66.81 drivers are up on Nvidia's FTP site

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ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/

Not WHQL. I assume they will be posted in their downloads section
shortly.

 

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"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message
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> ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/
>
> Not WHQL. I assume they will be posted in their downloads section
> shortly.

Good find! Thanks

Chip

 

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Thanks for the tip. I just downloaded and installed it. My benchmark in
3DMark05 V1.10 just jumped 700 points. From 3862 to 4574.on eVGA 6800 GT,
AMD Barton 2800 with a Gig of value ram.

I will have to run a few different benchmarks to see if this is for real.


"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message
newse2sl0lb6e7bf49rltu28ucvlv1s1g28dp@4ax.com...
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/
>
> Not WHQL. I assume they will be posted in their downloads section
> shortly.
>

 

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"Slabster" <Slabster@WhyNot.now> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the tip. I just downloaded and installed it. My benchmark in
> 3DMark05 V1.10 just jumped 700 points. From 3862 to 4574.on eVGA 6800 GT,
> AMD Barton 2800 with a Gig of value ram.
>
> I will have to run a few different benchmarks to see if this is for real.
>
>
> "Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message
> newse2sl0lb6e7bf49rltu28ucvlv1s1g28dp@4ax.com...
> > ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/
> >
> > Not WHQL. I assume they will be posted in their downloads section
> > shortly.

Please check advanced settings in performance & quality - to see if
Anisotropic optimisations are enabled by default. The 61.76/7's had it
disabled, after complaints about both Nvidia & ATI 'cheating' by having them
enabled. I find turning it on gives much better performance in games like
Doom3 and Far Cry, and just like Nvidia and ATI always protested, you can't
see any difference. Would not be fair comparison of benchmarks unless the
same setting used on both...

 

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On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:35:17 GMT, "GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>
>"Slabster" <Slabster@WhyNot.now> wrote in message
>news:4AK7d.158446$MQ5.75932@attbi_s52...
>> Thanks for the tip. I just downloaded and installed it. My benchmark in
>> 3DMark05 V1.10 just jumped 700 points. From 3862 to 4574.on eVGA 6800 GT,
>> AMD Barton 2800 with a Gig of value ram.
>>
>> I will have to run a few different benchmarks to see if this is for real.
>>
>>
>> "Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message
>> newse2sl0lb6e7bf49rltu28ucvlv1s1g28dp@4ax.com...
>> > ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/
>> >
>> > Not WHQL. I assume they will be posted in their downloads section
>> > shortly.
>
>Please check advanced settings in performance & quality - to see if
>Anisotropic optimisations are enabled by default. The 61.76/7's had it
>disabled, after complaints about both Nvidia & ATI 'cheating' by having them
>enabled. I find turning it on gives much better performance in games like
>Doom3 and Far Cry, and just like Nvidia and ATI always protested, you can't
>see any difference. Would not be fair comparison of benchmarks unless the
>same setting used on both...

There are three optimization settings. The defaults on my W2K SP4
system are:

Trilinear optimization ON
Anistropic mip filter optimization OFF
Anistropic sample optimization ON

My recollection of the 61.77's is that the first was defaulted ON, the
second didn't exist, and the third was defaulted OFF. Is that what
you see?

FWIW, I have the mip filter optioned ON. I'll take all the
optimization they'll give me. ;-)

 

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> Please check advanced settings in performance & quality - to see if
> Anisotropic optimisations are enabled by default. The 61.76/7's had it
> disabled, after complaints about both Nvidia & ATI 'cheating' by having
> them
> enabled. I find turning it on gives much better performance in games like
> Doom3 and Far Cry, and just like Nvidia and ATI always protested, you
> can't
> see any difference. Would not be fair comparison of benchmarks unless the
> same setting used on both...

In 66.81 I found the same as Folk .

Trilinear optimization ON
Anistropic mip filter optimization OFF
Anistropic sample optimization ON

I don't recall the setting in 61.71 (the previous driver I was using)

I change "Anistropic mip filter ottimization" to ON and ran 3Dmark05 again.
My score change from 4574 to 4558, still nearly a 600 point increase over
61.71.

With 66.81 I saw a 7.5 fps increase in the Doom 3 timedemo using a setting
of 1280 x 1024, high quality, no VS or AA.

Anistropic mip filter ottimization ON or OFF in vVidia 66.81 driver made no
difference in Doom 3 timedemo. In both cases I still went from 58.9 fps
with 61.77 to 66.5 fps with 66.81.

I saw no change in AquaMarks3 or 3Dmark01 and 03.