New NVIDIA Driver 280.19

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Ekar

Just tried these out with CloD. I must say (rather excitedly), absolutely remarkable performance improvement over previous drivers. Took a scenic flight over England. I couldn't believe it. Stuttering over land has all but been eliminated- I mean, it's truly night and day... I don't think I've ever been as impressed by new drivers as I am with these. Seriously guys, give these a try and report back. I'm beginning to think that the performance related issues in CloD are more related to drivers and not the game itself. I don't know what else to assume as my game performance has just been transformed. I checked out my video/quality settings. Nothing has changed as far as I can tell. I'm running high land shading, etc. Same as before.

Best surprise I've had in a long time!


(my gfx card is a geforce 570 btw)

Yes, I love the performance increase as well. But were you able to get rid of the flashing textures? And if so, could you tell us how ?

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by SYN_Bliss

Yes, I love the performance increase as well. But were you able to get rid of the flashing textures? And if so, could you tell us how ?

Maybe hes only using one video card and seen an increase in performance.

[retrojet]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Maybe hes only using one video card and seen an increase in performance.

Just noticed you have voice activation/recognition in your setup... Makes great sense...
Is it a stand alone program, windows, or maybe came with your controls?
Does it use much mem, CPU... Whatever... I used to use one along time ago, but I don't even remember it's name...

Thanks in advance... sorry I'm going o/t...

[Ekar]

"Maybe hes only using one video card and seen an increase in performance."

Yes. Only one.


"I didn't bother overlaying the graphs as I say ZERO differences on all parameters"


I wouldn't be surprised if fps were the same with these and the previous drivers, the difference is in the smoothness, which is definitely pronounced. Anyone else experience this on a single card?


"Yes I tying out the beta drivers, better aa and
Multisampling. No more jagies either."

I'm not sure how much is placebo effect and how much is real, but I also had a thought that AA had been improved. External views showed that the plane was still looking a bit jaggy, but things for some reason seemed to appear nicer in cockpit view. Less distant groiund shimmering perhaps? I will check it out tonight.

[He111]

ok then, with SLi, setup one card as physics with 1 card as graphics, would this help with this driver?

He111

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by retrojet

Just noticed you have voice activation/recognition in your setup... Makes great sense...
Is it a stand alone program, windows, or maybe came with your controls?
Does it use much mem, CPU... Whatever... I used to use one along time ago, but I don't even remember it's name...

Thanks in advance... sorry I'm going o/t...

It worked very well, but I haven't used it for sometime. I fly mainly on-line. The software is Voice Activated Commands @

www.dwvac.com

[retrojet]

Originally Posted by Chivas

It worked very well, but I haven't used it for sometime. I fly mainly on-line. The software is Voice Activated Commands @

www.dwvac.com

Cheers Chivas and thanks for the link!

[klem]

Hard to tell if any improvement with the new drivers. Running 50-60fps most of the time (vert synch on, Monitor refresh 60Hz). It was pretty smooth before and I only get slight unsmoothness when I scan around with TrackIR which may just be the TIR itself. Notrunning SLi, only 1 GPU.

Specs:
ASUS Sabertooth mobo
i7 950 @ 4GHz
6Gb DDR3 RAM
EVGA GTX570 GPU
Crucial 128Gb SSD SATA III 6Gb/s, 355Mb/215Mb Read/Write
850W PSU
Coolermaster HAF912+ case
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium
Samsung 22" 226BW @ 1680 x 1050
TrackIR4 hardware / TrackIR5 software

[kristorf]

Nowt on the official site yet so I will hang back