**Video Card Drivers**

[BFG10K]

The 7090s are slightly faster in Doom 3, Far Cry and Painkiller.

 

[zerocool84]

tried the new 70.90's and it made my 6800nu not show arties

 

[bytor33]

I gained about 2 fps in doom 3 at 1280x1024 with high quality settings on my overclocked 6800 gt. I also lost 4 fps in the source stress test demo so I went back to 67.03. I think the 67.02/67.03 is your best bet if you're playing half life 2 or counterstrike as it has the clamp option if you're using AF.

 

[clicknext]

Weren't the WHQL 4.12's due out this week? Where are they? =/

 

[Gamingphreek]

NOt sure but just added the latest forceware. I will search a bit for the new catalyst as well though.

-Kevin

 

[Mem]

Yes 4.12s are out now,thread here on info and feedback etc..

 

[Gamingphreek]

Alright.... will update thanks mem!

-Kevin

 

[ZoNtO]

I still wish that you would post links to tcmagazine.com and valencestudios.com for their modded drivers. They are sweet!

 

[BFG10K]

The 7120s have the refresh rate override missing from the control panel.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I dont know what you are talking about with those two sights. One is forbidden and the other is a link to a childrens magazine.

-Kevin

 

[daveybrat]

The 7120s have the refresh rate override missing from the control panel.

Ouch, that's no good. Looks like i won't be trying these drivers out then. I'll stick with the 67.02's for now

 

[LocutusX]

Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
do new driver releases help aging cards, like my asus gf4 ti4200?

my drivers are, well, significantly old (45.23 I think, from late 2003)

In my opinion & experience, cards based on the NV2x chips are best served by that very driver you have installed - 45.23. My brother used those to play through Thief 3 (DX9 game), and I've also tried CSS on that box (DX80 renderer mode i assume) -- it's pretty playable. I did some benchmarking a while back using the 3dmark's and CoD as a testbed and found 45.23 to be the best performer with perfect stability. UT2004 runs like a champ, too...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Beta 71.20: Drivers are tagged 2 December 2004. New Driver Interface; Improves performance in general. Benchmark is here

Caused artifacts in DC and WoW, went back to 67.03

 

[g8wayrebel]

I realize I'm a noob, but something I found that works well, especially for us guys with older machines is http://www.drivershq.com/ . They keep amazingly up to date from what I have seen. If you pay for the service it will let you link to the drivers directly, but it will analyze and tell you if you have the best drivers(sometimes including betas) that work for all aspects of your machine. I use it to check out any machine I work on just to make sure I haven't overlooked anything when I set them up. I set up three machines last month and got no less than a 9.4 percent increase on 3dmark for any of them by using the drivers they suggested for AGP. I had already installed the newest applicable manufacturers drivers on each machine first. It doesn't work in firefox without setting up Active X controls, so use IE when you do the analysis.

 

[g8wayrebel]

Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
do new driver releases help aging cards, like my asus gf4 ti4200?

my drivers are, well, significantly old (45.23 I think, from late 2003). but it's a long DL on a 56k modem, so would you guys say there is significant optimizations to even the older cards? My gut instinct says yes, but i don't know anything about this-- it could be that the new drivers are just made to support new cards and bug fixxes for them.

Yes, it is my experience that new drivers can give significant performance to older cards. If you are on dial-up, you are probably better off getting input from someone w/ that card or using a service like the one I posted which analyzes your machine and detects the most applicable drivers.
PM or e-mail me if I can help.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: g8wayrebel

Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
do new driver releases help aging cards, like my asus gf4 ti4200?

my drivers are, well, significantly old (45.23 I think, from late 2003). but it's a long DL on a 56k modem, so would you guys say there is significant optimizations to even the older cards? My gut instinct says yes, but i don't know anything about this-- it could be that the new drivers are just made to support new cards and bug fixxes for them.

Yes, it is my experience that new drivers can give significant performance to older cards. If you are on dial-up, you are probably better off getting input from someone w/ that card or using a service like the one I posted which analyzes your machine and detects the most applicable drivers.
PM or e-mail me if I can help.

I think most cards reach an age where they are no longer being optimized for in newedr drivers. I actually found that in the later days of my old TNT2's operational life, new drivers actaually hurt performance, but I don't think the Geforce 4 series has reaced that point...quite yet.

 

[Savarak]

Is it just me or are ALL the Forceware 7x series messing up DScaler(with my Hauppauge WinTV card, standard 878 chip)? I get a black screen when I start it up and I have to change the TV's resolution to 640 and then back to 720 before getting a picture. If I go back to the 6x series, my TV starts up perfectly as before...

 

[qulAKle]

New 71.22 are out http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=939
I will get back with the results!

 

[qulAKle]

Ok, just installed it. Ran the 3dmark05 and was pleasantly surprised. 5780 with the new drives, raised my score by 180. My last score was 5598 with 70.90.

 

[zakee00]

i was using the older 70's drivers, but they had an issue with white dots on de_aztec that was not present in the 66/67 drivers, but the 66/67 drivers have white lines when i enable AA in hl2/css. dammit nvidia, cmon and release drivers that fix this crap in hl2!!! ill report back after i try these 71.22's.
btw, i have a friend that has the same issues as me, and he also has a 6800gt. so its the drivers for sure.
edit: i tried these new 71.22's, and they didnt fix either issue for me; infact BOTH are there! back to the 67.22's for me..

 

[Gamingphreek]

Sorry guys I was out of town. I will update the thread tonight.

-Kevin

 

[DaveNCheez]

71.24 now available!

 

[Gamingphreek]

Thanks everyone. Post is updated with latest drivers.

Now, does anyone have anything they think should be added? All we have are drivers is there anything else i should add in the explanation? Also the list of drivers is getting very large, i will try to host a website in the near future for the "archived" drivers.

-Kevin

 

[MadOni0n]

I've been getting nv4_disp.dll blue screen errors with the 66.93 drivers. Which driver do you reccomend for my good old gf4 ti4200?

 

[McArra]

With 71.24 I get a 100mark boost in 3dmark03 and HL2 looks fine and plays as well as with 67.03.