GeForce FX 5950 and Source DX 9 performance...

[Arraso]

I am not want to be "green" or "red". As I am not working for one of the two sides in this war I have the right to make what ever I want.

Just kidding :)

Rollo: Yes, VST and CS:S in DX9 mode force full-precision in all cards - 24-bit or 32-bit. Demirug says in some posts ago that enabling FP16 caps even than FP32, the performance can grow up to 50%.

[Edge]

I'd like to see what kind of a difference forcing all the shaders into 16-bit would make, both to performance and to image quality. Too bad there's no more Mixed Mode, I doubt it would really be hard for them to change a few shader calls into 16-bit while leaving ones that have a noticable visual difference at 32-bit.

[Presi]

THE SOLUTION:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=117117