Some nVidia beta drivers, version 171.16 were recently leaked. I had installed these to try to sort out some image quality problems with Netkar Pro and, much to my surprise, found that my framerate in Live For Speed had doubled.
Now, it's possible I had something misconfigured before and I should have been getting higher framerates with the older drivers, but I doubt it. With the same settings I always use, my framerate at Kyoto GP Long went from varying between typically 80's but falling into the 60's at particular points to between 110-200, averaging around 150.
This is with just me on the track hotlapping, both driving in the cockpit and viewing a replay from the track cams. I haven't tried it yet in traffic, but I imagine I'm more CPU limited there.
I have an Geforce 6800 128meg AGP on an Athlon XP 2800. I play at 1024x768 4xAA 8xAF High Quality. I hope this can benefit people like me who's computers are getting elderly. Any improvements may also be specific to the 6000 series though- there is no way I would know.
Keep in mind, these are leaked betas and there are certainly some issues with them. The only thing I've noticed is that they force your GPU fan to run at 100% all the time. You need to adjust it in Rivatuner. Also, the Control Panel (which is new, and pretty nice), takes a bit to load up- particularly the first time. I'm sure there are other issues as well, I recommend reading up on them a little first.
I don't want to link to them because they're leaked and that would be naughty. You will find them if you do a google search for "171.16 nvidia beta download."
Apologies if this has been brought up already, I couldn't find it.
Now, it's possible I had something misconfigured before and I should have been getting higher framerates with the older drivers, but I doubt it. With the same settings I always use, my framerate at Kyoto GP Long went from varying between typically 80's but falling into the 60's at particular points to between 110-200, averaging around 150.
This is with just me on the track hotlapping, both driving in the cockpit and viewing a replay from the track cams. I haven't tried it yet in traffic, but I imagine I'm more CPU limited there.
I have an Geforce 6800 128meg AGP on an Athlon XP 2800. I play at 1024x768 4xAA 8xAF High Quality. I hope this can benefit people like me who's computers are getting elderly. Any improvements may also be specific to the 6000 series though- there is no way I would know.
Keep in mind, these are leaked betas and there are certainly some issues with them. The only thing I've noticed is that they force your GPU fan to run at 100% all the time. You need to adjust it in Rivatuner. Also, the Control Panel (which is new, and pretty nice), takes a bit to load up- particularly the first time. I'm sure there are other issues as well, I recommend reading up on them a little first.
I don't want to link to them because they're leaked and that would be naughty. You will find them if you do a google search for "171.16 nvidia beta download."
Apologies if this has been brought up already, I couldn't find it.
