Forceware X 100.30 Vista driver

[Aberforth]

Why no one is exicted about Vista Drivers. Where are the benches? Looks like Vista is faster than XP. I don't have Windows Vista right now.I've pre-ordered Vista Ultimate in Amazon . Anyway I want to see some benchmarks, screenshots and also whats your Windows Experience Index with G80????

 

[Avalon]

My first thoughts when I saw this thread were "Where's Tuteja?"
I know he has SLI 8800GTX, which still isn't supported, but I figured he'd have no problem pulling one card out just to get some temporary functionality until newer drivers are released.

 

[Shamrock]

On the benchmarks

NVNews has a guy who benched FEAR. Getting 10 more FPS

97.44 (min, avg, max)
36,66,150

100.30
33,67,160

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1132034&postcount=131


I knew about these last night, but I thought I'd let the NVNews guys get a head start on DLing before the site gets hammered (mobilenvidia is an outstanding member)

 

[maeveth]

I just installed the 100.30 Vista Drivers for my eVGA 8800GTX. I get very very poor performance but I had the same issue with all of the XP drivers except 97.13. I get about 3000 in 3DMark06. I also have eVGA 680i based board.

Anybody else having the same issue with similar or different specs?

eVGA 8800GTX @ Stock Speeds
eVGA 680i Based Motherboard
2GB OCZ DDR2
Vista Ultimate Ed(Yes its legal)

I'll post some benchmarks once i get this problem solved.

 

[Aberforth]

100.30 does not support directx 10. You are basically running DX 9 or 8. DX10 drivers will be out only after Jan 29

 

[theprodigalrebel]

maeveth: Holy crap! 3000 in 3DMark06? That sounds very very wrong.
Everyone here awaits more details.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
100.30 does not support directx 10. You are basically running DX 9 or 8. DX10 drivers will be out only after Jan 29

This is mistaken.. In dxdiag it says DX10..

But most importantly check this(post #141)

 

[Ateo]

Originally posted by: Shamrock
On the benchmarks

NVNews has a guy who benched FEAR. Getting 10 more FPS

97.44 (min, avg, max)
36,66,150

100.30
33,67,160
I knew about these last night, but I thought I'd let the NVNews guys get a head start on DLing before the site gets hammered (mobilenvidia is an outstanding member)

Ermmhhh...MIN FPS is lower...which is BAD!
The extra 10 FPS at MAX are useless...you want MIN and MAX to be as close as possible to give a smooth gameplay.

 

[mylok]

3DMark06 Results

XP
3DMarks:8021
SM 2.0: 3702
SM3.0: 3688
CPU: 1837

VISTA Ultimate (FINAL)
3DMarks: 7926
SM 2.0: 3693
SM 3.0: 3639
CPU: 1794

default driver settings for both.


my rig:

ASUS A8N32-SLI
X2 4400+ @2.4ghz
2GB patriot memory (2,3,2,5 timings)
EVGA 8800GTS @stock clocks

EDIT: with XP i am using 97.92 drivers

I will try to post some basic Oblivion results tonight. I was very surprised at the results VISTA was not a slow as I thought it would be.

 

[garikfox]

FYI Tip:

Re-Enabling Aero Glass

When Vista installs it doesnt have the 8800 drivers so it uses a Basic VGA Display Adapter, Thus it Disables Aero even after the drivers are installed.

In my case all I did was go into CP/Performance Info. and Tools

Then just Re-Calculate the Performance Base Score ! (took mine about 2 min.)

And watch it Re-Enable Aero. !

 

[mylok]

Ok so I left work early and ran a few tests with Oblivion. Vista is faster than XP when running Oblivion. I did a run through of a section of the game (outdoors) and on average Vista was 2-3fps faster. The only time XP was faster was when Oblivion was loading from the hard drive while walking (this is because my XP install is on a RAID 0 Array and Vista is running on a single drive). I am really shocked but it was faster (not by much).

I am running LOD mods on both and tweaked INI files on both (same mods and tweaks for both). 1600x1200 res. with MAX ingame settings +HDR (no AA though) and my FPS were 40-120 for XP and 42-127 for Vista. Now I understand that there is no way to exactly duplicate ingame walkthrus because of the dynamic nature of the game but Vista was a little faster.

I cant wait until nvidia releases some optimized drivers for Vista that should be sweet.

EDIT: with XP i am using 97.92 drivers

 

[Bill Kunert]

Originally posted by: hectorsm

Originally posted by: Raider1284
seriously, two pages into this thread and not one person has posted benchmarks. I would love to see some windows xp vs Vista benchmarks!

Me too. But I don't believe there are many people out there with Vista and 8800s. The few out there might not be interested in testing a beta driver.

By the time my copy of Vista gets here it will be a different driver version anyway.

From all the complaining about the lack of Vista 8800 driver support I was beginning to think I was the only person left who din't have an 8800 and Vista.

