165.01 XP/VISTA x86 x64

[Shocky]

So is anyone else getting the dodgy shadows in stalker?

[redviper]

Yea, at the time its all I can find. There was another article I saw that was a direct quote. The article has probably been pulled though. In any case Anandtech has done a performance comparison as have many others and Vista is always behind XP with the exception of FEAR. I am playing Stalker in both Vista and XP with 165s and it's a noticable difference in performance between them still.

First order bull****. There was never a real quote.

[degust]

Best driver so far.
It may be true that this is the best Vista driver so far, but it's not helping the fact that it's still crap and are a long way from something i'd call 'stable' and 'bugless'.
Did you try launching something like Prey on these btw? ;)

[kevJ420]

Can't get any OpenGL app to run on this version: D3, Q4, JKJA either crashing on start up or reporting that my 8800 doesn't support necessary features.

Now. 158.18 doesn't support 1280x960 - my working resolution. 165.01 have ****ed up OpenGL support. So many choices! I'm stunned! No, really.

:headexplode:

Why not use nhancer or turn driver ext limit on on in cp?

[Dragunov]

I am running 165.01

I think most people with problems need to uninstall, reboot into safe mode and run a driver-cleaner. I have heard all kind of complaints the games are crashing like C&C 3 etc..

C&C 3 is running fine here, so is COH, COJ, F.E.A.R, TDU, N4S Carbon. Best driver so far. AA+HDR in Rainbow six las vegas fine, aa+hdr in oblivion and tdu also fine. Smooth performance in all of the above games.

I always had crappy performance in COH when enabling trilinear filtering on and supersampling on and aa gamma correction, now all those settings are enabled and it is running like silk.

But I never succeded in any xp or vista driver so far to get AA working in STALKER. Any help on this would be great.. If I force AA for stalker in the first scene of the game in vista i just see a blue sky, in xp i force it it looks fine but aa is not really on, lots of jaggies.

It looks very close to the first dx10 game, the dx10 patch for COH is almost done.. I really want to test a dx10 game with these drivers.

I use drivercleaner.net aswell!!

How do u enable AA+HDR in ur games?

Can u give us a little manual?

thx

[AngelGraves13]

For the last time STALKER doesn't work with AA unless you use STATIC LIGHTING!

It is a limitation of DirectX 9 when Deferred Shading is used. In other words, if you use any other rendering method besides Static Lighting, you will NOT BE ABLE TO USE AA. EVER. Unless they make a DirectX10 patch since the problem doesn't exist there.

[8800gtsfan]

For the last time STALKER doesn't work with AA unless you use STATIC LIGHTING!

It is a limitation of DirectX 9 when Deferred Shading is used. In other words, if you use any other rendering method besides Static Lighting, you will NOT BE ABLE TO USE AA. EVER. Unless they make a DirectX10 patch since the problem doesn't exist there.


Yes, there is no AA in Stalker unless you run Static...
however, isnt RS Vegas using deferred lighting? Cause AA and HDR now working with it....and everyone said it couldnt be done.

[No_Style]

Anyone tried running Media Center with these drivers? Any problems with it? I'm getting some odd artifacts going on when I run the Media Center in full screen. Similar to static from TV, but it is happening all over the GUI. If I put it to Windowed mode, it's fine though...

[degust]

Why not use nhancer or turn driver ext limit on on in cp?
Why do you think it has anything to do with extensions limit?

[Skinner]

Well I tried 165.01 just installed it over 158.18 and guess what, CP is now fine, all list 15.100.24 except nvCpIUIR.dll is listed as unavailable ?

100hz is back in 1024x768?!

This driver is almost XP performance in Oblivion!

[degust]

Why not use nhancer or turn driver ext limit on on in cp?
Well, tried it, same ****.

[ArrowMk84]

The 158.18's have been the best drivers so far. All of my games run great (finally!). I think I'll hold trying the 165s.

