Benchmark Reviews: Most people would think that when NVIDIA, who is the world-class leader in graphics technology, releases a new driver to the public that performance would either remain the same with some stability improvements, or that both performance and stability would increase. As a hardware enthusiast for over a decade, I know that this isn't true. Very recently NVIDIA updated their Forceware driver from version 175.16 to 175.19. Anyone familiar with their updates would agree that the version number difference is so small that it would suggest nothing has really changed. But did NVIDIA take two steps backward instead? Benchmark Reviews offers this small article to demonstrate what we discovered while testing the GeForce 9800 GTX and 9800 GX2 video cards.
A Crysis VR mod is now available for download, allowing users to experience the first entry in the series in VR
No one cares. The whole can it run Crysis is old, dead and stupid. It's also irrelevant, considering only less than one percent of pc owners, own a high-end PC. Second, I believe Crysis wasn't even optimized properly.
Let's hope the modders can get the other Crysis games working in VR as they use the same Cryengine.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
Digital Foundry: "When Alex Battaglia got his hands on a Steam Deck, this was inevitable, right? So can the Steam Deck really run Crysis? And if so, what type of optimised settings produce the best performance? What's the best balance of features and battery life... and what about 60fps?"
i think i'll switch back to 175.16 after read this. does this includes the 8800??
Great Review! I think it's time I do a fresh install of XP and rollback to 175.16
Strange. I've gone through dozens of drivers and have never noticed any drastic performance increases or decreases. I have used some great releases that made gameplay smoother, improved image quality, and improved FPS a few in some games, but have never used one that was significantly different from the previous driver.
I'm currently using 177.39 on my 8800 GTS 512.
Ouch!!
Not a good time to screw its users with a driver update that restricts performance. Not when the 'opposition' have finally woken up and released a card for half the price of the flagship nvidia one that performs just as well...
Maybe the balance of power in this martket will have a little shift?
Seems to be fitting with my own experiences. After installing the latest forceware i had a severe drop in performance in AoC. I am reverting to the older version for that reason, the drop of close to 50% performance impacts visibly on the gaming fps. Old forceware: no stuttering smooth fps, new forceware: stuttering hell with drops to single digit fps. No idea what devil rode nVidia to release this obviously broken driver.