Smoke problems on Nvidia hardware

I never had this problem when I was running single 8800 GT

I however have had this problem in the past on other systems in Call of Duty 2 - but only when smoke grenades were involved

I'm talking about when you start burning your tires and the car goes in circles trying to get traction. Little bit of smoke particles doesn't make it choke to 10-20fps. It's just for a split second does it drop like that in those rare instances.

Someone told me in another web that his 8800gtx does the same thing. So it's definitely Nvidia.

Now I just want to hear from ATI users who tried GRID>

Perhaps you didn't crash and burn. Better driver?

Did you try looking at what FPS you are running? Because in another forum a guy with a 8800gt says it chokes with GRID smoke particles.

It's just for a split second only when burning rubber. Perhaps you miss it.

Not one guy. A moderator in another forum says his 8800gtx does it. Another guy says his 8800gt does it. My 8800gs does it.

That's possible; I may not see it as much because I have the view set to inside the car. In the Le Mans races, there is a fair amount of smoke from the other cars but I haven't seen a large drop in the framerate. All settings high, BTW.

Right, three guys. How many cards has Nvidia sold?

i did not know dell made the xps back in the p3 dayz

Nice review of your 8800GS, btw. Just read it.

I imagine you have enough sense to update drivers and what have you, but did you check your nvidia panel settings for grid to see if anything was uh defaulted to a setting maybe it shouldnt be (ie: T.R.A.A) that could have a detriment to that?

Oh, one weird bug I will note that I had with Grid. When quitting from the game, sometimes the program stays resident in memory, 850 mb worth - so I just end process and its a done deal; but thats the only issue i've had. Vista64

I do know that when I did have Grid still "running" after I exited the game, it had a serious impact on my performance in other games. I don't know if this sort of thing is related or not but I just thought i'd throw it out there.

Not like how your own cars burn rubber than a computer. Also viewing insider your car raises fps with GRID. I bet you didn't even notice that either. So much for your judgment.

Shall we have a poll boy? Shall i make it a fact for you?

That's why I'm asking ATI users to give some feedback but what we have is this lame 8800gt lover.

I had this same issue with 8600gts with NFS and BF2 where it would choke with screen full of smoke. Drivers doesn't magically clear up smoke problems.

Those kinds of problems are exactly what some driver updates fix.

Such logic. Bravo... You are also forgetting the fact that your 8800gt is faster than my 8800gs.

This thread wasn't a poll but if you want I can make into one to please you.

It doesn't mean you don't sleep with your 8800gt now.

I'm using Nvidia drivers dude.

It's a fact there are lot of noobs in Tom's forum but I think it's mostly teenagers in here or they really never tried studying up on hardware and try proving theories or actually read an article besides benchmarks.

Good God, how much longer is this going to go on?

True. You have a killer o/c though.

You're asking people for opinions. That would be a poll, regardless if it is labeled as such.

Now you're just being childish.

It was a general comment. That's why I used words like "Those kinds of problems" and "some".

It doesn't apply here.

If you actually read the first post I'm specifically asking ATI users.

Thread title changed. Get out.

You blind?

Drivers was mentioned by ovaltine first. I was replying to him not you.

Thank you. no more okay.

I believe that the smoke effect is done with a particle system, where alpha blending is enabled to create the transparency effect. Using an alpha channel to create a transparency effect (for smoke, fog, fire, etc.) is costly. However, it is hard to believe that the latest Nvidia cards would have a problem with this, since such an effect has been in use for a long time.

Maybe it is a problem with how the GRID game does it?

it could also be particle effects? but with tons of those any card can get slow down.

I do get slowdown in smoke(Grid Demo), but nearly as bad as mentioned(almost unnoticeable since the smoke covers almost the full screen).

And yes, I DRIVE BAD(think of always in last)!!

In other games that have this(smoke/particle slowdowns), i have seen it on both nvidia and ati hardware.

Way back it seemed like my Geforce 4 ti was hit hard by this, but its because the card ran 60 fps then dropped to 24, whereas the old card could not break 35 and the fall from 35 to 24 is not as noticeable as 60 to 24. Everyone has a different tolerance for frame rate changes.