{"id":14240,"date":"2009-12-27T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T03:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:03:24","slug":"nvidia-195-62-driver-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/nvidia-195-62-driver-test\/","title":{"rendered":"nVidia 195.62 Driver Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--pagetitle:Introduction & Setup--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Introduction<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019ll be testing nVidia\u2019s latest official driver (<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">195.62<\/span>), and I\u2019ll compare it to my previously installed driver (<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">191.07<\/span>). The games used will be run at the settings I usually play them at. TrAA will be used where possible with <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">SS<\/span> denoting super-sampling and <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">MS<\/span> denoting multi-sampling.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the text charts are color coded and <span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">yellow<\/span> means 191.07 is faster, while <span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">red<\/span> means 195.62 is faster.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hardware<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nVidia GeForce GTX285 (1 GB, reference clocks).<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (reference 3 GHz clock).<\/li>\n<li>4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4\u00d71 GB, dual-channel).<\/li>\n<li>Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33 chipset, F7 BIOS).<\/li>\n<li>Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.<\/li>\n<li>30\u201d HP LP3065 (maximum resolution 2560&#215;1600).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Software<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows XP 32 bit SP3<\/li>\n<li>nVidia driver 195.62 and 191.07, high quality filtering, all optimizations off, LOD clamp enabled.<\/li>\n<li>DirectX August 2009.<\/li>\n<li>All games patched to their latest versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Settings<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16xAF forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver.<\/li>\n<li>AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.<\/li>\n<li>Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.<\/li>\n<li>All results show an average framerate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--nextpage--><!--pagetitle:Benchmarks & Conclusion--><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Benchmarks<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14242\" title=\"Text\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/text.png?resize=317%2C289\" alt=\"Text\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/text.png?resize=317%2C289 317w, http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/text-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14243\" title=\"Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/graph.png?resize=545%2C469\" alt=\"Graph\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/graph.png?resize=545%2C469 545w, http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/graph-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the titles tested today, there\u2019s no significant performance difference between the two drivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=14240\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=top title=\"Author: BFG10K\" 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