Interesting, the 8800 cards were awful for FFXI when they first came out. The graphics are very glitchy with shimmering weird looking textures. nVidia kept blaming SquareEnix though, I don't play anymore but I wonder if after a year they finally fixed that.

You made a typo and called it 168.17 in the article body.

@tory PM that kinda stuff to the poster it looks tacky on the front page to have someone say that

Crysis medium 1680x1050 DX10 Vista x64

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 3.2GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
4x1Gb DDRAM II A-Data 800MHz 5-5-5-18
MSI 8600GTS 256MB 740/1600/1120

its2cold
Crysis medium 1680x1050 DX10 Vista x64

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 3.2GHz
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
4x1Gb DDRAM II A-Data 800MHz 5-5-5-18
MSI 8600GTS 256MB 740/1600/1120

So they look like they're better for Crysis.

These drivers are great for Crysis, and other games. Great performance, but also they seem to make my gpu run much hotter? Im not sure if it runs hotter, or its another Nvidia Temp Bug in the driver?

A whole .28 of a frame better! :rockout: :laugh:

erockerA whole .28 of a frame better! :rockout: :laugh:

Hey, but since that's in Crysis, I'll take what I can get! I finally did the "very high" tweak for XP, and WOW. I don't think I can go back to high settings without feeling guilty... so bring on the drivers!

Hey thanks for your quick benchmarks, Jimmy 2004 (I mean its2cold). I really appreciate the effort you put in them. :rockout:

Any improvement is a good thing. :)

Now sorry because I'm going a little bit offtopic.

@FatForester
What temps does your 8800gt with vf-900? And was easy to install?

Thanks :toast:

No I got more than 0,28% improvement in Crysis. But for you to have some improvement with these drivers, you actually need a GFX Card that can run the game in decent framerates to begin with(g80, g92). Any card below this is not even worth starting Crysis for.

I actually dont know how high fps I get, I only measure my own "feel" in the game. For an example, with forceware 169.13 Crysis ran pretty well with some slowdowns now and then, but not that often. With 169.17, Crysis runs great, no slowdowns, nowhere. I dont care for FPS in %, most important is how enjoyable games feel. I´d rather have a game with no slowdowns and a steady 30fps, than a game with 60-90fps, but lots of jerkiness and slowdowns.

These seem to help Crysis SLI users the most as I got roughly an 18% increase in frames in XP at Very High (Hack) at 1680x1050. The minimum fps was 20.7ish which is pretty good given the settings.

1c3d0gHey thanks for your quick benchmarks, Jimmy 2004. I really appreciate the effort you put in them. :rockout:

Say thanks to its2cold - he/she posted them originally. :)

Just to play Final Fantasy I will download it....:nutkick: