Geforce 177.92 Beta-Driver up to 15% faster

**Blacky** · 08-26-2008, 07:46 AM

Source: Hardware-Infos

Release notes:

Supports GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, and 9400 GT GPUs.
Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.08.18).
Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
Supports CUDA™.
Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v177.92 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

*Note: Quad SLI technology with GeForce 9800 GX2, 3-way SLI technology, and Hybrid SLI technology are only supported on Windows Vista.

Windows XP

32-bit

64-bit

Windows Vista

32-bit

64-bit

Best regards

!

Blacky

**RPGWiZaRD** · 08-26-2008, 07:47 AM

Nice, needs testing. :p

**Warboy** · 08-26-2008, 07:48 AM

I will be testing soon.

**Blacky** · 08-26-2008, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by [cTx]Warboy

I will be testing soon.

can you provide some feedback Warboy? thanks!

**Celcius** · 08-26-2008, 07:54 AM

For once I'm going to wait until I see someone else's results before I download...

**Warboy** · 08-26-2008, 07:55 AM

Yes, as soon as My CHKDSK is done on my RAID drives, I'll do 177.83 vs 177.92, on my 8800GTX, 9800 GTX+ and GTX 280.

**jas420221** · 08-26-2008, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by [cTx]Warboy

Yes, as soon as My CHKDSK is done on my RAID drives, I'll do 177.83 vs 177.92, on my 8800GTX, 9800 GTX+ and GTX 280.

there shouldnt be a difference between those drivers considering...

The following are examples of improvements measured with v177.92 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:

well at least not the advertised difference...

**3NZ0** · 08-26-2008, 08:54 AM

These are great drivers, been using them on my laptop for a while now and every game I've tested so far has had an fps increase and is just that little bit smoother at max settings.

**Aleki** · 08-26-2008, 09:11 AM

I just wish vista drivers would deliver smooth gameplay like on xp. I dont care about max framerates, that means crap. i noticed when i had xp64, there were no little blips or stutters while playing more demanding games. NFSPS ran silky smooth, but with Vista, i get occasional blips, which becomes very apparant on any racing games

**Chruschef** · 08-26-2008, 09:18 AM

Its about time they start releasing some really good drivers, I've always thought the 200 series had more potential, and so did all of the other cards!
Go nvidia!, start retaliating to get your butt kicked by ATi.

Competition drives performance

**revenant** · 08-26-2008, 09:28 AM

yep.. I think keeping the minimum frame rate higher is more important.. for smooth play.

none the less, i will have to give these a try!

**HotGore** · 08-26-2008, 11:43 AM

Wow 99.03mb for drivers.

**JargonGR** · 08-26-2008, 12:02 PM

FRAK! I hope this does not mean my 8800GTX SLI is not any slower than the 4870X2 (the first)I just got to replace it.

**Biker** · 08-26-2008, 12:06 PM

Stability testing with Win XP SP3 ... so far so good ....

Edit: winxp SP3 with 179.83 + 8.08.10 physx VS 179.92 + 8.08.18 results:

GTX 280 primary @ 670/1458/1250 with 8800gtx physx ppu @ 626/1500/1000 (physx ppu not really utilised in this test, just giving current config):

COHOF built in perf test @ max details @ 2560 x 1600 :

179.83:

Min: 28.6
Avg: 56.1
Max: 61.0

179.92:

Min: 31.8
Avg: 58.4
Max: 61.0

Looking good so far ....

**ShArKo** · 08-26-2008, 12:12 PM

downloading now........I Will testing on Vista 64 Bits...........

**dengyong** · 08-26-2008, 02:49 PM

Performance in crysis is the same as 177.89 for me. This driver seems a little more stable though.

**NaMcO** · 08-26-2008, 02:59 PM

Nice, more drivers... Downloading, will post results ASAP.

**Fungus** · 08-26-2008, 03:05 PM

XPSP3 32bit here, drivers seem to give about 1% performance boost for me.

Seems a bit more stable though.

**Epsilon84** · 08-26-2008, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by HotGore

Wow 99.03mb for drivers.

Yeah its getting ridiculous, WTH is going on? Must be the Physx drivers or something...

**safan80** · 08-26-2008, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by HotGore

Wow 99.03mb for drivers.

I have some ATI drivers that are 100MB. I am not running my gtx 280 at the moment I'm still waiting on DFI to get dual 4870x2 compatibility working.

**NaMcO** · 08-26-2008, 04:27 PM

Some results here:

Code:

Driver                        177.83                  177.92

3DMark 2006 Canyon Flight     105.339 fps             105.310 fps

3DMark Vantage GPU2           33.21 fps               33.22 fps
3DMark Vantage CPU2           132.58 fps              127.73 fps

Crysis DX10 x64 High 19x12    39.39 fps               49.24 fps

3DMark vantage CPU2 score (Physics) seems to have lowered score (ran 3 times to check) and Crysis seems to have had a bit of a boost. I picked up the average fps from a 3 test run. I know these aren't reliable benchmarks, but i can spot some differences within my machine.

**Speederlander** · 08-26-2008, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Aleki

I just wish vista drivers would deliver smooth gameplay like on xp. I dont care about max framerates, that means crap. i noticed when i had xp64, there were no little blips or stutters while playing more demanding games. NFSPS ran silky smooth, but with Vista, i get occasional blips, which becomes very apparant on any racing games

Vista games run smooth as silk for me. No "blips" at all.

**Decami** · 08-26-2008, 04:31 PM

wow look at the support list, we need more drivers like this to get ready for the Lucid Hydra chip, awesome.

**andressergio** · 08-26-2008, 06:30 PM

In my case the 175.19 run much better than this ones on My Vista Ultimate SP1 64bits...

Cheers
Sergio

**Aleki** · 08-26-2008, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Speederlander

Vista games run smooth as silk for me. No "blips" at all.

either its the extra bandwidth of your gpu, or your cpu's dont bottleneck the gpu. not sure what it is, but all games that are demanding stutter a bit more on vista64 vs xp64 with my config

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