Critical: Severe performance problems with NVIDIA's ForceWare v93.71

[xBoom]

Oh well, the NVIDIA drivers for my ol' GeForce 5200 AGP are getting worse!
Here's my benchmark results with the PassMark's PerformanceTest 6 (3D simple test):

ForceWare ver 93.71: 36.3 FPS (after OC)
ForceWare ver 91.47: 54.1 FPS (after OC); 48.7 FPS (before OC)
ForceWare ver 84.21: 106.7 FPS (after OC); 87.3 FPS (before OC)

OC value for:
93.71: 250/280 > 295/380
91.47: 250/280 > 290/380
84.21: 250/280 > 285/370

Also while playing Colin McRae Rally 05, using the 93.71 driver, Like playing around 20 FPS. But when I reverted back to 84.21, wow! Zuper (not really) smooth gameplay. So, the driver probably caused the performance drop right?

 

[maroon1]

Yes I agree with you, because I was getting better performance with ForceWare 91.47 than ForceWare 93.71

I haven't tried ForceWare 84.21 though

 

[Archangel]

probably, yes.. I have trouble overclocking with the 93.71 drivers.. my cards dont pass any test from coolbits then... and now i have the 92.91 installed again,.. and my cards are running at 470 core / 1.25 GHz RAM
(original 430 core / 1.2GHz RAM)

 

[xBoom]

I thought the ForceWare drivers are getting better but suckier (only better for card compatibility). The new control panel seems slow. The classic is the one I like it.

 

[tweaker]

None seem to work very well with my R580.

j/k

Naturally I ticked 'others'.

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