First of all hey guys Anyway, im a member of overclock.net aswel and i thought i share my results of testing the new drivers, ive just copy and pasted the post i posted there. :banana: Here's the post : Since ive discovered new software that can record framerates and save them as a graph read-out ive been trying all different drivers and comparing them. As i have been using the 178.24 drivers for a while i thought it would be a good idea to try newer drivers but with all the bad reports ive read about the 180 drivers i was a little skeptical. Then i thought hey..."you have the software, why dont you compare the two??" So i did, i used Crysis Warhead as the test subject. The test was started at the first cut-scene of the game and i played though a little bit of gameplay, i ended the data capture at the start of the second cut-scene. I tried to start data recording for all comparisons at the same time and as best i could, i changed no settings for the game. Anyway, here they are : AFR1 178.24 vs AFR1 180.43 SFR 178.42 vs SFR 180.43 SFR 180.43 vs AFR 180.43 Ive not done testing of a single card as i run SLI but if there is enough demand for it i might spend 5 minutes and do it. Excuse the graphs being different size's, i did them in a rush I love my new frame rate capture software Enjoy
Nice job! If everydriver had one of this would be wow ;DD just one thing, why not use a benchmarking tool to have all the data start end at the same time? It wouldn`t help? thx for sharing!
What is "AFR" and "SFR"? That is excellent work. Do you have an older game like Battlefield 2 or 2142 to try out? It seems that the newer drivers ignore the older titles. Is there a "Linear Least Squares" option for an additional line on the graph? That (or something like it) gives a simple straight line to demonstrate the overall performance. If the driver results had been closer it would have been more difficult to see which driver was the best. From this graph the newer driver seems best. Especially since the 178.24 has more incidents of FPS going below 20 which is terrible.
AFR Alternate Frame Rendering Card one renders odd frames, Card two renders even frames, something like that. SFR Split Frame Rendering Card one renders top, Card two the bottom, loading is determined by driver so work is usually around 50/50.
Can you tell it which way to perform the task? Or does it just optimize the process? AFR seems to be better.
It depends on the game which one performs better, some games don't support a technique, while others don't benefit at all. You need to try both out yourself to find out. I personally can't suggest any, don't use SLI.
nice graphs n bencmarks but at what screen rez was they at.would've have others out lil better then just what driver u used.
Screen resolution was 1680x1050. I would do more benchmarks but that would meen uninstalling the 180 ones and putting the olds ones back on. Next time i update drivers i'll run a bynch of tests on the 180.43 before i remove i put the enw ones on and test that way. As it was a fresh instal Crysis warhead was the only game that i had installed at the time. But since ive installed other games you can see and feel the framerate improvment.
maybe someone here can reply me about the question : I want to work with dual view and play on 1 LCD with SLI. So, my question is : Can i have now SLI and Dual View with the 180.43? ATM i have 177.89 and i ve to rebbot each time i want to switch between Game and Work... thx
Yes, you can. I already replied to you in the other thread, sazerty. All 180.xx drivers support SLI and two monitors...