DOOM 3 / New NVIDIA Drivers

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Just updated my drivers. (new driver released July 27th) I have a GeForce FX
5700 128MB Card. For some reason, the graphics quality is night and day
compared to my old drivers. Doom 3 is particularly better. Anyone else
notice this?

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"Dark Avenger" <no_spam@spamnet.nl> wrote in message
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> "Robertjr" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in
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> >Just updated my drivers. (new driver released July 27th) I have a
> >GeForce FX 5700 128MB Card. For some reason, the graphics quality is
> >night and day compared to my old drivers. Doom 3 is particularly better.
> >Anyone else notice this?
> >
> >
> >
>
> DX9 capable cards generally show off better effects...it's because of
> Directx9 If a game sees that your card can do it, it will use higher level
> shaders..wich lead to greater image quality!

Doom3 is OpenGL.

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but also insists on having DX9....go figure
i just installed it today and asked me to install 9.0b(i have 9.0c
"ccs" <temp@no.com> wrote in message news:ekEPc.232$sh.219@fed1read06...
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> "Dark Avenger" <no_spam@spamnet.nl> wrote in message
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> > "Robertjr" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in
> > <2EAPc.7007$9Y6.3056@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:
> >
> > >Just updated my drivers. (new driver released July 27th) I have a
> > >GeForce FX 5700 128MB Card. For some reason, the graphics quality is
> > >night and day compared to my old drivers. Doom 3 is particularly
better.
> > >Anyone else notice this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > DX9 capable cards generally show off better effects...it's because of
> > Directx9 If a game sees that your card can do it, it will use higher
level
> > shaders..wich lead to greater image quality!
>
> Doom3 is OpenGL.
>
>

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DX9 requirement is probably for other things, such as sound, networking,
input and such...
GT

"ME" <cliffro69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> but also insists on having DX9....go figure
> i just installed it today and asked me to install 9.0b(i have 9.0c

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Which driver are you running now?

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Jelle wrote:
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>>"Dark Avenger" <no_spam@spamnet.nl> wrote in message
>>news:Xns953A214B2E90swampy314@62.251.0.70...
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>>>"Robertjr" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in
>>><2EAPc.7007$9Y6.3056@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>:
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>>>
>>>>Just updated my drivers. (new driver released July 27th) I have a
>>>>GeForce FX 5700 128MB Card. For some reason, the graphics quality is
>>>>night and day compared to my old drivers. Doom 3 is particularly
>
> better.
>
>>>>Anyone else notice this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>DX9 capable cards generally show off better effects...it's because of
>>>Directx9 If a game sees that your card can do it, it will use higher
>
> level
>
>>>shaders..wich lead to greater image quality!
>>
>>Doom3 is OpenGL.
>>
>
> OpenGL has its equivalents in instructions that know how to use dx9 capable
> hardware.
>
>

Doom 3 was written using a custom OpenGL driver with extensions. It's
Carmack's version of OpenGL 2.0. It adds complex shader support, per
pixel lighting, fragment programs, etc, etc, a lot of the same feature
set. The two API's both use the same hardware; the hardware provides a
baseline set of features that the API can implement. However, Doom 3's
OpenGL was able to get many features working in software on older
hardware as well.