71.84 Drivers

[Dadofamunky]

Yep, the 71.84 drivers are the way to go, nothing before that got my 6800 Ultra card to perform up to snuff

 

[housecat]

I'm already estatic with SLIs performance.. with an official release (hopefully squashing the timing issues on widescreen DVIs), I'll be damn happy.

I'm glad this isnt the official release though, I feel its proper that they fix the DVI issue with that.
But this is good enough to be the final release... exceptional work from Nvidia.

 

[zerocool84]

YIKES my idle temps shot up to 63*C after installing this

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
YIKES my idle temps shot up to 63*C after installing this

Yes that is the one down side to these drivers. You have to set the core clock to 402 for these to fix the temp bug.

 

[zerocool84]

i wish i could get my core that high but it went down to 51*C which is a lot better than 63 after i got my max O/C

 

[McArra]

I don't have those temps reading errors. I haven't had them in lot's of drivers that where suppossed to have the bug. I think it is because my GFX cards controls temp with Asus smartdoctor app. So it is a software problem, not that the hard is relly hotter.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: McArra
I don't have those temps reading errors. I haven't had them in lot's of drivers that where suppossed to have the bug. I think it is because my GFX cards controls temp with Asus smartdoctor app. So it is a software problem, not that the hard is relly hotter.

yea i figured that after i was raising my clock higher, the temps got lower, i wish it always was like that though

 

[housecat]

Seems to be a guide to creating SLI profiles through the new betas and explanations of the TWO new SLI rendering modes, autoselect (seems to work rather well) and AFR2 on NZone.

link

 

[zakee00]

downloading now.
hope they don't have WoW corruption *crosses fingers* or back to the ol 67.66'es for me

 

[housecat]

Dont have WoW, wish I did but am resisting the urge.
I actually did buy it, but returned it at Xmas time! lol

 

[joliver]

Wow, did anyone else register a big score increase with these drivers in 3dMark05?

I'm running a crappy dell P42.66 533fsb and for the first time ever I was able to break 4075 with these! My current 6800nu OC is set 380/800 at 16/6, but was only scoring 3800 with the 67.03's.

Happy so far! (In comparison, back in October I was only scoring around 3100 marks without the unlock or OC).

-Jason

 

[housecat]

I jumped about 500 3dmarks.

Not bad at all.

9051 in 3dmark05 on completely stock SLI 6800GTs with no lod bias tweaks or any changed driver settings from stock whatsoever.
Thats pretty good IMO.

With some tweaking I could prob get 10K without even overclocking. :thumbsup:

 

[BFG10K]

A CoolBits applet to allow users to easily add their own SLI application profiles for games not currently supported

I'd be more excited if nVidia released a new official driver.

The only downside to these drivers is they are still OGL 1.5 instead of 2.0.

That and the fact that nVidia beta drivers suck donkey balls.

 

[housecat]

YYYeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and WHQL certification costs NV money. All they have to do is release whatever they are working on in beta form to us so we can get fixes for problems faster in the gaming community.
But sure.

When its worthy of a official release they'll WHQL them, but thats a feelgood cert

Enjoy those 66.93s :thumbsup: until the next officials.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: McArra
I don't have those temps reading errors. I haven't had them in lot's of drivers that where suppossed to have the bug. I think it is because my GFX cards controls temp with Asus smartdoctor app. So it is a software problem, not that the hard is relly hotter.

aye but as i pointed out in my other thread, it didnt seem like a driver problem ,as my temperature probes also registered the 10degree increase in temps

set 402mhz and its now cooler than before...its a complete WTF

 

[JBT]

Its not a just a Bug which shows the temp difference it is phyisically hoter. Any one with a temp probe will be able to show that. It is a software problem to though, it basically tells the fan to spin slower causing temps to rise. Sorry zeroCool I didn't mean to say 402 core clock was required to fix it. It just seems to be the sweet spot for most people. Supposidly any OCing at all will fix it.

 

[mustap]

71.84 drivers are pretty good so far.i had tried 75.90 driver and had major issues.i had to remove them with drive cleaner to extinguish the problem

 

[jamesbond007]

My 6800NU PCI-E still idles at 51C with these drivers and my 66.93s I was using before. What chipset are you guys running? What videocard bus? AGP/PCIe?

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: JBT
Its not a just a Bug which shows the temp difference it is phyisically hoter. Any one with a temp probe will be able to show that. It is a software problem to though, it basically tells the fan to spin slower causing temps to rise. Sorry zeroCool I didn't mean to say 402 core clock was required to fix it. It just seems to be the sweet spot for most people. Supposidly any OCing at all will fix it.

My Asus never got hotter and the difference is that it uses it's own temp mmesuring system so it can't be hotter IMO

 

[PrayForDeath]

So do you guys recommend these over the 75.90?

 

[McArra]

XG 71.84 definetly

 

[DoughKey]

I didn't see anything in the release notes about them enabling multi-display in SLI mode on the same card. Can anyone confirm whether this is still broken?

-D

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
My 6800NU PCI-E still idles at 51C with these drivers and my 66.93s I was using before. What chipset are you guys running? What videocard bus? AGP/PCIe?

It only affects 6800GT's.

McArra I am only going on a number of people who have said this about thier GT's over on NVnews.net Who knows maybe it doesn't matter for Asus's.

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
My 6800NU PCI-E still idles at 51C with these drivers and my 66.93s I was using before. What chipset are you guys running? What videocard bus? AGP/PCIe?

It only affects 6800GT's.

McArra I am only going on a number of people who have said this about thier GT's over on NVnews.net Who knows maybe it doesn't matter for Asus's.

i have a 6800nu and my temps jumped but yes overclocking does fix it

 

[Gamingphreek]

bump 71.90 drivers are now released. Looks like this might be the final release before official.

Link

Anyone willing to test these?

-Kevin