Ran 3dMark05 with 71.20 ForceWare and lost 700pts

[ScottFern]

I just upgraded my drivers to 71.20 and I put a NV silencer 5 on my 6800GT. Now I drop over 700 points in the freeware 3dmark05. So on outdated drivers and stock cooling I should get better results. I do not understand this at all.

Anyone?

 

[Fardringle]

Was your video card overclocked before you upgraded the drivers? If so, did you raise the core/memory speeds back up after changing drivers?

 

[ScottFern]

Yes, after the driver update, I reinstalled coolbits 2.0 and bumped by card up to 400/1000

 

[THUGSROOK]

1st rule of OCing:

never make 2 changes at once!

 

[Viper96720]

What's not to understand? New drivers don't mean increased 3dmark scores all the time.

 

[dguy6789]

Its better to lose a bit of performance to gain stability anyday of the week.

 

[Mrvile]

Obviously not for the people who pick MSI over Asus

 

[domsq]

The Xtreme G 71.20b's are over-rated junk... since loading them, I've lost 1300 points in Aquamark 3 and about 200-250 points in 3DMark '03 (of course all settings are as they were with my previous drivers, the 66.93's).

What is supposed to be so great about the Xtreme G drivers anyway? I've heard stories of the amazing results some guys achieve, but I've just ended up being sorely disappointed.
.

 

[McArra]

I added 100 3dmark03 and about 400 3dmark05 with them and IQ was better than with Nvidia drivers. Really the very best for me, also games seem to be smoother with VXG71.20b.

 

[Lonyo]

Err, did actual GAME scores change? Or just synthetic benchmarks?
If your games have lost performance, start to worry, if not, who cares?

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Err, did actual GAME scores change? Or just synthetic benchmarks?
If your games have lost performance, start to worry, if not, who cares?

bravo :beer:

 

[domsq]

Okay, let me retract what I said earlier about the 71.20b drivers. Something must have gone a little cock-eyed when I installed them earlier today. I just now tried for a test to load them over the 66.93's I've been using otherwise, and now my benchmark scores are looking pretty good.

My games are also looking better than before, so I'm happy.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
1st rule of OCing:

never make 2 changes at once!

That's rule #2. Rule #1 is YMMV.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I've been very happy with the XG drivers. Image quality is superb to the other modded drivers, IMO. I would constantly get crashes with other drivers. Had to turn mask the vertex shader but I kept the pipes opened. Got a score of 10477 on 3dmark2k3 with a BFG 6800oc.

 

[ScottFern]

UPDATE:

After setting my agp apeature to 128MB instead of 256MB and installing 71.20 drivers and getting a new BFG 6800 GT OC at 415/1090 I have received a 3dmark05 score of: 5492

Good, bad, ugly?

 

[drpootums]

that's pretty good, but why did u drop the apeature size?

 

[ScottFern]

The requirement for AGP memory space shrinks as the graphics card's local memory increases in size. This is because the graphics card will have more local memory to dedicate to texture storage. So, if you upgrade to a graphics card with more memory, you shouldn't be "deceived" into thinking that you will need even more AGP memory! On the contrary, a smaller AGP memory space will be required.

It is recommended that you keep the AGP aperture around 64MB to 128MB in size, even if your graphics card has a lot of onboard memory. This allows flexibility in the event that you actually need extra memory for texture storage. It will also keep the GART (Graphics Address Relocation Table) within a reasonable size.