New NVIDIA WHQL Driver

[Navid]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
You really don't know how to read, do you, you trolling fuckwit?

:disgust:
:thumbsdown:

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: Rage187

Originally posted by: ST

Originally posted by: Rage187
I swear, as soon as I hit apply the bottom inch of my screen disappears and digital vibrance gets cranked up. I didn't even change anything except to use the settings I want, but before I can even make changes it does this crap. It did it with the first 9X's that came out as well. Something in this series hates my Westy 37".

strange...i have no issues whatsoever wth a 42" Sceptre 1920x1080p setup..did you try going back to the old interface and tweaking it from thee?

thats my next step!

thanks! that worked, guess the new panel is just bugged.

 

[OAKside24]

Originally posted by: Mem
This link

should fix the SLI pop up message on every reboot with these drivers,I can confirm Coolbits work with these drivers if you use it with the standard classic CP,not tried it with the new CP since I hate it.


Update: No SLI pop up message now which is great and games work fine even with non SLI boards like mine,however I still get the same stupid Nvidia tray icon load up on every reboot ,even when I have it disabled in CP,only fix for that is to deselect it again in control panel after each reboot,guess I can live with that until it is fixed.

Awesome, Thanks a bunch for that. For SLI users nVIDIA says it is a bug and has an easy fix. For non-SLI users they say it is a bug and will be fixed with a future release. Hmmm. Sounds like they are using the balloon to market SLI to everyone. ;D

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

I think PureVideo should be absolutely free, and I think that the current state of Mpeg2/H.264/etc. acceleration is a freaking joke. Nvidia needs to understand that H.264 is the future of video and that the fact that only highend systems can run 1080p is unacceptable at this point.

I think the main problem at this point is the lack of standardization in terms of the H.264 codec. Right now you have to download a specific Nvidia driver paired with a specific version of Nero Showtime/Cyberlink PowerDVD. I think in time when the public starts using H.264 more and more, we will see such things.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
I think PureVideo should be absolutely free, and I think that the current state of Mpeg2/H.264/etc. acceleration is a freaking joke. Nvidia needs to understand that H.264 is the future of video and that the fact that only highend systems can run 1080p is unacceptable at this point.

I think the main problem at this point is the lack of standardization in terms of the H.264 codec. Right now you have to download a specific Nvidia driver paired with a specific version of Nero Showtime/Cyberlink PowerDVD. I think in time when the public starts using H.264 more and more, we will see such things.

it's not free because they have to pay licensing for it.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Originally posted by: Rage187

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
I think PureVideo should be absolutely free, and I think that the current state of Mpeg2/H.264/etc. acceleration is a freaking joke. Nvidia needs to understand that H.264 is the future of video and that the fact that only highend systems can run 1080p is unacceptable at this point.

I think the main problem at this point is the lack of standardization in terms of the H.264 codec. Right now you have to download a specific Nvidia driver paired with a specific version of Nero Showtime/Cyberlink PowerDVD. I think in time when the public starts using H.264 more and more, we will see such things.

it's not free because they have to pay licensing for it.

ok fine then it should be included with all their cards.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Mem
This link

should fix the SLI pop up message on every reboot with these drivers,I can confirm Coolbits work with these drivers if you use it with the standard classic CP,not tried it with the new CP since I hate it.


Update: No SLI pop up message now which is great and games work fine even with non SLI boards like mine,however I still get the same stupid Nvidia tray icon load up on every reboot ,even when I have it disabled in CP,only fix for that is to deselect it again in control panel after each reboot,guess I can live with that until it is fixed.

Thanks for the link Mem, I've been wanting this fix. :thumbsup:

 

[Mem]

NP Megatomic.

I think Nvidia are getting very lazy with their drivers.

Error stating that SLI Multi-GPU rendering is disabled every time the system is booted on a NON SLI capable computer with reference driver 91.31.

This notification error will be removed in future reference driver releases.

I mean why could they not fix it before releasing official drivers?

 

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
You really don't know how to read, do you, you trolling fuckwit?

You are taking this way too seriously.

