Drivers and Test System
Let's quickly walk through the detonator drivers and see what they look like. As you can see they originate from the GeForce FX test, just before posting this review I figured out that I had forgotten to take screenshots of drivers with the 4800 SE. Since they are 100% same in layout they'll suffice.
Standard NVIEW settings for Dual Display options.
This is a much discussed tab. NVIDIA calls this the Performanc and Quality settings tab. Here you can select Anti Aliasing (AA) up-to 6xS skewed grid modes and Anisotrpic Filtering modes (AF) ap to 6x. (not 8x as you see in the image) The Texture sharpening setting will crank up the AF level to the next higher one. At default Balanced is set which is a quality setting closest to ATI's settings. Aggressive is faster and matches ATI performance settings mode.
The usual DirectX3D settings
OpenGL settings, also nothing new here.
This setting is actually hidden, you can enable it by downloading the Hidden Features patch from our Detonator driver file section. As you can see you can check and change AGP settings in here.
The tests - Now, let's see what this videocard has in store for us in terms of 3D performance compared to other videocards.
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* disabled while benchmarking |
All tests where made in 32 bit colors in resolutions ranging from 1024x768 up-to the Godfather of all gaming resolutions, the 1600x1200 screen mode with all kinds of performance/quality settings.