A couple of issues, though, that most likely aren't related to the driver (but comments would be appreciated). Both Oblivion and Supreme Commander (so far in Skirmish mode) like to crash. I'm guess its a memory issue (lots of mods in Oblivion, and lots of units in SC), but I wanted to know if anyone else had these issues.

Also, in BF2142, I can't enter the enemy's titan. The game instantly CTDs, sometimes with an error about memory allocation. Some one mentioned a fix in the 101.70 thread, but never posted any details about it. Anyone know anything about this?

And the last problem is my own damn fault. When I was removing my X-Fi, the caps scraped across the back of my second GTX. Last night was the first time I've tried to use SLI since the 100.65 drivers, and the first couple times I got into shader heavy combat in Oblivion, my PC just powered off (this NEVER happened before with SLI in XP, or with the 100.65s). Everything else runs fine, and 3DMark finished as expected, and then I went through the same fight in Oblivion again with no issue. Transient voltage issue from the X-Fi caps touching the second GTX?

[Mr A]

Tested the 158.18 and bad HDTV support make me test 165.01 and things work fine until the old garbled screen comes back worse than before so back to 101.70 for me.

[zer0]

can anybody give me download links for the...

158.18 & 101.70

i'm going to use it for xp & a 8800gts 320mb

btw is 158.18 = 158.19 in performance and issues?

[grey_1]

can anybody give me download links for the...

158.18 & 101.70

i'm going to use it for xp & a 8800gts 320mb

btw is 158.18 = 158.19 in performance and issues?
http://downloads.guru3d.com/

You'll see both on the front page zer0. 158.18 is also up @ Nvidia.com

[$n][pErMan]

The 158.18's have been the best drivers so far. All of my games run great (finally!). I think I'll hold trying the 165s.

A couple of issues, though, that most likely aren't related to the driver (but comments would be appreciated). Both Oblivion and Supreme Commander (so far in Skirmish mode) like to crash. I'm guess its a memory issue (lots of mods in Oblivion, and lots of units in SC), but I wanted to know if anyone else had these issues.

Also, in BF2142, I can't enter the enemy's titan. The game instantly CTDs, sometimes with an error about memory allocation. Some one mentioned a fix in the 101.70 thread, but never posted any details about it. Anyone know anything about this?

And the last problem is my own damn fault. When I was removing my X-Fi, the caps scraped across the back of my second GTX. Last night was the first time I've tried to use SLI since the 100.65 drivers, and the first couple times I got into shader heavy combat in Oblivion, my PC just powered off (this NEVER happened before with SLI in XP, or with the 100.65s). Everything else runs fine, and 3DMark finished as expected, and then I went through the same fight in Oblivion again with no issue. Transient voltage issue from the X-Fi caps touching the second GTX?
My SC will crash at times in skirmish mode when I have 8 teams playing with 1000 units a piece. Ussually does not happen unit I fly over everything with a spy plane and everything is active at once :p

[mynakedrat]

ps stalker DOES I REPEAT DOES HAVE AA WITH DYNAMIC LIGHTING. IT is NOT a directx 9 issue. IT works fine. You can set all kinds of levels of aa in the game. read the tweak guide and try it.

vista x86
8800gts

[K007]

yea..i got aa on mine too..

btw what are the sliders in staler for aa represent?

there is 3 sliders..and dosent say if its 1x/2x/4x or 2x/4x/6x(ati i assume?)..

[Phyxion]

ps stalker DOES I REPEAT DOES HAVE AA WITH DYNAMIC LIGHTING. IT is NOT a directx 9 issue. IT works fine. You can set all kinds of levels of aa in the game. read the tweak guide and try it.

vista x86
8800gts
SORRY, I CANNOT HEAR YOU, SPEAK LOUDER PLEASE.

[grey_1]

SORRY, I CANNOT HEAR YOU, SPEAK LOUDER PLEASE.
LoL

[mynakedrat]

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[mynakedrat]

wrong thread

[mynakedrat]

wrong thread

[urpokarhu]

oops wrong thread :)

[mynakedrat]

thanks for that ^ i edited post to keep it from getting out of hand, link for other stalker thread please?