This section describes bugs we find in games we test graphics cards with. From February 2005 on we launched the bug archive and redesigned this section.

If you find any bugs or have any comments and worthy ideas regarding this section, please email Danil Gridasov.

Contents

1. Testbed
2. Graphics cards
3. Drivers
4. Actual bugs
5. Bug Archive

Testbed

Currently graphics cards are tested in the following testbeds:

• AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (2.2GHz, 1MB L2)
• EPoX 9NPA+ SLI (nForce 4 SLI chipset, PCI Express x16/x8+x8)
• 2GB PC3200

The software is Windows XPService Pack 2 (including updates) and DirectX 9c.

Until July 2005, the testbed has the following configuration:

• Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz (800 MHz FSB, HT Enabled)
• ASUS P4C800-E (Chipset i875P, AGP 8x)
• 1GB PC3200

Graphics cards

The following cards were used in making of this material:

• ATI Radeon X850 Pro (Sapphire RADEON X850 PRO)
• ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (ATI Reference Card)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (Albatron GeForce 6600)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (ASUS Extreme N6800GT)
• NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference Card)

Besides, the tests have also been run on:

• ATI Radeon 9200 (Gigabyte Radeon 9200) (until 02.2005)
• ATI Radeon 9600 (Sapphire Radeon 9600) (until 07.2005)
• ATI Radeon X600 Pro (ABIT Radeon RX600 PRO-Guru) (until 03.2006)
• ATI Radeon X700 XT (PowerColor RADEON X700 XT) (until 03.2006)
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Gigabyte RADEON 9800 PRO GV-R98P128D) (until 07.2005)
• ATI Radeon X800 Pro (PowerColor RADEON X800 PRO LE) (until 07.2005)
• ATI Radeon X1800 XL (ATI Reference Card) (until 03.2006)
• NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 (NVIDIA Reference) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Palit Daytona GeForce FX 5200) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (Albatron GeForce FX 5700 Ultra) (until 02.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 (ASUS V9950 128MB) (until 07.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (Prolink PixelView GeForce 6600GT AGP) (until 07.2005)
• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (NVIDIA Reference) (until 07.2005)

Drivers

In the past month we used the following drivers for testing the graphics cards:

ATI Catalyst 6.3 (8.231)

• ATI's official reference drivers.
• Released on 08.03.2006.
• Key innovations of this version are related to video playback.

NVIDIA ForceWare 84.21

• NVIDIA's official reference drivers.
• Released on 17.03.2006.
• The first official drivers to support GF7600 and GF7900.

We run games on beta drivers just to please our interest. Bugs noticed on leaked drivers are not published in this section. But this is theoretically possible if a really interesting beta is leaked or it has been to long since the last official release.

Actual bugs

This section lists rendering or general gameplay bugs which are not fixed yet. These are checked for with every new drivers package and/or game version.

Age of Empires 3

• Radeon X1800, X1900
  When forced by drivers, AA stops enabling from ingame.
• Radeon X850, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Beyond Good and Evil

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Plane drop-out and general rendering bugs with v-sync disabled.
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  GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Very slow water rendering

Call of Duty 2

• Radeon X850, X1800, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Chaser

• Radeon X600, X700, X850, X1800, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Command & Conquer Generals

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect water rendering

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect water rendering

Deus Ex

• GeForce 7800
  Rendering bugs when using TAA Supersampling

Enclave

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect torch light rendering

F.E.A.R.

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Rendering bugs with forced AA and dithered shadows
• Radeon X850, X1800, X1900
  Rendering bugs with forced AA and dithered shadows

FlatOut

• Radeon X600, X700, X850, X1800, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Texture noise with forced anisotropic filtering.

Ground Control 2

• Radeon X600, X700, X850, X1800, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Half-Life 2

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect water rendering

Painkiller

• Radeon X600, X700, X850, X1800, X1900
  Texture noise with anisotropic filtering enabled

Splinter Cell

• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect water rendering

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

• Radeon X1800, X1900
  HDR looks weird in the SM3.0 mode

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 - The Sith Lords

• Radeon X850, X1800, X1900
  Banding on Sun catchlights

Star Wars: Republic Commando

• GeForce 7800
  Unstable antialiasing

Bug Archive

Here we keep a list of bugs fixed in the newer game and/or drivers package versions as well as permanent bugs which are seemingly not to be fixed.

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, The

• GeForce 6600, 6800
  Crashes with an OpenGL driver initialization error

Cold Fear

• Radeon X1800
  Awfully slow with any settings

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour

• GeForce FX 5200, 5700, 5900, GeForce 6600, 6800
  Screen garbage with AA forced and post-processing enabled.
• GeForce 6600, 6800, 7800
  Incorrect snow rendering

Halo: Combat Evolved

• GeForce 6600, 6800
  Strong noise on distant water MIP levels

Max Payne

• GeForce 7800
  Rendering bugs on bush textures

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

• GeForce 7800
  Rendering bugs on mirrors with TAA Supersampling

Need for Speed Underground 2

• GeForce 6600, 6800
  Locks up PC.

Painkiller

• GeForce 6800
  Plane drop-out

Splinter Cell

• GeForce 6600, 6800
  No shadows in the shadow buffers mode

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

• GeForce 6600, 6800
  Crashes with nvcpl.dll error.

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