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NVIDIA's nZone
offers a beta ForceWare release that's not offered on the
their
official website (thanks
Gamer's Hell). There are new version 169.28 drivers for Windows XP 32-bit,
Windows Vista 32-bit, and Windows Vista 64-bit specifically to address problems
running Unreal Tournament III. Word is: "ForceWare Beta Release 169.28 is
provided below for customers experiencing issues with the retail version of
Unreal Tournament 3. This driver is only recommended as an update for these
customers. All other customers are recommended to use the latest WHQL or Beta
drivers offered on
NVIDIA.com."
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Re: Omega! |
Jan 2, 2008, 09:14 |
CreamyBlood |
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I've ran the Omega drivers in the past for ATI but never did any benchmarks.
What I can say as that I just built an older system for a friend and I wanted the drivers+functionality of the Catalyst Control Centre without the combined resource piggishness of .NET and said CCC. It's almost a 90MB hit.
The Omegas give you lots of options without the hassle.
Plus they don't make you 'uncheck' EarthSim, then select 'Custom' and uncheck all of the free 'game offers'.
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Re: UT3 - lol |
Jan 1, 2008, 12:07 |
famished |
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Sometimes I wonder if they flood their own market. UT 2004 seems to be doing much better than this stats wise so it kind of splits the community a bit. I still want to grab it though. Love a good, fast paced deathmatch.
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Re: Omega! |
Jan 1, 2008, 04:55 |
rocketpcguy |
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Been running those new Omega drivers & they seem to be a bit faster than what Nvidia offers. I like them & there VERY stable. how can you tell the speed increase? are there any benchmarks proving it, or is the fps jump just psychological?
the omega guy claims he's not a programmer, then how did he manage such a noticeable feat?
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No subject |
Dec 31, 2007, 22:46 |
LittleMe |
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Thanks nVIDIA. Glad to see nV support for UT3 and all the other games. UT3 is a great futuristic/arcade-ish multiplayer FPS. If you like multiplayer FPS games, give it a try!
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Re: UT3 - lol |
Dec 31, 2007, 20:45 |
AcidDrone |
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pitty it sold 3 copies and no one in australia plays it. its going to be the same the last ut, one server left half full of bots.
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Re: UT3 - lol |
Dec 31, 2007, 19:25 |
LMN8R |
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aww, look at the poor little kiddies talking about UT3. Newsflash: The community is plenty large enough to find any game of any type you wish, it's getting larger every day, and it's one of the most scalable games out there that runs well on any system from the last 3-4 years. Take your heads out of your asses.
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UT3 - lol |
Dec 31, 2007, 18:25 |
Carver |
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ForceWare Beta Release 169.28 is provided below for customers experiencing issues with the retail version of Unreal Tournament 3. This driver is only recommended as an update for these customers. these customers, are the only ones left, the ones who can actually run the game seen how crappy it was and dumped it.
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Re: Don't understand |
Dec 31, 2007, 17:15 |
AcidDrone |
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all 3 people that play ut3 will be happy
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Re: Don't understand |
Dec 31, 2007, 16:00 |
kyleb |
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But do these drivers actually do anything like that? From what I've seen the releases generally just add a few FPS or so to some benchmarks.
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No subject |
Dec 31, 2007, 15:58 |
smook |
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Don't touch these drivers. I just tried it on VISTA-64. Slowed me down to a crawl. Going back to released version.
FYI.
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Re: Don't understand |
Dec 31, 2007, 15:28 |
sponge |
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Can someone explain to me why specific game tweaks are needed in a driver? Wasn't one of the points of standards like DX(x) and OpenGL to prevent game specific coding? No software or standard is perfect. Drivers have bugs. UT3 may use features that have not been exposed and prodded as much. UT3 may be doing something heavily that's incurring a large speed hit whereas in other games a similar effect is used sparingly.
I highly doubt all these beta drivers are game-specific coding, aka if ($game == UT3) { do this optimization } but rather improving card features. There's a lot that can go wrong.
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Re: Omega! |
Dec 31, 2007, 13:51 |
Dr.Del |
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man, looks like I need to upgrade my system |
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Re: Don't understand |
Dec 31, 2007, 13:11 |
Jonny5 |
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I too am running the Omegas, LOVE EM. No probs with UT3, COD 4, Crysis, Titan quest......photo shop CS3, Dreamweaver, and so on..
Nice to have the Omegas back for Nvidia
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