NVidia Q&A

For all those complaining that they didn't get the speed boost, here's why: the NVidia driver team was optimizing specifically for Windows XP. People who have tried out the Det4 drivers on other versions of Windows have either had a minuscule gain, a minuscule loss, or a noticeable loss in performance. Pretty much all the XP users have had a significant gain.

With word of how nVidia's timing of these drivers being so close to the announcement of ATI's new card...

I wonder if nVidia had previously planned to release the Geforce3 with drivers that weren't performing to full capacity. If you release a tech product that is so stupidly fast there is no realistic use to having all that speed, then why not slow it down until a later date when you can increase its performance via a software update, so it can then compete with newer products that may have been faster than your product originally, but now is left in the shadows by a 6month old product.

Is this all marketing? Well... To be honest, I don't believe nVidia is a competant-enough company to do such a thing. When marketing learns to do shit like this, we may see more consumer benefits for brand-specific products. In this day and age of technology, to pull this off, it would take quite a lot of effort, research and marketing. If your product was lightyears in advance of everyone elses, then such an aggressive marketing campaign would mean more sales for less capitol.

If i switch to winXP from win2000 will I get higher FPS in my games?

OMG.. nVidia's website is soooo slow.. I'm getting 1.3k/sec :(

They don't seem to make much difference at all on a GF2. I think my framerate in Quake3 went down by like 1 fps, and in Operation Flashpoint I have no idea since there is no timedemo.

hm... I guess I will finally get around to installing them if they make that big a difference on a GF3

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