As reported by us Nvidia has released their promised driver update going up from 40.41 to 40.71. Nvidia still is waiting for WHQL certification on the 40.xx series and we believe that any updates from 40.41 will rather be bugfix releases than anything else. This has already been proved by full functionality in Unreal Tournament 2003 demo. After the release we took 40.71 for a small ride...
Test system: Pentium 4B 2.4Ghz @ 2484Mhz 512 MB RDRAM 1066 Visiontek GeForce 4 Ti4600 @ 100Hz Windows XP Home SP1 Detonator 40.71 Results: 3DMark 2001 SE: 12864 3DMarks - Compare your results. Note: Result with 40.52 not submitted to ORB: 13007 Unreal Tournament 2003 Benchmark 1024x768x32 Flyby: 154.966507
Botmatch: 63.996086 Codecreatures Benchmark Pro 1024x768x32 GLExcess 1.2 Unfortunately my 40.52 results were lost during a recent reinstallation. However 40.71 seems a tad bit slower which might be explained by further bugfixes or other code changes but there is no real proof of that. However on a subjective note the 40.71 provide the best image quality yet to be seen in a Detonator release.
Test system: Pentium 4B 2.4Ghz @ 2484Mhz 512 MB RDRAM 1066 Visiontek GeForce 4 Ti4600 @ 100Hz Windows XP Home SP1 Detonator 40.71 Results: 3DMark 2001 SE: 12864 3DMarks - Compare your results. Note: Result with 40.52 not submitted to ORB: 13007 Unreal Tournament 2003 Benchmark 1024x768x32 Flyby: 154.966507
Botmatch: 63.996086 Codecreatures Benchmark Pro 1024x768x32 GLExcess 1.2 Unfortunately my 40.52 results were lost during a recent reinstallation. However 40.71 seems a tad bit slower which might be explained by further bugfixes or other code changes but there is no real proof of that. However on a subjective note the 40.71 provide the best image quality yet to be seen in a Detonator release.
