Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers

[xguntherc]

Anyone try these drivers out yet? I just downloaded. I'm still on the 181's..

and the GTS250 is a desktop card, it's actually more than just a rebranded 9800GTX+. it's got a bigger fan, it's got a Thicker PCB, and it's actually like an inch and a half shorter. It runs cooler cuz the better fan and thicker PCB, and it's got a better clock. they are decent cards, and decently priced. and Nvidia is also releasing like a GT120, GT 140, and GT 150 or something like that for mobile.

check out the second photo for size.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16504

 

[Brink]

Hi Gunther,

The 182.08 version works great for me.

 

[becomingwater]

Anyone try these drivers out yet? I just downloaded. I'm still on the 181's..

and the GTS250 is a desktop card, it's actually more than just a rebranded 9800GTX+. it's got a bigger fan, it's got a Thicker PCB, and it's actually like an inch and a half shorter. It runs cooler cuz the better fan and thicker PCB, and it's got a better clock. they are decent cards, and decently priced. and Nvidia is also releasing like a GT120, GT 140, and GT 150 or something like that for mobile.

check out the second photo for size.
Nvidia's GeForce GTS 250 graphics card - The Tech Report - Page 1

I just installed these drivers and seem to work fine so far. Will try out GTAIV in the morning since I am at work. Thats the only problem I have been having is GTAIV not playing smoothly with my set up. Hopefully this will fix the SLI feature and GTAIV will enable SLI support.

 

[MrNeeds]

Hi Gunther,

The 182.08 version works great for me.

seems like the drivers work great for online videos and high definition content but they seem to have slowed my gaming experience down, ive noticed slowdowns in Crysis, Trackmania united forever, flatout ultimate carnage, and lost planet colonies. but its probably because i havent fiddled with the NV default settings in NV control panel yet.

 

[xguntherc]

Thanks Brink!

really. well let me know how it goes, as I'll only update if I think it's worth it.

and becoming water . (What's ur name mean) like I said before, it might partially be that GTAIV doesn't have SLI support (Have you downloaded the SLI package from evga), but not only that, I think it's your CPU slowing down your GTX295. I know ur planning to get the Q9650, but in the mean time, you could take that Q9300 to like 3.3 Ghz or so.

 

[becomingwater]

Thanks Brink!

really. well let me know how it goes, as I'll only update if I think it's worth it.

and becoming water . (What's ur name mean) like I said before, it might partially be that GTAIV doesn't have SLI support (Have you downloaded the SLI package from evga), but not only that, I think it's your CPU slowing down your GTX295. I know ur planning to get the Q9650, but in the mean time, you could take that Q9300 to like 3.3 Ghz or so.

The name is simlpy two words together. First word is from a song from NIN called the Becoming and I just put water at the end.

Is the SLI package for GTAIV? I have the ASUS GTX295

 

[xguntherc]

well I think that GTAIV is one of the games they added SLI for. not sure though. I can't remember. but isn't there a certain Nvidia release for GTAIV?

 

[Everlong]

well I think that GTAIV is one of the games they added SLI for. not sure though. I can't remember. but isn't there a certain Nvidia release for GTAIV?

Yea they did, but the latest drivers will still have them. GTAIV doesn't actually scale with SLI. The driver Nvidia released (180.84 I think) for GTAIV added the SLI profile and if you enable the SLI bar in game, it doesn't move to show the scaling.

Rockstar still need to release a new patch for GTAIV that supports SLI.

 

[xguntherc]

thats sad, it's been out this long and Rockstar hasn't came out with a patch for SLI . thats a large part of the community that plays, is there a CF patch??

So, when we install new drivers like these ones. I don't need to actually download and install Physx anymore right. it does it for me?

Also, do I need to delete the old first.. physx?? I don't pay much attention to physx. it's not all that great "yet"

 

[Everlong]

What's even more sad is Crossfire is already supported with GTAIV, just not SLI :/. Though it doesn't make much of a difference as GTAIV is very CPU dependent.

Physx gets un-installed when you un-install the driver, then the latest version is installed with the new driver.

 

[xguntherc]

yup, that is pretty sad. but the x2 is still very popular because if it's price.

Oh and I went ahead and tried the new 182.06 drivers. and they work like a charm, played CS for hours last night, and I also got my highest 3DMark06 score with them. I finally broke the 21k mark

 

[Brink]

Hi Gunther,

The latest version is the 182.08 version.

 

[xguntherc]

oh ya, thats what I meant.. I have the 182.08's and they broke 21k for me.

Thanks brink!

 

[Majkel]

If anyone is interested in getting the 182.08 tweaked by XTreme-G team, here's the link

XTreme-G 182.08 Drivers

Please, do note that these are BETA drivers.

Downloading them now, will check the performance shortly

   Warning

These are modified NVIDIA drivers by a 3rd party, and not official NVIDIA drivers.

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EDIT:

So, here are test results, comparing stock drivers, and the XTreme-G ones:

First, the stock results
3D Mark 2005
22391

3D Mark 2006
14054

Vantage
P7920

...and the XTreme-G version
3D Mark 2005
22643

3D Mark 2006
14094

Vantage
P7925

 

[johnwillyums]

Do they have Ambient Occlusion Majkel?, John:D

 

[Majkel]

Do they have Ambient Occlusion Majkel?, John:D

Hi John, unfortunately they don't seem to have such an option in the CP, like the 185.20 had... but Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box runs quite good with Ambient Occlusion enabled in game itself. I don't know in which way it is implemented in the game, but I think it wouldn't run if it wasn't supported by the driver...

 

[Airbot]

Geforce 182.46 BETA drivers available Shawn.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron. First post updated.

 

[Airbot]

Oh you're welcome Shawn, anytime.

 

[xguntherc]

anyone try the 182.46 drivers yet??

Also, I went with the Extreme-G drivers last time before the 182, and the current 182.08's. and the Xtreme-G drivers messed my **** all up. I couldn't access my NV control panel for 4 days and couldn't use my new 260 in SLI for the first 4 days I had it cuz those drivers.

I'm sticking the Nvidia drivers for now on.

Anyone have anything to say about the .46?