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post #81 of 93
11/5/05 at 4:02am
OK that's cool. I edited my registry and can now see the Clock Frequency Settings. Thanks HamTard anyway
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post #82 of 93
11/5/05 at 4:15am
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Well for the one (and only) game I play on my XPS Gen.2, World of Warcraft, these drivers are useless. The tearing in the game is horrible now! I switched back to 81.84, and the tearing is gone. I don't recommend these drivers.
You do realize that it's most likely a driver bug and NOT a bug with the tweaks? I wouldn't judge the drivers on ONE experience (unless, of course, you're using the XG-ME version of the 81.84 drivers) . Things are ALWAYS broken with video drivers, and one is NEVER the same as the other in terms of performance, image quality, and compatibility. You just have to find the right one for you .

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file's not there anymore...
What file isn't there anymore?

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Originally Posted by roadster
OK that's cool. I edited my registry and can now see the Clock Frequency Settings. Thanks HamTard anyway
The Clock Frequency Settings should have been there, and I don't understand why they weren't, but as long as you got it fixed ...
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post #83 of 93
11/5/05 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by GeForceTony
You do realize that it's most likely a driver bug and NOT a bug with the tweaks? I wouldn't judge the drivers on ONE experience (unless, of course, you're using the XG-ME version of the 81.84 drivers) . Things are ALWAYS broken with video drivers, and one is NEVER the same as the other in terms of performance, image quality, and compatibility. You just have to find the right one for you .
I understand that. However, people came into this thread raving that these drivers are "bug free." Clearly not. I have vsync enabled in World of Warcraft. 81.84 works "flawlessly" for me anyway, but out of curiousity I installed these new 81.87s.
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post #84 of 93
11/5/05 at 4:24pm
No drivers are perfect. Please understand that. Every driver is different for every person, even if their systems are nearly identical. If 81.84 works for you, then great, I'm happy for you, but as I said, don't judge the entire product (XTreme-G Mobile Edition) by ONE experience. It took me a while to find a good mix of tweaks, and now, "Officially", I'm up to the 15 revision of the tweaks that are in the driver. The next set that's released will use revision 20. I suggest trying some of the XG-ME drivers, and finding out what's right for you. Who knows, maybe you'll like the XG-ME version of 81.84 better than the version you're using now .
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post #85 of 93
11/5/05 at 6:29pm
GeForceTony, what 3dmarks are you getting with you go6800 at 360/720? (i assume that's what the 360/360 in your sig is)
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post #86 of 93
11/5/05 at 7:56pm
3DMark2001 SE 3.3.0: 18571

3DMark03 3.6.0: 11831

3DMark05 1.2.0: 4412

All were tested at the DEFAULT settings at 1024x768 resolution, with 360\360(720) GPU clock speeds.
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post #87 of 93
11/6/05 at 4:05pm
Ok, I tried these again, against the 78.11 version. A lot of people seem to have great results with these drivers. So this might only be in my stupid case, but these drivers give me about 50 points less 3dmark scores when overclocked. I don't know about IQ though. Here's what I did; On both drivers I ran the Clock Frequency settings on the display menu. I ran 3dmark to look for any bad glitches/sparks/poly/texture rippage. This driver gives me those problems before I even start bumping Frequencies. On 78.11 I can go higher without any sign of graphics problems at all. Here's my score on 78.11 without any issues :
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post #88 of 93
11/6/05 at 5:30pm
Hi all! I am so sad with my video card!!! I set it at 360/720 nad it gives me only 4195 in 3DMark05.

I wonder how ppl set the GLOBAL DRIVER SETTINGS? I may have to try again with your guys 's help!!!

Cheers.
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post #89 of 93
11/6/05 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by Lulabby
Hi all! I am so sad with my video card!!! I set it at 360/720 nad it gives me only 4195 in 3DMark05.

I wonder how ppl set the GLOBAL DRIVER SETTINGS? I may have to try again with your guys 's help!!!

Cheers.
So how is it that GeForceTony and you use the same speeds on the same card, but his score is over 200 points better?
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post #90 of 93
11/6/05 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by HamTard
So how is it that GeForceTony and you use the same speeds on the same card, but his score is over 200 points better?
Cant get what you mean?
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post #91 of 93
11/7/05 at 2:18pm
Well, when I run ANY kind of benchmark, I set to Windows Classic, no themes, no wallpaper, PLAIN. I also shut down all of the "useless" services, such as any for power management, my Firewall, anti-virus, etc. as I won't be needing those when running benchmarks anyways. I also use Notebook Hardware Control to force my CPU to run at 2.00GHz at ALL TIMES, that way, it doesn't decide to throttle or something when I'm benching (though it's unlikely, it's better to have all of the bases covered). That's probably how I got a better score than you did with the same clock speeds . Don't worry about it though, as 200 points really isn't all that much in the big scheme of things, now 1000 points or more, and I'd be wondering .

And as I've said before, the XTreme-G Drivers have (lately, at least) favored Image Quality over performance, meaning that they give better Image Quality at a little-to-no loss in performance.

And as I was saying a while back, I've been toying with the idea of 2 versions of the driver. One for ultimate performance (as best as a driver can accomplish, of course), and one for best Image Quality (essentially the same thing that has been released) .
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post #92 of 93
11/7/05 at 3:23pm
I wouldnt complain much about it because i can push my GO 6800 up to 4700 when i tweak a bit more but after unsuccess of volt modding with NV42, i gave up.
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post #93 of 93
11/8/05 at 6:47pm
It really is nothing to worry about, as I can probably crank more outta my Go6800, but I have no real need to, as it's fast enough as it is, and it's not my "main" gaming laptop (it's mainly for LAN Parties ), that's what my desktop's for .
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