nVidia Quadro 258.96 modified driver for GeForce cards

[Ket]

Title says it all guys. I've modified the Quadro 258.96 driverset to work with GeForce 6/7/8/9 series and Fermi cards. I'll be beginning the upload of these drivers in a few minutes so check back in half hour or so for the download link.

I don't think theres much need to explain why I have modified the Quadro 258.96 drivers, but for those who really don't know, its to get the absolute best image quality. IMO standard GeForce drivers for the most part have always been pants in this regard.

Drivers are passworded as these are XS member exclusive. So drop a PM to me for the password and of course post here with how performance and image quality are for you compared to normal Forceware drivers.

Download Link:

258.96 Quadro>GeForce Win7 / Vista 64 drivers
259.12 Quadro>GeForce Win7 / Vista 64 drivers*
259.57 Quadro>GeForce Win7 / Vista 64 drivers*

*drivers are universal and will work with pretty much ALL nVidia graphics solutions. Password: hex_13_system77

It should be noted these driver packages do NOT include the PhysX software, so be sure to grab it from nVidias website.

EDIT
Based on peoples feedback here is a summary of the 259.12 Quadro mod drivers vs. Forceware equivillents.

- Better IQ
- Game profiles don't mysteriously vanish
- No BSODs or lockups
- No random CTDs

[TJ TRICHEESE]

killer thanks PM sent.

EDIT: what do you use to modify the driver,hex editor?

[Ket]

killer thanks PM sent.

EDIT: what do you use to modify the driver,hex editor?

No need for that, the drivers the Quadro series use are the same as what GeForce use. The only difference is the Quadro drivers are geared toward absolute best image quality, and they go through a more stringent quality control system. Can you imagine studios like Pixar complaining to nVidia about crap drivers? Don't think so

All I've done is changed some (well ok, a LOT) of driver ID strings so the Quadro drivers work with GeForce cards

[Sam_oslo]

It says .. "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable". Stop messing around, LOL, I've good experience with Quadro-drivers, and want to try this.


EDIT: OK, it is working now .

[Ket]

It says .. "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable", stop messing around, LOL, I've good experience with Quadro-drivers, and want to try this.

EDIT: it is working now.

Might take a little longer for the file to be available to you where you are. If its still not working in a few hours let me know and I'll upload them to rapidsh|t.

[WhiteFireDragon]

nothing for the 200 series cards? i have like 10 of these cards, but no fermi or 8/9 series

[Ket]

Oh, forgot about them. 200 series should work fine too

[Alien Grey]

An other great mod by Ket.

I'll give it a try to see the difference. Thanks a lot. PM is on it's way.

[TJ TRICHEESE]

it works i've installed them and am just about to test them

[WhiteFireDragon]

i've been getting "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable" for the past 10 min lol

EDIT: nm, finally got it. just have to keep pressing the link until it works. PM sent

[Ket]

An other great mod by Ket.

I'll give it a try to see the difference. Thanks a lot. PM is on it's way.

Why do I get the feeling you're one of the guys that used the P5Q BIOS mods I done and the Xpertvision X1950Pro vBIOS fix / 30% AA performance gain I made

i've been getting "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable" for the past 10 min lol

Not available to you yet, same as I said a lil further up, if their not available in a few hours let me know and I'll upload them to rapidsh|t.

[TJ TRICHEESE]

Ok i've got a problem, i tried to open a game and it minimised the game and opened the monitor settings on win 7 and keeps doing that if i click on the game again

Edit: it does it with every 3d application i have tried

[Ket]

Whats the game?

and thats very parculiar

[TJ TRICHEESE]

vantage, 06, bf2, mw2, crysis, crysis warhed

[Ket]

vantage, 06, bf2, mw2, crysis, crysis warhed

I'm running Vantage right now with no problems. The minimum FPS in the first GPU test is 2FPS higher with image quality settings in the nV CP set to "High Quality". Thats 2FPS better than what the Forceware 258.96 drivers managed with the image quality settings on "Quality". GPU score also went up from 15180 to 15481

[Ket]

Thats super whack. Did you run driver sweeper before installing the quadro drivers? I'll test a bunch of games and benchmarks in a few.

[TJ TRICHEESE]

Thats super whack. Did you run driver sweeper before installing the quadro drivers? I'll test a bunch of games and benchmarks in a few.

I'll try that

[TJ TRICHEESE]

this is what device manager shows:

[Ket]

Looks like some 200 series cards are unsupported. I'll see if I can dig up some more IDs.

[WhiteFireDragon]

installed the drivers, i'm running one gtx295. i instantly get an error on one of my crunching work units, but the other one is fine (gtx295 has 2 GPU's on it). then when i look in the device manager, weird thing is that one of the device ID looks fine, and the other one is gibberish. they're the same exact GPU's on the same card too! not sure why one is valid and other one isn't

[Ket]

Hmm.. not sure where the gibberish is coming from. Just checked my GTX 460. It WAS listed as a GTX 460, now its device ID is its name. I'll sniff around a bit. Right now I don't think its causing any problems I've just run Vantage and Unigine Heaven without any issues.

[TJ TRICHEESE]

still got the same problem (after driver removal and reinstall)

@white fire dragon, dual cards have two different bios's

[Ket]

Ok guys don't worry I found the problem I just forgot to change some text strings. I'll upload the package again with the fixed file. Same password

still got the same problem (after driver removal and reinstall)

@white fire dragon, dual cards have two different bios's

Sorry to treat you like a n00b but this is so I know nothing is conflicting

1. uninstall nv drivers
2. reboot to safe mode
3. run driver sweeper 2.1
4. check c:\ program files for any nv files and delete them
5. click start and go to run>regedit>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE delete any nvidia strings.
6. restart and install the fixed package I'll upload

Remember this driver package doesnt include the PhysX software so you need to download that from nVidia.

[Alien Grey]

The good news is that it works without problems and the performance is exactly the same as with the GeForce driver.

The bad news is that it doesn't recognise what graphics card I'm using like some of the other guys.

[Ket]

Fixed that and uploading new package, same password