I tested the next drivers: 28.32, 28.35 & 28.80 against eachother with 3DMark2001 SE Under Windows XP Pro. And i can say that the driver is getting better every release. (So Far..) Click on Read More... to see the results! The PC they were tested on was a:
AMD Athlon 1333 (Non-Overclocked) "Real Clock 1336.35"
EPoX 8KHA+ (KT266A chipset)
256 MB RAM PC2100
VisionTek GeForce 3 (Overclocked at 235/540)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
DirectX 8.1
These are the settings I used:
All the settings were default except
Vsync = Off
Monitor = 75Hz
If the score is bold that's the highest score of the 3 tests then.
The 1st test was the Detonator 28.32 3DMark2001 SE Score: 7498 Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 112.9 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.9 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.7 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.5 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 120.3 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.8 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.3 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 782.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1619.9 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.4 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 88.1 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 58.5 FPS
Pixel Shader 88.6 FPS
Advanced Pixel Shader 71.3 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
--------------------------------------------------- The 2nd test was the Detonator 28.35 3DMark2001 SE Score: 7500 Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 113.1 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.8 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.7 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 120.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.7 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.3 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 782.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1619.9 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.4 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 88.1 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 58.5 FPS
Pixel Shader 88.6 FPS
Advanced Pixel Shader 71.3 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
--------------------------------------------------- The 3rd test was the Detonator 28.80 3DMark2001 SE Score: 7553 Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 117.6 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 43.9 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 111.7 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 62.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 120.6 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 56.9 FPS
Game 4 Nature 39.3 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 782.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1619.9 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light) 23.5 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 6.0 MTriangels/s
Environment Bump Mapping 88.1 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 123.6 FPS
Vertex Shader 58.4 FPS
Pixel Shader 88.6 FPS
Advanced Pixel Shader 71.2 FPS
Point Sprite 17.3 MSprites/s
--------------------------------------------------- So the winner is 28.80! First i thought that i'm getting troubles with the modded drivers 28.35 & 28.80 but that wasn't so. Lucky for me in the test you see that the driver is getting better and better.
I will stay with the 28.80 because they are the latest and they work good too. All the detonators were stable for my system. So try them out on your system and see what detonators are best for your very own. (but every computer is different, so maybe on other computers they work different) TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Greetings,
SUPR3M3