Another nvidia vista driver question

[Marvin_The_Martian]

9:21... went in ( from XS even at around 2:30 last night lol... gf wasn't laughing though and I got a headache!

Edit: when you get home, I hope the will have had it's effect

[[XC] 2long4u]

What coffee? I go to bed when I get home. If I drank coffee I would have to stay up till the sun comes up playing BF2. Which is fun for me but would get me in a bunch of trouble with the wife.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Lol ok I ment my own coffee so when you got home I could try and walk you through the ini modification myself. But if you're going to bed anyway, leaves plenty of time for MaK to do it

@ language mixups though

[Kingcarcas]

Funny, i'm up all night playing BF2 (2142 is still better) but instead of coffee i prefer tequila

[[XC] 2long4u]

I play em both!
It pisses me off tho. Every time I change anything I need to reinstall. One time I went to my buddy's house and I used one of his monitors and it wouldn't work. Then anytime I switch mics the mic stops working altogether, and the only way to get it working again is to reinstall the game.

[MaK2000]

Bump.
How do you change the string?

OPen nv_disp.inf with notepad. Scroll to the bottom where you see Localizable strings and add NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0409.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT" in the list. After that, reinstall your drivers. That should be it.

[Kingcarcas]

ROFL maybe i should have paid attention around here, i downloaded CUDA which i think came with its own drivers, then i downloaded the latest 177.79s, is it cool to do this? Should i stay with the 177.35s?

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

177.35 still works fine.

I do wish that they'd include 177.79 though. Isn't it supposed to be better all around?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

177.35 afaik is the only non BETA cuda capable driver. Also afaik if you first installed 177.35, you've already installed the cuda part and going from them to any driver package without cuda wont break anything. But going to a version with CUDA support, you're playing on a minefield because CUDA itself changes between version ( just as any software which is still in development ) and you might loose the compatibilty Stanford requires in their clients. So some people have done the above path and ended up with working gpu2 clients, but very low ppd and others didn't get it to work at all. There are some who have gotten it to work with specific versions with no ill effect on the folding performance but I'm not convinced.

For a dedicated folder the 177.35's make the best sence, and I do play games now and then and I have no issues with these drivers ( but, I play occasionally and I think there are games with more reported issues with these drivers then the ones I play ) so I'm still going to recommend these.. Also makes detecting potential problem causes easier. If you know what you're doing, feel free to experiment but don't complain afterwards that you where not warned

[MikeB12]

I've tried 177.35, 177.66, and 177.79 on my 8800gt and they all work, same ppd.. so my guess is 177.35 and up...

[Marvin_The_Martian]

But with all those driver installs, they had a prior 177.35 install right? Treid installing them on a clean os?

[ThunderDuck]

Don't know if Vista and XP work the same but I did a clean install of 177.79 on XP for my tri gpu folder.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

They don't work the same but the portion about including the cuda driver bit is the same for both platforms. If you got CUDA running with a clean install of 177.79 that means it does include the CUDA package. Also, most newer versions will only add functionality so I don't really expect any cuda release to be dropping something essential to folding, but I do want to keep the possible issues as small as possible.

Thanks for clearing that up though, looks like a definetive answer

[MikeB12]

177.66 was a clean install... it was that second 8800gt I got. remember the pc that had xp on it... when I was complaining about how bad xp was with the dual smp/gpu situation.

formatted the next day and put vista64 on it, 177.66 was the first video driver that machine received.. so I know that one works ground up. that's what makes me think they are all backwards compatible...

these are from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...p?showforum=94

so if you're talking abouut ones from other sites, then I don't know. I've always used the ones from laptopvideo2go

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Ok that link is being passed on allot on the folding forums as well, makes sence. But I wouldn't do it with driver packages downloaded from nvidia themselfs.

[Kingcarcas]

Yah, i only use drivers from Nvidia, anyway i'm sure it doesn't make a big difference so uninstalled the newer drivers and went back to the 35s. I've been testing the OC on the card.