Zekkyou on 18 May 2014
| rolltide101x said: @Zekkou. Mentioning Nvidia proves my point. They say their drivers boost performance 30-40% all the time. Yet you rarely only notice a difference if it had a problem in a certain game..... Performance gains are very little to do with drivers. It is learning platforms and optimizing game engines. This thread is about drivers not software in general. Day 1 PS2 games look far worse than games at the end of the PS2s life and the drivers were barely touched...... If you believe that drivers drastically improve performance then you are going to be disappointed.... |
So you mean to tell me that when the TR driver released soon after launch and my old comps fps jumped from 35 to 55, it pulled the power right out of its butt? O: Good to know o/
Really though, i'd agree nvidea tend to over promise but that doesn't stop their drivers being effective. If a single one can see a performance boost, i fail to see how hard it is to believe several years of refinement can deliver results.
Anyway, your initial comment was that no software is going to boost performance by any meaningful amount. When considering engines, drivers, refinement of pre existing development tools and changed functions, it's obvious software is a pretty big deal :p
