Vista Forceware 185.68 BETA

[JohnDio]

Does these work with the EVGA GPU Voltage Tunner? Has anyone tested it?

[Greg]

Got a BSOD in win32k.sys a couple hours after installing these.

Not sure if its related to the new driver or not. System is usually very stable. Please report if you see something similar.

[NarcissistZero]

I have some massive shadow corruption in Assassin's Creed with these drivers... big black splotches all over the place, especially in the distance. Reverted backto the WHQL 182s and the problem vanished.

Looks like they traded Half-Life 2 problems for Assassin's Creed problems (both games with the new ambient occlusion settings).

[degust]

NarcissistZero, AC problems were there in previous 185 series drivers too.

[GeniusPr0]

Does these work with the EVGA GPU Voltage Tunner? Has anyone tested it?

185.68 & 182.50 are not working with EVGA Voltage Tuner 1.0 w/ you-what-what ;).

I'm using a BFG GTX 260 192 65nm :p

looks like im going to have to go back to 182.08 or flash... (nana2)

[Gort]

I have some massive shadow corruption in Assassin's Creed with these drivers... big black splotches all over the place, especially in the distance. Reverted backto the WHQL 182s and the problem vanished.

Looks like they traded Half-Life 2 problems for Assassin's Creed problems (both games with the new ambient occlusion settings).

I too am now noticing what appear to be shadow artifacts in GRID. L4D has hung me out to dry once with these drivers as well.

I really like the AO, but I guess these, too, have to go.

Peter

[The Who]

I don't understand why so many people say these drivers aren't keepers. I've stayed with 185.xx series and haven't had a single issue. Yes in games like COH, GRID, Assassin's Creed, WIC the AO isn't working right and you get black bar artifacts. SSSOoooooo I turn it off in those games and TaDa, great performance with no black bars and I keep the option to use AO in the games it works on. Mind boggling I know.

[ATOJAR]

Decided to give these drivers a try, Tried to install and just after the part where the message pops up telling me these are not digitally signed, I click install anyway then afew seconds later i get the below error message!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/ATOJAR/nvcerror.jpg

[NarcissistZero]

I don't understand why so many people say these drivers aren't keepers. I've stayed with 185.xx series and haven't had a single issue. Yes in games like COH, GRID, Assassin's Creed, WIC the AO isn't working right and you get black bar artifacts. SSSOoooooo I turn it off in those games and TaDa, great performance with no black bars and I keep the option to use AO in the games it works on. Mind boggling I know.

The corruption in Half-Life 2 and Assassin's Creed showed whether AO was on or off for me.

[LitHiuM]

Decided to give these drivers a try, Tried to install and just after the part where the message pops up telling me these are not digitally signed, I click install anyway then afew seconds later i get the below error message!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v355/ATOJAR/nvcerror.jpg

No problem with that. Just reboot as required and all should be well. Was for me :)

[ATOJAR]

Darn, I removed those drivers and put the 182.50's back in becasue i though it would have borked something up!

[nekrosoft13]

went back to 182.50

[AdamK47]

Just tried two DX10 titles, Call of Juarez and STALKER Clear Sky. Could not enable vsync in them. Went back to 182.50 and vsync is working properly again. They would have to fix this vsync issue for me to switch to the 185.xx driver set.

[ATOJAR]

These are the first beta drivers in quite a while i have had a issue with, COD5 gives ramdom screen black outs then after afew seconds carrys on as normal(aint tried any other games), I noticed when i quit the game i had a little yellow triangle in the bottom right task bar!

I can only assume my system has recovered from a driver issue relating to the error message i posted about earlier, Im gonna re-install the 182.50's just to make sure it is a issue with the 185.68 BETA driver.

Shame as the AO looked really nice.

[methimpikehoses]

went back to 182.50

me 2

[nekrosoft13]

me 2

motogp 07 had flickering textures
company of heroes had flickering textures and massive fps drops.

[shilk]

went back to 182.50

Same here. I would get some really strange issue with desktop gamma when I reboot or exit games. It would go back to the default setting instead of the NVIDIA ones I changed personally. The setting is still as I left it, it's just that it switches back to the other option.

Although I like the AO feature, trying to squeeze the most performance out of my 9600 GT isn't really worth it right now especially when it's having issues. I'll most likely switch to new drivers once it's been ironed out a bit more. ;)

[LitHiuM]

Hmm, These are the first beta drivers in quite a while i have had a issue with, COD5 gives ramdom screen black outs then after afew seconds carrys on as normal(aint tried any other games), I noticed when i quit the game i had a little yellow triangle in the bottom right task bar!

Sounds like you've had some kind of low memory error.. that's the only thing I know that puts a yellow triangle in the system tray. I used to get that in COD4 when I disabled my pagefile.

COD5 runs perfectly for me with these drivers, all maxed with AO, as does every other game I play - TF2, L4D, BF2, Burnout Paradise, D3, Q4...

(I have pagefile on 2 drives now :) )

[ATOJAR]

Sounds like you've had some kind of low memory error.. that's the only thing I know that puts a yellow triangle in the system tray. I used to get that in COD4 when I disabled my pagefile.(I have pagefile on 2 drives now :) )

Hmm, I dunno, ..... The thing is i put the 182.50's back on and played for over 1 hour lastnight without issue!

[XDanger]

I thought the warning triangle and cant find dll error were because I have an 8800gt, Warhead runs great still.

[Greg]

Getting some occasional flickering in Left 4 Dead. Not sure if it directly relates to this driver version though. Testing with 8800gt.

[XxDeadlyxX]

Sigh, profiles do not work for me at all with this driver, back to 185.66.

[Ancient76]

185.65 beta drivers gives me some ugly horizontal lines in Clear Sky with SSAO in game enabled. What about these 158.68?

[ikjadoon]

Flashing in COD4, I'm almost positive, is the nvlddmkm error. I used to get those with 182.50 when I OC'd too high on the GTS 640MB.

~Ibrahim~

[Pixelsmack]

They yanked Ambient Occlusion support from Crysis!?!?? Why? It looked great and worked!