xero01uk Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 head over to Nvidia.com for new signed drivers, driver version 185.85, releases for Vista 32 & 64, Windows 7 32 and 64, not sure about XP as i didnt check Been testing these drivers for the past 45 mins in GTA IV and these are better and work smoother than the previous ones, well worth the upgrade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor90 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 I have a slightly improvement in X-Men Origins Wolverine and GTA IV with this driver in XP. Thanks for the info ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZAZEL Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Thanks for the heads up, downloading now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigglyass Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Better than the other beta, performance seems to be way better with high traffic density. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshblokeuk Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Yeah downloaded and now going to install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruXter Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 So far good news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingddd Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Driver 180.84 Statistics Average FPS: 56.20 Duration: 37.24 sec CPU Usage: 82% System memory usage: 68% Video memory usage: 98% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Texture Filter Quality: Highest View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 45 Hardware Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium Service Pack 1 Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ Video Driver version: 180.84 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Driver 185.20 Statistics Average FPS: 54.79 Duration: 37.21 sec CPU Usage: 80% System memory usage: 71% Video memory usage: 91% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: High Texture Filter Quality: Highest View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 45 Hardware Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium Service Pack 1 Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ Video Driver version: 185.20 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Driver 185.81 Statistics Average FPS: 52.15 Duration: 37.18 sec CPU Usage: 82% System memory usage: 68% Video memory usage: 99% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Texture Filter Quality: Highest View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 45 Hardware Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium Service Pack 1 Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ Video Driver version: 185.85 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz File ID: benchmark.cli Surprisingly the Detail Distance at 100 in this driver is actually VERY STABLE Statistics Average FPS: 50.15 Duration: 36.99 sec CPU Usage: 85% System memory usage: 74% Video memory usage: 96% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Texture Filter Quality: Highest View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 100 Hardware Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium Service Pack 1 Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ Video Driver version: 185.85 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz In conclusion I recommend the 185.81 driver. The 180.84 may show a 5 to 6 fps increase in benchmark but in game, the average is identical to the 185.81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) I don't know,this driver didn't ask me to restart my computer after it finished installing.Is that normal?Every driver so far asked me to restart my computer so the changes can take place.Anyone got this? Somethings fishy....i watched a video and my cards temperature went over 70....it never did that before,only ingame.I don't know but with each new Nvidia driver my 8800GT's temperature goes up and up.What are they doing at the Nvidia HQ? Edited May 8, 2009 by Dcrysis02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoju_93 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 kingddd, you did notice that some of benchmarks had textures:high and others medium? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFixXxeR Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I don't know,this driver didn't ask me to restart my computer after it finished installing.Is that normal?Every driver so far asked me to restart my computer so the changes can take place.Anyone got this? Somethings fishy....i watched a video and my cards temperature went over 70....it never did that before,only ingame.I don't know but with each new Nvidia driver my 8800GT's temperature goes up and up.What are they doing at the Nvidia HQ? The stock settings for my GPU lets it get to around 70 when playing GTA IV. Do you use another program to change your fan speeds on the GPU? I had this problem when I updated my driver yesterday. I use RivaTuner and have custom GPU fan speed controll to keep it around 50~ when under load but the new driver isn't working with the current version of RivaTuner so I lost my fan profiles. Went back to my previous driver which was 180.xx. Didn't notice any change with the new ones anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingddd Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 kingddd, you did notice that some of benchmarks had textures:high and others medium? cheers yes because I was testing the availablemem command line at 2.0 and I have a huge amount of benchmark files and I do have a medium texture at 185.20, it had pretty much the same fps Statistics Average FPS: 54.61 Duration: 37.15 sec CPU Usage: 81% System memory usage: 72% Video memory usage: 94% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: Medium Texture Filter Quality: Highest View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 45 Hardware Microsoft® Windows Vista" Home Premium Service Pack 1 Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+ Video Driver version: 185.20 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FusionGamer Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 This is useless, why is nobody complaining about audio drivers, no use in upping my FPS if I can't hear things properly, maybe the technical area has all the sound threads but this IS the pc version area so why is nobody