First Impressions Of Detonator 50s..

[MoUCLAs]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7816

 

http://www.guru3d.com/forum/showthread.php?&threadid=63181

[MY80-]

Diavazontas ta parakatw de mou fainetai oti de tha ta pane kala me th valve

 

"Newell was concerned particularly with some of the techniques NVIDIA has used in recent driver releases, although he didn't exempt other graphics hardware makers from his complaints. He said they had seen cases where fog was completely removed from a level in one of Valve's games, by the graphics driver software, in order to improve performance. I asked him to clarify which game, and he said it was Half-Life 2. Apparently, this activity has gone on while the game is still in development. He also mentioned that he's seen drivers detect screen capture attempts and output higher quality data than what's actually shown in-game."

 

 

"nVidia has been circulating its Det50 driver to analysts in hopes that we would use it for our Half-Life 2 benchmarking. The driver contains application-specific optimizations that will likely improve nVidia's overall performance picture, however Valve's Gabe Newell expressed concerns that some of nVidia's optimizations may go too far. Doug Lombardi of Valve has explicitly asked that beta versions of the Det50 drivers NOT be used for benchmarking. "

 

Oson afora to aquamark, an thymamai kala einai dx8.1 for the most part (toulaxiston se ena screenshot eixa dei gyrw sto 5% ths othonhs mono na xrhsimopoiei PS2). Opws kai na xei, apo oti exw diavasei tha exei arketa endoiaferonta xaraktiristika (opws to na xrwmatizei diafora merh ths eikonas analoga me thn ekdosh PS pou xrhsimopoioune) kai proswpika pisteyw oti tha axizei ta lefta tou (oute 10E den exei). Anyway, anamenoume perissotera benchies

Thelw na elpizw oti ta gains sto sygekrimeno benchie einai apotelesma optimizations tou compiler (pou htane se arketa asxhmh katastash mexri twra) kai oxi shader replacements (a la 3dmark) h hand-tweaked kwdika (a la halflife2/doom3). Kata ta alla, to GUI tous exei veltiwthei arketa apo oti akougetai

[MY80-]

I have the drivers. Comparing a 5800ultra to a 5800ultra. I was using 45. somethings (whatever the newest is) Leaked det 50s . I had two computers set up next to each other. The only diffrence is a 200mhz clock in the athlon xp. You can tell from the start which ones are the 45s and which are the 50s. There is a huge quality loss in unreal 2 , morrowind and nwns . However quality went up in some places in the new tomb raider and in quake 3. These are all the games i can test with. And no I can't send you the drivers. And no i can't tell you where I got them from.

 

 

Right from the b3d thread.