithm?

What makes you think MS did know about them?

 

[imported_obsidian]

WHQL doesn't test for that kind of stuff...

 

[howdyduty]

Interesting info. Can always use a free performance boost. Thanks

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: nemesismk2

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
What makes you think MS was not aware of ATI's excellent algorithm?

What makes you think MS did know about them?

Since ATi filed for a patent, anyone could have known about it. It was public knowledge they had the technology.
And MS would probably not have WHQL'ed the drivers if they had not known, unless ATi decided to sneak their way through the process (doable, but I don't see why they would not disclose this tech - especially as ATi are working with MS on XBox Next - which may have a graphics chip which uses this technology/method.

 

[reever]

What is this like the 4th thread on the subject? And please go look up what whql certification means *before* you're going to make stupid comments about it

 

[BFG10K]

WHQL means nothing considering ati cheated for so long undetected!

The algorithm has been passing the tests since its inception and it's not the case that Microsoft isn't aware of it.

WHQL doesn't test for that kind of stuff...

Actually filtering is one of the things they explicitly test.

 

[Soulkeeper]

nvidia rocks !!
hahaha

good drivers i bet, but i do wanna see the benchmarks

 

[ronnn]

Hearing about the lack of availability of the 6800 ultra for another month, my guess remains the same. Nvidia releases bs drivers, because they have no hardware for sale. :wine: