Nvidia GeForce 290.53 beta drivers

[Shamrock]

I'm liking this driver. For me it gave better image quality (no little white pixels around the edge of people in Skyrim) and a big gain in fps.

[jcrox]

Originally Posted by i SPY

And? He looks more like a newbie then anything else.



The driver is fine, it doesnt **** up your OS, if it does then you're doing it wrong xD lolz

Actually, this driver did **** up my OS. I didn't have to do a re-install but 2 days after installing this driver I did have to start up in safe mode and remove the driver to get Windows to run properly again. Once removed everything works fine again.

[jlippo]

Originally Posted by jcrox

Actually, this driver did **** up my OS. I didn't have to do a re-install but 2 days after installing this driver I did have to start up in safe mode and remove the driver to get Windows to run properly again. Once removed everything works fine again.

Didn't rollback work?
It's basically first thing you should try when something goes wrong.

[jcrox]

Originally Posted by jlippo

Didn't rollback work?
It's basically first thing you should try when something goes wrong.

The issue didn't show up for 2 days and I didn't want to chance losing installs and game progress. Starting in safe mode and uninstalling a driver isn't exactly rocket science and it's faster.

[jcrox]

Just tried a fresh install of this driver. The negative effect didn't take 2 days this time, it was immediate.

Uninstalled driver via safe mode, installed 285.62 everything works perfect.

Uninstalled 285.62 and installed this driver instant windows hard lock again. This time uninstall in safe mode didn't work and I had to do a rollback.

Just for sh!ts and giggles I thought I'd try using this 2nd 60GB Vertex 3 with a complete fresh Win7 x64 professional install and then try installing applications one at a time and see if I could find a compatibility culprit. Turns out that all 3 times that I installed JDK with this driver also installed the OS instantly hard locked.

This driver apparently has a SERIOUS compatibility issue with at the very least some versions of Java. Without the JDK installed the driver appeared to work perfect... that's not to say that I wouldn't end up with serious issues after 2 days again but I'm not willing to wait that long to find out.

Back to 285.62 for me.

[jlippo]

Damn, that sucks.
Apparently the driver doesn't have the FXAA for directX.
No matter though, mostly use it for dosbox which can be forced for opengl as well. (wing commander 3 with fxaa is quite nice. )

[Delbert]

had a few 'Display Driver stopped working' with these whilst playing Skyrim.
happens when my DSL line resets.... go figure.

[Yaboze]

When are we going to get some new drivers that aren't complete ****?

[Elvin Presler]

For what it's worth, I was just reinstalling Windows 7 x64 from scratch and figured I'd use these. As soon as I rebooted from the (custom driver and Physx only, clean install box checked) install, I had white dotted lines all over the screen and the resolution came up a 640x480 or something. the desktop had those artifacts all over it like a defective video card.

I restored my backup of my Windows partition, and installed 290.36 betas, no more problem. Won't ever touch these again.

[Muppet]

I'm quite amazed at all the problems people are having with this driver. I installed it when it first came up on the site and haven't had a single issue.

[EricBergan]

Originally Posted by Delbert

had a few 'Display Driver stopped working' with these whilst playing Skyrim.
happens when my DSL line resets.... go figure.

I've had "Display driver stopped" problems with several of the past drivers, but I haven't had it with these. Instead, the screen freezes. System is still running (I can remote login and everything is fine), seems just the display stops working. Actually, I prefer the driver stopped working message, at least I didn't have to reboot to clear those...

eric

[i SPY]

Originally Posted by jcrox

Just tried a fresh install of this driver. The negative effect didn't take 2 days this time, it was immediate.

Uninstalled driver via safe mode, installed 285.62 everything works perfect.

Uninstalled 285.62 and installed this driver instant windows hard lock again. This time uninstall in safe mode didn't work and I had to do a rollback.

Just for sh!ts and giggles I thought I'd try using this 2nd 60GB Vertex 3 with a complete fresh Win7 x64 professional install and then try installing applications one at a time and see if I could find a compatibility culprit. Turns out that all 3 times that I installed JDK with this driver also installed the OS instantly hard locked.

This driver apparently has a SERIOUS compatibility issue with at the very least some versions of Java. Without the JDK installed the driver appeared to work perfect... that's not to say that I wouldn't end up with serious issues after 2 days again but I'm not willing to wait that long to find out.

Back to 285.62 for me.

Originally Posted by Serrasalmus

go read......http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1379054

Ok im sorry i take that back, it looks like this 290.53 driver puts higher pressure on system components, mostly pcix, north bridge and ram.

I don't use Java, so i cant confirm that but i believe you.


I had to raise memory voltage for +0.05v (was 2.15v) and north bridge for +0.025v (was +0.275v), also tRFC from 86 to 90 compared to 290.37 or i would bsod in memory intense games after ~30-40min lol-_- Im already at max 8gb ram capacity so its even more sensitive.

I saw a few users with similar problems, most of them were using intel lga775 and all had some kind of memory issue causing bsod (0x124) or freezing. One had to remove 2 extra sticks (p35 chipset), one raised std latency to 5-6-6-15 (nforce 780i), one raise ram voltage from 1.52 to 1.58v(lga 1366, x58).. All of them said they were fine with older 285.62 or 285.79.

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Its ok here since i raised those 3 values, but imo kinda risky from nvidia to search for extra perf. in your system hardware instead of optimizing cuda cores more.. Heh or is this that extra optimization? i can't really tell..
Well I tested cpu/ram intense benchmarks like RE5 (fixed scene, no aa), LP2 DX11(fixed scene, no aa) and i didnt see any difference, lowest max and avg fps stayed the same..