8800 Owners with XP - Seems there may be new drivers - 100.87

[Captante]

Interesting ... after reading the positive comments here & elsewhere I decided to give these a shot last night, however my results were anything but good. I did notice improved IQ in DOMM & Oblivion also I can confirm that the 1:1 scaling issue has been fixed, however for some reason I started getting BSOD's after installing these drivers so I was forced to roll back to v97.92.

Looks like I'll need to wait for another update.

 

[chrismr]

Well, I seemed to be having a couple of problems so went back to 97.92's but will still get many crashes.

Have gone back to the 100.87, and ok so far.

Have the lowered the overclock on my CPU, so that might be that reason for stability, even though the Oc I had previously was stable through 8 to 12 hours of Orthos.

Is it possible for a driver to be sensitive to an overclock even if it is stable for other things, such as orthos?

I suppose it is still difficult for me to know where underlying problems are right now, having only had the card about a week.

 

[Captante]

With me it was def the video driver because my overclock is rock-solid & also because as soon as I rolled back to v97.92 the BSOD's went away. I'm really getting sick of Nvidia's crappy drivers for the 8800 ... its gotten to the point that I actually miss ATI!

 

[Jules]

whats everyone using for overclocking? Im running my 8800GTS at 630/1000. Im using riva tuner and its showing in the hardware monitoring that its at 621. But its at 630. Im puzzled though because my windows xp install shows 630 before i installed media center and now its showing 621 in hardware monitoring anyone know why is that?

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Captante
With me it was def the video driver because my overclock is rock-solid & also because as soon as I rolled back to v97.92 the BSOD's went away. I'm really getting sick of Nvidia's crappy drivers for the 8800 ... its gotten to the point that I actually miss ATI!

Ouch, what games are giving you BSODs? Or are they just random crashes in XP? Personally I'm loving these drivers, although I'd love to see an official NV release or WHQL version. These have been rock solid stable for me in long sessions of FFXI, CSS, Dark Messiah and COH without a single crash.

Even if these drivers aren't perfect for everyone, its good to know that NV didn't totally abandon G80 XP users. I was pretty shocked they got 1:1 working under the radar, and the game fixes for older issues was unexpected also.

Edit: Also judging from the number of recent threads about ATI drivers and Vista, I wouldn't expect it to be smooth sailing for R600 when its finally released.

 

[jacksonic]

I've just tried the 100.87 drivers, and though I can get one of my 1680x1050 monitors running at native resolution, the other DVI output still insists on running at 1600x1200 and letting the monitor scale it. The Nvidia control panel doesn't seem to be switching the scaling mode on the second display. Anyone else running a multi-monitor setup?