NVIDIA GPU driver 196.21 released

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2010 in Science & Tech
NVIDIA GPU driver 196.21 released

Comments

  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    Glad to see a new update... Now that I am running Nvidia again, it is also nice to not have a system that crashes.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    There is a CUDA update, 3.0.
  • NaturalViolence
    edited January 2010
    Actually that was introduced a few months ago in forceware 195.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    Well I needed something to talk about thats what I picked.
  • miragemirage
    edited January 2010
    If you use Rivatuner (or a derivative like Precision) for overclocking, this driver breaks them.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    What as in they will not work with the driver or the program crashes?
  • SerpSerp Texas Member
    edited January 2010
    You can't overclock anymore, specifically you can't change the shader clock speed.

    From 182.08:tim: to 196.21 my vantage score went up to 12139:D
  • Danial
    edited January 2010
    Precision works fine with these drivers, its only lacking the shader clock... and fwiw, overclocking shaders hasn't been very stable since 191 anyway.....
  • SerpSerp Texas Member
    edited January 2010
    Unless you have some updated version of precision other than v1.9.0 it's not working with 196.21
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    its working for me...
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2010
    its working for me...
    Are you overclocking shaders? That's a must for me. Shaders are the most important factor in GPU Folding@Home, MUCH more important than core clock speed. Memory speed is almost irrelevant. So Sledge, which video card tweaker are you using?
  • miragemirage
    edited January 2010
    This driver disables overclocking with Rivatuner and Precision because of a bug in the driver according to Unwinder as I read at Rivatuner forum. I would expect a new Nvidia driver shortly after this, more likely another beta like 195.81.
  • Nicolas
    edited February 2010
    so we cant overclock any more ? :"( i just install new drivers.. and yeah.. i found that up..
  • SerpSerp Texas Member
    edited February 2010
    Rivatuner and EVGA Precision work, they have been updated for 196.21
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    Sort of irrelevant, as NVIDIA released fixed drivers 8 days later: http://tech.icrontic.com/news/nvidia-gpu-driver-196-34-released/
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited February 2010
    new beta drivers
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