Has anyone downloaded and checked the lastest drivers for NVIDIA cards?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.16_whql.html

Thanks,

Have just downloaded and installed 178.16 drivers.Behold I could not believe the result, had to check and make sure none of my AA and AF settings had altered. Have an increase of 15---20% in frame rate.

6600 core 2 duo
2 gig ram
XFX 8600gt XXX

awsome...I hope they work as well in my 7900 GTX's sli.

These drivers work fine with my 8800GT too. And, things seem a little bit faster.

This is good news guys.

I'm from the ATI side of the tracks and just recently got back to NVIDIA. Is there a program that will wipe out the old Drivers like DEtomator Destroyer used to for the ATI line?

I had some directions that showed the step by step process. Is there anything in existance for these type?

Thanks,

There are several driver cleaners. I use DriverClearn .Net

http://www.drivercleaner.net

I use Add/Remove through control panel...lol. Never had any problems whatsoever.

I have positive result with this driver, around 10% FPS improvement and IQ may be improved also. So i think it is a keeper!

Although I still have the same bugs that, before running the game in 2560 x 1600, i need to run it in lower rez first, otherwise I will see a significan fps hit. Didn't have this problem in 158.x and before.

I am running a pair of 8800GTXs

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Originally posted by Diablo310th:
awsome...I hope they work as well in my 7900 GTX's sli.

Ditto...

hmm...glad I decided to hit up this board today so I could hear about this...

I tried it, seems to maybe help a bit...

noob question: when I install a new forcewear update, what should I do with the older ones still on my computer? just delete them? leave them there?

h009291 talks about 175.16 drivers and RickRuski about 178.16 drivers. I'm kind of confused. Which drivers offer the best performance? In other words, which drivers are all of you talking about?

The site has 175.16. Not sure what 178.16 are.

Installed these 175.16 (no 178.16s exist-typo)NVidia drivers lastnight and they certainly ran fine in IL2 'maybe' slight improvemnets in fps/Image Quality....However .....I just slightly overclocked my 8800GTX and played a few minutes of COD4 and man it looks bloody great .Amazing improvement .Now I know a 25-50MHz boost of graphics card dont look THAT good !!!I can only assume this driver kicks a55 at COD4...

Typo error, should have read 175.16 not 178.16

I hit the link and forgot that I had XP-64. If you hit the link below you can get the drivers for whatever OS you are using.

Drivers Download

After testing I definitely get better frames.. but I get spurts... not pauses.. not stutters.. but spurts... where the sim is jerking..... not wholy pausihng... am I making sense?

BC I think I know what you mean. I'm still playing around with the Nvidia settings but I have seen sort of 'single glitches' occasionally. Is that the same thing or something different?

I'm on 8AA and 8QAF (hope I've got the the right way round ) so things look pretty good except for far-off shadows on the water like mountains for example - they look like a lot of little blocks and not very realistic. Is this because I'm using Water=4 or something else? Is it one of the other Nvidia settings?

Don't get me wrong, everything is very nice compared with a couple of years ago but there's always room for improvement!

The screen is not so much stuttering as it is pulsing...

I've seen a new setting in the nVidia Control Panel: Maximum Pre-rendered Frames=3. What does it mean? Which is the better number to use? (It can be chosen from 0 to 8.

tried them out and work nice on an 8600

@ bearcat - try

threaded opt -off
triple buff-on
v-sync-on

full setting I use in nvidea control panel are



af 4x
aa gamma on
aa mode override
aa setting 4x
aa trans off
tex clamp use hardware
error off
ext off
mipmaps none
pre 8
multi multiple display perf
text filt ansio on
text filt neg lod clamp
text filt quality quality
text filt tri off
thread opt off
triple buff on
v sync force on



I use the latest .dlls from 1c forum as well