New nVidia GeForce Drivers Released

Thanks for the heads up, just logged onto Nvidia and their auto detect found it for me, downloading now. :)

 

Its nice theyve officially recognised and added support for that Folding @ home project too. :D

Thanks for the driver release notification. I will post my results after installation.

Great job on the new drivers Nvidia. My 3D score dropped 400 points. Keep up the good work. What a waste of time.

Well, the verdict is in: these drivers are junk. They seem to be just as buggy as the 177 beta drivers which were released in August. While these drivers have integrated physics into the architecture, they're junk if they can't perform without problems. One thing I can say about owning an ATI, I NEVER EVER had problems with drivers like I have with the NVidia. This is absolutely ridiculous.

I'd have thought they were supposed to give better numbers due to the Physx support and so on :/

 

What were your problems guys? I haven't gamed with them yet so not really tested.

Well, upon installation and playing COD4, my system froze up and my screen started flickering twice in less than 10 minutes. I reinstalled the 175.19 drivers and it hasn't done it again. The PhysX is nice but...if they can't produce a driver without bugs, then they shouldn't release new drivers until they get the bugs worked out.

I rolled back to the 175.19 drivers also. Can someone please tell me how to properly clean up any old drivers on my system? Thanks

Model: XPS 730
Operating System: 32bit Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E 8400 3.0 GHZ @ 3.6 GHZ
Graphics Card: Dual 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX in SLI
Monitor: Samsung 22”
Memory: 4 Gigs Stock Dell Memory@1067
Hard Drive: 750 Gig Sata Drive
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme PCI Soundcard
Power Supply: 1KW Power Supply
Other Components: Lightscribe Burner
16,593 3D Mark 06 Score

Have your current drivers ready.

Download Drive sweeper.

Uninstall your current driver

boot into safemode

run Drive sweeper

Boot into normal mode and install your current driver.

Thank you Davet50

The list of games currently using PhysX is given in

 

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_physxgames_home.html

 

That may not be up to date. See also:

 

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1141844

links in

 

http://personal.inet.fi/atk/kjh2348fs/physx.html

Consensus so far is for leaving these alone IMHO

GeForce 178 crashed two times in Crysis Wars as well as several incidents of artifacts that I didn't have before, so I've reverted back to GeForce 175. :robotsad:

So far only one instance of odd artifacts in Crysis Wars. Mind you I've a single gpu and I've dissabled the PhysX side of the driver.

 

Could the problems be due to poor SLI support?

Proably more like trying to get the PhysX installed into the driver. Was proably rushed to get the version out.