November 17, 2008 new Nvidia Big Bang 2 drivers!

[Xellos2099]

Will my 8800gt receive performance boost as well or is it only for the newer card?

 

[taltamir]

nov 17, two days before the netflix HD streaming and the xbox360 netflix upgrade hit... it will be remembered as the day blu ray died.

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
It is for me. Lame Out of spite I bought an ATI videocard, muahahahahahahaha !!!

Hahahaha! Out of spite for my crappy NVIDIA driver experience, I installed my HD3850 today.

 

[Borealis7]

heh...it was actually ATI who released new drivers, not Nvidia.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: RallyMaster

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
It is for me. Lame Out of spite I bought an ATI videocard, muahahahahahahaha !!!

Hahahaha! Out of spite for my crappy NVIDIA driver experience, I installed my HD3850 today.

You showed them!

Big Bang 2 is supposed to give some nice improvements, including dual monitor support with SLI.

 

[SolMiester]

haha...graphics junkies....!..LOL

 

[MarcVenice]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: RallyMaster

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
It is for me. Lame Out of spite I bought an ATI videocard, muahahahahahahaha !!!

Hahahaha! Out of spite for my crappy NVIDIA driver experience, I installed my HD3850 today.

You showed them!

Big Bang 2 is supposed to give some nice improvements, including dual monitor support with SLI.

I'm just kidding It has nothing to do with nvidia or ati, but with my wallet, nvidia prices just suck in Europe ...

 

[zerocool84]

Damn those were some awesome drivers. My system is running......well the same CUS THERE WERE NONE!!!!

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
If these speed boasts without any image quality lost are true when the new drivers get released this will be incredible. I am taking it with a grain of salt though.

link

You need to fix that link, it currently goes to a page that requires registration.

 

[nemesismk2]

Where are the Nvidia Big Bang 2 drivers? It's now the 18th and no new drivers because I just checked!

 

[cyphilis]

Originally posted by: Xellos2099
Will my 8800gt receive performance boost as well or is it only for the newer card?

I've been waiting to hear someone say yeah or neah on this subject to.

 

[geoffry]

Interesting if true.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=207992

He references this site

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/index...4&limit=1&limitstart=4

And someone did some testing a few posts down.

 

[Munky]

I tend to be skeptical of drivers claiming a massive performance boost... especially when the claim is made by some poster on a forum.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: geoffry
Interesting if true.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=207992

He references this site

http://pctuning.tyden.cz/index...4&limit=1&limitstart=4

And someone did some testing a few posts down.

:Q

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: taltamir
nov 17, two days before the netflix HD streaming and the xbox360 netflix upgrade hit... it will be remembered as the day blu ray died.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008...sical-discs-greatly-p/

Research finds that people still heart physical discs, greatly prefer Blu-ray to streaming

 

[Fallen Kell]

still waiting on Vista64 drivers...

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: taltamir
nov 17, two days before the netflix HD streaming and the xbox360 netflix upgrade hit... it will be remembered as the day blu ray died.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008...sical-discs-greatly-p/

Research finds that people still heart physical discs, greatly prefer Blu-ray to streaming

Yeah, while streaming of HD content might work in europe or asia where most people have a really fast broadband connection, there is still a lot of people in the USA who either are on dial up or a slow broadband connection that isnt really fast enough to stream HD.

 

[s44]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: taltamir
nov 17, two days before the netflix HD streaming and the xbox360 netflix upgrade hit... it will be remembered as the day blu ray died.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008...sical-discs-greatly-p/

Research finds that people still heart physical discs, greatly prefer Blu-ray to streaming

Yeah, while streaming of HD content might work in europe or asia where most people have a really fast broadband connection, there is still a lot of people in the USA who either are on dial up or a slow broadband connection that isnt really fast enough to stream HD.

Not to mention the utterly awful sound compared to lossless surround.

Most people who make the OP's claim tend to be unhappy HD-DVD buyers continuing the battle long after it's lost. Blu-Ray won, guys. Get over it.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

hm nov17th huh? its 1 hour from nov 19th and i still got nothin...

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: munky
I tend to be skeptical of drivers claiming a massive performance boost...

NVIDIA Detonator drivers, anyone?

 

[RallyMaster]

I liked the Detonator name better.

 

[Nohr]

180.48 WHQL drivers are out for Vista 64-bit.

 

[Peelback79]

Originally posted by: s44

Originally posted by: schneiderguy

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: taltamir
nov 17, two days before the netflix HD streaming and the xbox360 netflix upgrade hit... it will be remembered as the day blu ray died.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008...sical-discs-greatly-p/

Research finds that people still heart physical discs, greatly prefer Blu-ray to streaming

Yeah, while streaming of HD content might work in europe or asia where most people have a really fast broadband connection, there is still a lot of people in the USA who either are on dial up or a slow broadband connection that isnt really fast enough to stream HD.

Not to mention the utterly awful sound compared to lossless surround.

Most people who make the OP's claim tend to be unhappy HD-DVD buyers continuing the battle long after it's lost. Blu-Ray won, guys. Get over it.

Hah! That's what they said about Beta! We'll show 'em won't we guys? Guys......guys?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Here you go:

ForceWare 180 'Big Bang II' drivers hit the web

Here's what you can expect on the performance side of things, according to Nvidia:

# Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
# Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
# Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
# Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
# Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
# Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
# Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
# Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
# Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
# Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

I hope these fix my system crashing.

 

[nemesismk2]

Wow what great performance increases