191.00 Vista/Windows 7 64bit Nvidia drivers released

[pcslookout]

These are unofficial so use at your own risk but they were signed by Nvidia yesterday! Not that it means much.

Link

Fixed link thanks Keysplayr!

 

[Keysplayr]

Don't know if its just not showing up or not because I'm on a Blackbeery. But that link goes to 181.00 driver. Just might be my browser though.

 

[pcslookout]

nm confusing myself lol.

 

[hclarkjr]

any changelog with these? what is best way to update geforce drivers? i just switched from 3870x2 to BFG GTX 260 and am wondering if you update the same way.

 

[Modelworks]

Nvidia loves big drivers, 119MB for a driver, sheesh.

 

[atran5e]

Anybody tried these yet? How they work?

 

[nib95]

Nvidia's drivers have been crap as of late. All the newest one's give me all manner of issues. namely in Photoshop CS4 where the app crashes the first time on boot up. And sometimes a second time about an hour in to work.

 

[Continuity28]

Haven't tested these, but I don't use the 190 series because of issues with Fallout 3 (slower performance, texture hitching) which I'm currently playing through.

Perhaps once I get bored of Fallout 3, I'll get off 186.18...

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Continuity28
Haven't tested these, but I don't use the 190 series because of issues with Fallout 3 (slower performance, texture hitching) which I'm currently playing through.

Perhaps once I get bored of Fallout 3, I'll get off 186.18...

Yeah if you play Fallout 3 it is best to stay with 186.xx or below from what I hear. Don't play it but not risking anymore 19x.xx drivers on my system unless I had a spare gaming rig I could test all new nvidia drivers on. Otherwise not doing it on my main rig anymore.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: Continuity28
Haven't tested these, but I don't use the 190 series because of issues with Fallout 3 (slower performance, texture hitching) which I'm currently playing through.

Perhaps once I get bored of Fallout 3, I'll get off 186.18...

Yeah if you play Fallout 3 it is best to stay with 186.xx or below from what I hear. Don't play it but not risking anymore 19x.xx drivers on my system unless I had a spare gaming rig I could test all new nvidia drivers on. Otherwise not doing it on my main rig anymore.

Seems to address many 190.62 bugs such as 2D and 3D clock rates.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Keysplayr

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: Continuity28
Haven't tested these, but I don't use the 190 series because of issues with Fallout 3 (slower performance, texture hitching) which I'm currently playing through.

Perhaps once I get bored of Fallout 3, I'll get off 186.18...

Yeah if you play Fallout 3 it is best to stay with 186.xx or below from what I hear. Don't play it but not risking anymore 19x.xx drivers on my system unless I had a spare gaming rig I could test all new nvidia drivers on. Otherwise not doing it on my main rig anymore.

Seems to address many 190.62 bugs such as 2D and 3D clock rates.

Yep those are to bugs it seems to fix for now. Hopefully it doesn't get broken in future driver releases.

I do realize though Fallout 3 is a pretty buggy game though so it may not be totally a nvidia driver problem.

 

[pcslookout]

So far the drivers seem to be ok nothing great but I am hearing about a lot people with issues in Fallout 3. Surprised these 191.xx and 190.xx drivers cause so much trouble with Fallout 3 because that sucks if you actually play the game. Who knows if it is the game or the drivers. Just hear that Fallout 3 is very buggy.

 

[yacoub]

Maybe it has the fix for the issues Anand and Gary uncovered on P55 boards running NVIdia GPUs. Maybe we'll see that P55 mobo roundup after all.

 

[jimhsu]

Supposedly turning on Vsync in Fallout with iPresentinterval=1 (no, your global settings don't affect it) fixes performance problems with 190.xx. I confirm that the fix works here. also, try setting maximum prerendered frames = 0 in the Nvidia control panel. Try it.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
So far the drivers seem to be ok nothing great but I am hearing about a lot people with issues in Fallout 3. Surprised these 191.xx and 190.xx drivers cause so much trouble with Fallout 3 because that sucks if you actually play the game. Who knows if it is the game or the drivers. Just hear that Fallout 3 is very buggy.

I never had any issues with Fallout3 with my 4870X2 so I doubt it's any issues with the game, it falls to nvidias drivers. I think I'll wait for a more 'official' Beta to come out before I use this one.