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Tropics 3D Benchmarks DirectX 10.1 support

Rroff said:
Yeah theres no SLI/crossfire profile for it - I did make my own for SLI which gained about 5% performance over renaming the exe to use another SLI profile. I guess you don't have that luxury with crossfire.
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I have noticed that when there is an opportunity to snipe at ATI or crossfire your cant help but take it...grow up.

If you knew anything about crossfire you would know how to get around games/apps that don't scale with out a profile that rename exe works allot of the time so the luxury is just fine thanks.
 
Rroff said:
Yeah theres no SLI/crossfire profile for it - I did make my own for SLI which gained about 5% performance over renaming the exe to use another SLI profile. I guess you don't have that luxury with crossfire.
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layte said:
1920x1200 DX10 with default settings:

54.9 fps http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~layte/pics/unigine_20081102_1314.html

Silly benchmark was not using the second GPU, so a quick exe name change to Bioshock.exe results in:

90.3 fps http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~layte/pics/unigine_20081102_1321.html
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Can i get an OWNED. :D

Cyber-Mav said:
time for a hotfix :p

/gets coat
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You never know Nvidia might do a hotfix driver as well seen as they do em to. ;)
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
You never know Nvidia might do a hotfix driver as well seen as they do em to. ;)
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Not really, the "hotfix" is what it implies, a quick update to fix bugs, I can't recall nvidia having to do that with any major releases.

Sure they "release" new beta drivers which can offer some minor performance increases but thats not the same as their beta and are not needed.
 
Course they are, 180.42/43 what are they, thats right, Nvidia Far Cry 2 hotfix drivers, just they call em beta's, says so in the guff, they are the recommended drivers for Far Cry 2, and the .43's are just the same drivers, but are supposed to have the fix in them for the 9800 GX2 in Far Cry 2, but they don't as it still runs as an 8800 GT. :)
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Course they are, 180.42/43 what are they, thats right, Nvidia Far Cry 2 hotfix drivers, just they call em beta's, says so in the guff, they are the recommended drivers for Far Cry 2, and the .43's are just the same drivers, but are supposed to have the fix in them for the 9800 GX2 in Far Cry 2, but they don't as it still runs as an 8800 GT. :)
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Nope, they fix nothing. I went back to using 178.24.

The "hotfix" fixes bugs, 180.43 just offers a minor increase in performance most won't notice unless using specific settings, besides it's actually slower with some settings.
 
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Mr Paul said:
and fixes bugs.....
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If you can class lack of performance optimizations as a bug then yes, it's not like they had to patch their drivers to fix game-breaking issues.

There's a big difference between being required to install new drivers for every new game that gets released and being given the option to.
 
They do have to patch their drivers to fix game breaking issues, just look at Far Cry 2, thats still broken isn't it, or all those people who are BSODing all the time talking ******, thought not.

Good old Nvidia can't do any wrong can they, they release drivers for Far Cry 2 just like ATi, yet ATi are the ones who get slated for it, hilarious that. :D

Install new drivers for every new game, just LOL, what a load of ******, you don't have to do that at all, ATi just do proper driver support, suport how it should be done, something Nvidia needs to learn, especially when they want £400-£500 a pop for a card, you want new drivers every week for that price, not 2-3 a year, you get what you pay for, but not in this case. :D :D
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
They do have to patch their drivers to fix game breaking issues, just look at Far Cry 2, thats still broken isn't it, or all those people who are BSODing all the time talking ******, thought not.
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No BSOD with Far Cry 2 here with either driver, game works perfectly with both, I can't speak for all users though.
 
Bringing this thread back to where it started...

...on my 4870x2 with 8.10 hotfix drivers, it says D3D10 not found and doesnt run :-(
 
*sigh* Can you give it a rest LoadsaMoney? It's actually getting very difficult to read your posts. 90% of the content seems to be putdowns or l33tsp34k-esque phrases.

I wouldn't mind if it was just one post, or all in one thread - but the same posts are either copy & pasted, or slightly rephrased in each thread. It's like living in the twilight zone where every book is almost a carbon copy of the other. It's tiresome to say the least.
 
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eiko_magami said:
Unigine

Tropics Demo v1.1

FPS:73.9
Scores:1862
Hardware

Binary:Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Oct 29 2008
Operating system:Windows Vista (build 6001, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
CPU flags:3612MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 HT
GPU model:ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 7.01.01.838 1024Mb
Settings

Render:direct3d10
Mode:1920x1200 6xAA fullscreen
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:16x
Occlusion:enabled
Reflection:enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric:enabled
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Tropics Demo v1.1
FPS: 40.5
Scores: 1020
Hardware Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Oct 29 2008
Operating system:
Windows Vista (build 6001, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU flags:
3825MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 HT
GPU model:
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 7.01.01.830 1024Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d10
Mode: 1920x1200 6xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 16x
Occlusion: enabled
Reflection: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled


Doh seems I am being very much so CPU bottlenecked!
 
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