NVIDIA GeForce 190.62 WHQL Drivers Released

[PoppaGeek]

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[PoppaGeek]

I downloaded them and put them on the 260 (192) that would never run anything above 182 without errors. Ran OCCT GPU test for awhile and ran smooth and no errors, better than ever before. Stopped F@H on it and trying GPUGrid. Supposed to be alot of bug fixes so here is hoping!:up:

Oh yeah, and got 6 WUs. :-/

[OldChap]

straight in at whql huh?.....I've got these on 260(192's) as well now I got the 6wu's too, that seems to be the new cuda 2.3 work by grid rather than driver related

[PoppaGeek]

1st errored out. Oh well. back to F@H

[shadowwind]

bummer i was hoping the new driver would work oh well guess we wait till the end of the month for the new driver to come out and hope for the best.


poppa picture will be coming soon im still working on the exhaust and still tweaking it almost done with step 1:up:

[Kondik]

Kinda nice, Didn't notice any difference, everything works fine as it was working before.

[OldChap]

update ...190.62 and 6.6.38 here was going good through the day then I just moved the mouse on that machine and got the dreaded driver has failed and recovered message. I may try mixing cards in that machine cos on 98gtx I've only seen that message twice so with a 98 as primary it might solve this for me...too busy just now though.

[Gamekiller]

Installed. There's also a new version of Precision out. 1.8.0

Anyways, oddly enough... Nvidia surprised me again by breaking my mouse.... after the driver install my mouse wouldn't move at all. I could still use all of the buttons but not move the curser. Reboot.. same problem, reboot + turn off psu... same problem. I have to swap to another usb port.

[MikeB12]

kinda nice you dont have to extend the desktop to run gpugrid on 2 gpu's.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8393/15179986.jpg

[Gamekiller]

It sure is. :D

[shadowwind]

what is a decent motherboard for amd in sli right now i got the asus 900 series and it is 1 buggy board and i don't need tri sli from amd just one that works with a mild oc,:D

[INFRNL]

Have you guys noticed the wu's taking longer with 190.xx drivers and cuda 2.3?

I currently have a system with 2 gpu's running on 190.38 and it looks like I might get a little over 1 per card done a day :shrug: This is unacceptable. that comes to less than half the production it normally puts out and the wu's do not give you more points for the extended run time :mad:

I am going to see what the system turns in for points today; if my thoughts are true; I will put this rig back to an older driver. Seems like gpu's are running a lot cooler too, but dont know the temps since precision 1.8.0 and sli do not work :mad: :shrug:....current reported temps are at 2845c :ROTF:

luckily I added another GTX 275 so It makes up for my lost points produced by 190.xx drivers.

[PoppaGeek]

I dunno what it is about the 192 shader 260 I have but nothing will run on the card for long before I get driver resets unless it is 182.50. Had a bit of a time getting F@H running again but it was erroring on F@H too. Am back to 182.50 and F@H on it. Someday I will put it on one of the Linux boxes and see how it does there.

I am still on 190.38 on the 216 260. It has not had an error so I am leaving it alone. It seems kinda weird really. A GTX 260 running GPUGrid without problems. Don't seem right.

[PoppaGeek]

what is a decent motherboard for amd in sli right now i got the asus 900 series and it is 1 buggy board and i don't need tri sli from amd just one that works with a mild oc,:D

For SLI on a AMD chipset board ya need an nVidia chipset and I am not familiar at all with what is available right now. If it is just for folding with more than one card then I might be able to help but for sli I am no help.

If ya give me a price range and how many slots and brand preference I can look around for ya.

[PoppaGeek]

Have you guys noticed the wu's taking longer with 190.xx drivers and cuda 2.3?

I currently have a system with 2 gpu's running on 190.38 and it looks like I might get a little over 1 per card done a day :shrug: This is unacceptable. that comes to less than half the production it normally puts out and the wu's do not give you more points for the extended run time :mad:

I am going to see what the system turns in for points today; if my thoughts are true; I will put this rig back to an older driver. Seems like gpu's are running a lot cooler too, but dont know the temps since precision 1.8.0 and sli do not work :mad: :shrug:....current reported temps are at 2845c :ROTF:

luckily I added another GTX 275 so It makes up for my lost points produced by 190.xx drivers.

I have not noticed a difference. Numbers look about the same.:shrug:

[Kondik]

Funny thing about Precision, The reinstalation of Drivers switched my ards to non SLI , I switched them back and I think what I saw in the temperature window in Precision should never been spoken about. I've been creating pure plasma at home. the Core's had3.800.000.000 degrees Celsia and the memories just under 280 Milions. I think when those numbers showed up Sun stopped for a moment out of the pure embarassment. I think the application still has flaws :p:

And the working speed remained the same, takes me +/- 7 hours to finish one WU. I find the new drivers very good the only downside is they instaled the stupid Stereo 3D Glasses driver that eats another 100 Megs of Ram, like nVidia thinks Ram is for free, you have to uninstall it every god damn time.

