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grey_1

10-17-06, 09:07 PM

grey_1

10-17-06, 09:10 PM

How in the world do you enable overclocking with this driver? I have Nvtweak/tray latest and no o/c options anywhere. is ther another way to o/c the card yet?
I'm not even going to attempt it til we have a fully functional set of drivers.

balistic2

10-18-06, 07:44 PM

Anyone out there with a 7900GTX go getting any better results in their games? I am still getting some crazy stuttering/artifacts in anything that uses the source engine! The same happened with the 96.77 drivers... So I went to the 96.37 and everything was fine execpt my source engine frame rate was cut in half.

With Vista will we always have lesser frame rates compared to XP?

johnkeel105

10-18-06, 07:52 PM

I just tryed Quake 4 and it appears to be rendering all of the directx9 effects unlike the last driver. Performance is playable but still drops lower then in XP. Still a large improvement from the Directx6 it had on the last driver!(nana2)

Absolution

10-18-06, 08:04 PM

all id games are opengl just so you know =p

jolle

10-19-06, 05:26 AM

Last release had only OpenGL for compatiblity testing according to NVs webpage.
So these drivers have a bit more meat on the bone when it comes to OGL then?
Any word on performance in D3d?

Or on the desktop for that matter.
With my old AGP 6800GT the desktop is pretty sluggish, both in RC1 and RC2.
And with Aero enabled and disabled, oddly enough it was as laggy to scroll in IE or FF with it disabled as enabled..

j0j081

10-19-06, 07:14 AM

Or on the desktop for that matter.
With my old AGP 6800GT the desktop is pretty sluggish, both in RC1 and RC2.
And with Aero enabled and disabled, oddly enough it was as laggy to scroll in IE or FF with it disabled as enabled..
Desktop works great here with my 6800gt. You sure it wasn't the OS overall the felt sluggish due to all the crap that is enabled by default?

Slammin

10-19-06, 08:08 AM

I can confirm Opengl is working with these now. IL-2 in Opengl mode is smooth as butter with both X64 and X86 RC2.

Actually, I think everything is a bit smoother with X64 and if it were not for one specific driver I need, I would be leaning hard towards Vista64 right now.

Buio

10-21-06, 07:29 AM

Some tests I've done....

Company of Heroes
Everything on max - exept no AA
X2 4800, 2GB RAM, 7900GTX @ 1680x1050

Windows XP - NVidia 91.47
Average: 43.6
Max: 131.0
Min: 23.0

Windows Vista RC1 - NVidia 96.33
Average: 34.2
Max: 82.8
Min: 19.9

Windows Vista RC2 - NVidia 96.85
Average: 34.6
Max: 81.9
Min: 17.8

Riptide

10-21-06, 10:48 AM

No SLI support and slower? So things are still a bit of a mess.

Bman212121

10-21-06, 12:10 PM

Slammin

10-22-06, 11:27 AM

Well, that would actually make two drivers then. I did try the same trick I use with x86 to get raid working with x64 and had no luck. x64 installed the XP64 Serial ATA and raid drivers just fine but it doesn't see my raid at all.

The driver I was talking about is for my Hotas Cougar. I hate having to dual boot just to load a different joystick profile. Hopefully Thrustmaster will be releasing a Vista64 driver soon.

Bman212121

10-22-06, 01:39 PM

I googled for custom res a bit and so far the consensus seems to be wait for a driver that supports it. The EDID would need to be re-written.

EDIT: what about color profiles for your monitor? Colors are crisp and vivid for me, leagues above XP.

I got the color working fine, I just had to locate the disc for the monitor, then I could load the natural color prog and copy the profile over. That works great now.

Nice to hear about the resolution thing though, it detects the monitor just fine, but it sounds like an overall problem.