Nvidia 181.00 drivers

[FX2K]

 

Was averaging 28-32 now I get around 38-40 with these drivers and SLi turned off. If they stay stable and keep this sort of performance then I am happy.

ROTFL! Yeah yeah! +10FPS from drivers that doesn't deal anything with GTAIV... man u are an idiot.

LOL, Ive been posting (and not making up bull) on this forum for the last week or so.

 

What reason do I have to lie, since I was also looking for a performance increase. I have been on about the low FPS too you know...

 

Whilst I agree, they are Open GL drivers, there may be underlying changes not documented since they are dev releases

I dont care what you say, they have increased FPS, do you really need me to make a video as proof

 

Why would I all of a sudden, after posting my FPS everywhere, giving screenshots etc say that something made a difference

if it did not. If it did not I would still be looking for some way to increase performance. Not everybody is full of crap !

Besides, this is THE ONLY thing I have changed since posting on the 'SLI - Need proof' topic

 

In Game, I have NEVER seen my FPS hit 60 unless indoors until I installed these drivers, ok they only hit that briefly in some areas or

depending where im looking but they do hit it. Overall gameplay im getting an average of +10fps over the previous drivers and watching fraps

 

Ive run on 180.48, 180.84 R1, R2, R3 by doing proper installations of the drivers

Edited December 17, 2008 by swsuk

[ppehrson]

 

Was averaging 28-32 now I get around 38-40 with these drivers and SLi turned off. If they stay stable and keep this sort of performance then I am happy.

ROTFL! Yeah yeah! +10FPS from drivers that doesn't deal anything with GTAIV... man u are an idiot.

And so are you for calling other people idiots, when they write about their findings.

 

Every setup is different and +10 FPS was reported by more than one person.

 

F*****g moron

 

 

- and by the war, GTA 4 may very well make significant use of Open GL. I know that the earlier games did, AFAIR. So, +10 FPS is very likely.

Edited December 17, 2008 by ppehrson

[gwalker]

Thnaks, nice find.

 

I'll have to try this tonight, it's quite possible it'll speed my fps up to a more playable level.

[tobibea]

ok i tried this driver and my fps got worse! lost about 5-10fps. i switch back to the beta 3 180.84

[punisher.ita]

ok i tried this driver and my fps got worse! lost about 5-10fps. i switch back to the beta 3 180.84

O' RLY?

[JSJ]

thx mate... im trying the driver now...ill report back

[mthmob]

This is developer drivers guys, its for developing. These drivers implement some new OpenGL features so you can make apps/games with the new functions.

 

As far as i can tell, it adds nothing to d3d and no performance can be gained with this, not even in opengl apps, since they dont use the new functions anyway ^^

Edited December 17, 2008 by mthmob

[FX2K]

 

This is developer drivers guys, its for developing. These drivers implement some new OpenGL features so you can make apps/games with the new functions.

 

As far as i can tell, it adds nothing to d3d and no performance can be gained with this, not even in opengl apps, since they dont use the new functions anyway ^^

Well perhaps it could be put down to a corrup driver install or similar but now I have these FPS I dont want to downgrade

the driver incase....

 

Im not stupid, I realise what it says the drivers have and do and are for, but saying

theres no way they could improve results doesnt help when clearly something has and I only updated the driver.

 

EDIT : See benchmarks on P3 for Proof of Improvement

Edited December 17, 2008 by swsuk

[DragTom]

Why on gods earth do you have xp running on a quad core with 4 gig or ram and a gtx 260? where's the sense in that. For your information I have Vista Ultimate and it runs WAY! better than xp, I have had less crashes and have'nt need to reformat once since it came out unlike xp, 3 reformats and installs due to viruses. So I suggest you go and get Vista and utilize the full capability of your system.

