Test System Setup

Test System Setup

Intel Pentium III Coppermine 750 MHz
Abit BF6 motherboard
Apacer 128MB PC133 SDRAM

Western Digital Caviar 310100 hard drive
ASUS AGP-6800 Deluxe GeForce 256 DDR
Driver version: Detonator 3.68
Driver version: Detonator 5.08 w/ FSAA
Driver version: Detonator 5.08 w/o FSAA

Windows98 SE

Benchmarks

Quake 3 Retail - 512x384 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 640x480 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 800x600 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1024x768 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1280x1024 Fastest, Normal, High Quality
Quake 3 Retail - 1600x1200 Fastest, Normal, High Quality

Notes

Due to time constraints we only ran Quake 3 benchmarks with our GeForce DDR and Coppermine 750. We ran our timedemos with and without FSAA enabled to see how much FSAA actually hurts performance. We also included old 3.68 scores for comparison.

We tried installing the 5.08 drivers on a 32MB TNT2, but Quake 3 was close to unplayable due to screen flicker (vsync problem perhaps?). After testing out these drivers for a little while, you can definitely tell that they aren't ready for release just yet. The drivers are perfect on some resolutions and settings, but we noticed visual artifacts on a couple different settings.