Offical 8800 Series Driver Update 97.92

[yaddam205]

If you're lucky enough to own an 8800GTS or 8800GTX based card, you'll want to download a set of updated ForceWare drivers. This new 97.92 package is specifically release for the 8800 series, and is designed to fix a series of bugs in games and other programs. You can get the Windows package at the nVidia site. Among other things, it fixes a bug with SLI mode in various games and corrects many display issues with new and old games.

Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/24083-nvidia-updates-drivers-for-8800-series.html

[virtualrain]

Why aren't the drivers unified now? Why separate drivers for the 8800 series and everything else?

[DilTech]

Why aren't the drivers unified now? Why separate drivers for the 8800 series and everything else?

Because the 8 series GPU is so radically different from the older cards?

[Atom]

Has anyone tried them yet?

[bazx]

and fm approved

[gr8golf]

Has anyone tried them yet?

I installed them yesterday, haven't seen any issues yet. Only play CS:Source for a little while. I think they have NOT resolved the issues with models / textures in the distance appearing as one color (grey). That may actually be a Valve / Source issue.

[LordofDoom]

I installed them yesterday, haven't seen any issues yet. Only play CS:Source for a little while. I think they have NOT resolved the issues with models / textures in the distance appearing as one color (grey). That may actually be a Valve / Source issue.
Wow, so I'm not the only one!

[etherealrhythm]

Meh. I reinstalled Far Cry yesterday to see what it would look like on my 8800, and in preperation for my 24" Benq ws which is coming in a few days. At first, contrast and saturation and everything were shot to sh*t. I patched it to 1.4 and that fixed those issues, but lots of textures were glitchy - black and elongated. Saw these drivers and thought "woop", but hasn't done a single thing to fix it :(.

[gr8golf]

I saw some posts out there while researching the CS:S issue about Far Cry. IDK for sure, but there may be some other tweaks that resolve Far Cry issues.

For a while Far Cry was the most intense game on your hardware - it was what pushed me to go to 1GB from 512MB and into the 6800GT. FEAR is the one that pushed me to go from 1GB to 2GB and get the 7800GT. My current rig eats them for lunch. I think Crysis will be the game that forces me to finally go SLI. Maybe I should just go back to Pong. :D

[Ghostwind]

are these the same as the 97.92 Beta that were up on 3d guru?

Wondering, because I went back to 97.44 after the 97.92 were causing problems

[yaddam205]

are these the same as the 97.92 Beta that were up on 3d guru?

Wondering, because I went back to 97.44 after the 97.92 were causing problems

yes, however they are no longer "beta"

[etherealrhythm]

Woot, got a fatal error in the display driver playing Far Cry last night, within 30 mins of having the drivers installed. Was expecting them to fix the bugs i was getting, not make things worse. Nvidia ftl, makes me wish i'd held out for r600. I've always used ATI cards until G80, and never had problems as widespread as this. If ATI have their sh*t together with the R600 launch they will dominate i think.

[Jodiuh]

I've always used ATI cards until G80, and never had problems as widespread as this.

I've used a cirrus logic 1MB (upgraded to 2MB), Voodoo 1 w/ 8MB, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 2/3, Nvidia TNT, Nvidia TNT2, ATI Rage Fury, Geforce 256, Geforce 2MX, Geforce 2GTS, Geforce 3/Ti 500, ATI 8500, Geforce 4 4200/4600, ATI 9700, ATI 9800 Pro, Nvidia 6800GT, Nvidia 7800GTX, ATI X1900XT, and now 8800GTX. And every single one of them had issues and I wouldn't single any of them out in particular as having more than the other. In time most issues get resolved anyway. Surely the frustration will vary depending on our game of choice, but in general...new tech = issues. I'm just glad that it runs BF2142 and GTR2. :D

[etherealrhythm]

Maybe so. But this is starting to take the biscuit... R6Vegas also crashed last night after 30 mins play, and have just started to watch a DVD now only to get major image corruption - black spots of pixels dancing across the screen similar to 3D artifacting! WTF is going on.

[DilTech]

Maybe so. But this is starting to take the biscuit... R6Vegas also crashed last night after 30 mins play, and have just started to watch a DVD now only to get major image corruption - black spots of pixels dancing across the screen similar to 3D artifacting! WTF is going on.

Sounds like what my card did before the ram died....

[DamienKC]

Sounds like what my card did before the ram died....

yep, my 9800pro's ram did that before dying as well

[etherealrhythm]

yep, my 9800pro's ram did that before dying as well

WTF?! LOL. I've only owned this a couple of months. Imma roll back to the older drivers at some point today and and hope it fixes things. If not, imma break sh*t.

[phelan1777]

I've used a cirrus logic 1MB (upgraded to 2MB), Voodoo 1 w/ 8MB, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 2/3, Nvidia TNT, Nvidia TNT2, ATI Rage Fury, Geforce 256, Geforce 2MX, Geforce 2GTS, Geforce 3/Ti 500, ATI 8500, Geforce 4 4200/4600, ATI 9700, ATI 9800 Pro, Nvidia 6800GT, Nvidia 7800GTX, ATI X1900XT, and now 8800GTX. And every single one of them had issues and I wouldn't single any of them out in particular as having more than the other. In time most issues get resolved anyway. Surely the frustration will vary depending on our game of choice, but in general...new tech = issues. I'm just glad that it runs BF2142 and GTR2. :D


Maybe your just allergic to VGAs :p:

[Jodiuh]

Bah! Rainbow Six runs like poo! I can't believe I'm going to have to pick up a 360 to play Ubisoft games...