NVidia Driver 180.41PR vs. previous releases
Thursday, 26. March 2009, 20:56:49
Testing setup of Unigine:
First image is Sanctuary, second is Tropics
Personal Conclusion:
- both 180.37 PreRelease and 185.13 Beta are somewhat faster than the latest official release 180.29
- the differencies are minimal, but the Sanctuary test shows clear increase of performance
- the more sophisticated Tropics test has a slight drop for 185.13 Beta, but this may be OK with my somewhat old Graphics Card
- for the time being, and if there will be no problems, I'll stay with 185.13 Beta.
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Sanctuary demo benchmark edition v2.1 Settings Render:opengl Mode:640x480 windowed Shaders:high Textures:high Filter:trilinear Anisotropy:16x Translucence:enabled Parallax:enabled Reflection:enabled DOF:disabled HDR:disabled |
Tropics Demo v1.1 Settings Render:opengl Mode:640x480 windowed Shaders:high Textures:high Filter:trilinear Anisotropy:4x Occlusion:disabled Reflection:enabled Refraction:enabled Volumetric:enabled |
First image is Sanctuary, second is Tropics

Personal Conclusion:
- both 180.37 PreRelease and 185.13 Beta are somewhat faster than the latest official release 180.29
- the differencies are minimal, but the Sanctuary test shows clear increase of performance
- the more sophisticated Tropics test has a slight drop for 185.13 Beta, but this may be OK with my somewhat old Graphics Card
- for the time being, and if there will be no problems, I'll stay with 185.13 Beta.








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