I quoted you correctly didn't I? I didn't come here to troll, I came here to ask you who redbox / (there you go) josh is? "You then called me Mr. Thick as a brick" after assuming I had missed the "/" in between them all while not actually answering the question. Meanwhile, you are telling skooma to not use the new control panel, then telling her that she better get use to it. Afterwards, you make a class act name "fuckwit" towards me for reflecting your statements. Sorry if I offended you but those statements were confusing me, that's all. Take a chill pill.

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Mem
NP Megatomic.

I think Nvidia are getting very lazy with their drivers.

Error stating that SLI Multi-GPU rendering is disabled every time the system is booted on a NON SLI capable computer with reference driver 91.31.

This notification error will be removed in future reference driver releases.

I mean why could they not fix it before releasing official drivers?

I think it was more of a marketing ploy than a real bug...but the reg fix does the job fine.
other than the stupid SLI error message the drivers seem to work good for me, I got a slight increases in performance(mainly 3Dmark 01, 03 and Doom3)

 

[GamingDaemon]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
ForceWare Version 91.31 is now up and posted.

Go get it.

I'm curious. While I found the drivers thanks to your link, I tried to navigate to it myself from the nVidia site and couldn't figure out how you found it. There was no link or announcement that I could find.

In fact, when I use their driver tool to find the appropriate driver, it sends me to the 83.40 driver.

What am I missing?

 

[Woofmeister]

Edited--Because I misread your question.

Weird that NVIDIA's site doesn't take you to the most current driver. I'm at my computer at work right now and I easily got to the updated driver using Firefox by starting here.

 

[gxsaurav]

it's not WHQL for my Gefoce FX 5900XT, have they discontinued the driver support for FX series or disabled WHQL for it?

 

[imported_Crusader]

After a few days of using this driver.. I completely approve. And I approve of the new CP.
The order in which the video settings are laid out makes more sense such as Anisotropic filtering.. then it follows with all the aniso tweaks and relevant settings.
Triple buffering and vsync are next to each other at the bottom, that makes much more sense than the order in which they were placed before.

I also think that I can get into this CP faster and change things faster than previously.

What it is missing: popup description or help boxes describing what each setting does. The old CP does this. I'm sure they'll add and refine that as time goes on.
There are still some pages missing from the old CP that need put into the new CP, but once they get that done I hope they remove the old CP.

The more I use it, the more clunky the old CP seems to be. The 91.31 set itself is a great driver release and has def made my 7900GTX run better.

 

[Gstanfor]

Originally posted by: josh6079

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
You really don't know how to read, do you, you trolling fuckwit?

You are taking this way too seriously.

I quoted you correctly didn't I? I didn't come here to troll, I came here to ask you who redbox / (there you go) josh is? "You then called me Mr. Thick as a brick" after assuming I had missed the "/" in between them all while not actually answering the question. Meanwhile, you are telling skooma to not use the new control panel, then telling her that she better get use to it. Afterwards, you make a class act name "fuckwit" towards me for reflecting your statements. Sorry if I offended you but those statements were confusing me, that's all. Take a chill pill.

Go attend an english comprehension class josh. you and redbox both commented how you thought purevideo should be free that's why your names are there. The "/" is is seperator which any high school student could happily tell you.

As for my comments about "if you don't like the new nvidia control panel don't use it", perhaps you could try reading the original post and the preceding posts made by bfg10k and skooma (and no, you don't have to quote someone in order to reply to them on a forum before you ask).

Now, get off the forums, and back into your kindergarten class before the teacher misses you...

 

[GamingDaemon]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Edited--Because I misread your question.

Weird that NVIDIA's site doesn't take you to the most current driver. I'm at my computer at work right now and I easily got to the updated driver using Firefox by starting here.

Ok, I was using the second item in the list, now I get to the right place.

But eVGA's website provides the 84.56 driver. Should I keep using that or use nVidia's latest driver?

 

[josh6079]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor

Originally posted by: josh6079

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
You really don't know how to read, do you, you trolling fuckwit?

You are taking this way too seriously.

I quoted you correctly didn't I? I didn't come here to troll, I came here to ask you who redbox / (there you go) josh is? "You then called me Mr. Thick as a brick" after assuming I had missed the "/" in between them all while not actually answering the question. Meanwhile, you are telling skooma to not use the new control panel, then telling her that she better get use to it. Afterwards, you make a class act name "fuckwit" towards me for reflecting your statements. Sorry if I offended you but those statements were confusing me, that's all. Take a chill pill.

