Beta nVidia drivers

[crsgardner]

Question 1: where to get the 6.6 series?

Question 2: does it make a huge difference in performance?

 

[fzaba]

1: Search
Or type in 66.81 or whatever.

2: For me it made a noticeable difference and cleared up some graphical glitches I had in 3DMark05.

 

[JBT]

NVnews is a good resource for Nvidia drivers and cards.

 

[crsgardner]

Will it clear up a 4000 on 3DMark05? I'm using the 61 drivers on nVidia's website. There's no reason I'm not getting 5000 with a configuration like this:

Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB RAM
6800 GT overclocked to 400/1100
Fresh install of Windows XP Pro

 

[nitromullet]

Go get the 66.81 drivers from http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=10 and tell us...

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: crsgardner
Will it clear up a 4000 on 3DMark05? I'm using the 61 drivers on nVidia's website. There's no reason I'm not getting 5000 with a configuration like this:

Athlon 64 3200+
1 GB RAM
6800 GT overclocked to 400/1100
Fresh install of Windows XP Pro

Yes it will the 61.77's sucked for 3dmark05

 

[crsgardner]

Any particular reason? Has this been discussed? It would seem to me that a 20% difference in performance is major for just drivers.

 

[JBT]

The 61.77 drivers are pretty darn old and 3dmark05 is pretty darn new. The drivers just wern't optimized for it. Trust me. just about everyone I see with the 61.77's score around 4000-4300 while with anything highier they get 4700-5500 or so.

 

[crsgardner]

Odd that nVidia hasn't updated their own site yet. I usually try to go with the "official" ones, as I run into less hardware issues, but 20% is a kick in teeth. I'll try them.

 

[THUGSROOK]

its pretty obvious....

nv released these (66.81) drivers just after 3dm05 was released, but they never made them official.
they are a great driver set tho

if you are new to nVidia here's some advice:
never fear beta drivers. in most cases they are better then the official drivers.

66.81 drivers are currently THE driver to use.

HTH