Nvidia ‘Big Bang II’ Close to Release?
Back in August, Many rumor sites noted that Nvidia’s ForceWare 180 drivers will introduce several major changes.
The 180 ForceWare release has been dubbed the release as “Big Bang II” in reference to the “Big Bang” release that introduced SLI support.
According to the rumors, the drivers were to make an appearance in September, however that is obviously not the case now. BUT, VR-Zone has posted a bunch of screenshots, apparently showing the ForceWare 180 driver control panel in action. You can view VR-Zone’s gallery here.
We all know that screenshots are easy to fake, but these ones at VR-Zone appear to be authentic. On a system containing dual GeForce GTX 280 cards and a pair of 22” displays, the drivers provide two novel options – A PhysX configuration page and settings for multiple displays in SLI mode. Currently, PhysX options reside in a separate control panel application, and enabling SLI involves the user manually switching to single-display mode. Essentially, there is no true SLI multi-monitor support. The multi-monitor section of the ForceWare 180 control panel shows what appears to be both dual-view and cloning modes.
You can see a warning on the control panel that says “Cloning the SLI focus display will reduce performance for fullscreen applications.”
There have been no new rumored release dates as of current, but some people believe it is going to be very soon.
they are losing and they know it now they are just bull sh*ting to try to win customers back... (losing this generation war atleast... maybe not overall)
With hardware settings, you would get black instead of transparent, ugly. Changed to software you got your transparency back, but ugly mouse trails and slow performance. Now all is as it should be.
My point is there are thousand fixes big and small still to be done, keep picking up the loose bits like that DD bug as you press on relentlessly forward nVidia and you will keep your users!
that being said... i don't really care too much... but if the performance is similar... i know i'll be getting the ATI counterpart (like 5 %)
One 4870 later and its stayed gone(My girl friends computer missed its video card, it now lives with that 8800GTX anyway). But I would not mind testing the last 2 NV drivers that have been released as I did send bug reports and when I did that on XP it was always fixed on the next release(but that where so far appart some times).
pretty much same here. different cards but same experience. i will risk another ATI purchase at some point but there is no compelling reason for me to right now.
the 4870 series is f*cking raping nvidia... sure they may have a lot more market share but they are losing fast... try not to be an imbecile next time you post
"4870 raping the GTX 280, what benchmarks are you looking at? The only game I see the ATI higher is WiC."
I think he meant in sales & price range the 4870 holds over the 280.
Also the 4870 1gb cards are doing better than the 512mb cards in the higher resolutions also.
why do they let people like you post? you get all personal and throw a tantrum because people don't see things your way. i actually do own cards from both and i am convinced you are just claiming to even ever own anything nvidia to strengthen your one dimensional mindset. i see there are many others to take up your position which is fine. somebody has to shill. hopefully the uneducated can see through it but if not, they will have some beautiful ATI space heaters this winter.
Exactly. Even the X2 doesn't beat the GTX 280 in all cases (due to being a dual GPU card).
ATI is kicking Nvidia's ass at performance for the Money, but they don't have the most powerful single GPU card.