NVIDIA's most significant GPU drivers in ages: the 256-series ForceWare

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  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Boosted my Vantage score by 4000 points!
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    These performance increases are all well and good but can anyone explain to me the Nvidia drive numbering scheme? 196 to 257, what?
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Maybe it is the sum of all the driver updates they needed to do but didn't so they just jumped ahead anyways?
  • miragemirage
    edited May 2010
    Considering the recent troubles with beta 19X drivers, I am not brave enough to test these drivers with older 2XX GPUs. I might try in the weekend.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    It was 196.75 that caused issues... I am running the new 257.15 on my system with no issues outside of beyond epic benchmark scores :) but that is not much of an issue is it...
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Woohoo... overinflated numbers in my synthetic number-producing software that has next to no real-world bearing! Look at my e-peen... LOOK AT IT!
  • miragemirage
    edited May 2010
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    It was 196.75 that caused issues... I am running the new 257.15 on my system with no issues outside of beyond epic benchmark scores :) but that is not much of an issue is it...
    Do you think it will make any difference with a GTX260?
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    They call these the 256 series drivers, yet the numbers start with 257..... makes perfect sense for Nvidia.:rant:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    (Probably because the first internal betas started with 256.xx. Crazy, I know.)
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    We'll see. I think I'll hold off until I hear a few reports of how they function with 9800GTs.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    I've installed them on my 8800GT (a 65nm 9800GT), and they're working well. You should give 'em a try, Coldalarm.
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    Are they still Beta? If so, I'll give 'em a miss for now.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Yep, beta.
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    I'll wait for release, then. I don't trust nVidia drivers as it is (until the latest release, I seemed to have no end of troubles with 19x series), especially with Fallout 3.

    But they sound like they could be good.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Well the issue with Fallout 3 is the game not the drivers.
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    Fallout 3's buggy, yeah, but an nv4_disp.dll BSOD points straight to nVidia drivers.
  • miragemirage
    edited May 2010
    Fallout 3 was working butter smooth with 18X drivers. Whatever has happened with 19X added stuttering and occasional driver crashes. I am not sure if this is entirely due to the game but it is the only game I know having this problem.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    I bought Fallout 3 and could never get it to run for more than 45 minutes. I played that game for probably 5 hours and never got past about 2 hours. I have tried drivers from 180 to 190 with 88s and GX2s but everything always gave the same symptoms, this is across XP and 7. After talking at least a dozen people who had the same set of problems I stopped and said it was a waste of time and money...should of bought fc2 and left FO3 alone.
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    mirage wrote:
    Fallout 3 was working butter smooth with 18X drivers. Whatever has happened with 19X added stuttering and occasional driver crashes. I am not sure if this is entirely due to the game but it is the only game I know having this problem.
    That's what I found, too. I had very few problems with anything at all on 18X, but as soon as I used any but the most recent 19X, FO3 would blue screen and so would the other occasional game.

    @_k_; They're both good ;) FC2 is incredibly underrated.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    They needed to add a taxi service to that game because having to run the same checkpoints and just jump out and RPG jeeps that t-bone you gets annoying after 3 hours.
  • coldalarmcoldalarm England, UK
    edited May 2010
    Aye. The bus routes were too far apart as well, among a few other flaws.

    Loved it to pieces, and many of its flaws were minor at best. Did have a problem with a promo code that wouldn't work, but I wasn't too bothered about that.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Considering the recent troubles with beta 19X drivers, I am not brave enough to test these drivers with older 2XX GPUs.
    I'm running the 257.15 beta drivers on GTX 295s, 9800GX2s, and a GTX 275 Co-op without any problems.
    Woohoo... overinflated numbers in my synthetic number-producing software that has next to no real-world bearing! Look at my e-peen... LOOK AT IT!
    Be fair, OK? He didn't post any numbers - just saying he was enjoying it. Benchmarking is fun, even though in the abstract it often doesn't mean much.
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