[INFRNL]

@ PG: Look at my production today on my dual gpu rig. Only 11k today for 2 gpu's :shrug:

I am going to finish a wu in about an hour; I will try 190.60 or whatever the new release was. If it reports 16:48hrs to complete as the 190.38 does; I will then go back to 186.18.

Maybe yours is ok cause you are not actually running SLI? :shrug:


Who is running SLI and 190.xx drivers? Can you tell me what cards you have and how long it takes to complete a wu?
I went from 6-7 hrs or less to 15+hrs if not 17hrs per wu

@ Kondik: You uninstall the 3d stereo drivers? this helps?

[Gamekiller]

yeah it did the same to me kondik. i posted a pic of mine in one of the 190.38 threads :p: a reboot fixes it

and about the 3d crap... i agree... wtf nvidia


im running sli on my gtx 295 with these drivers.... most of my wus are errors
and the ones that complete are around 3-4k run time in secs according to the website

[FoX360]

Thanks for share. Downloading...

[Kondik]

As Gamekiller said those are just annoying and it kinda pisses me off that the drivers don't ask, should I instal the driver + PhysX + and 3D Googles memory munching useless for 99.9% of people Application

One / Two years from now on I'll have to uninstal google toolbar from every single nVidia Driver eh ? But the Glasses drivers themselfs have 0 impact, I just don't like seeing unnecesairy applications eating my ram, eventhrough I have 12 gigs , missing 50 megs to stupidity pisses me off :p:

INF here ya go 190.62 SLI on

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/9664/19062compare.th.png (http://img41.imageshack.us/i/19062compare.png/)

No Errors so far.

Gamekiller , reloading the Precision works, but maybe because I have two EVGA cards and an EVGA mobo and those are EVGA apps. I allways tend to stick to one manufacturer.

[Gamekiller]

I'm running on an Evga 780i with an Evga Gtx 295. :p:

Reloading didn't work for me, but restarting only took a few seconds so it's all good. :D

[INFRNL]

Kondik: What gpu's are you running? are they the GTX 285's in your sig?

I also noticed that you are running boinc 6.10.0.

I was using boinc 6.6.36, 190.38, 2 gtx 275's oc'd in SLI and I was getting horrible times. It must have not been running my cards at full speed.

I rebooted and precision fixed the temps as gamekiller said. My temps were in the mid 50's; which means hardly any load. When I run full load they get to around 70c.

also your times seem slow for 285's; are your cards oc'd? My 275's usually finish a wu in 6-7 hrs for the most part. If your cards are not oc'd then the times are probably right. just trying to figure this all out.
back on track; temps got fixed but clocks were reading about half; so I think something was slowing down the cards dramatically. If I can resolve this issue, I would be much happier.
since something got screwed up and I cant download any work anymore, maybe I will try 6.10.0 and 190.62 drivers.

will be back, gonna give it a shot

[Kondik]

2x EVGA GTX 285's normal , running on 702/1598/2520 so very little OC, those cards are overkill for gaming anyway so I rather keep them cooler than more OC'd

190.62 SLI on PhysX off + boinc 6.10.0 64 bit , Windows 7 Unltimate x64 RTM ,yes indeed.

And it really depends on WU's , those are the new CUDA 2.3's , those before were around 5:45 ~ 6:30 , these are 6:00 ~ 7:00 hrs. But tbh I don't care about few minutes up or down.
I'm trying to keep them on 70 Max , same as the CPU and the VREG's which are the biggest limiter in my case. 3.8 GHz + HT CPU = 75 oC, 90 Degrees VREG's = No go.

But I'm trying to get the whole MOBO + Cards a little space to breath :hehe: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1338/photo088.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/i/photo088.jpg/)

[INFRNL]

I tried installing boinc 6.10.0; got it installed but would not connect to client. I had to put 6.6.36 back on. I am on vista 64. I am not sure why it will not run properly. prefs were all messed up too, would not allow me to change them. it would change, but when I went to go back in and double check; they were all screwed up again

I am done messing around for the day. My production will probably be lower today due to issues and not allowing me any new work atm

[OldChap]

I guess I can forget putting these 260's on grid...nothing I've tried works.

Since rebooting around midnight I have this

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8691/fail5b.th.jpg (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/fail5b.jpg/)

[INFRNL]

I guess I can forget putting these 260's on grid...nothing I've tried works.

Since rebooting around midnight I have this

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8691/fail5b.th.jpg (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/fail5b.jpg/)

That sucks OC.

I am having my own problems on the new stuff myself. However I can run gpugrid, just not on 190.xx drivers.


I was thinking about trying the new boinc and driver on my win7 system, but I would hate to lose a bunch of work like I am on my main rig due to issues :shrug:

I will give it some thought

[OldChap]

I don't know what is worse...just not working or completing a few and failing a few more

I hope to have my dual opteron board soon so maybe swapping the folding cards into that and running these on xp would work?

[Kondik]

Hmm Am I incredibly lucky [ read stupid and gifted from god :p: ] that everything works like a charm for me ? Even with Beta Client and completly new nvidia drivers without moving my pinky ?

[PoppaGeek]

Hmm Am I incredibly lucky [ read stupid and gifted from god :p: ] that everything works like a charm for me ? Even with Beta Client and completly new nvidia drivers without moving my pinky ?

