[TwL]

Well, wanted to do some Forceware testing while at it to see what can do PhysX fastest on exact same equipment. here's how it went:


(Test Setup in all benchmarks)

All Performance tests and CPU utilization tests were performed on exact same equipment/system with 9800 GTX (128 SP old 65nm edition).
NOTE: I made an mistake accidentally had 4 emitters on '257.15 beta' 2 run rounds. However, that shouldn't matter as all tests
were run at same particle count.

Resolution: 1920x1200x60hz
Particle count on all tests: 80000
In each test Core/Shared/Memory clocks were dropped to: 525Mhz/1295Mhz/825Mhz
(to be sure that card is lowest clocks & driver improvement is not about clocks highest-end)


Forceware 196.34 beta:


(2 run rounds to no error exact same setup 5 minute cooling time for card)

CPU Utilization:
lowest: 8
stable: 10-11
highest: 16-17
PhysX bug: 126000 particles
Cons:
* You cannot unattach Display
(or it is extremely hard you would have to disable > Patch > reenable > reboot)


Forceware 197.45 WHQL:



(2 run rounds to no error exact same setup 5 minute cooling time for card)

(Run PhysX patched v1.03 without display attached)

CPU Utilization:
lowest: 7
stable: 9-12
Highest: 15
PhysX bug: 130120 particles
cons:
* Lose ability to see NVIDIA GPU Usage
* Without adapter lose ability to see NVIDIA Memory Usage


Forceware 257.15 beta:


(2 run rounds to no error exact same setup 5 minute cooling time for card)

(Run PhysX patched v1.03 without display attached)

CPU Utilization:
lowest: 7
stable: 9-12
Highest: 15
PhysX bug: 130500 particles
Cons:
* Lose ability to see NVIDIA GPU Usage
* Without adapter lose ability to see NVIDIA Memory Usage


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A bit new information on GPU Usage (at least on me):

Rivatuner devel says that only GF 200 series and above has GPU Usage detection. While I can get it working clean on 196.34beta I'd say that is clean bull<backside> crappy coding then on Forceware 197/257 series detection. As this feature was not disabled on old models of G92(8800/9800 65nm cores) OR even G84(8600GT/GTS) cores to that matter. (How the hell can an feature work on lower driver versions, if it would not be in newer maybe in another style, but it's there for sure as is the 'Memory Usage' which is read from 'Display' by tools like Rivatuner where you would notice detection missing on patched v1.03 PhysX as display is faked and not in the card).

Topic got closed quite fast: Guru3D Forums: GPU Usage Detection [NVIDIA]

To fix this I will do my best to get proper DLLs and drop them to some mirror. Hopefully I will find the correct ones would be damn great to get the 257.15 with everything to work.