3dfx Driver Build 1.04.01: Increased Performance and Hidden Surface Removal (HSR) for the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5

Voodoo4 4500 - Unreal Tournament Performance

As we saw in the case of the Voodoo5 5500, the updated drivers seem to have a positive effect on the minimum framerate that the card produces. In the case of the Voodoo4 4500, we actually see an improvement here, with the latest drivers performing 5% faster. Will this trend continue, providing one good reason to update one's driver?

Unfortunately, the performance increase does not seem to last. Once again, the two drivers perform identically.

Not much can be said with the above graphs, as the drivers result in no performance increase.

We finally see a performance increase again, this time occurring at 1600x1200x16 with the minimum framerate numbers. The updated drivers provide a 7% performance increase.

At the final resolution we test Unreal Tournament at, we see that the average framerate does not increase as a result of the updated drivers.