xavier Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 the new drivers are aimed at high end Ti cards (4600/4800) and the new FX5800 chipset. Dont bother updating if you are a MX/Ti4200 user, makes no difference whatsoever Nonsense, a Ti 4200 is the same chip as the Ti 4600/4800 if it helps the Ti 4600 or 4800 it will help the Ti 4200 to. You are correct in saying that these drivers are especially for the Geforce FX detenator 41.09 is the last Geforce 4 optimalisation. Now watch our expensive cards die.... the latest drivers include optimisations for *Any* shader capable NVIDIA GPUs - which means GeForce 3 Ti200 right up to the FX5200/5600/5800's. the GeForce4MX doesn't have any shaders on-chip, granted, but it's capable of emulating a vertex shader in software (i.e. on CPU) - for which the latest drivers also contains optimisations. Link to comment
Mercenary Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I have 5 computers here unless you missed that. I was showing the differences in the systems. Link to comment
Upke Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 Xavier, Fuck! Are you a millionaire!?!? Those 2 systems have everything a gamer needs. You have an FX, awesome..... But why didn't you wait till NV35? Link to comment
AJH Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 My specs: PC1: Celeron 1700MHz 256MB DDR 333 GeForce 4 MX 440 ASUS P4s533 80 gig hd PC2 Celeron 700MHz 256MB pc-133 GeForce 2 MX ASUS P3BF 20 gig hd just for gaming... Link to comment
xavier Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I'm a hardware journalist - they're the quickest kit available on the market so they're what my rigs need to be running. As to NV35 I can't talk about that yet heh Link to comment
FLiP Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 GF-FX line = DX9.0 (which is arguable because of the recent event of 16bit floating point, which would make it a non-compliant card)GF3, GF4Ti line = DX8.0 (not DX8.1 because of lack of support of Pixel Shader 1.4) GF4MX, GF2 line = DX7.0 (lack of pixel shader spec) 16 bit floating point? I take it you mean 16-bits per channel? as opposed to claiming that the NV3X family actually only does 16-bits FP instead of a full 128? The hazards of talking on topics you're not entirely aware of I guess - the GeForce FX is actually more accurate than the Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800 - ATI only does 96-bits, rounded to 128-bits at the end while NVIDIA offer a true 128-bit and intermediary 64-bit (if developers choose to use it) which has certain performance benefits (and is still an improvement over the IQ of DX8 shaders) Hmm, I knew i forgot something, forgot I even posted this.. I suppose I should have made that a little more clear. Granted, you are correct, the GFFX is technically and in practical testing easilly as fast as the 9800 (I'd want either of the cards personally , babystep up from a 9700Pro) As you stated it does indeed have full support for 128-bit, and it does have its increase in IQ and preformance in some cases. But in the case of a few "unofficial" drivers (even the latest set of official Det's 43.45), it has become apparent that the drivers default to 16FP, but to comply with the DirectX 9 specifications a compliant card has to meet the minuimum 24FP afaik. So at "defaults" the driver would technically break spec. To the average gamer this would probably mean nothing more than a grain of salt. Either way you cant go wrong, both of these cards are completely respectable and plenty of preformance to spare on games comming up (Dug up the old thread at FM that some of the info came from if you guys want to read though the crazyness Here) Link to comment
xavier Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 actually the claims that they'd defaulted to FX16 are incorrect. since 42.69 NVIDIA included a fix for 3DMark'03 that corrected a coding issue in 3DMark'03 which rendered the sky incorrectly. FutureMark, having only ever tested and developed their benchmark on a single DX9 board (R300) had used a piece of shader code which didn't work correctly with either NVIDIAs hardware or for that matter the Microsoft DX9 reference renderer. By the time FutureMark got the final '03 build out, they'd picked up on the bug.. but NVIDIA we're still having to use the 'h4x0r3d' driver, waiting for the 43.45 driver to make WHQL... The latest driver doesn't include the fix. Regardless of what you say. Link to comment
Upke Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 Ummm, Xavier, mmmm, NV35, mmm, YOU CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT YET!? So you know what its going to be.... -Do you think it will be what the NV30 should have been? Perhaps PM me some info But, meh, you can't trust me, even if I promise not to leak. Life is SOOOO unfair... Link to comment
xavier Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 info? heh, no can do - we're under NDA with NVIDIA on any new stuff (whatever that might be ) which means I get drop-kicked into oblivion if I say anything - watch this space though, I might even give you guys your own heads-up when new stuff arrives, whatever it may be. Mind you - the NVIDIA NDAs aren't as scary as the one FutureMark had us sign for 3DMark'03 - $500,000 liability. eek! Link to comment
