Vista Driver Believer!! CoH FTW!!!

[TiKiMaN1]

Say whatever you want about 158.18 or any other Windows Vista Driver. I could fetchin' care less. Tonight I got Windows XP performance.:D This is awesome.:)

:jumping: (nana2) :jumping:

QX6700 @ 3GHz
http://imageigloo.com/images/4419coh run.jpg

QX6700 @ 3.1GHz
http://imageigloo.com/images/9627awesome.jpg

100MHz Difference FTW!!!:D That is stellar performance.

[TiKiMaN1]

Can anyone say bottleneck?

[toby77jo]

TiKiMaN1, what are your settings in COH? Settings in the Nvidia Control Panel?, and finally are you testing with 158.18 or 165.01 ?

Any idea when they release the dx10 patch for COH?

[Phyxion]

How about reading toby. Its in the 1st post.

[toby77jo]

Yes but I don't care about the 100 Mhz difference or too much about 158.18. I also would like to know his settings in the control panel and in the game + it would be nice with a comparison of 158.18 and 165.01 158 to 165 is a big jump, but I have no idea what has been changed in the 165 set compared to 158

[TiKiMaN1]

158.18 and everything is on max with 1920x1080 res. I have not tried the 165's. Maybe I will later. For now I am a very happy man.:D

[nekrosoft13]

Any idea when they release the dx10 patch for COH?

current patch is 1.5

1.7 is the scheduled dx10 patch. before 1.7 they will also release 1.6.

there is a plan on relic forums.

[nekrosoft13]

just wanted to add, i'm quite happy with vista drivers too

[TiKiMaN1]

I just discovered that the 165.01 are even better.

I have received a 10-15FPS increase.:D Even though the max isnt as high look at the miniumum and average both are higher and CPU is not as overclocked.

165.01 QX6700 @ 3.05GHz
http://imageigloo.com/images/2166best.jpg

[toby77jo]

I would like to compare your results with mine, but first I need to know your NVIDIA control panel settings, AA, AF, Trilinear on/off, Gamma correct AA, triple buffering etc

[slaWter]

Can anyone say bottleneck?

I'll try.... bottleneck. Wasn't that hard :p

Great results man!

[TiKiMaN1]

I'll try.... bottleneck. Wasn't that hard :p

Great results man!

Thanks!:D

Can't wait to play some more when I get home from work! (nana2)

[zer0]

i hope these drivers are good in stalker...

[TiKiMaN1]

When I get home later I will try running some Oblivion benchies and maybe 3DMARK06.:D

[Brent101]

Hey TiKiMaN1,

How is SLI with the 8800s working out for you? We share very similar system setups with the same OS and I find that SLI for me seems to run worse in games (although my 3dmark scores go up with SLI) than with only a single card enabled. This has been the case with every driver release I've used so far with Vista. Just curious if you notice it as well.

Thanks

[TiKiMaN1]

Hey TiKiMaN1,

How is SLI with the 8800s working out for you? We share very similar system setups with the same OS and I find that SLI for me seems to run worse in games (although my 3dmark scores go up with SLI) than with only a single card enabled. This has been the case with every driver release I've used so far with Vista. Just curious if you notice it as well.

Thanks

I'm actually getting awesome SLI performance as seen in those CoH scores. The trick I have found is enabling split screen rendering in the control panel. I am very satisfied with the results I am getting in Vista. In fact I plan to never ever return to XP.;)

Also to really make sure the performance gets unleased it is imprtant to manually delete every single nV file (besides the chipset dirvers of course) when installing the 165.01 or 158.18 drivers.:D

[Brent101]

Is there an easy way to tell which ones are 8800 driver files and which one are the chipset files? Ive read the other posts about deleting all the files that start with "nv" in the system32 folder, but Im worried that I might get rid of my 680i ones as well.

[TiKiMaN1]

Is there an easy way to tell which ones are 8800 driver files and which one are the chipset files? Ive read the other posts about deleting all the files that start with "nv" in the system32 folder, but Im worried that I might get rid of my 680i ones as well.

The easy way to do it I have found is going to the NVIDIA folder on your C Drive (or whatever letter you are using). Going to the folder that says Vista 64 and finding the folder that says like "100.65" and droping the whole thing in the recycling bin. Then uninstalling the Display Drivers only through Add/Remove Programs. Restart the computer like it prompts you to. Install the new drivers fresh and then enable SLI. Restart again. Change the SLI setting to Split Frame Rendering....then Presto it is a very Vista Happy Day.:D

[slaWter]

Yeah I'd like to see other games/benchmarks too.

[Brent101]

Thanks TiKiMaN1 for your advice.

I just re-did all that and Im still finding that games are not running up-to par (mostly experiencing those split second instantaneous pauses).

Perhaps I should give my computer a format and see if it still persists after a clean install.

Thanks for your help though. Really appreciate it.

[nekrosoft13]

tiki you still preffer 165 drivers?

[zer0]

currently using 165.01 xp32
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/152/reliccoh2xv4.jpg

@these settings
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9315/reliccoh200704222209497sn8.th.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reliccoh200704222209497sn8.jpg)

xp ftw :D