[Gutslab]

i will try this driver

if it doesn't work, i will go back to driver 3

[FX2K]

I cant help wondering... So I tried. I installed 180.84 again (clean install) and took some screenshots & a GTA benchmark

Then re-installed the 181.00 drivers and did exactly the same from the same save game to keep the time

 

181.00 Definatly improves FPS in GTA on my Rig, regardless of what you say about it being a OpenGL driver

Its still a work in progress, why would they post on their developer site that it improves anything in a particular game

Do you really think, if they changed anything, they would strip it back out just to release a dev version

 

Heres my screenshots as evidence of the increase, with Fraps in the top LEFT ! . ( Edit : why did I put top right lol)

 

Following 3 are with 180.84 (links so as not to clutter up the forum pages)

 

180.84 Benchmark

 

180.84 Showing Menu and Graphics Settings

 

180.84 In Game

 

Following 3 are after a clean install of 181.00

 

181.00 Benchmark

 

181.00 Showing Menu and Graphics Settings

 

181.00 In Game

 

So now I know for myself, regardless of what anybody says... 100% these drivers DID improve GTA !

Yes they are static images, but overall the entire game is extremely improved !

Edited December 17, 2008 by swsuk

[jaboyle]

will these work on a geforce 8600m gt 256mb running on a laptop?

 

[flyer2359]

will these work on a geforce 8600m gt 256mb running on a laptop?

you will have to wait to get drivers from laptopvideo2go or download a tool from driverheaven

[StalkerKZN]

Improved FPS is great, but does it fix the damn texture problems?

[FX2K]

 

Improved FPS is great, but does it fix the damn texture problems?

Wish I could answer, but I doubt it will fix anything with textures I would say thats another issue.

Ive not had many problems with disapearing textures more so crashing & RESC10 but all seems to be well now for a good few hours of gaming, so time for me to go and play..

[flyer2359]

Downloading the drivers now from laptopvideo2go.com

[OdedB]

Downloading the drivers now from laptopvideo2go.com

I'm also using a laptop, mine's with 8600 sli though. if you could please report and tell us how it affected your game I will appreciate it very much

[frost420]

also got about a +10 FPS boost myself. 8800gt @ 1440x900 never drops below 30 now. still texture problems for those that are wondering.

[babarian225]

BEFORE:

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 64.39

Duration: 37.09 sec

CPU Usage: 53%

System memory usage: 57%

Video memory usage: 87%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 73

Detail Distance: 42

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Video Driver version: 180.48

 

VERY SMOOTH GAMEPLAY

 

 

AFTER:

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 64.36

Duration: 37.09 sec

CPU Usage: 44%

System memory usage: 57%

Video memory usage: 92%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (75 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Render Quality: High

View Distance: 13

Detail Distance: 42

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

Video Driver version: 181.00

 

TEXTURES MISSING SLUGGISH GAMEPLAY

 

 

 

181 Drivers for me are Worse giving very low framerate !

 

Textures Missing, Very Low fps

 

 

 

180.48 Official Nvidia Drivers are the Best for a 280 Gtx! More consistent fps

Edited December 17, 2008 by babarian225

[postem]

also got about a +10 FPS boost myself. 8800gt @ 1440x900 never drops below 30 now. still texture problems for those that are wondering.

On my 8800gt i never got texture corruption or loading issues.

 

on 64 ultimate sp1

[LSD T]

 

BEFORE:

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 64.39

 

Edited for brevity

 

180.48 Official Nvidia Drivers are the Best for a 280 Gtx! More consistent fps

Very good setup you got there to achieve that benchy.

 

If you run rivatuner do you find that when the game is at its most intensive you will get closer to 35 FPS or so?

I just can't take the benchmark seriously at all,and fail to see how it requires so much CPU/GPU hardware to run what is a rather ugly game.

I mean even at 1920x1200 I've never required AA before but man it needs it with this engine/emulation et cetera.

[postem]

Why on gods earth do you have xp running on a quad core with 4 gig or ram and a gtx 260? where's the sense in that. For your information I have Vista Ultimate and it runs WAY! better than xp, I have had less crashes and have'nt need to reformat once since it came out unlike xp, 3 reformats and installs due to viruses. So I suggest you go and get Vista and utilize the full capability of your system.

