3Digest: Game Bugs September 2007

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.

Testbed
Graphics cards
Drivers
Actual bugs
Bug Archive

Testbed

Currently graphics cards are tested in the following testbeds:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2.4 GHz, 512x2 KB L2)
EPoX 9NPA+ SLI (nForce 4 SLI chipset, PCI Express x16/x8+x8)
4GB of PC3200 RAM

From February 2007 on we check games for bugs with the latest drivers under both Windows XP (x86, SP2, DX9), and Windows Vista. From June 2007 on we moved to the 64-bit Windows Vista (6.0, Build 6000):

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (including a number of post-SP2 updates) and DirectX 9c.
Windows Vista (64-bit Edition) with updates from Windows Update and DirectX updates.

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)
ATI Radeon HD2900 XT (ATI Reference Card)
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (NVIDIA Reference Card)
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference Card)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra (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 (Albatron GeForce 6600) (until 12.2006)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (Prolink PixelView GeForce 6600GT AGP) (until 07.2005)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (ASUS Extreme N6800GT) (until 12.2006)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra (NVIDIA Reference Card) (until 07.2005)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (Chaintech Apogee GeForce 8800 GTS)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (NVIDIA Reference Card) (until 02.2007)

Drivers

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

AMD Catalyst 7.9 (8.411) for Windows XP (32-bit)

Official reference drivers from ATI.
Released on 10.09.2007.

AMD Catalyst 7.9 (8.411) for Windows Vista (64-bit)

Official reference drivers from ATI.
Released on 10.09.2007.

NVIDIA ForceWare 163.71 for Windows XP (32-bit)

Official reference drivers from NVIDIA.
Released on 28.09.2007.

NVIDIA ForceWare 163.71 for Windows Vista (64-bit)

NVIDIA's official reference beta.
Released on 21.09.2007.

We run games with 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 too 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.