 

[MTDEW]

WinXp driver - 97.92
Vista Driver - 100.30
Vista Final with aero disabled.
8800GTX (default clocks)
3ghz Core2 duo
3gb DDR2 800
Asus P5WDH Deluxe
X-Fi Xtreme Music

3DMARK 06
(default settings)

WinXp
score - 10746
SM 2.0 - 4846
SM 3.0 - 4912

Vista
score - 10648
SM 2.0 - 4844
SM 3.0 - 4840


FEAR
V1.8, 1920x1200 , 4x AA , 16x aniso, Soft Shadows enabled.
Everything else on Max except hardware sound mixing was disabled in WinXp
Since its greyed out by default in Vista for my X-Fi.
3 runs, best scores posted.


WinXp
Min - 35
AVG -71
MAX - 166

Vista
Min - 34
AVG - 67
Max - 147


Call Of Duty 2
v1.3 All settings maxed, 1920x1200 using the techpowerup timedemo.
3 runs all scores posted.

WinXP
1 - 50.2 fps
2 - 50.3 fps
3 - 50.1 fps

Vista
1 - 49.2 fps
2 - 48.9 fps
3 - 49.2 fps

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Going by mylok and MTDEW's results, I guess it's fair to say that Microsoft and nVidia have both done a good job (going by this limited look at a few numbers) and things should get better by the time the official release date is here.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Going by mylok and MTDEW's results, I guess it's fair to say that Microsoft and nVidia have both done a good job (going by this limited look at a few numbers) and things should get better by the time the official release date is here.

I have to agree with that.. Seriously I was expecting much lower performance in Vista especially with such an early dated driver.. We seem to be on good road..

 

[allies]

Can't wait to run Crysis at 2048x1280 with everything max @ 60 fps with DX10

 

[imported_timbo3282]

One thing that I have noticed that does not work in this version of the driver is video playback in Media Center. My gaming rig is also my Media Center and while gaming is working perfectly there is no recorded or live video playback in the Media Center interface. The video playback works perfectly on my 360s and it also plays back in Windows Media Player on the PC but when I try and watch video in the Media Center interface I go into a display driver crash loop. Anyone else seeing that?

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: timbo3282
One thing that I have noticed that does not work in this version of the driver is video playback in Media Center. My gaming rig is also my Media Center and while gaming is working perfectly there is no recorded or live video playback in the Media Center interface. The video playback works perfectly on my 360s and it also plays back in Windows Media Player on the PC but when I try and watch video in the Media Center interface I go into a display driver crash loop. Anyone else seeing that?

Interesting.. If I remember correctly I checked this at a friend's rig and he had no issue like this..

 

[Tegeril]

MTDEW - I assume you are running Vista 32bit edition? Because last I checked, installing 3DMark 2006 installed the Visual C++ Redistributable, which happens to break the control panel outright in 64bit.

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: MTDEW
WinXp driver - 97.92
Vista Driver - 100.30
Vista Final with aero disabled.
8800GTX (default clocks)
3ghz Core2 duo
3gb DDR2 800
Asus P5WDH Deluxe
X-Fi Xtreme Music

3DMARK 06
(default settings)

WinXp
score - 10746
SM 2.0 - 4846
SM 3.0 - 4912

Vista
score - 10648
SM 2.0 - 4844
SM 3.0 - 4840


FEAR
V1.8, 1920x1200 , 4x AA , 16x aniso, Soft Shadows enabled.
Everything else on Max except hardware sound mixing was disabled in WinXp
Since its greyed out by default in Vista for my X-Fi.
3 runs, best scores posted.


WinXp
Min - 35
AVG -71
MAX - 166

Vista
Min - 34
AVG - 67
Max - 147


Call Of Duty 2
v1.3 All settings maxed, 1920x1200 using the techpowerup timedemo.
3 runs all scores posted.

WinXP
1 - 50.2 fps
2 - 50.3 fps
3 - 50.1 fps

Vista
1 - 49.2 fps
2 - 48.9 fps
3 - 49.2 fps

Quite Impressive for a first set of drivers. They actually managed to match performance before Vista was even released! :Q

Amazing, Microsoft and NVIDIA, your claims of Vista being a better gaming OS are finally showing promise. :thumbsup:

 

[MTDEW]

MTDEW - I assume you are running Vista 32bit edition? Because last I checked, installing 3DMark 2006 installed the Visual C++ Redistributable, which happens to break the control panel outright in 64bit.

Yes, 32bit edition.
(trying to find drivers for 32bit is hard enough, let alone drivers for 64 bit)

 

[Tegeril]

Ok good to know, was curious to see how you got things to work if it were in 64bit

 

[MTDEW]

I wish the 64 bit Os's would get more attention, it would be nice to throw in 4gb or more of ram and have it be useful for gaming.

I tried XP 64 once, and i'll never make that mistake again, half the programs i use wouldnt work!