NVIDIA Drivers Sacrificing Crysis Quality for Performance

INTELCRAZY · 01-20-2008, 07:43 PM

Just read it, then comment... lol

http://www.techpowerup.com/?43827

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An interesting article over at Elite B*_*_*_ has revealed that NVIDIA’s latest 169.04 driver for its GeForce series of graphics cards may in fact be sacrificing image quality in the new Crysis game in order to gain better performance. If you look at the first two images below, you will see quite clearly that the reflections in the water have been unrealistically stretched and look quite odd. The obvious explanation for this would be that NVIDIA’s new driver is having issues rendering the shadows and you’d expect the company to fix it. However, this issue may run a little deeper than that. When the Crysis executable has its name changed from crysis.exe to driverbug.exe, these strange shadows mysteriously look normal all of a sudden, as shown in the second two images. Further tests revealed that the renamed executable was actually performing around 7% worse on a number of tests using both an 8800 GTS and an 8800 GT compared to the default name. So it seems that NVIDIA has tried to subtly increase the framerate when playing Crysis using its cards at the cost of image quality, without giving customers any choice in the matter. Some sites are claiming that NVIDIA is using driver tweaks to ‘cheat’ and gain better performance, and whilst that may be an extreme way of looking at it, this certainly seems like more than just an accidental driver issue.

Motoxrdude · 01-20-2008, 07:49 PM

So people who say their ATI cards look better in Crysis aren't BSing.

ThatGuy16 · 01-20-2008, 07:50 PM

told you so

maroon1 · 01-20-2008, 08:52 PM

Thats an ancient news, just loot at the date

And 169.04 is not the latest driver

ThatGuy16 · 01-20-2008, 09:08 PM

I'm still seeing some people having the problem with the 169.09. Some say it fixed it, some say it didn't..

01-20-2008, 07:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Motoxrdude Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Nor Cal Age: 17 Posts: 5,656	So people who say their ATI cards look better in Crysis aren't BSing. __________________ RIP Mom 9/17/55-02/22/08.

01-20-2008, 07:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
ThatGuy16 Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA Posts: 4,688	told you so __________________ CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.216v HSF: Apogee GTX MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4 Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068 HDD: 320GB Seagate PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit GFX: 2x HD3870 Crossfire @ 837/1152 LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ 3DMark06: 19661

01-20-2008, 08:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
maroon1 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Somewhere in Hell !!! Posts: 2,380	Thats an ancient news, just loot at the date And 169.04 is not the latest driver __________________ Free softwares: Avast! antivirus - FireFox - FDM - OpenOffice - CCleaner

01-20-2008, 09:08 PM	#5 (permalink)
ThatGuy16 Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA Posts: 4,688	I'm still seeing some people having the problem with the 169.09. Some say it fixed it, some say it didn't.. __________________ CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.216v HSF: Apogee GTX MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4 Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068 HDD: 320GB Seagate PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit GFX: 2x HD3870 Crossfire @ 837/1152 LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ 3DMark06: 19661

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