1. #11
    Yes if I increase resolution further and up the AA and turn on water=2, the ATI cards becomes faster. no doubt. The ATI card can do 24xAA at pretty much no performance loss, the old nVidia card simply cant cope with that.

    The issue here is not such much the 2 models I happened to have at hand; the issue is that it seems the ATI card comes with a 30% driver handicap over any nVidia card in this game (and perhaps other opengl games). That would be true for new highend cards as well.

    Now compare prices between any given card and one that is 30% faster... actually, compare prices with one that is 3 TIMES faster given my results.
    I absolutely agree with you. I'm a 3d programmer. I'm working with opengl and I've had the following results:

    on a AMD athlon64 dual core, geforce GTS 250 the part of the code related to drivers call is 1.5/2 times faster than the calls on a Intel i7 quad core with a ATI HD 5850.

    The ATI card is faster (shaders, fillrate, geometry) but ATI ogl drivers are about 1.5/2 times slower than NVIDIA.
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  2. #12
    Originally posted by Xiolablu3:
    How did you clean the PC from the Nvisia drivers and software before you put in the ATI card?

    I remember when I got my first ATI 8500 to replace a geforce 2 MX and the performance was awful UNTIL a reformat.

    Maybe I could have used some kind of driver cleaner, but the geforce left behind something that the ATI card didnt like at all.

    You'd have to go into the registry and delete anything to do with "Nvidia"

    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=16154
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