hrug:
In OpenGL my card is slow even in Smooth + hilights.
In Direct3D my card atleast manages to be fast in Smooth + hilights but nothing else. I've seen a couple of other people who were in a similar situtation (where DirectX provided more performance than OpenGL). In all situtations DirectX seems to be more glitchy due to 3dsmax's implementation of it. This is the same for me as well but I still want that extra speed.
I really wish the card would be fast in edge-faces mode.
Too bad, I hear NVidia cards generally don't have these problems with 3dsmax, but I really wasn't thinking about 3d graphics apps at the time I purchased the card.
Also for you were the DNA drivers just a minor difference in speed (something like overclocking the CPU an extra 100 mhz) or was it drastic (something like making a slow smooth + hilights mode suddenly "click" and be fast again as it should be)