Geforce 177.92 Beta-Driver up to 15% faster + physx driver v8.08.18

[sprinj76]

Uninstall the previous driver...reboot....install new driver...reboot...go back to what I was doing

+1

That's exactly how I do it as well.

I also installled the 177.92 drivers and have had great success with them. Turning on physics acceleration was a lot of fun in UT3. Also Nvidia has a UT3 physX mod for anyone with UT3, offer 3 different maps that have object that break more realistic. UT3 Mod

 

[Chaos_Being]

Interesting! Does anyone know how these compare to the 177.83 physx drivers? I just installed those on my xp boot last week. I'm still running a different driver under vista 64, 177.79 I believe.

Nvidia is going nuts with all the drivers lately

 

[Omsion]

I never bother uninstalling the previous driver: Never had a problem.

I never had either...until the 177s killed my boot sequence

 

[Badbonji]

Going from 175.16 or something I went from 120 fps in Gmod / Hl2 to around 150 fps

3dmark06 score around the same - 200 points increase or so
Vantage went up 50 points

 

[BLIssID]

No problems here. Been running them for about a week or so now, love em.

 

[Douken]

Downloading


As I see it is, free Ageia for nVidia owners & Ageia physx card owners... owned

 

[Godfather1138]

It hates older games (locks the computer up when I try to open one), but other than that it is great I guess.

 

[Shiggity]

It hates older games (locks the computer up when I try to open one), but other than that it is great I guess.

Any examples of games it doesn't play nice with?

 

[rdrash]

not sure, but i know when nvidia release big bang II which is 180.xx drivers it will have opengl 3.0 and allow multi monitors for sli with more performance gains

but i think im going to pick up a 4870 instead of 4850 not sure yet i just want to try ati again but i do love my 8800GT

redrummy....you could win a set of 4870s here if you enter the OCF Benching contest

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=575982

 

[OBLIVIONLORD]

i say wait for the 200B series come out. then pick up one of them or buy a 280 (pre -B) for mad cheap

200b series? New revision of the gpu or somthing?

 

[rdrash]

200b series? New revision of the gpu or somthing?

yea..I think its supposed to be a die shrink...which will be great for nVidia.

 

[Godfather1138]

Jedi Knight II is the only one I tried with this driver. The other 177.xx driver did the same on AvP2, SoF II, and Q3.

 

[atm743]

yea..I think its supposed to be a die shrink...which will be great for nVidia.

yup the 260 and 280 will be on 55nm die's

now they are on 65nm

 

[MasterG]

Should I have waited on my purchase of a 260 for the 55nm version or does it just not make that much of a difference?

 

[OBLIVIONLORD]

The price better reflect on the smaller die.... Smaller die, smaller price?

 

[Caviman2201]

Anybody care to take a shot in the dark as to when this or an iteration of this driver will go WHQL gold?

 

[Axis]

Hopefully soon. I am having no problems with it at all in Crysis, HL2, Doom3 and Devil May Cry4.

 

[Neural Net]

The price better reflect on the smaller die.... Smaller die, smaller price?

It'll probably the same price as the 260 and 280 are now just with higher clock speeds to justify it. Essentially they're just overclocked versions of the cards already out - like the overclocked versions of the 9800 GTXs matching the speeds of the GTX+ and they should overclock better than the 65nm versions.

 

[Caviman2201]

Installed them on my machine last night -- 3DMark06 and 3DMark05 both went up about 125 pts. Haven't done any game testing yet.

 

[kellygtp]

i cannot get SLi to enable with these drivers at all...idk what im doing wrong.
the option isnt even displayed in the Nvidia Control Panel