Guest Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 (edited) Main PC Intel Pentium 4 2.40b Ghz @ 2.88Ghz (160FSB) 512mb DDR333 @ DDR400 (1.5, 2, 2, 5) ASUS P4PE /L Leadetk GeForce4 Ti4800se (Winfast A280 TD 128mb) Lite On 32x12x40x Creative 8x DVD 80Gb Barracuda V 8 Mb Cache (Old 80Gig Cuda IV is in Xbox Now:D) 40Gb Barracuda IV This PC runs GTA3 in 1280x1024, at a constant 60fps, due to V-Sync being turned on, unsure of what FPS it will do with it turned of Second PC AMD Athlon Xp1600@ XP2000 ECS K7S5A 256mb PC2100@PC2700 64mb GeForce3Ti200 (Hercules 3d Prophet III) Teac 4x4x8x (Kodak External made internal) 80Gb Barracuda IV 60Gb Barracuda IV This PC runs GTA3 in 1024x768 at around 60fps to 75fps when frame limiter is off. But its changing makes it look like stutter, so i leave Frame Limiter on. Its naturally limited to 85fps due to V-Sync, but its rare to hit that Parents PC AMD Athlon XP2000 Gigabyte GA-VTXE+ 256mb PC2100 Radeon 8500LE 128mb Diamond Data 24x10x40x Creative 12x DVD 80Gb Westernal Digital 8mb This PC has troubles with GTA3. It does run and when it is running, its a pretty consistent 85fps in 1024x768. BUt the drivers i last put on caused it to sometimes crash. Its rare occurances, but its annoying. Edited April 28, 2003 by Guest Link to comment
Upke Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 But Xavier can you just answer this one question? -Will it as good as NV30 had to be (according to the hype)? Link to comment
xavier Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 i'm saying nothing watch this space Link to comment
Upke Posted April 25, 2003 Share Posted April 25, 2003 Tell me, whats the point of telling you any info about NV35, wich you may not leak. There for taking the risk that you leak it. You know when it will be announced, do you? E3, I guess, just use the arrow smiley as a sign... Link to comment
Guest Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 AMD Athelon XP 1600+ @ 1.41Ghz 256mb DDR All-In-Wonder ATI Radeon 8500 128DDR Samsung 48x24x48x Sound Blaster PCI 128 60Gb 7200RPM Hardrive 40Gb 7200RPM Hardrive 10Gb 3200RPM Hardrive (Used For Backup Only) Runs GTA3 in 1600x1200 with everything on, at a very decent framerate (60FPS Avg) Link to comment
MioM Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Geforce 4 4280 (8x AGP; 128MB DDR) 2*256MB DDR 120GB+40GB (both 7200) CDBurner 8x8x32x DVD 48x16x Pinnacle PCTV Sat Terratec Aureon 5.1 Fun 19" 5.1 Sys cheap, damned keyboard, mouse and mainboard Want to buy a nforce2 mainboard Gta3: runs at 1280*1024-32 and all details super Link to comment
Ex1t Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Damn... you fellas got some big harddrives! i still have a 13 gig... My Specs: Pentium 3 500 mhz Geforce 4 MX 460 128 mb ram dvd 8x CD-R/RW (forgot speed) some sorta soundblaster shit 19" Logitech internet navigator keyboard Logitech wireless mouse 12.7 gig western digital Yeah, i know it sucks, but im broke Link to comment
Guest Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Pentium 4 1.8Ghz 512MB RDRAM(I'm begining to wonder if I'm the only person in the world with RDRAM...) 19" Moniter 12x DVD-ROM 24x CD-RW 40GB HD(Going to get a 120GB soon for cheap) GeForce 3 Ti200(Going to get a GeForce 4 Ti4800 soon for cheap!) A damn fine system, only thing really holding me down is my video card, which is good, but it'd help my system alot to get a better one. I know that a high end RADEON is better, but I've been sticking with nVidia, and they've been good to me so far, so I don't see a need to change. Link to comment
Iggy Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 yeh i just like nvidia, since its the coolest and all the game seem to be sapporting it, and since it has such a cool logo on UT2003 when the guy smashes it Link to comment
Guest Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Mobo: Soyo KT400 Ultra GFX Card: Geforce 4 ti4200 (64MB DDR) RAM: 512DDR PC2700 HD: 40GB (7200rpm) CDBurner: 8x8x32x DVD: 48x16x CDROM: 72x Case: Sexsy Black Box Monitor: 19" Internet: Cable 2.0m/348k I run GTA at 1600x1200 and the draw distance all the way up with no lag Link to comment
xavier Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 we're given information, ahead of announcement, so that our magazine will include the latest information on the latest products and in this case we'll be on shelves within days of NVIDIAs announcement (whenever that may be ) Link to comment
|Y|aNi}{ Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 What are you talking about here? I don't think that you are in topic hehe Link to comment
Guest Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 AMD Athlon 2400+ 512MB DDR 400 RAM GeForce 4 4400, 128MB Onboard 5:1 Audio Onboard Gigabit network for LAN 3com 100mbit for Internet x40x12x48 Burner DVD (x32 something, Don't remember exact specs) 2x80GB 7200RPM drives 4x120GB 7200RPM drives in 4+0 RAID (one 480GB partition) The most annoying fan noise in the world from several fans!!! You can never have to little drive space Link to comment
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