NVIDIA video card(s) owners read here!

[Relemar 10]

Dl'ed and installed, now to test.

[bushlurker 46]

we await your opinions, guys! :)

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[lee_h._oswald 0]

Up to 0% performance increase in ARMA 2 ... with a 8800GTX

MfG Lee

[jw custom 56]

I have Beta 191.03 installed and without having measured fps count i really feel a performance boost.

Just played a mission in Chernogorsk with a large amount of units and it ran without any problems. Usually i end up removing units from big missions because of screenlag, but now i can add more

[lockjaw-65- 0]

I get 8 to 10 fps more with this new driver :-)

[BF2_Trooper 0]

NVM..already being discussed elsewhere, please to lock.

Edited September 25, 2009 by BF2_Trooper

[AnimalMother92 10]

great news! glad to see arma 2 is even mentioned in the release notes. cant wait to test when i get home.

[sick1 13]

Yeah it says up to 12% performance increase in ARMA 2 on softpedia. Gonna try it out. This thread should blow up with posts soon. Thanks for the info

[pauliesss 2]

Actually, I CAN see a big performance boost, I cant tell you how much FPS, but its noticable, very noticable. Thanks NViDiA.

[stevevcb 3]

Didn't make a bit of difference for me.

[Cionara 10]

With all 190 drivers arma2 ran 12% slower than with 180 driver so maybe they just fixed that out ^^

[ICE-Raver 10]

Ok, I've been tweaking my system for about 2 hours since I installed these.

As of right now my Arma Mark score went from 7917 to around 6600 with these drivers using the same settings with 190.38's.

However certain portions of the test increased quit a bit, (base flyover, tank portion and the halo drop) but the rest decreased. the biggest loss was the spin test for me. Typically I get 113 FPS on the spin test and now I am getting 77?:confused:

Also, now when I run this test fraps shows higher numbers than the game is scoring for me, by alot (like 20ish+)

I think these may improve certain things for alot of people. But for me, there is still some tweaking to do.

Edited September 25, 2009 by ICE-Raver

[MadCatChiken 10]

Downloading now, we'll see if its better than 182.50 drivers.

[Scaygoo 10]

This only for Vista & Windows 7? so for Window XP user need not worry about the 12% performance boost? sorry just curious cause i'm still waiting for my paycheck to buy Arma 2 :)

[Cionara 10]

As of right now my Arma Mark score went from 7917 to around 6600 with these drivers using the same settings with 190.38's.

Have you ran ArmA2 mark 2 times in a row ? If not do it and post again ! Otherwise the results always have that differences.

[ICE-Raver 10]

Have you ran ArmA2 mark 2 times in a row ? If not do it and post again ! Otherwise the results always have that differences.

I ran it about 10 times in a row.;)

[MadCatChiken 10]

Confirming that 182.50 drivers are still the best. With these drivers textures and objects don't even load fully, so i got block trees and grass and half/blurred textures.

[Carter 10]

This only for Vista & Windows 7? so for Window XP user need not worry about the 12% performance boost? sorry just curious cause i'm still waiting for my paycheck to buy Arma 2 :)

There is one for XP you just have to look for it.

[smiley_ie 7]

Just got to try them, Seems smoother :)

[brit~XR 0]

Will heres my results and my noob attempt to use paint mode :D

Test one always seemed to score lower when first runing arma 2 mark. Thats after booting up arma 2 then runing arma mark 2 for the first time.

Hardware i tested on

Core i7 920 @ 2.67ghz

6gb ram

Asus GTX 275

Windows 7 Pro 64bit full version

[-RIP- Luhgnut 10]

uhhh, you can run arma mark 5 times in a row and have the score vary by more than 100 points each time...

I mean in each scene sorry. Usually it's only 2-3 FPS but after a little more clock push, it's more around 10-11ish. In game is smoother too. Just "feels" better.

[maddogx 13]

Tried out the 191.03 drivers, noticed a definite performance increase but also some definite BSODs. Interestingly not in Arma2 but one in Windows and one while playing COD4. :(

Uninstalled, rolled back to 190.62.

[ICE-Raver 10]

Tried out the 191.03 drivers, noticed a definite performance increase but also some definite BSODs. Interestingly not in Arma2 but one in Windows and one while playing COD4. :(

Uninstalled, rolled back to 190.62.

I had 1 BSOD while running Arma Mark myself.

[IronTrooper 0]

Arma 2 1.04.59026:

drivers:

190.62 -> 191.03 -> (with a new ArmA2.cfg)

ArmAII-Mark v1.0 scores (2nd run):

3548 -> 3538 -> 3572

No real difference on my gtx 280 in vista64. No bsod so far, but if I see any I'm rolling back.

[Dwarden 1125]

I get 8 to 10 fps more with this new driver :-)

would be nice if you post also what card and OS :)