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[apiXx]

Lame thought I was logged in sorry about that

[Charles-0100]

looking for a best driver for BF2 , which version is the best ? anyone know ?

[Ibby_Encore]

Cannot O.C with these drivers. Last drivers anyone can O.C were 169.04.

[Anchel]

For me Crysis runs great on these drivers except for one single thing: Shaders...

I just can't play Crysis with Shaders on anything over Low. It just works too choppy when water or certain light effects are shown on the screen. Everything else can work perfectly on Medium or High (the highest one works on SOME categories without slowing down the game as well).
The same happens with Bioshock: if the shaders are on, I can't play with any resolution higher than 800 x 600 or the game will be choppy.

Is there just something wrong with shaders on my NVidia 8600M GS??

[ByronGman]

For me Crysis runs great on these drivers except for one single thing: Shaders...

I just can't play Crysis with Shaders on anything over Low. It just works too choppy when water or certain light effects are shown on the screen. Everything else can work perfectly on Medium or High (the highest one works on SOME categories without slowing down the game as well).
The same happens with Bioshock: if the shaders are on, I can't play with any resolution higher than 800 x 600 or the game will be choppy.

Is there just something wrong with shaders on my NVidia 8600M GS??

Is that specific to these drivers or just in general.

I have a 8600M GT and can play Crysis with the shaders on med.

[Charles-0100]

interesting , play CSS with this driver , i found that the map loading time is much faster than before ( compare with 04 , 13 , 17 ... etc ) , and also overclockable

Edited by Charles-0100, 15 December 2007 - 04:19 PM.

[Emedici]

Something weird happened after installed this drivers: When I updated the Index Vista experience, I had 4.8 for 3D Apps and after the driver update it went up to 5.2 (that's fantastic), but the Aero experience was 4.7 and after the updtae it went down to 4.4... what happened ther I wonder?

[Anchel]

ByronGman, all the drivers I have tested so far have severe slowdowns whenever the shaders are working, and this applies for most modern games (Dirt, Bioshock, Crysis...). The difference between the 8600M GS and the 8600M GT seems to be the number of unified shaders, which is doubled in the GT.

But even then I don't think it is normal for shaders to work so poorly when running at 800 x 600. It simply makes no sense. The 8600M GS is by no means a bad video card and it should be able to fare better than running choppy on Crysis with everything turned down to low and shaders on medium (demonstrating that it is really the shaders what slow down the game, because with everything on medium-high and shaders low it runs quite smooth on higher resolutions as well).

[jph_vi]

Just installed these drivers, I'm now getting 4272 3dMark06 points (note that this is only a 30 point (less than 1%) increase on the results gleaned from 169.17). With that said, they still give the best performance of any driver out there (on my machine at least)!

Edited by jph_vi, 16 December 2007 - 02:36 AM.

[hailmunan]

hi,

thanks for the update..
i have installed the 169.25 and restart my system.
but still the problem isnt solve... fully..
i`m playing FIFA08 with my

HP Pavilion dv6715TX
Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2,
2g ram,
250g hdd,
with NVIDIA GeForce 8400m GS
on Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit


previously, before i install the update.. even the menu selecting was slow..
but now.. the menu was fast..

but i have the problem when playing the game.. it is in slow motion...

which version is suitable for me?? can anyone help me?

Edited by hailmunan, 16 December 2007 - 03:11 AM.

[Huey]

Any one know if turbo cache works well with this drivers?

[jithin6g]

this driver drop my aero score from 4.7 to 4.6

Hi,

Howz this driver on 8600 GT. I have gemstone. How do u load the new driver? Any idea uninstalling using Driver Sweeper?

[Charles-0100]

before using this driver , i overclocked my graphic card with 169.04 , the highest temp was 84 , but now with this one it jumps up to 93 , is it danger ?

Edited by Charles-0100, 16 December 2007 - 08:26 PM.

[ByronGman]

ByronGman, all the drivers I have tested so far have severe slowdowns whenever the shaders are working, and this applies for most modern games (Dirt, Bioshock, Crysis...). The difference between the 8600M GS and the 8600M GT seems to be the number of unified shaders, which is doubled in the GT.

But even then I don't think it is normal for shaders to work so poorly when running at 800 x 600. It simply makes no sense. The 8600M GS is by no means a bad video card and it should be able to fare better than running choppy on Crysis with everything turned down to low and shaders on medium (demonstrating that it is really the shaders what slow down the game, because with everything on medium-high and shaders low it runs quite smooth on higher resolutions as well).

Yeah I'd have to agree with you there. The amount of hit you take from shaders is pretty insane, especially in Crysis. I ran Bioshock maxed out, so there are some definite software and driver issues.