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Posted: June 13, 2000 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Drivers (cont.)  Here is the standard Detonator Direct3D settings tab. You have your basic Direct3D settings.  Again, these are the regular settings for Direct3D. By now I'm sure you've noticed the absence of FSAA (Full screen anti-aliasing) settings for Direct3D. The reason for this is that Leadtek based its drivers on NVIDIA's 3.83 Detonators. The reason for this is unknown. Other cards are using the 5.16 version and higher so we're curious as to why Leadtek decided to go with the 3.38's. Nevertheless, we will install NVIDIA's 5.16 and benchmark the card and compare it to the previous cards we've tested.  Again, these are the typical OpenGL settings. And you also noticed that FSAA is also missing from these settings too, due to the driver version. We hope Leadtek will update its drivers soon. Overclocking  Here is Leadtek's Speed Runner tweaking utility, which is basically the same as that with NVTweak. With this utility you can overclock the card to a great extent. Be careful though. There was an issue we encountered while testing the drivers with Quake 3. We had visual tearing and anomalies during gameplay. Here's a screenshot of Quake 3 in action. I've highlighted the anomaly with a bright green ring.  This behavior was seen many times during testing and wouldn't go away, and this was with default clock settings. We then installed the 5.16 Detonators and this fixed the problem. It seems this is only a driver issue. But nevertheless, it is an issue and the WinFast ships with these drivers, so Leadtek should fix them right away. How far did we get the clock to go? Our core setting reached 225MHz and the memory reached 360MHz. Not too shabby. But for some reason the core didn't go as high as the ASUS V7700 (235 MHz core / 365 MHz memory), even with that massive heatsink. This could only mean two possible things: either the card was shafted or the chips used by Leadtek were from a batch that wasn't really high in quality. But then again, 25MHz over the stock speed is already fairly good. And since the GeForce 2 chip is already fast, you won't mind. So this proves that the heatsink size is overkill. If Leadtek reads this, and it will, I suggest that it use a normal size heatsink on its 64MB card to reduce costs. Let's get on with the benchmarks. |
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