GeForce 196.75 WHQL: Up to 30% increase in performance

**annihilat0r** · 03-02-2010, 07:05 AM

http://forum.donanimhaber.com/m_38167398/tm.htm

Looks like there are great increases in single GPU systems, and even better at SLI systems.

**~~Yvese~~** · 03-02-2010, 07:14 AM

Wow. Would like to see some benchies. Pretty impressive increases for a driver

**Mats** · 03-02-2010, 07:18 AM

If they keep up the good work they don't have to release any new cards!
Oh wait..

Seriously though, this looks great, I get impressed every time they can squeese some more performance from the drivers.

**K404** · 03-02-2010, 07:23 AM

Anyone tried these in 3DM?

**SKYMTL** · 03-02-2010, 07:27 AM

As long as these are performance increases in NEW games it is great. Otherwise, I don't want to see yet another 20% bump in Far Cry 2....

**saaya** · 03-02-2010, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by Mats

If they keep up the good work they don't have to release any new cards!
Oh wait..

Originally Posted by Mats

Seriously though, this looks great, I get impressed every time they can squeese some more performance from the drivers.

well it depends on how they achieve it...

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

As long as these are performance increases in NEW games it is great. Otherwise, I don't want to see yet another 20% bump in Far Cry 2....

exactly, and if it comes at even a slight decrease in image quality then id prefer to have worse perf but still good enough...

no major performance boosts for a long time, and then all the sudden 15-30% performance boosts in several popular games that have been out for a long time? im sceptical about how they achieved that...

**Pontos** · 03-02-2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by saaya

no major performance boosts for a long time, and then all the sudden 15-30% performance boosts in several popular games that have been out for a long time? im sceptical about how they achieved that...

Again the magic performance-unlocking driver like in the Geforce FX era (Or was it 4?), right when ATI released a new set of cards?

It's a possibility, but i don't think it's like that since they have been struggling against the HD5xxx series for too long. They surely would have come with this right after ATI made their move...

Lots of people have bought ATI cards because they got tired of waiting for the mystical Fermi that nobody knows anything about to compare and decide.

**N19h7m4r3** · 03-02-2010, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Pontos

Again the magic performance-unlocking driver like in the Geforce FX era (Or was it 4?), right when ATI released a new set of cards?

It's a possibility, but i don't think it's like that since they have been struggling against the HD5xxx series for too long. They surely would have come with this right after ATI made their move...

Lots of people have bought ATI cards because they got tired of waiting for the mystical Fermi that nobody knows anything about to compare and decide.

It was the FX series, they gave a performance boost, but dropped in Image Quality over all.

I really hope that didn't happen again and that it's not the only way they could get the GTX 480 to perform better than the 5870.

If so they might lose more people.

**Sam_oslo** · 03-02-2010, 09:27 AM

OMG 30% up? Maybe i should keep my GTX 295, who need needs Fermi aftr this

**zalbard** · 03-02-2010, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

As long as these are performance increases in NEW games it is great. Otherwise, I don't want to see yet another 20% bump in Far Cry 2....

In Crysis, HAWX and L4D only unless I am missing something. And these are far from being new. I wonder how they manage to keep increasing the performance in Crysis, though. Are they rewriting the engine for the devs?!

**jakku** · 03-02-2010, 10:53 AM

And some gift from nvidia driver download section on web :

System Message

Please try again at a later time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

**systemviper** · 03-02-2010, 10:59 AM

it will be interesting to see some real world results...

**SKYMTL** · 03-02-2010, 11:00 AM

Looks like single card scores are only affected in Crysis: Warhead, Left 4 Dead and HawX. Looks like some huge SLI patches though.

**~~THOMO~~** · 03-02-2010, 11:02 AM

guru3d.com has it also.

testing now.

**zalbard** · 03-02-2010, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

Looks like single card scores are only affected in Crysis: Warhead, Left 4 Dead and HawX. Looks like some huge SLI patches though.

Hm, maybe because of ATI's announcement of rewriting CFX code.

**SKYMTL** · 03-02-2010, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by zalbard

Hm, maybe because of ATI's announcement of rewriting CFX code.

Maybe, but probably not. Typically, NVIDIA quarterly driver releases incorporate a massive number of SLI updates.

**Mabyboi** · 03-02-2010, 11:47 AM

I can only hope this is true!! i may keep my 295, and grab a second when everyone sells for fermi... lets see some results!

**~~Katanai~~** · 03-02-2010, 11:49 AM

So is it any good? Cause the beta driver wouldn't install for me. It crashed half way through so I had to revert to the latest 195 driver. I'm a bit weary about trying this one out...

**~~THOMO~~** · 03-02-2010, 11:58 AM

working fine here.

previous '06 best for me in 7 32bit was 16,700. With 196.75 I scored 17,400 just 5minutes ago. So a

from me.

Hope this applies to XP aswell, this should put me very close to 20k

**FlawleZ** · 03-02-2010, 02:19 PM

Anyone with a G80 or SLI G80 setup try this out yet?

**annihilat0r** · 03-02-2010, 02:34 PM

A guy at DH with a GTX 280 is reporting higher AVG but lower min FPS in Crysis Warhead.

**Sentential** · 03-02-2010, 04:02 PM

These have to be single handidly the WORST sack of

drivers I have EVER used. Constant bsods, msi afterburner causes instant lockups with drivers and I have yet to get SLI to work without a hardlock.

Also dedicated physx is broken and does not appear to work anymore with this package. I am in the process of rolling them back as we speak if I can get this computer to remain responsive long enough to do so. If you are using windows 7 64bit STAY AWAY

**iTravis** · 03-02-2010, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Sentential

These have to be single handidly the WORST sack of

drivers I have EVER used. Constant bsods, msi afterburner causes instant lockups with drivers and I have yet to get SLI to work without a hardlock.

Also dedicated physx is broken and does not appear to work anymore with this package. I am in the process of rolling them back as we speak if I can get this computer to remain responsive long enough to do so. If you are using windows 7 64bit STAY AWAY

I was about to download and install until I read this :facepalm:

**annihilat0r** · 03-02-2010, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Sentential

Constant bsods, msi afterburner causes instant lockups with drivers and I have yet to get SLI to work without a hardlock. dedicated physx is broken and does not appear to work anymore

sounds fun

**BababooeyHTJ** · 03-02-2010, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Sentential

These have to be single handidly the WORST sack of

drivers I have EVER used. Constant bsods, msi afterburner causes instant lockups with drivers and I have yet to get SLI to work without a hardlock.

Also dedicated physx is broken and does not appear to work anymore with this package. I am in the process of rolling them back as we speak if I can get this computer to remain responsive long enough to do so. If you are using windows 7 64bit STAY AWAY

Rivatuner seems to be working fine for me. I have yet to have a bsod or even a crash to desktop.

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