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[Brink]

Hi Gunther,

I have not ran any test on them, but the 182.46 beta runs great on my Vista.

 

[BigMinge]

I installed the 182.08 and have had no end of trouble and still haven't fixed it yet. Hopefully the new driver will fix it.

 

[Brink]

New NVIDIA 182.50 WHQL and 185.65 BETA driver versions released 04/02/2009. See first post for more details.

Shawn

 

[Everlong]

Ambient Occlusion is suppost to be compatible with 8 series as well, but the beta driver is only for 9 series and up. Guess they'll release it for 8 in the future.

 

[AstaLaVista]

Is it just me or are Nvidia and others pushing drivers out like there is no tomorrow? I was going to install the 182.08 tonight and I catched the post about the 182.50

 

[Brink]

They have been updating a lot here lately. :huh:

 

[xguntherc]

I wonder why.. and every single time they claim they've increased performance for FPS on games.. are we loosing IQ.. I don't know.

I'm on the 182.08's and don't want to change again.. It's irritating always having to update, but I always do it.

anyone running the 50's?

 

[Brink]

Gunther,

I installed the 185.65 version in Windows 7 and my WEI Gaming Graphics score went from 5.9 to 6.0. I have not noticed any problems with them yet either.

 

[xguntherc]

great info.. Thanks man.. I'm already at 5.9 on vista. so that wont help me. lol

and where did 183, and 184 drivers go.. from 182 right to 185... weird?

 

[Brink]

You should still get an increase in graphics performance though, even if WEI pegs out at 5.9 in Vista.

The only thing I can think of, is that they must have had bad results with those versions or something.

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi folks, I'm running the 185.65 drivers in W7 (7057) and they seem good. I love the ambient occlusion effect although it's quite subtle in some games ie you don't notice it.

However my WEI has gone down by 0.4 for gaming from the MS drivers provided.
I'm beginning to think these WEI scores are a bit rubbish. It would be interesting to look at the variation in scores on same spec machines as, looking at the relevant thread, it seems to vary for no apparent reason.

best wishes, John

 

[Airbot]

185.66..

 

[Brink]

Wow, another one. First post updated. Thank you Aaron.

 

[Airbot]

Oh, anytime Mr. MVP. )

 

[Everlong]

Hope the ambient occlusion drivers for 8 series is out soon


Edit: Nevermind, they are. I was just doing a general look with keeping it set to 8800 Ultra, but did a search for 8800GTS 512s (what I have) and ambient occlusion drivers are available for the 512s :D, just nothing for the G80 cards.

 

[xguntherc]

So does the 182.50 that is WHQL Cert have the AO.. or no? only the other ones. I'm not a fan of BETA Nvidia drivers after my bad experience. but the increase in Crysis Warhead, FarCry2 and other games in 185.66 looks great.. so maybe I'll try that.

I'm going to try out the 185.66 right now. if all good then cool, otherwise I'm going back to 182.50

 

[Everlong]

I'm guessing the .66 just fixed a few urgent bugs that were in the .50s.

It says the .66s have AO in them, not tested them myself yet. Think will have a go with them when I get back from work tomorrow. It is suppost to be a big fps killer, though. Up to 40% performance drop.

 

[xguntherc]

Ya, from what I've seen AO kills your FPS.

Right now 185.66 is FROZE in middle of install.. about 65% done. been this way for almost an hour now. I'm about to restart. I've never had a Nvidia install freeze. Can't be a good sign. Time to go back to 182.50..

I might try again, not sure.

 

[Everlong]

Was that in safe mode or just normal mode?

 

[Brink]

Gunther, it took a bit for the 185.66 to install at that point for me as well, but it eventually came back saying that it was unable to start the service and asked to restart the computer to finish installing instead.

It runs fine now though.