• Drivers that will increase your FPS and overall performance?
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So, I am looking for drivers that will increase your FPS in games, and overall performance. I do know theres the Graphic card drivers and CPU drivers, but it there more than just those two?
Do you understand what a driver is?
There are some hacked drivers that perform a bit better in games, but I would avoid using them.
cpu drivers what?
[QUOTE=Ericsson;21523276]cpu drivers what?[/QUOTE] I think the processor does actually have drivers. They might be in the motherboard though. I have no idea really.
Yeah it's called microcode. Should be updated with your BIOS AFAIK. Generally video drivers that "improve" performance do so by messing with the image quality. No free lunch here.
CPUs don't need drivers because of something or other my father spent near an hour explaining to me, but it's the reason that no drivers are needed is the same reason we can't just install XP/win 7 on the ps3 (back when it had otheros) the system talks directly to the processor, so it's tailor made for one type of instructionset. the only reason AMD is in the cpu market is because they managed to make a CPU that could understand and execute the same commands ans an intel processor. it is also why, back in the old days, some manufacturers sold "IBM compatible processors". Some driver versions yield better performance for certain games, other drivers get optimised after release by mad tinkerers. Look for Dox Optimized Drivers if you're on a laptop.
what do the Omega drivers do differently than the normal ones?
[QUOTE=leontodd;21529173]what do the Omega drivers do differently than the normal ones?[/QUOTE] It explains a bit in the 2004 article by [i]Computer Games[/i] magazine. [url]http://www.omegadrivers.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=59[/url] Honestly I wouldn't touch these with a 10 foot pole but whatever, if you like it then use it.
There are tradeoffs you can make, taking less quality for more performance, that's what 'optimized' or 'tweaked' or 'hacked' drivers do. Look at it this way: If ATI or Nvidia could give you a driver that made the games look their best AND ran with faster fps, don't you think they would? Duh You can tweak your drivers yourself, ATI Tray Tools and Rivatuner are a couple of programs that'll let you do that. It's the same result as what you'd get from custom drivers, except the people like Omega do the tweaking for you and that's what they release. Tweaking it yourself at least lets you decide what specific losses in quality are acceptable to you.
There's a modded Intel GMA 900 driver that'll boost performance.By a little bit
Well, I wouldn't recommend them. Sure, they CAN improve performance, BUT they're not supported. If you still have warranty on your hardware, don't use them. I've tried Omega after my Radeon started with graphical glitches due to driver messing up, it improved everything for 2 months, than I got several artifacts ending up in even having them in normal Windows use. I could still play any 3d games, but it ended up in texture stretching, textures popping up, missing textures... Stuff like you'd only see when your card gets overheated. Also I don't think they'll improve your hardware, atleast not nowadays, since they don't get released as much as official drivers(which include fixes for games). If you really want to improve your system performance, take a loot at your OS(not sure what you're using, my guess would be Windows), like defragging it once a month atleast, disabling not needed services. Then, if you have a SATA harddrive, and don't use RAID, you could also try using AHCI. Actually, take a look at the BIOS(press DEL/F2 right after you started the PC several times until the BIOS screen comes up). Like for me, the BIOS set my RAM clock to 333mhz, while they actually can do 400mhz. You can also setup AHCI there. Then again, clean your PC. This doesn't improves performance at all, but it helps your PC not to overheat(which then slows down the system).
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