Official 97.94 released

[WaTaGuMp]

Isnt it kinda ironic that I had ATI cards for the last 4-5 years and all I heard was ATI's drivers sucks, now that I am back with Nvidia which is who I bought my very 1st vid card from, I once again hear about how drivers suck.

 

[Imyourzero]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
Isnt it kinda ironic that I had ATI cards for the last 4-5 years and all I heard was ATI's drivers sucks, now that I am back with Nvidia which is who I bought my very 1st vid card from, I once again hear about how drivers suck.

I hear that. Part of it is that nVidia is the only game in town right now...if ATI had their cards out, there would certainly be some inevitable driver issues as well.

While I've been very pleased with the performance of my 8800GTS, the drivers are a bit lacking. Most of my older games play just fine, but I've been having crashes and glitches in several newer games like FEAR, Condemned, and STALKER. Thankfully I've gotten most of these issues ironed out through trying various driver revisions and tweaking in-game settings, but I feel that one shouldn't have to do that in order to get acceptable performance or stability. I've always loved building my own rig, but I have to say that in the first few days of installing my GTS and trying to play games, I as almost ready to give up and just game on consoles where games ALWAYS work...first time, every time.

In short, I'm happier now but there are still issues. As much as I wish nVidia would get on the ball, it's hard to find fault with them when ATI has yet to even release a competitive product...and from what I've read, when they do it'll merely compete with the 8800, not destroy it. And that's unacceptable given the numerous delays. Their top-tier card costs less than nVidia's, but is that because ATI knows they have to price it lower since it can't outperform nVidia's offering? But I'm trying to keep an open mind, and will only really believe it when I see it. I'm not making any judgments about R600's performance or driver stability until it's out.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Imyourzero

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
Isnt it kinda ironic that I had ATI cards for the last 4-5 years and all I heard was ATI's drivers sucks, now that I am back with Nvidia which is who I bought my very 1st vid card from, I once again hear about how drivers suck.

I hear that. Part of it is that nVidia is the only game in town right now...if ATI had their cards out, there would certainly be some inevitable driver issues as well.

While I've been very pleased with the performance of my 8800GTS, the drivers are a bit lacking. Most of my older games play just fine, but I've been having crashes and glitches in several newer games like FEAR, Condemned, and STALKER. Thankfully I've gotten most of these issues ironed out through trying various driver revisions and tweaking in-game settings, but I feel that one shouldn't have to do that in order to get acceptable performance or stability. I've always loved building my own rig, but I have to say that in the first few days of installing my GTS and trying to play games, I as almost ready to give up and just game on consoles where games ALWAYS work...first time, every time.

In short, I'm happier now but there are still issues. As much as I wish nVidia would get on the ball, it's hard to find fault with them when ATI has yet to even release a competitive product...and from what I've read, when they do it'll merely compete with the 8800, not destroy it. And that's unacceptable given the numerous delays. Their top-tier card costs less than nVidia's, but is that because ATI knows they have to price it lower since it can't outperform nVidia's offering? But I'm trying to keep an open mind, and will only really believe it when I see it. I'm not making any judgments about R600's performance or driver stability until it's out.

I agree, I really like my GTX no doubt about it being an awesome card. I only play WoW right now so I dont have anything I can really test drivers on, but I also went through months of not even being able to enjoy WoW because of crashes accociated with the 8800 cards and the drivers. Now that I have some working drivers for it, the 97.95 from Guru I am stuck using these unless I wanna go test all over again.

I saw the release notes for the 97.94 and I was blown away by the fact of how little they did after all this time. People on the blizz forums were posting these drivers and all I could think of was WHY would anyone try these the patch notes do not list the issue with WoW so I just knew they were not going to work correctly. I normally dont mind testing drivers at all but the kind of crash I get in WoW and really screw up some settings and play havoc with my UI. I will say this, thank god for modded drivers right now. :beer:

 

[wilki24]

I haven't had WoW crash in many months. If you're getting crashes, it's not WoW or the 97.92s. (8800 GTX / E6600 @ 3.2ghz here)

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: wilki24
I haven't had WoW crash in many months. If you're getting crashes, it's not WoW or the 97.92s. (8800 GTX / E6600 @ 3.2ghz here)

care to change your thinking? Link

 

[gramboh]

Originally posted by: BroadbandGamer
So are these worth messing with? Did they fix the Flat Panel Scaling??

Nope, it doesn't work at all (it just reverts to the default setting and everything scales/fills, you can't force 1:1, monitor control or no scaling).

I'm thinking of trying the 100.95/101.02 beta/Xtreme-G or the Guru 3D 101.02 betas. Can anyone confirm if these drives support 1:1 pixel mapping/LCD scaling properly? Is there any downside to running them over 97.94?

Thanks

 

[gramboh]

In doing some reading at Guru3D.com it sounds like the 100.xx and 101.xx beta/modded drivers do not support flat panel scaling.

WTF. So it's impossible for me to get flat panel scaling on my 8800GTS in XP, that's great, because I want to play a bunch of older FPS games at 1600x1200 and it's impossible to do so stretched out (because mouse motion is in an oval, not a circle). This is pretty stupid.