Tons of new nForce software released today!

[dmcowen674]

On a lighter note I flashed the BIOS with the Uber 1007 version today.

 

[Megatomic]

dmcowen674, can you tell me what you were playing back so I can attempt to recreate the skipping you noticed? Which player, what kind of file, etc... Thanks!

 

[suklee]

I installed the Audio 4.31 drivers last night, and I don't know if it's a coincidence but my BF:V started misbehaving:

I'd get into a game and within 30 seconds, screen would freeze completely and monitor would lose its signal . Out of about 8 games that I tried to join, 7 would do this.

The one game that I managed to get into, I was able to play for a long time, but everytime I was in CQB with guns blazing my machine would lag like a besatch, and you know what that means... free kill for the enemy.

Again this may or may not be related to the audio drivers, but my guess is so because
1) no problems whatsoever previously
2) only thing I changed was the 4.31s and BAM! it doesnt run correctly
3) uninstalled "NVMixer" in add/remove and problem still persists (maybe the 4.31s fubar'd something?)

Anyone else having issues with BF:V and the new audio drivers?

 

[cowdog]

I had problems with every single nForce IDE driver. With each new driver, I'd give it a try but ultimately end up with the same problems: data corruption, crashes, ... I had those problems on both an 8RDA+ and NF7-S, but most regularly with the NF7-S So far, I have this latest IDE driver running on both my NF7-S and my AK89 Max. No problems yet, which is a new experience for me with an NVidia IDE driver.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: cowdog
So far, I have this latest IDE driver running on both my NF7-S and my AK89 Max. No problems yet, which is a new experience for me with an NVidia IDE driver.

That's great to hear cowdog!

 

[Tantrix]

Originally posted by: cowdog
I had problems with every single nForce IDE driver. With each new driver, I'd give it a try but ultimately end up with the same problems: data corruption, crashes, ... I had those problems on both an 8RDA+ and NF7-S, but most regularly with the NF7-S So far, I have this latest IDE driver running on both my NF7-S and my AK89 Max. No problems yet, which is a new experience for me with an NVidia IDE driver.

No, you are not alone. My new machine I built last friday...here are the specs:


Antec Super Lanboy - case
Antec Truepower 550w - power supply
Abit NF7-S - motherboard
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton 400FSB - processor
Corsair TwinX (512MB x 2) 1GB DDR400 - memory
Built by ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB - video card
NEC ND-2500A Black DVD+RW/-RW - optical drive

I was having issues, mainly in EverQuest. Usually it crashed during gameplay. Sunday I played about 3 hours then the machine went to a black screen and the signal light on the monitor started blinking. Monday, it just rebooted in the middle of the game. Monday night, I ran 3dmark03 looped with Sandra Burn-In looped in the background, and Tuesday morning when I turned on the monitor, I had a weird screen all different colors and the machine wouldn't respond to keyboard commands (hard locked). Processor, video card, and RAM are all running stock frequency. Well, I reformatted again Tuesday, and installed XP Pro and drivers fresh AGAIN...although this time, when I installed the nVidia 3.13 Unified drivers, I answered NO to the SW IDE driver install and installed the other ones. My machine has been in EQ for over 6 hours today without the slightest glitch so far. No reboots, hard locks, nothing. After beating my head on the wall all week and almost RMA'ing my board and/or video card, I traced this sh*t back to that SW IDE driver.

nVidia needs to just give it up and leave that thing out of their drivers. After reading up on the notorious driver, it is only actually compatible with a HANDFULL of motherboards/hardware configurations. Sorry, but with a such a short list of compatible hardware it shouldn't be in the driver package period. If any of you are having any problems and have it installed, I feel sorry for ya. Good luck cleaning that garbage out and installing without it, I hope it works. I just reformatted I didn't want any remains of it. Also, I have read up that if you are using serial ATA drives (like I am) the SW IDE driver is USELESS as the serial ATA doesn't even use it anyway. Probably why I had so much hell out of that thing. Do yourself a favor and stay away from it. Don't go through what I did for the past week.

 

[boomdart]

I have an nForce2 board using offboard video and sound..

What gain would I see from downloading the stuff?

 

[WobbleWobble]

I notice some lag when sounds are played in CS. It didn't do this with the old driver. I've never had problems with the IDE driver and this one works fine as well.

 

[Megatomic]

I may as welll 'fess up. I had to uninstall the SW IDE drivers and revert back to the MS ITB drivers. My primary HDD, the only one on the chipset IDE controller, locked up the other night. By that I mean I heard the drive make 4 distinct "ka-chunk" sounds and my system froze. I downloaded PowerMax from Maxtor.com and it found no problems with the drive. This had happened a few times in the past with the 3.13 SW IDE but they were not common and not so dramatic as this event.

Having seen others complain of similar issues I uninstalled the SW IDE drivers and reinstalled the ITB drivers from the 3.13 UDP and everything has been fine ever since. Performance is on par and reliability is good. So I stay with the ITB drivers from now on.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
dmcowen674, can you tell me what you were playing back so I can attempt to recreate the skipping you noticed? Which player, what kind of file, etc... Thanks!

Anything that would use Windows Media Player 9. WMV, Mp3, AVI files etc would all skip like mad.

I'm still not 100% back with my audio files. Now I cannot change settings in the full Volume control where it brings up all of the settings like Master Volume, Wave Balance etc, as soon as I start to change any settings there the computer locks up. I've never had a lock up problem until messing with these new audio drivers with that NV Mixer.

The NVMixer was pretty cool as far as taking full advantage of the DSP chip like changing the ambience from regular to concert hall etc and having more equalizer control but not worth it for the skipping problems etc.