NEW NVIDIA 190.38 WHQL Drivers

Jolly-Swagman · Jul 21, 2009

NEW Nvidia 190.38 WHQL Drivers are out.

Win XP 32bit (This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_190.38_whql.html

Win XP 64bit (This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_190.38_whql.html

Win Vista / Win 7 32bit (This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_190.38_whql.html

Win Vista / Win 7 64bit (This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_190.38_whql.html

deadlysyn · Jul 21, 2009

Is there anything new in these drivers that might help or hurt performance? Normally I would go look for myself, but I am on the BlackBerry right now, so text can get hard to read scrolling back and forth when there isn't a mobile version.

Jolly-Swagman · Jul 21, 2009

200 point jump in 3Dmark Vantage , and some have reported better FPS in gaming too

About 2-4% folding GPU increase

deadlysyn · Jul 21, 2009

In that case this sounds like it would be quite worthwhile. I don't game much, and the closest to benching I have done SuperPi and Prime95 to check stability. But a 2-4% increase in folding performance is still an increase.

EarthDog · Jul 21, 2009

I will go find and post the release notes.....

New in Release 190.38
Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (cards must already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Doesnt mention performance increases, but anything is good!

PS- 3dmk Vantage. Not advantage.

deadlysyn · Jul 21, 2009

EarthDog said:
I will go find and post the release notes.....

Doesnt mention performance increases, but anything is good!

PS- 3dmk Vantage. Not advantage.

Thanks for that ED. I will get it downloaded and installed as soon as I get home and get a chance to get on the computer.

BobbyBubblehead · Jul 22, 2009

wheres the cards gone?

there any notes on this or have I done a bad install type thing...

nightelph · Jul 22, 2009

I'm grabbing this for sure.

Special7 · Jul 22, 2009

Installed.

EarthDog · Jul 22, 2009

What was prior 3dmk06 performance on which drivers? Now these?

BobbyBubblehead · Jul 25, 2009

190.40 at guru 3d and still no answer to where the cards have gone in the physx settings :-/

atm743 · Jul 28, 2009

BobbyBubblehead said:
190.40 at guru 3d and still no answer to where the cards have gone in the physx settings

those are beta drivers. personally i have bad luck with beta.

as for these drivers i use Windows 7 RC 7100 64bit as my main OS. i installed them and everything runs fine but the clocking's jumps from full 3D to mild 3D to 2D and back ALLOT while just opening a window or sometimes just idle?

only played a game of TF2 with them are they seemed to run good, but i CAN'T stand when they down down clock like they should when out of a 3D application.

i currently have 186.18 installed and run perfectly

anyone else having this problem?

nightelph · Jul 30, 2009

Niiice.

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