Comparsion: Detonator 3 v6.18, v6.26 & v6.31(4/4)

3DMark 2000 - DirectX 7 (HW T&L)

The v6.26 drivers are a bit slower at higher resilutions than v6.18 and v6.31. In the following the detailed resultstable of the resolution 1024x768-32Bit:

Not many differences at all. Only the bad 32MB and 64MB rendering results with the v6.18 are a bit surprising.

Conclusion

It seems NVIDIA took a look on compatibility than on performance with their newer drivers. If you still use v6.18 and have problems like the GDI-Bug you should try v6.26 or v6.31. I made some tests with only 25% Windows GDI rescources and v6.26/v6.31 worked fine. But performance differences can not be found in the benchmarks we´ve used.

Lars "Borsti" Weinand - August 2000

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