Geforce 177.92 Beta-Driver up to 15% faster

[BulldogPO]

I will test these with XP SP3 later today.

[Carfax]

Games seem smoother with these drivers.

[ahmad]

Games seem smoother with these drivers.

You mean the beta drivers finally make the card work right??

jk!

don't shoot

I am happy drivers are improving though. Maybe these will fix the issues I have had.

[Carfax]

You mean the beta drivers finally make the card work right??

jk!

don't shoot

I am happy drivers are improving though. Maybe these will fix the issues I have had.

On max settings in a few games, I get the occassional lag between frames but with this driver, there's a significant improvement.

However, I just experienced a crash during gameplay, something which has never happened before so it seems these drivers aren't completely stable.

Oh well, they're beta so I shouldn't expect anything less I suppose.

[XS2K]

They gave a nice 35FPS boost for me on average in COD4 on low-med settings now I can finally play @ 333FPS fluently.

[GoldenEye]

WoW nvidia did there homework very good

[JohnZS]

These are very good drivers

[Carfax]

So I'm the only one with stability problems I suppose?

These drivers cause Gears of War to crash, which I suspect is due to the fact that Gears of War has PhysX support.

Does anyone know how to turn off PhysX in the drivers? I'm pretty sure this is the problem, as my other games are stable but I still need to make sure.

*Edit* Nevermind, found it.

[Warboy]

177.83




177.92

[Sly Fox]

Warboy, what exactly is that "CUDA-Z" application you have? It looks interesting.

[Carfax]

Well, with GPU PhysX enabled using these drivers, Gears of War definitely crashes.....at least on my PC.

Hopefully Nvidia will have this issue sorted out in the full release version.

[initialised]

Thanks, so this is where we need to start looking for the dreaded optimisations.

DX10 up DX9 down?

[Warboy]

Warboy, what exactly is that "CUDA-Z" application you have? It looks interesting.

It's just a simple little program, you should be able to find it in the SuperPI on GPU thread.

[Psykocyber]

Very nice drivers. COD4 is now playable with a FPS below 60.

[OliverM84]

Vantage +350 Points vs. 177.83/89

Vantage: GTX280 @ 804/1620(1645)/2700, Q6600 @ 3825MHz

[jmke]

Warboy, what exactly is that "CUDA-Z" application you have? It looks interesting.

google "cuda-z" the results might surprise you

[Sly Fox]

google "cuda-z" the results might surprise you

Sarcasm, cute

Back on topic...

I've been using these drivers for the last couple days for CoD4, TF2, and GRID. Overall I'd say performance is roughly the same, perhaps a few FPS boost at certain times. Nice drivers though, with how well developed G80 is, I'm surprised they're even able to improve it anymore.

That's one thing I'll give Nvidia... They make darn good drivers, their software team has my respect. It's their business practices over the last few years that I have a problem with.

[NapalmV5]

[RPGWiZaRD]

Got a BSOD in nv4_disp.dll with these during a Unreal Tournament 3 session like with the other 177.xx drivers I've tried so I'm reverting back to the stable & nice 175.95 driver.

[Blacky]

so far so good thanks for the feedback guys!

[VAdept]

Ran a quick before and after with the built in Company of Heroes benchmark, DX9, custom settings and my scores were actually a little lower but within 1%. So no change really at least with CoH in DX9.

[Carfax]

Got a BSOD in nv4_disp.dll with these during a Unreal Tournament 3 session like with the other 177.xx drivers I've tried so I'm reverting back to the stable & nice 175.95 driver.

Disable PhysX and I bet it won't BSOD.

The same thing happened to me in Gears of War, which also uses Unreal Engine 3.

The Unreal Engine 3 is PhysX capable, and for whatever reason, the GPU PhysX implementation in these drivers is FUBAR.

[Bellisimo]

what about IQ?

[Epsilon84]

Does anyone know how much enabling Physx impacts on framerates?

[Monkeywoman]

i'm guessing these are leading up to the BIGBANG2.