Official nVIDIA beta drivers released today

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_174.74.html

Supports GeForce FX, 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs including these newly released GPUs:
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8300
GeForce 8200
GeForce 8100/NVIDIA nForce 720a
NVIDIA nForce 730a
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI? technology on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
Adds new PureVideo HD features for GeForce 9800 GX2 and 9600 GT:
Dynamic Contrast Enhancement
Dynamic Blue, Green & Skin Tone Enhancements
Dual-Stream Decode Acceleration*
Improved performance on many DirectX 9 and OpenGL applications.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

Ok, who's gonna try 'em?

 

[Tempered81]

Nice im on 174.70 right now. (vista 32)

seems like a new beta is leaked every day.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
Nice im on 174.70 right now. (vista 32)

seems like a new beta is leaked every day.

yeah..maybe these are really good, since nVIDIA bothered to put 'em up there themselves lol

I'm gonna take the plunge later.

 

[Tempered81]

cod4 feels faster and faster ever since 164.57 drivers with every new update. i didnt like 174.31, it had issues.

.5x and .70 are good. games feel better and better when using filters

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I was having some issues in Oblivion with the older 171.23's..hopefully these'll work out ok.

 

[buck]

Anyone with an 8800gt seeing a difference? I was passing on the beta's, but I might try this one out.

 

[Engineer]

Somebody (else) who plays UT2004 on the 8800Gt and "has experienced" the stuttering from it: Please try these drivers and see what you think. I just tried and the stuttering "seems" to be reduced (or completely gone). Just not sure if it's my imagination or it's gone (seriously). This issue has been known about for over a year (so I read).

Thanks.

Edit: It may have helped some but there still seems to be random stuttering. Sorry folks!

 

[imported_wonderwrench]

FSAA is still broken. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=58863

2d performance is still broken. http://www.passmark.com/forum/...ad.php?p=5061#post5061

Still no ability to compensate for overscan when driving a HDTV using HDMI.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index...pics&highlite=overscan

The Nvidia control panel still sucks and riddled with bugs.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index...opic=48690&hl=overscan

I received my first BSOD ever on the rig in my sig, using 174.74 beta. I know its a beta but no other beta has BSOD my rig.

I'm sick of waiting for Nvidia to fix major problems that should have never made it past beta testing. As I see it now they never will. They can piss off IMO.

By the way anyone want to buy a 8800GT?

 

[SniperDaws]

What are we losing with 2d i dont understand ? i have read through but apart from a 2d benchmarks showing lower figures what excactly are we missing out on ?

 

[imported_wonderwrench]

Originally posted by: SniperDaws
What are we losing with 2d i dont understand ? i have read through but apart from a 2d benchmarks showing lower figures what excactly are we missing out on ?

The overall feel of a system is adversely affected by all 1xx.xx drivers. When I was running my 6800 GT switching between 9x.xx and 1xx.xx drivers was a night and day difference. 1xx.xx drivers made my system feel sluggish and less responsive. Any task that needs 2d is slowed down. Any 2d games will be almost unplayable. Programs that use .Net take a huge performance hit. .Net programs should run as well as any normal app but when using 1xx.xx drivers many feel like they are java based aka slow as hell.