nVidia Drivers - Which Ones Do I Use?

GamingDaemon

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eVGA's site has posted the 84.56 nVidia drivers for its cards. Meanwhile, nVidia is up to version 91.31. Which one should I use? TIA!

I have eVGA's 7900 GT KO card.
 
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I've heard alot of bad things about the new 91.31s so I'd stick with the older drivers until Nvidia hopefully gets some things straightened out in a future release.
 

Lord Banshee

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I haven't had any issues witht he 91.31. The beta version was so-so, but the release one is pretty good, as far as i can tell. I only play one game AOE3 and i do alot of OpenGL and Direct3D CAD work so take my word as it is.

One thing you have to do with the 91.31 is disable the SLI Pop-up if you don't have SLI.

change the reg setting here

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"NvCplEnableMultiChipConfigurationPage"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableMultiGPUConfigurationPage"=dword:00000000


It is one of those two settings, i did both as i have no need for SLI and just to make sure :)
 

TheRyuu

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You use NEITHER. You should use the XTreme-G modified drivers because of the enhanded IQ and performance that it delivers over the stock drivers. (means it's better).

The colors are better, and in general IQ is also better.

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I belive that the latest drivers (from both Nvidia and Tweaksrus) are the 91.31 (called the 91.31 select? for the XGed ones?)

Also, make sure to download and use RivaTuner as well. These drivers seem to set the LOD bias way too high (makes things look bad). And if your overclocking your going to have to enable the low power 3d clocks so you can change those to your regular overclock in RivaTuner since the newer drivers (even the stock ones) seem to misreport your temps as being too high and throttling your card.
 

BFG10K

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Use the latest reference drivers from nVidia. Despite the new control panel sucking and the SLI pop-up the drivers actually work very well in games.
 

TheRyuu

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Originally posted by: BFG10K
Use the latest reference drivers from nVidia. Despite the new control panel sucking and the SLI pop-up the drivers actually work very well in games.

IMHO, the modified are better. :)

I'll argue this till the end of time.
 

GamingDaemon

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wizboy11,

These modified drivers...somebody mdoified them outside of nVidia? Is that really a good idea? Will they screw up my card? Just want to be sure before I do anything...
 

TheRyuu

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Originally posted by: GamingDaemon
wizboy11,

These modified drivers...somebody mdoified them outside of nVidia? Is that really a good idea? Will they screw up my card? Just want to be sure before I do anything...

No they won't screw up your card. The only thing that's changed are a few modifications to the ini file that give slightly better IQ and performance.
 

videopho

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I'd try several different drivers over time and stay with the one works best for your rig/videocard. On the Dell's Win-XP I use the driver from Tweakrus, on the AMD rig I use the eVGA's driver for x64 bit that seems to work best for that rig.
 

schneiderguy

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Originally posted by: BFG10K
Use the latest reference drivers from nVidia. Despite the new control panel sucking and the SLI pop-up the drivers actually work very well in games.

add this to the registry to keep the popup from coming up

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it was really annoying, especially considering I dont even have a PCI-e mobo :confused:
 

TheRyuu

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Originally posted by: schneiderguy
Originally posted by: BFG10K
Use the latest reference drivers from nVidia. Despite the new control panel sucking and the SLI pop-up the drivers actually work very well in games.

add this to the registry to keep the popup from coming up

Text

it was really annoying, especially considering I dont even have a PCI-e mobo :confused:

I'm not sure if the XTreme-G drivers suffer from the same problem. I was only running it with one card for a little bit (RMA) then I went back to SLI. Maby I just didn't notice it?