Go attend an english comprehension class josh. you and redbox both commented how you thought purevideo should be free that's why your names are there. The "/" is is seperator which any high school student could happily tell you.

As for my comments about "if you don't like the new nvidia control panel don't use it", perhaps you could try reading the original post and the preceding posts made by bfg10k and skooma (and no, you don't have to quote someone in order to reply to them on a forum before you ask).

Now, get off the forums, and back into your kindergarten class before the teacher misses you...

Can you show me where I said pure video should be free? Right, and I've got the reading problems. You posted redbox/josh and I was confused why you put me in there since I hadn't posted here......at all.

perhaps you could try reading the original post and the preceding posts made by bfg10k and skooma

You mean read the thread? Did that, saw your strange post where you thought I had been in here stating that purevideo should be free.

Settle down there Gstandfor, I now see why you have been banned from B3D. Between you yelling and cursing at everyone, you are acting like a psycho here.

 

[Check]

The new control panel is a royal pain in the ass to navigate through and switched it back to the classic mode or whatever they are calling it. Other than the new panel I have no complaints about the driver, in fact I think that my CS:S fps went up after installing the driver. Although it could just be my mind playing tricks on me.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Mem
This link

should fix the SLI pop up message on every reboot with these drivers,I can confirm Coolbits work with these drivers if you use it with the standard classic CP,not tried it with the new CP since I hate it.


Update: No SLI pop up message now which is great and games work fine even with non SLI boards like mine,however I still get the same stupid Nvidia tray icon load up on every reboot ,even when I have it disabled in CP,only fix for that is to deselect it again in control panel after each reboot,guess I can live with that until it is fixed.

thanks for the registry link mem...

this driver works nicely with my 6600GT. coolbits runs well too. of course, im still running the classic control panel. the new one doesnt appeal to me too much.

 

[redbox]

Originally posted by: Crusader
There are still some pages missing from the old CP that need put into the new CP, but once they get that done I hope they remove the old CP.

The more I use it, the more clunky the old CP seems to be. The 91.31 set itself is a great driver release and has def made my 7900GTX run better.

I like the 91.31 also but I don't use the new CP and I hope that they continue to include it just to give the users the choice on which one to use. From the sounds of it you like the new CP alot and that's fine, but there are some users that down right hate it. It would be nice to please everyone and at least give them that choice.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: GamingDaemon
But eVGA's website provides the 84.56 driver. Should I keep using that or use nVidia's latest driver?

Most people would advise you to use the latest NVIDIA driver. eVGA's website will eventually host that one as well or at least a version of it stripped of code that NVIDIA has to include in order for the driver to work with NVIDIA GPUs other than those licensed to eVGA.

 

[archcommus]

Why the hell can these guys not make a decent settings GUI. At least this isn't quite as bad as the Catalyst Control Center. Should this be used in classic mode, or is there some app out there similar to ATI Tray Tools for nVidia cards?

 

[SunnyD]

Heh, Dell's NV drivers were using this control panel crap back at v83.xx.

 

[Gstanfor]

I don't know, I'm still not 100% convinced I like this driver. It seems as though it only activates AA when it suits it to (something like every other frame). Objects in game will have smooth edges, then the edges will crawl all of a sudden, then back to smooth, especially if the object is in motion and you are a little distance away. I have to wonder if nvidia isn't playing silly buggers with mip mapping settings. Either way I don't like the effect.

 

[Gstanfor]

Well, I've just installed my new Xpertvision 7900GT 512 and I'm using Xtrem-G 84.43 v2 with it, and the IQ is gorgeous compared to 91.31, which is one weird driver.

The 7900 has cleared up the one thing I didn't like about my 6800/6600, nasty shimmering in textures wih an alpha component (very good example is the gulianno bridge in Mafia, had nasty fresnel lens effect on nv4x, rock solid and properly rendered on G7x).

Oh, and the claims that G7x shimmers worse than NV4x - guess what? It's another fanATic fantasy!.... (yes Ackmed, I'm looking at YOU!)