nVidia 186.18 Driver Test
Hardware
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (reference 3 GHz clock).
- nVidia GeForce GTX285 (1 GB, nVidia reference clocks).
- 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4×1 GB, dual-channel).
- Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33 chipset, F7 BIOS).
- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.
- 22” LCD (maximum resolution 1680×1050).
Software
- Windows XP 32 bit SP3
- nVidia driver 186.18 and 185.85, high quality filtering, all optimizations off, LOD clamp enabled.
- DirectX March 2009.
- All games patched to their latest versions.
Settings
- 16xAF forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver.
- AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.
- Since I’m on XP, all DX10 titles were run under DX9 render paths.
- Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
- All results show an average framerate.
