many areas, gained some in others. Had plenty of CPU
behind it, so the theory that the new drivers may be
more CPU intensive and so only improve things on
faster CPU's doesn't seem to hold up either.
I was genuinely surprised by this result. From
reviews I had read, such as the one at anandtech,
I expect to see a significant improvement.
> > Installed the new drivers last night in place of my Leadtek
> > provided drivers. I ran both 3dMark2000 and 2001, from a fresh
> > boot before and after installing. My results were disappointing.
> > Minimal improvement. 2000 gained 21 marks and 2001 gained 86
> > marks, but many of the individual tests actually went down in
> > their frames per second rates (while others went up just enough
> > to bring the balance slightly into the positive range).
> > > I got a copy of the 21.81 Detonater drivers today and to my amazement they
> > > have made an 18% improvement in benchmark performance.
> > > Andi.
> I think it depends greatly on what card you have. I think I read in
> one of the previews that GeForce3s would see the most improvement,
> with diminishing gains the older your card gets (I think gf2's were
> supposed to get ok improvements, while gf1's get pretty much nothing).
> haven't checked benchmarks on my gf1 sdr (eeeeeeeeeeew), but it
> doesn't 'feel' a heap worse (was running 8.05 b4 as i'm using dx7
> games mostly atm).