Forceware 174.31 x86/x64 dated 02/22/2008

[mobilenvidia]

Notebook driver found at MS update, latest driver out.
WHQL for Acer, ASUS, Dell and Lenovo Lappies.

Modded INF a seperate download for those that need/want it.
Follow link in sig to driver/INFs.

[devrandom]

DX10 is screaming with these new drivers (x86). In the past Bioshock and Gears of War have always been faster in DX9 mode with FSAA. The new drivers rock. Now DX10 blows DX9 away in framerate in these games with FSAA enabled (in GOW) and now I can use 4XFSAA. :captnkill:

Update: Force Vsync (through the control panel or nhancer) works in DX10 now.

[conroejoe]

DX10 is screaming with these new drivers (x86). In the past Bioshock and Gears of War have always been faster in DX9 mode with FSAA. I've had to run at 2X in DX9 mode because of the frames penalty. The new drivers rock. Bioshock now finally works with DX10 and FSAA. And DX10 blows DX9 away in framerate in these games with FSAA enabled and now I can use 4XFSAA. :captnkill:


<YAWN> Heard all this before...I call BS.

[Wolken007]

Do these drivers support SLI? If they do, I'd love to give them a shot.

[malachi1313]

Do these drivers support SLI? If they do, I'd love to give them a shot.
The 170 series are fast but your right none of them support sli

[Wolken007]

That is not true. I run the 174.16 drivers and my 8800gtx sli works just fine. I was asking because these were originally notebook drivers and I didn't know if sli support would have been there.

[malachi1313]

I had these installed and i was unable to enable sli. If I selected it it would say to restart the computer but would never stay enabled

[devrandom]

conroejoe, why don't you bench bioshock and gears of war in DX9 vs. DX10 with FSAA yourself and post the results.

[methimpikehoses]

conradblow, why don't you bench bioshock and gears of war in DX9 vs. DX10 with FSAA yourself and post the results.
(nana2) (nana2) (nana2)

[vegtro]

I thought AA can only be applied to DX9 version of Bioshock and not DX10. Or are you referring just to Gears?

[conroejoe]

conradblow, why don't you bench bioshock and gears of war in DX9 vs. DX10 with FSAA yourself and post the results.


waiting on your results first, devLAZY :p

[devrandom]

If no one else can, I will.

[crainger]

Let me try

Geforce 8800 GTX/Core2Quad at 3GHZ

Gears of War/DX10/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 234 FPS

Gears of War/DX9/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 12 FPS

::nanahump::

[nekrosoft13]

Let me try

Geforce 8800 GTX/Core2Quad at 3GHZ

Gears of War/DX10/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 234 FPS

Gears of War/DX9/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 12 FPS

::nanahump::

wow

[conroejoe]

Any idea when we'll get some legit drivers from Nvidia? Its been along time.

[AngelGraves13]

Let me try

Geforce 8800 GTX/Core2Quad at 3GHZ

Gears of War/DX10/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 234 FPS

Gears of War/DX9/4xFSAA 1680x1050

FRAPS Average 12 FPS

::nanahump::

234 FPS? You're yanking more than my chain now.

[devrandom]

There. Crainger's data says it all. :-)

Seriously, we gotta set an age limit on these forums. Too many kids from Coffs Harbour on here.

[XxDeadlyxX]

Sigh... this driver doesn't work with PDVD Ultra, *rolls back* :(

[AngelGraves13]

Can't wait for some official beta drivers for Vista 174 series. Hell, bring on the 175! When's the next card launching? New drivers for that card only then.

[devnotrandom]

DX10 is screaming with these new drivers (x86). In the past Bioshock and Gears of War have always been faster in DX9 mode with FSAA. The new drivers rock. Now DX10 blows DX9 away in framerate in these games with FSAA enabled (in GOW) and now I can use 4XFSAA. :captnkill:

Update: Force Vsync (through the control panel or nhancer) works in DX10 now.

I forgot to add I am using the 9800XTX prototype.
and i didn't know that triple buffering in the control panel is for OpenGL only and that for directx triplebuffering i need d3doverider or dxtweaker.

im qouting tweakguides.com "DXTweaker is a small utility which allows users to forcefully enable Triple Buffering in Direct3D, something which is not possible using the normal Triple Buffering setting in the Nvidia Control Panel."

so I really should learn to keep my mouth shut about drivers and instead start reading some guides like "drivers for tards" the ultra tard edition

And also I absolutely will start loving the dancing bananas.

:nana:

(nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2)

[nekrosoft13]

Sigh... this driver doesn't work with PDVD Ultra, *rolls back* :(

doesn't work? how? i just finished watching a HD-DVD in PDVD Ultra with .31 works fine.

[devrandom]

WTF, this moron (who doesn't know the difference between vsync and triplebuffering) just spent probably half an hour to copy the devrandom bugmenot profile. Get a life.

Update: I am sure the devnotrandom imposter is Crainger. He is spamming all forums with his fake profiles. Mods, please ban Crainger and his fake profiles devnotrandom, devrandom1.

[devnotrandom]

LO LOL
(nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2)
(nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2) (nana2)
I LUV YOU BROTHER (naw)

why are you copying me?

[XxDeadlyxX]

doesn't work? how? i just finished watching a HD-DVD in PDVD Ultra with .31 works fine.

Here it says 'incompatible graphics driver' like it did on some other 174.xx drivers. It works on 174.12 though which is what I'm currently on.

[jcrox]

There. Crainger's data says it all. :-)

Seriously, we gotta set an age limit on these forums. Too many kids from Coffs Harbour on here.

says the guy with 45 posts to the guy with 17000 posts :p