I recently updated my nVidia drivers from 94.24 to 169.21 to resolve an issue I had with the screen vanishing on Windlight, and it seems to have killed my performance. Where before I was consistantly getting around 20fps, now as soon as I break 7 or 8 avatars around at the same settings my fps takes a sudden drop. With as few as 15 in my view I get reduced to near 2-1fps, and it happens in both this and 1.18.5. I haven't rolled back yet, since I want to be able to use Windlight without losing the screen when I zoom the wrong amount, but at this rate i may have to. Anyone else run across this issue, and can recommend a recent driver set that WORKS?
For reference the card is a BFG 6800 GTOC, and I'm running 32-bit XP.
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For comparison, I just rolled back, and where I was getting about 1.5 fps, with the same settings on the old driver I get around 8 to 9 fps. I also noticed wiht the newer driver it seems like avatars don't degrade gradually in quality at a distance.. ti's either all there or it's not.