Love CoD4, great game, but I'm burnt out on it, having a blast with my clan in FC2. I love this game!
N e ways, gave the 180.43 beta's a shot, since they're the "new" FC2 hotfix drivers on NV's side, gotta say the FPS have increased in game by a decent amount, but what I want to show is the increase in the bench for you bench hounds out there...almost a 10FPS average increase, more stable performance across the demo, no hitches, glitches, errors or issues.
Original results with 178.24 WHQL's (most recent whql's as of this writing) found here:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1029195&postcount=78
For those not interested in reading that report or much further, the Average results are:
178.24 ---------------180.43
Min: 36.27 ----- 43.43
Max: 66.65 ----- 70.30
Avg: 43.42 ----- 52.75
Nothing has changed, except for the drivers...OC is the same across the board. For just changing drivers, not only do I still have NO issues, glitches, hitches, etc, but I gained a healthy amount of performance. My avg low FPS is the same as the Average AVG from the 178 drivers. Gained almost 10FPS on AVG vs AVG, and gained about 4-5FPS on max. I won't complain about that one bit! To fix the fan speed issue a simple bios mod took care of that, so no worries.
Now for those interested, the new graphs:
There you have it...again not the best results I'm sure, but I'm very content with them! The game already played effing awesome on the older drivers...smooth, never had an issue graphical wise, but now I'm getting even better results, hell why not?! Love the game, now it plays better, DX10 is playing very nice, I hope some of you having issues out there can get the stuff you need to get it resolved, noone should have to deal with some of the crap you guys are. For those that don't like the game, I can see why, it's simple, no game can be made to please everyone, some had higher expectations, sure this game could've provided more...but last I checked on my game install DIR it was at
3.16GB (maybe vista is reading it wrong? lol)...show me a game with that kind of install size that can do what FC2 does...to me that's pretty impressive in it's own right...that's gotta be the smallest install I've seen for a game like this in years!