Yeah I was rambling on about the same thing in another thread I think. I bought a GTX 260 216 installed 190.38 started GPUGrid and end of story. It just works away no errors. Just fine. Almost boring.

My 260 219 will play nice with 1 driver 192.50. End of story. Tired everything except moving to another machine. BIOS updates, MB driver updates for Northbridge and almost every driver Nvidia released and it is still 182.50 or nothing. Not one bad WU on F@H. So seems ya sweat blood getting one to where it is happy and another you can do what ya want and it is always happy.

I dunno do some cards have bad childhoods and need special consideration?

I am tempted to try the 192 one on Linux but I am not up to it right now. Maybe on a good day I'll try it on one of the Opteron machines. Would also like to swap machines the 2 260's are on and see what happens. But it is like when I was trying the 190.62 on the 192 one, a voice kept saying "It works leave it alone!" :ROTF:

[INFRNL]

Sure Kondik...just rub it in why don't ya :shakes::slapass: :cord: :p:

@OC; I do not know what to say my friend; I know you have probably tried everything possible. I wish i could help, but I cant :(
So you can't get your 260 to work on gpu grid at all?

Seems kind of weird as I am sure the 260's are probably one of the most popular cards. Its usually a kindegarden install too. Install card, drivers, attach and done. :shrug:


Update K, So I finally got 6.10.0 working. Since that worked I decided to try 190.62 drivers again. looks like it is working now, but hard to tell. The wu's say 1 hr to complete.

However, now the system will hang, screens flash and I get a driver failed and had to restart message. This in turn errors out the running wu's. any ideas? should I try to uninstall drivers and reload?

also precision now reports oc'd clocks on gpu1 fine, but gpu2 reads....I take that back; its now readding messed up clocks and shaders again. currently reading 400 core/799 shader/ 297 mem?

Another update: Time to completion is slowly climbing and gpu temps are WAY too low to be running at full speed. GPU1=60c, GPU2=54c. They are normally in the high 60's when fully running.

[PoppaGeek]

From GPUGrid Foums: (http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=1272#12125)

Now you should be able to run again drivers 182.xx.
However, please confirm that 182.xx does work.
Also the error message should be now more appropriate.

gdf

Posted 26 Aug 2009

[123bob]

I'm seeing the same troubles. I'm running a total of 7 260-216s on the grid. Soem of them will run the 190.36 driver, some will not. My main rig has an OC EVGA 260-216 that is only happy with 182.50. Everything else creates errors.

I am happy to see they put back 182.50 capability. I hope they stay that way until nVidia gets it together with the higher release drivers.

I'm still having to work around the blank-screen-through-a-KVM issue I have on the farm. But that hasn't stopped the machines from producing valid WUs on 190.36 and 185.85.

I'm kind of tempted to put everything back to 182.50 and just wait. There was one point where I was going to bail out of GPUGrid entirely and go to folding. I really hope nVidia gets it together soon. I made a large investment to be able to do grid.....:(

Bob

[PoppaGeek]

I feel your pain. Newegg has the re-cert GTX 260 216 for $129 again but I really do not want another now. It does not look like I could depend on getting it to work with another card on a Vista box and I do not feel like finding out how it is to set one up under linux. Price of CPUs have gone down a bit I may upgrade there and wait on more GPUs.

[El Greco]

Does enyone turned on the Ambient occlusion ?? in some games looks good in others looks crap ( gears of war gets really dark if on)

[shadowwind]

I feel your pain. Newegg has the re-cert GTX 260 216 for $129 again but I really do not want another now. It does not look like I could depend on getting it to work with another card on a Vista box and I do not feel like finding out how it is to set one up under linux. Price of CPUs have gone down a bit I may upgrade there and wait on more GPUs.

i dont blame you poppa you could have a bunch of 260s sitting on your desk like i do im going to sell them and might go with 3 gtx 285s and pray they work.

as for ubuntu if you up graded to the 9.4 i think it is. envy will not work and im really not wanting to manually set up the new 185.18 drivers that works for the gpugrid at the moment, im lazy today.:D

[shadowwind]

Does enyone turned on the Ambient occlusion ?? in some games looks good in others looks crap ( gears of war gets really dark if on)

sorry i cant give input on that i don't really game any more to notice the difference.

[shadowwind]

new Beta release the 190.89 on Guru3D i didnt check to see what it about so i will let you all decide if you want it or not.:up:


i called the house i got #1 daughter down loading the new driver i was reading some post on it in some differnt forums and some are saying it stop the 2d kick down while playing games not sure it will work for the gpugrid but its worth a shot.

[PoppaGeek]

new Beta release the 190.89 on Guru3D i didnt check to see what it about so i will let you all decide if you want it or not.:up:


i called the house i got #1 daughter down loading the new driver i was reading some post on it in some differnt forums and some are saying it stop the 2d kick down while playing games not sure it will work for the gpugrid but its worth a shot.

Wow, can't believe it, installed these on the cranky 192 core 260 and played LOTRO for 4 hours and no crash! :shocked:

Thank you!!! :yepp: