ForceWare 177.83 w/ PhysX SystemSoftware 8.08.01

[loekf]

It just gives me a screen at the end of the "installation" saying:

No changes are made to your system. Run the installation again to install the program later.

Translated from Dutch

Weird!

First cleaned old drivers with driver sweeper and drivercleaner.net

Got the same message with the international version. Drivers seems to have been installed just fine. When installing again, you also get a message that the setup for the PhysX drivers is locked by another program.

[Blade]

Yes.



No.



Yes.



You have to connect the 8800 just like you would if it were the only card in your system. That means power supply and everything. If you have Vista, you need to hook up a second monitor to the 8800, or connect the 8800 to your regular monitor via one of the other inputs. Most monitors have DVI, VGA, and/or HDMI connections. This is explained in a link to the eVGA forums posted somewhere else in this thread.


Thanks man.

[Dragunov]

Got the same message with the international version. Drivers seems to have been installed just fine. When installing again, you also get a message that the setup for the PhysX drivers is locked by another program.

Just remove the physx installation exe from ur Nvidia folder and use the setup.exe to install driver, later on u can alway install the physx exe

[andrebrait]

You should do some troubleshooting with your folding app. I have a C2D at 3.0 ghz and a 8800 GTX. My CPU gets between 5 and 10% usage with the folding app and about 50 mb of memory. I have my usage set to 100.

Try not opening the visualization screen and just have it as an icon.

My config:

Pentium Dual Core E2140 @ 3.0GHz
ASUS P5K Premium WiFi/AP (lastest BIOS, 0612, I think, in case you wanna know)
XFX GeForce 8600GT @620/1380/1400MHz 256MB
4GB (4x1GB) OCZ Platinum Edition DDR2-800 4-4-4-12@750Mhz@1.9V
Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3

ForceWare 177.83 w/ PhysX SS 8.08.1
F@H Client downloaded from nVidia "Promotional" page...
Just the Icon... and system Monitor.
configured to use the third last trace
No background apps. Any other application closed. Screen is lagging, but not really an issua, besides the fact I can't even watch a video on youtube with F@H active.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o285/andrebrait/Untitled-1-2.jpg

[Sgt_Pitt]

In all seriousness its a huge gimmick that will probably never be fully implemented in many games.

I wouldn't bother buying an extra card for physX in 1 or 2 games a year, so that a barrel or 2 can roll in a realistic way.

[wollyka]

My config:

Pentium Dual Core E2140 @ 3.0GHz
ASUS P5K Premium WiFi/AP (lastest BIOS, 0612, I think, in case you wanna know)
XFX GeForce 8600GT @620/1380/1400MHz 256MB
4GB (4x1GB) OCZ Platinum Edition DDR2-800 4-4-4-12@750Mhz@1.9V
Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3

ForceWare 177.83 w/ PhysX SS 8.08.1
F@H Client downloaded from nVidia "Promotional" page...
Just the Icon... and system Monitor.
configured to use the third last trace
No background apps. Any other application closed. Screen is lagging, but not really an issua, besides the fact I can't even watch a video on youtube with F@H active.


Maybe coz u have a weaker CPU + GPU
i also noticed a higher CPU usage in my other PC equipped with a E6600 and 8800GTX when running F@H ( like 40% CPU).. i don't have this problem with my Q6600 and GTX280

Edit: i think i read on the F@H forums that CPU usage is higher on a Geforce 8 series card, and that's newer clients will try to fix the problem, smth to do with CUDA

[namuk]

Maybe coz u have a weaker CPU + GPU
i also noticed a higher CPU usage in my other PC equipped with a E6600 and 8800GTX when running F@H ( like 40% CPU).. i don't have this problem with my Q6600 and GTX280

Edit: i think i read on the F@H forums that CPU usage is higher on a Geforce 8 series card, and that's newer clients will try to fix the problem, smth to do with CUDA

will that 280 run faster if you put a faster cpu in? i.e 4 gig read this on a few sites

[LittleCupcakes]

What he says...

Can someone briefly explain how all this shiat works?

Can i run PhysX on my single 260 card?
Do i need to SLI the 260 with my spare 8800GTX?
Do i just run the 8800GTX alongside without linking them?
Do i need to power up my GTX when using it for PhysX?
Will it blow me away?

So many questions.

Thanks.

8800 GTX are going for about $200 on Ebay....Just sayin'

[andrebrait]

8800GT is around US$315,00 here (Brazil sux). I'll buy one asap... can't stick with this 8600GT for much long...

And I will use it only for PhysX. I think it can handle the process...
I mean... better than it can do while processing the game itself

[andrebrait]

Maybe coz u have a weaker CPU + GPU
i also noticed a higher CPU usage in my other PC equipped with a E6600 and 8800GTX when running F@H ( like 40% CPU).. i don't have this problem with my Q6600 and GTX280

Edit: i think i read on the F@H forums that CPU usage is higher on a Geforce 8 series card, and that's newer clients will try to fix the problem, smth to do with CUDA

and HA!
I was RIGHT!

[henrybravo]

and HA!
I was RIGHT!

I see you're one of those type of people.

[andrebrait]

I see you're one of those type of people.

what type?
I was just joking lol (nana2)

[Shocky]

I like this driver, fanspeed now drops back to 40% allot faster after exiting games, however they still havent fixed the issue with dualview, when using dualview the card is stuck in 3dmode, this really needs to be fixed.

[namuk]

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hardwareoc.at%2FForce ware_177.83_WHQL_Treiber_Vergleich.htm&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=de&sl=es&tl=en&tl=en

just found this tests the old 177 drivers against this one and physx info

[abtomat74]

Has anyone done actual tests with the real Ageia card vs these drivers using a single card, or a 1+1 setup?

[newfiejudd]

Well no dice in getting my 8800 GTS 640 mb to work as a dedicated PhysX card.

I have tried plugging in the second card and still no dice. If I use the 8800gts and reboot with stioll plugged in it will give me teh choice to at that point to only use teh gtx 280 as my PhysX card. Does anyone know for sure if teh 640 GTS will work.

[G-Man]

Well no dice in getting my 8800 GTS 640 mb to work as a dedicated PhysX card.

I have tried plugging in the second card and still no dice. If I use the 8800gts and reboot with stioll plugged in it will give me teh choice to at that point to only use teh gtx 280 as my PhysX card. Does anyone know for sure if teh 640 GTS will work.

yes 8800 GTS 640 works because im using it with physX right now, works in 3dmark vantage, badaboom, unreal, warmonger etc. :) its badass, it seems to be 2X faster than the fastest quadcore processor at encoding, QX9770

[SLippe]

Is there a card I could buy that is PCI and make it the dedicated PhysX card?

[newfiejudd]

yes 8800 GTS 640 works because im using it with physX right now, works in 3dmark vantage, badaboom, unreal, warmonger etc. :) its badass, it seems to be 2X faster than the fastest quadcore processor at encoding, QX9770

Did you have to do anything special to get it to become active. Unless I am using it has my primary display I can't even select wich one I want to use as my Physx.

[Dragunov]

I installed this driver and now Colin McRae DIRT stops after loading the stage, I still my HDD drive spinning and the sound, but normally I would start the race, but I stay at load screen with the statistics

[namuk]

I installed this driver and now Colin McRae DIRT stops after loading the stage, I still my HDD drive spinning and the sound, but normally I would start the race, but I stay at load screen with the statistics


you have latest patch?

[Dragunov]

Everything up to date, maybe this new driver or something

[namuk]

Everything up to date, maybe this new driver or something


tryed setting the physx software too off

[Dragunov]

didn't solve problem

[Kaguya]

Just wanted to add that these drivers fixed a problem I was having with Trackmania United Forever - With the 177.79s and earlier I couldn't run the game in SLI with the PC3 High rendering mode, only PC3 Low and a bunch of things off, otherwise it was stutter-city.

Now everything is loaded and it's smooth as silk.

Still seems odd that these drivers aren't on nVidia's download page as WHQL but are only on the force within page.