Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

[FightingChance]

Anyone else experiencing this? Areas take longer to cache when I enter them, and when zoomed in with the sniper rifle, objects have a jittery off-white halo. Also, when landing a helicopter, the mipmapping on the ground transitions harshly.

6800 Plain
1GB RAM
3.0Ghz P4

[|D|-Char-ley_Killa]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

i have been getting temp. issues since the new update for nvidia

[Snake101]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

I am fine here...actually running faster :)

[Talus]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Also, when landing a helicopter, the mipmapping on the ground transitions harshly.

If you're talking specifically about Clean Sweep, that is a wonderful new bug introduced with BF2 v1.03...and has nothing to do with drivers.

If you're seeing this problem on OTHER maps...then it's your drivers

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Well, that kinda sucks that your performance got worse, I'd recommend going back to 77.77. That being said, I love the new drivers, not because they increase performance, but because everything seems so much... smoother now. It's really hard to describe the difference.

[Garabaldi]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

I have a (literally) identical system to you, and I've had no problems.

[FightingChance]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Yeah, the mipmap problem was on Clean Sweep. Weird.

Hmmm, maybe I have some system maintenance to do. . .

[Berrern]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

I didn't notice a single difference before and after upgrading! None of the texture bugs are fixed, but no new ones are introduced either.. And my FPS is the same :)

Revert back to older drivers if you've got problems - or perhaps try some non-official drivers like Omega?

[YelloPL]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Anyone else experiencing this? Areas take longer to cache when I enter them, and when zoomed in with the sniper rifle, objects have a jittery off-white halo. Also, when landing a helicopter, the mipmapping on the ground transitions harshly.

6800 Plain
1GB RAM
3.0Ghz P4

6800 Plain here (Winfast Leadtek)
2.8 PIV
2 Gigs RAM (4*512)

After installing the new one 3dMark score went from 4300 to 4000, so I dumped the drivers even before tried BF2. On the other hand, despite the lower score 3DMark (and lower FPS) demos looked smoother, so I may re-check it in the future.

[Talus]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Yeah, the mipmap problem was on Clean Sweep. Weird.

Hmmm, maybe I have some system maintenance to do. . .

It's a bug with v1.03 ... so far, I have found no fix other than reverting back to v1.02 (which I'm not about to do).

I'm living with it :|:

[imported_Wasp]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

Generally when a new series of 3D cards come out from Nvidia new drivers are geared towards these. I've seen this since I had a TNT2 Ultra. Sometimes you can even experience a serious performance drop by upgrading to newer drivers.

On my ATI card (I have a 6800U and a X800XT) I use NGO 5.8 drivers even if 5.10 are available. The newer drivers might look slightly better but they perform worse and that means more choppiness on some of the levels.

[imported_Gabe]

Re: Poorer performance since upgraded to Forcewear 81.85

on my bfg 6800 gt using 81.85 drivers the sandbags on maps are like a mirror, I think I might switch back the the other drivers