91.31 nvidia drivers eating 1,607,340k of memory...

[dustmann]

I just got my new system up and running, and installed the latest nvidia drivers for xp64, and it was taking forever to load... the system is a 3800 x2, 6600gt, 4x512 xms, 200x2 sata in raid-0, on an abit an8 sli mobo. I keep getting virtual memory low messages even with 2gb of ram. It shouldn't take long to load anything haha, so I opened task manager to see what was up, and nvidias new control panel is using 1.6 gb of my ram!

Is this a 64 bit glitch or what the heck is this crap?? I cant even overclock from this new control panel, and it's eating all of my memory if i leave it up to monitor the temp of my card!

Any ideas?

 

[Crescent13]

could be a x64 glitch. I'm running the 32 bit 91.31's and they're using up about 30 some MB counting the toolbar tray.

EDIT: Oh yeah and you aren't supposed to be able to overclock from the control panel unless you have nvidia's tweaking software, forget what it's called. But anyway the only one that's complatible with the new drivers is for the Nforce5 boards.

 

[videopho]

Originally posted by: dustmann
I just got my new system up and running, and installed the latest nvidia drivers for xp64, and it was taking forever to load... the system is a 3800 x2, 6600gt, 4x512 xms, 200x2 sata in raid-0, on an abit an8 sli mobo. I keep getting virtual memory low messages even with 2gb of ram. It shouldn't take long to load anything haha, so I opened task manager to see what was up, and nvidias new control panel is using 1.6 gb of my ram!

Is this a 64 bit glitch or what the heck is this crap?? I cant even overclock from this new control panel, and it's eating all of my memory if i leave it up to monitor the temp of my card!

Any ideas?

My advice is stay away from Nvidia drivers. Use Tweakrus's instead. Mine (see amd sig) with x64 o/s runs like a charm.

 

[dustmann]

I do have the coolbits reg entry. It allows overclocking the old way, and in the new cp it only allows the auto overclock, which I don't entirely trust.

Doesn't matter anymore though, xp64 now tells me that my evaluation period has expired (I just installed it yesterday, haven't even activated it yet!). I'm going to attempt to format and reinstall and see what happens.

 

[Running]

why don't you just activate it? haha seems much easier then reformatting

 

[TheRyuu]

http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?opti...an&task=doc_details&gid=672&Itemid=41/

 

[dustmann]

Originally posted by: Running
why don't you just activate it? haha seems much easier then reformatting

Well, it boots into the welcome screen, and goes black and gives me a pop up dialog box that says "this evaluation version of windows has expired, please purchase a retail copy to continue use" something of that nature... then it shuts down. I can't do anything with it at all.