Nvidia 81.98 released today!

[Xenofin]

Oh no!

These drivers work nicely with FEAR and Quake4 BUT with older games like SW KotOR (Knights of the Old Republic) my AMD64 X2 3800+ shows 100% load for both cores and game is totally unplayable, refresh rate below 1 FPS and I have difficulties to get even main menu opened!

With 81.95 no problems at all. I'm using Rivatuner profiles because Nvidia driver control window does not show all profiles as Rivatuner shows (don't know why there is a limit of 40 profiles in profile list window). In release notes of Rivatuner 2.0RC15.8 there is no mention of support for 81.98 drivers. I have not yet tested this game without Rivatuner.

Has anyone encountered same kind of problems with older games? I'll try next 81.98 drivers without Rivatuner and then 82.12 drivers. Let's see what happens.

 

[Xenofin]

Rivatuner excluded and no success with 81.98. Same problems as before with SWkotor. And FARCRY crashes BSOD immediately when trying to load saved checkpoint (no problems with 81.85). With or without overclocking CPU and/or GPU. So, multicore support works only with new games like FEAR and QUAKE4? Any comments?
Next I'll try 82.12 drivers.

 

[Xenofin]

Just installed 82.12 drivers and no help, SW Kotor does not like these drivers, just black screen and very slow framerates. FarCry though seems working OK now. Otherwise these drivers are just awesome, max AA and AF with FarCry, HL2, FEAR and Quake4 and with playable framerates now. Hope that Kotor issue is solved soon, I'll try Kotor2 next.

 

[Wolfshanze]

* GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, GeForce 6800/6600: Ground and water
textures are corrupted when zooming out in Civilization 4.

I was actually having those problems... thank God they fixed it!