AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review - Page 5 - The New ForceWare Drivers #1

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/07/2004 09:00 AM [ ] 0 comment(s)

The New ForceWare Drivers
The upcoming pages, you'll see screenshots of the new ForceWare (previously know as Detonator) drivers. The driver we used is based on the new 52.xx series, in fact the 52.16 driver to be precise. Let's have a look. Small side note, the driver screenshots you see are based on the 5900 reference model. Except for the core and memory clock frequency they are 100% the same. The driver build as supplied by NVIDIA was version 52.16 This build is very stable, installs easy as counting 1-2-3 but foremost we believe has really good image quality.

Let's have a look.

The standard information, the drivers look the same for all cards, the driver build is WHQL 52.16 This build is very stable, installs easy as counting 1-2-3, but foremost we believe has really good image quality.

First up, OpenGL. Pretty much nothing has changed here compared to the previous builds. Let's quickly move on towards the Direct3D tab.

The Direct3D settings. Again nothing new to find here. More important settings for Image Quality are handled in another tab for both OpenGL and Direct3D. When we unlock the drivers we do get another Direct3D tab though, take a look at the next slide.

This is actually a hidden tab. You can enable it by downloading the Hidden Features patch from our Detonator driver file section. On the third page of these driver screenshots, you'll see a lot of other hidden options also. Why this tab is secret and hidden I really do not know.

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AOpen Aeolus FX 5900 XT review
The product we will review today is the new NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT. I say new because it's fresh in the Quarter 4 lineup from NVIDIA. BTW NVIDIA, copycatting is not really a nice thing, the XT obviously has been chosen to compete with the Radeon 9x00 XT series of graphics cards.