Nvidia GeForce Beta 275.27 - Performance Increases !!

[mrk]

 

[-=Vect0r=-]

Anybody had any problems with nfs shift 2? Keeps locking up after about 15 mins play, since I installed this driver.

Yup, NFS2 Unleashed locks up after a while and Crysis 2 has rendering errors. Back I go....

 

[HangTime]

Were you joking? I don't know much about benchmarking and don't really care for it but I would have thought it was the Avg you would be most interested in. There might have only been one FPS at 108, and likewise the previous score of 100. If you rerun the same test multiple times and consistently get higher Min FPS then yes that would mean something because the average MinFPS across multiple runs would be consistently higher.

For serious benchmarking I would run the same test multiple times, before and after updating the software and compare (ie, work out the average min FPS across all 10 runs, before and after updating, likewise for the other stats

While much of what you say is valid there is an argument to suggest that as a general point viewed in isolation, MinFPS is important. For example on a 120hz screen the gains from anything over 120fps will be very trivial. The times you will notice slowdown, will be when you hit the min fps. So there is an argument to suggest that it is better to have say min fps 108 average 250, than min fps 100 average 300. That is to say, increases in average fps are only worthwhile if they are a result of having fewer frametimes greater than your monitor refresh time. Some irratic driver/hardware that gives very high peaks in conjunction with low troughs may well be worse than a 'steady eddie' with a slightly lower average due to less high fps counts (which are wasted due to refresh rate limitations).

Overly simplified example showing framerates per frame:

100fps
300fps
300fps
300fps
= average 250fps

120fps
280fps
280fps
280fps
= average 240fps

Second example should be smoother on a 120hz screen as framerate never drops below the refresh rate, despite the fact it has a lower average. Whether you have 280fps or 300fps in the other frames makes no difference.

Of course, in reality it is pretty rare that this would be the case, as you have intimated min fps is something that really needs to be benched many times over and outliers removed as in the vast majority of (valid) cases if min fps is lower than average fps should be too.

 

[James J]

Yup, NFS2 Unleashed locks up after a while and Crysis 2 has rendering errors. Back I go....

Same due to crysis 2 mostly. Booted up and had a shotgun attached sideways to the end of my machinegun which was a new one on me :S

Shogun also feels smoother on the campaign map with the official ones versus the beta for me as well.