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crysis warhead crashing w/ 185.85 EDIT: NOW MIRRORS EDGE CRASHING

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I'm using 185.85 (win 7 64 bit/8800 gt) and crysis warhead crashes every 5 minutes. 190.38 doesn't install at all. Any suggestions?

Edit: I found 182.50, installed. Warhead played fine. Now Mirrors edge is crashing.

Does NV expect me to change my drivers w/ EVERY game?????
 
Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Tried removing the old ones with Driversweeper then installing the 190s?
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Here is my problem: when I remove the old ones, I have to restart before I can throw on 190s (otherwise, I get an error during the install that says "drivers matching your setup were not found, installer must exit" (or something like that). When I DO restart, windows AUTOMATICALLY detects that drivers are not installed and auto installs 185.85 😕
 
Hmm....

Try this. uninstall 185.85, boot into safe mode, Driversweeper the old drivers. Reboot into VGA mode ( this should force vista to use standard VGA driver ), install 190.xx.
 
I had to revert to the 182 series drivers. The 185's had great performance, but it crashed every 10 minutes. Its not your system, the drivers were just really bad for Warhead and Crysis.
 
Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
Here is my problem: when I remove the old ones, I have to restart before I can throw on 190s (otherwise, I get an error during the install that says "drivers matching your setup were not found, installer must exit" (or something like that). When I DO restart, windows AUTOMATICALLY detects that drivers are not installed and auto installs 185.85 😕
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That's annoying isn't it? It's because Vista automatically backs up previous driver versions even if you delete the nvidia directory on your drive. Here is how I do it, it's not elegant but it works...

Go to device manager and right click on your display driver and select uninstall. Check the box that says delete driver permanently when you do this. Then reboot. When it comes to the restart, let the old driver install then repeat the process. Rinse and repeat until Windows doesn't have any more drivers backed up and you will eventually end up with a generic VGA adapter driver. That will be all nvidia drivers from backup.

I've had to repeat the process three of four times before. HTH
 
Originally posted by: james1701
I had to revert to the 182 series drivers. The 185's had great performance, but it crashed every 10 minutes. Its not your system, the drivers were just really bad for Warhead and Crysis.
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do you know where I can get 182? I can't seem to find it on the nV site.
 
Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
Originally posted by: james1701
I had to revert to the 182 series drivers. The 185's had great performance, but it crashed every 10 minutes. Its not your system, the drivers were just really bad for Warhead and Crysis.
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do you know where I can get 182? I can't seem to find it on the nV site.
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lol.... i just checked and i have them in my recycle bin
 
Could it be something other than the drivers?

Has tour machine been stable in the past? Have you checked your ram or Psu 12V rail recently? It's possible you've got a hardware issue croping up. I had some memory go bad that caused something similar.
 
Originally posted by: palladium
Hmm....

Try this. uninstall 185.85, boot into safe mode, Driversweeper the old drivers. Reboot into VGA mode ( this should force vista to use standard VGA driver ), install 190.xx.
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After driversweeper in safe mode install ccleaner and clean all registry then reboot and install 190.xx.

You can install ccleaner in regular windows mode but use it in safe mode. Good luck!
 
I had a problem installing the 190's right over the 180's. It just wouldn't happen. I have to remove 3DSterovision driver, PhysX driver, and Nvidia display driver via the control panel. Delete the c:\Nvidia\*drivers* folders. Reboot, then install the 190.38's. After that it was good. Driver and PhysX installed, then I installed the matching 3DStereo driver. That went fine as well. But yeah, it was a bit of a pain at first. I'm using Vista32 btw.

Question: Can any of you guys tell me why you are using Windows7? At least so far before it's actual launch? Does it offer any benefits over Vista that are really tangible? Or do you guys just like to be way early adopters?

I've downloaded both Win7 versions (32/64) and installed them both, but I really didn't see the need to use it as my primary operating system at this time.

Are there needs that only Win7 can provide to some members here. I'm sure there is something I am missing, but at least it's isn't that obvious to me.

Please don't get the wrong idea and think I'm dissing any reasons you have for using Win7 at this early stage. I'm not putting down Win7 and surely not defending Vista over it.
 
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
I had a problem installing the 190's right over the 180's. It just wouldn't happen. I have to remove 3DSterovision driver, PhysX driver, and Nvidia display driver via the control panel. Delete the c:\Nvidia\*drivers* folders. Reboot, then install the 190.38's. After that it was good. Driver and PhysX installed, then I installed the matching 3DStereo driver. That went fine as well. But yeah, it was a bit of a pain at first. I'm using Vista32 btw.

Question: Can any of you guys tell me why you are using Windows7? At least so far before it's actual launch? Does it offer any benefits over Vista that are really tangible? Or do you guys just like to be way early adopters?

I've downloaded both Win7 versions (32/64) and installed them both, but I really didn't see the need to use it as my primary operating system at this time.

Are there needs that only Win7 can provide to some members here. I'm sure there is something I am missing, but at least it's isn't that obvious to me.

Please don't get the wrong idea and think I'm dissing any reasons you have for using Win7 at this early stage. I'm not putting down Win7 and surely not defending Vista over it.
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well for starters win7 allows for multiple concurrent graphics drivers, enabling you to run multiple separate brands of video cards at the same time. a lot of the time people will do this to add support for a ridiculous number of monitors, and i heard it's possible to set up simultaneous Radeon GPU acceleration with PhysX acceleration from an nvidia GPU, though i havent heard anything on how stable this is or if it even works, just rumored. you could do this originally in XP, but with vista it only allowed for a single signed video driver at a time, limiting you to a single graphics manufacturer. with win7, they fixed this issue


ed: also, its useful to test out a new OS before it comes out since if enough people set up running it as their primary OS, the debug process goes a lot faster since microsoft collects more error data than they would otherwise if only a few people decided to make the change over.
 
I like it for the Windows Media Center and networking ability. It just works. I like to sling media over to my Xbox 360, and I could never get Vista to work, but with Win 7, it just took right off. Networking seams to be easy and more reliable than on vista.
 
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