New Nvidia drivers enabling DirectX 9.0c

[MysticalMrBob]

The new Nvidia drivers are out. Finally. When was the last time they released drivers? ATI is pwning them in customer service.

Besides that, these new drivers not only improve overall graphics, but enable DX 9.0c on most GeForces. Thing is, while my CS:S will/is now running in 9.0c, my HL2 is still stuck in 8.1 and I can't change it. WTF?

Anyone else have this?

 

[Neutrino]

What drivers? All I see are the 66.93's which have been out for quite a while.

 

[MysticalMrBob]

Ahh, no fecking wonder why it seemed like it's been so long. It really hasn't. I only thought these were new as I had read it in the Steam Forums and it was the first I'd heard of it, and they were new to me.

But my question remains. Why does CSS run in DX9 but not HL2?

 

[Thread]

in hl2, type mat_dxlevel 90

 

[MetalliMyers]

I don't recommend running in dx9 if you have an FX card

 

[Mountain Man]

ATI is pwning them in customer service.

Ha! The only reason ATI releases so many drivers is because they're broken and have to be customized for every newly released game.

 

[brav]

about a week ago i got the 70.90 beta drivers, have they released new offical drivers? cant find them...
EDIT:
http://download.guru3d.com/detonator/ is where i get the latest beta drivers currently at 71.20, with 67.22 the latest WHQL drivers

 

[Mr Neutron]

Ha! The only reason ATI releases so many drivers is because they're broken and have to be customized for every newly released game.

yeah, but everyone said the same thing about nvidia when they were the only game in town for a while

 

[czrsink]

I do know that the Catalyst Control Center is a preverbial pain in the backside. It's really slow, and wouldn't work at first (then I remembered I needed the .net framework to even get it running).

I wonder if I can remove the Catalyst Control Center without affecting my drivers.

 

[Dill0n]

I don't recommend running in dx9 if you have an FX card

why's that?

 

[Cypher19]

Because you shouldn't have got an FX card in the first place. nVidia's computer engineers REALLY screwed up the pixel shading pipeline, and pixel shader performance in general is really, REALLY low. Here's a benchmark that shows the % in performance drop (more than HALF?! Screw THAT!) http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2281&p=3

 

[Fender357]

Nvidia was dumb when I had my last card. It was DX8 on the hardware side, but DX9 on the software side....which means it would try really hard to do the DX9 stuff, but never could because it was a freakn' DX8 card. Now I've got an ATI and I'm damn happy with it.

 

[Combine Hybrid]

NVIDIA has a pros and cons. But I still haven't encountered any problem with my NVIDIA card.

 

[rms]

This is a controversial topic, as there is some evidence that Valve deliberately avoided using the Nvidia feature of Partial Precision shaders when compiling the games, thus unfairly handicapping GeforceFX cards. FX owners can get significantly better performance and better visuals by following the directions in this thread (there are similar threads at nvnews.net and steampowered):

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115614

rms

 

[rms]

Here is the newer version of the HowTo for nvidia owners on enabling DX9 in Half-Life2, bookmark it!

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1014127#post1014127

rms

 

[MysticalMrBob]

NO ONE really answered my question. My question was why is DX9 enabled in CS:S and not HL:2?

 

[fabianoag]

I do know that the Catalyst Control Center is a preverbial pain in the backside. It's really slow, and wouldn't work at first (then I remembered I needed the .net framework to even get it running).

I wonder if I can remove the Catalyst Control Center without affecting my drivers.

You can uninstall the Catalyst Control center without affecting your drivers.
Even better, download the newest Omega drivers from www.omegadrivers.net ; they're modified Catalysts, are completely safe and have a custom control panel that has all the features the Catalyst Control Center has. Image quality and performance is also improved by them. Plus, they don't need the .net framework, which takes up a lot of ram when .NET based applications are running.

 

[MysticalMrBob]

Please Help Me Out Here. I Want Hl2 To Look As Good As Css.

 

[giant384]

u type -dxlevel 90 in launch options but i turned it on i dont notice a difference accept lag. but dx9 in css is because hl2 has alot more activity going on in than game then in cs im just guessing though