Same for me vista 64 is performing better.

 

The only game so far im having fps issues is company of heroes on vista, but im lazy to patch

[postem]

BEFORE:

 

Statistics

Average FPS: 64.39

 

Edited for brevity

 

180.48 Official Nvidia Drivers are the Best for a 280 Gtx! More consistent fps

Very good setup you got there to achieve that benchy.

 

If you run rivatuner do you find that when the game is at its most intensive you will get closer to 35 FPS or so?

I just can't take the benchmark seriously at all,and fail to see how it requires so much CPU/GPU hardware to run what is a rather ugly game.

I mean even at 1920x1200 I've never required AA before but man it needs it with this engine/emulation et cetera.

The bench is broke. My game is 10 fps less the avg bench.

[jaboyle]

I have a laptop and so have just download driver 180.48, its for the geforce 8600m gt and made for laptops,

 

does this driver enhance the performance for some users on GTA IV like the driver 180.84 (not for laptops) does?

 

 

thanks !

[creat3d22]

 

The bench is broke. My game is 10 fps less the avg bench.

That seems to be across the board... I get 44fps in the benchmark and 30 to mid 30's in-game...

It's better if you replace the benchmark.cli file with a clip you save with lots more action, like something in downtown Algonquin... THAT will give accurate results!

[flyer2359]

Downloading the drivers now from laptopvideo2go.com

I'm also using a laptop, mine's with 8600 sli though. if you could please report and tell us how it affected your game I will appreciate it very much

I haven't installed them yet since I other things to do for the moment but just a side note for me, you won't see much a performance difference from my laptop since it's already using 92% of the processor and my processor seems to be the bottleneck, I would probably see a performance improvement for sure if I had a faster processor, but I will report back once I install them and run the benchmark

[babarian225]

 

Very good setup you got there to achieve that benchy.

 

If you run rivatuner do you find that when the game is at its most intensive you will get closer to 35 FPS or so?

I just can't take the benchmark seriously at all,and fail to see how it requires so much CPU/GPU hardware to run what is a rather ugly game.

I mean even at 1920x1200 I've never required AA before but man it needs it with this engine/emulation et cetera.

 

 

 

I use fraps and During Gameplay it runs at 68fps Max and averages like 50 in some places like 5star Cop shoot out,[email protected]

 

but my cpu is [email protected] 1.25v in windows,quality Air and stock gpu, 4GB RAM( 3.5gb in xp sp3)

 

 

 

Using:

(1) Commandline txt

 

-novblank

-renderquality 3

-shadowdensity 0

-stereo

-fullspecaudio

-norestrictions

-nomemrestrict

 

(2)Using Magic mod, for disabling Bloom

 

 

Want to know any one with Sli and ther Framerates

Edited December 17, 2008 by babarian225

[Gutslab]

where can the magic mod be found?

[flyer2359]

Before:

Statistics

Average FPS: 20.40

Duration: 37.35 sec

CPU Usage: 96%

System memory usage: 53%

Video memory usage: 57%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 848 x 480 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Low

Render Quality: Low

View Distance: 4

Detail Distance: 4

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Video Driver version: 180.84

Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz

 

File ID: benchmark.cli

 

 

After:

Statistics

Average FPS: 19.48

Duration: 37.63 sec

CPU Usage: 94%

System memory usage: 53%

Video memory usage: 58%

 

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 852 x 480 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: Low

Render Quality: Low

View Distance: 4

Detail Distance: 4

 

Hardware

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack 3

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Video Driver version: 181.00

Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output

Intel® Core2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz

 

File ID: benchmark.cli

 

[Whytey]

Well from the previous beta, this update has fixed the major lagging issues only problems i have now are the textures, shadows etc..

 

thanks

 

 

8800GTX

E6600

2GB Ram