digitalwanderer said:
Forceware (Detonators) 53.03 for win2k/XP that I got the heads up from off of
nForceMan over at nVnews.
Driver PR hype department said:
These drivers correct a number of problems found in the 52.16 release of the display drivers for Windows XP and Windows 2000. These drivers are not WHQL certified and you may see a warning message from Windows to that effect. Despite this, these drivers are safe to install and use.
Updates to this driver:
Improved support for HDTV Modes
Corrected the following issues from 52.16:
Clone mode may be set for the GeForce FX 5600 although only one display is connected.
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: When 4x FSAA is enabled, half of the screen is black in Tiger Woods 2004 introductory video.
GeForce4 MX 440 and GeForce4 Ti 4400, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash during Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: Homeworld2 antialiased performance is slow.
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and GeForce4 Ti 4400, Windows XP: Rendering corruption in Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat.
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: “X2: The Threat†benchmark is choppy or jerky in some places.
All GeForce FX: Intermittently, Warcraft III videos are not displayed properly on some systems.
I'm just wondering if these "fix" that 13-15% loss FX owners have been getting since the 3dm2k3 3.40 patch came out...
I think there are a few posts around that state that users have gotten back a good amount of the lost points. Considering the seeming simplicity of Futuremark's changes (even I understood a good amount of what they did), I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to add a second set of shader fingerprints for 3dmark.
Now, my following statement is contingent on the following things being true--if these performance gains in 3dmark are present, and if they have been gained through replacement shaders:
Nvidia driver department--you are hacks. I'm sorry to say, that regardless of whether some of you do not work on pointless driver bloating replacement shaders, you are by association members of a first rate collection of software hacks. Not hackers, who do things exemplified by a mastery of code and elegant examples of cleverness, but hacks in the sense of lousy after school special writers, or a thousand monkeys at an approximately equal number of typewriters.
I'm pretty sure it's not entirely your fault, and that you normally probably wouldn't think about doing this. I'm sure a number of you wish you didn't have to do this. However, that only makes me empathize with people who were unwillingly forced into being hacks.
In addition, most of you are probably stand-up individuals, who would be fun to get to know and invite to some kind of social function, but--and I give my condolences--you have been reduced to digital hacks, with whatever skills and capability you have debased by actions seemingly more appropriate to a middle-schooler peering over someone's shoulder to get an answer to a math quiz.
Regretfully, even should the latest drivers be the best Nvidia ever made (which is somewhat questionable, since they were written by hacks), there will always be the asterisk over your achievement, since you are part of a team of hacks. Hopefuly, there will come a time where you can simply be one of the premier driver development teams anywhere, as opposed to ridiculously overqualified hacks. Here's to hoping your employer gets its act together soon.
edited to change some wording
