E geforce 8800 gts driver driver#
I'm no video card/driver expert but I'm thinking a simple driver optimization could improve the 320 GTS performance dramatically.
System memory/page file is getting slammed on the 320MB GTS at higher resolutions/AA settings. If you go through the benchmarks, they all tell the same story. What's interesting to note is they used some utility (someone said RivaTuner) to track memory usage at each resolution. Noticed you said you were going to take a closer look at the 320MB's poor performance at high resolutions, especially considering how the 256MB X1900 parts performed better with AA in some instances.Įarlier today a Polish review was linked on AT. chizow - Monday, Februlink Derek, great review as usual.Until I ran some benches of my own I had also convinced myself that 512MB video RAM would be better for MMOs. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people think they need to spend more $$ on a card with more video RAM for an MMO. Is there any difference on Non-Ultra?Īny video card review dealing with memory size needs a mention of MMOs. I really think you need to go back and run 1280x1024.Īlso what is up with Quake4 "ULTRA", from what I remember with Doom3 and Quake4 ULTRA mode was specifically for cards with 512MB or more of video RAM due to the uncompressed textures. I don't think anyone would fault you much there. Ignoring 1280x1024 in an 8800GTX SLI review. ESPECIALLY with any video card products focused on price. The bottom line is there are too many people looking for 1280x1024 to ignore it. On a 30" LCD, I want World of Warcraft to run smooth at 2560x1600 with some AF and light AA, but am happy to get smooth Oblivion at 1280x768. Also the 30" LCD crowd likes to see 1280x1024 to get an idea of how a nicely scaled 1280x800 will run. these have usable 1280x720 or 1280x768 wide screen modes for most games. There are plenty of people running Large 27"-32" LCD TVs as gaming monitors. The large screen segment is also interested in 1280x1024. There are also people that might save a little on the display and get a 19" WS 1440x900 in favor of more RAM or better video.
Coming in with a playable score on a fairly widely used resolution is good news to majority of gamers who don't own 30" monitors. Only our 8800 GTX is really playable at 2560x1600, but at least the 8800 GTS 320MB makes the grade at 1920x1200. The two GTS parts scale similarly here, but the 320MB part performs much worse even at 1600x1200. Of course, as we've seen with other games, AA does increase memory usage and performance in a big way on the smaller memory part. Performing identically at 1920x1200 shows that memory size doesn't make a difference here. The 320MB 8800 GTS is easily able to keep up with the 640MB version under F.E.A.R. We disable Soft Shadows because it incurs a very high performance penalty while not delivering a good quality effect. We use this performance test with all the options turned all the way up except for Soft Shadows. that provides some useful statistics including average framerate. There is a built in performance test in F.E.A.R.
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