talking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I don't know,this driver didn't ask me to restart my computer after it finished installing.Is that normal?Every driver so far asked me to restart my computer so the changes can take place.Anyone got this? Somethings fishy....i watched a video and my cards temperature went over 70....it never did that before,only ingame.I don't know but with each new Nvidia driver my 8800GT's temperature goes up and up.What are they doing at the Nvidia HQ? The stock settings for my GPU lets it get to around 70 when playing GTA IV. Do you use another program to change your fan speeds on the GPU? I had this problem when I updated my driver yesterday. I use RivaTuner and have custom GPU fan speed controll to keep it around 50~ when under load but the new driver isn't working with the current version of RivaTuner so I lost my fan profiles. Went back to my previous driver which was 180.xx. Didn't notice any change with the new ones anyways. I use eVGA Precision,it worked fine till' now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungGun Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I don't know,this driver didn't ask me to restart my computer after it finished installing.Is that normal?Every driver so far asked me to restart my computer so the changes can take place.Anyone got this? Somethings fishy....i watched a video and my cards temperature went over 70....it never did that before,only ingame.I don't know but with each new Nvidia driver my 8800GT's temperature goes up and up.What are they doing at the Nvidia HQ? The stock settings for my GPU lets it get to around 70 when playing GTA IV. Do you use another program to change your fan speeds on the GPU? I had this problem when I updated my driver yesterday. I use RivaTuner and have custom GPU fan speed controll to keep it around 50~ when under load but the new driver isn't working with the current version of RivaTuner so I lost my fan profiles. Went back to my previous driver which was 180.xx. Didn't notice any change with the new ones anyways. I use eVGA Precision,it worked fine till' now. Make sure you have newest EVGA Presision These drives didn't also ask me to restart also. Thought that was weird. But installed fine and game runs good. Not better, not worst. Atleace finally an updated graphics driver that didn't hinder the performance of GTA IV. (for me anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elBATCHo Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) I got a 1FPS increase in teh benchmark, GTA4 edges do look slightly better, the 185.20 drivers from december i believe are still the best, they make the edges lookm like they have anti aliasing. 185.81 StatisticsAverage FPS: 59.26 Duration: 37.08 sec CPU Usage: 81% System memory usage: 33% Video memory usage: 93% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: High Texture Filter Quality: Very High View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 60 Hardware Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Video Driver version: 185.81 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 185.85 StatisticsAverage FPS: 60.14 Duration: 37.06 sec CPU Usage: 77% System memory usage: 35% Video memory usage: 92% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz) Texture Quality: High Texture Filter Quality: Very High View Distance: 30 Detail Distance: 60 Hardware Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Video Driver version: 185.85 Audio Adapter: Speakers (Creative SB X-Fi) Edited May 8, 2009 by elBATCHo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I don't know,this driver didn't ask me to restart my computer after it finished installing.Is that normal?Every driver so far asked me to restart my computer so the changes can take place.Anyone got this? Somethings fishy....i watched a video and my cards temperature went over 70....it never did that before,only ingame.I don't know but with each new Nvidia driver my 8800GT's temperature goes up and up.What are they doing at the Nvidia HQ? The stock settings for my GPU lets it get to around 70 when playing GTA IV. Do you use another program to change your fan speeds on the GPU? I had this problem when I updated my driver yesterday. I use RivaTuner and have custom GPU fan speed controll to keep it around 50~ when under load but the new driver isn't working with the current version of RivaTuner so I lost my fan profiles. Went back to my previous driver which was 180.xx. Didn't notice any change with the new ones anyways. I use eVGA Precision,it worked fine till' now. Make sure you have newest EVGA Presision These drives didn't also ask me to restart also. Thought that was weird. But installed fine and game runs good. Not better, not worst. Atleace finally an updated graphics driver that didn't hinder the performance of GTA IV. (for me anyway) I always upgrade.So i had the newest already. Ingame there was no trouble but,my cards temperature went up really fast.Went back to 182.50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtaz Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Haven't played the game in a month or two now (again), have the new drivers (or patches?) done anything to improve the game yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungGun Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Haven't played the game in a month or two now (again), have the new drivers (or patches?) done anything to improve the game yet? i guess it can just depend on what hardware you have.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsessedWithGTA4 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I install these drivers and I am having problems. I boot and the screen is black and I even got a BSOD. After a google search it seems I am not the only one. Is anyone else having problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wethospu Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Installed them properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObsessedWithGTA4 Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 What a dumb question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrysis02 Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 What a dumb question! What a great spam! For the record:Did you delete the drivers,Physx manually?Did you use Driver Sweeper or any other cleaner in safe mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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