Kamika007z Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 nVIDIA ForceWare 81.84 Modded INF | Quickstart Guide Operating System: Windows XP / 2000 Driver Version: 81.84 (8.1.8.4) Driver Date: 2005-10-03 Driver Size: 17.1MB Driver Released by: NVIDIA MS WHQL Certificate: Setup Files Included: International Files : Comments Release Highlights: BETA driver to support the availability of the game Black and White 2 Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI Performance enhancements for Dual-core CPUs PureVideo high definition de-interlacing support Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV For a full list of known issues please view the Release Notes Microsoft DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.0 support From NVidia's Release Notes... Issues Resolved in Version 81.84 This following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 78.05 and 81.82: Single GPU Issues • GeForce 6800 Ultra: There is geometry corruption in Black & White 2; triangles stretch to infinity. • GeForce 6600, Windows XP: De-interlacing issue when playing The Big Lobowski DVD. • GeForce 6600 GT: Half Life 2 crashes with driver version 81.82. • GeForce 6200 16 MB with TurboCache: Black & White 2: Missing textures on some objects. • GeForce 6 Series/GeForce FX Series, AGP, Windows XP: Audio sync problems occur playing WMV9 files using Windows Media Player 10 with the Microsoft patch for DirectX VA WMV9 acceleration. The problem occurred only in VMR mode and not in overlay mode. SLI Related Issues • GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: Changing the DVI flat panel scaling results in missing or corrupted modes. • GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: Using the option "Detect Optimal Frequencies" under the 3D Performance setting could result in a system crash. • GeForce 7800 GTX, GeForce 6800/6600/6200, SLI, Windows XP: Introduction videos do not render in Tiger Woods 2005 in AFR mode. • GeForce 7800 GTX/Quadro FX 3400, SLI: When enabling SLI, a message appears indicating that there is no video link bridge. • GeForce 7 Series, GeForce 6 Series, SLI: Turning on Gamma Corrected AA disables SLI 8x AA and causes the display to fall back to 4x AA. • GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: Colin McRae Rally 2005 has screen corruption, slow frame rendering during the race, and occasional blue-screen crash. • GeForce 6600, SLI: Corruption occurs in the game Painkiller when setting the resolution to widescreen formats. • GeForce 6 Series, SLI: Overlocking does not work after dynamically enabling or disabling SLI mode. • The system crashes when dynamically enabling SLI mode. • GeForce products, SLI: With SLI AA rendering enabled, there is corruption while the flight-loading dialog box is opened in Flight Sim 2004. • Quadro FX 3400, SLI: With SLI AA rendering enabled, there is poor performance and occasional system hang with OpenGL applications. Original INF supports these GPUs: GeForce2 MX GeForce2 MX 100 GeForce2 MX 200 GeForce2 MX 400 GeForce3 GeForce3 Ti 200 GeForce3 Ti 500 GeForce4 MX 420 GeForce4 MX 440 GeForce4 MX 440-SE GeForce4 MX 440 with AGP8X GeForce4 MX440SE with AGP8X GeForce4 MX 460 GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics GeForce4 MX Integrated graphics GeForce4 MX 4000 GeForce4 Ti 4200 GeForce4 TI 4200 with AGP8X GeForce4 Ti 4400 GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForce4 Ti 4800 GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE GeForce FX 5100 GeForce FX 5200 GeForce FX 5200LE GeForce FX 5200 Ultra GeForce FX 5500 GeForce FX 5600 GeForce FX 5600 Ultra GeForce FX 5600SE GeForce FX 5600XT GeForce FX 5700 GeForce FX 5700VE GeForce FX 5700 Ultra GeForce FX 5700LE GeForce FX 5800 GeForce FX 5800 Ultra GeForce FX 5900 GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GeForce FX 5900XT GeForce FX 5900ZT GeForce FX 5950 Ultra GeForce PCX 5300 GeForce PCX 5750 GeForce PCX 5900 GeForce 6150 GeForce 6100 GeForce 6200 GeForce 6200 with TurboCache GeForce 6200SE with TurboCache GeForce 6500 GeForce 6600 GeForce 6600 LE GeForce 6600 GT GeForce 6610 XL GeForce 6800 GeForce 6800 LE GeForce 6800 XE GeForce 6800 XT GeForce 6800 GT GeForce 6800 Ultra GeForce 7800 GT GeForce 7800 GTX Quadro2 MXR Quadro DCC Quadro4 200 NVS Quadro4 400 NVS Quadro4 380 XGL Quadro4 500 XGL Quadro4 550 XGL Quadro4 580 XGL Quadro4 700 XGL Quadro4 750 XGL Quadro4 780 XGL Quadro4 900 XGL Quadro4 980 XGL Quadro FX 330 Quadro FX 500 Quadro FX 540 Quadro FX 600 Quadro FX 700 Quadro FX 1000 Quadro FX 1100 Quadro FX 1300 Quadro FX 1400 Quadro FX 2000 Quadro FX 3000 Quadro FX 3000G Quadro FX 3400 Quadro FX 3450 Quadro FX 4000 SDI Quadro FX 4400 Quadro FX 4500 Quadro NVS Quadro NVS with AGP8X Quadro NVS 200 Quadro NVS 280 Quadro NVS 400 Quadro NVS 280 PCI Quadro NVS 285 PCI The following products are not supported in the current ForceWare Release 80 driver. Please continue to use the previous ForceWare Release 70 drivers. TNT2 TNT2 Pro TNT2 Ultra TNT2 Model 64 (M64) TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro Vanta Vanta LT GeForce 256 GeForce DDR GeForce2 GTS GeForce2 Pro GeForce2 Ti GeForce2 Ultra GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics Quadro Quadro2 Pro Quadro2 EX Documents Display Property Guide nView User Guide Release Notes Support FAQ Forceware Updater's Quickstart Guide. What is a modded INF and do I need one? Instructions on how to install drivers. Modded INF updates history. Troubleshooting Tool: N.E.R.D. Model-Specific INFs John's INF for DELL Inspiron 8200/M50 Jeroen's INF for MEDiON MD 41300 Larry's INF for DELL 5150/5160 Whitetigerx7's INF for Alienware Area 51 m5500 Benchmarks GeForce 2 Go: HERE from Pieter (v16.20 - v61.77) GeForce FX Go5200: HERE from Larry (v5x.xx - current) GeForce FX Go5700: HERE from Sky-Dexter (v65.73 - current) GeForce FX Go5700: HERE from zipper (v53.51 - current) GeForce Go 6200: HERE from AJH (v70.75 - current) GeForce Go 6800: HERE from REAVER (v66.81 - current) GeForce Go 6800: HERE from miki (v72.50 - current) @ AMILO 3438G GeForce Go 7800 GTX: HERE from jamesd (v79.31 - current) Notes All nVIDIA drivers hosted at LaptopVideo2Go.com come as a maximum compressed self-extracting 7-ZIP archive for your convenience. Reduce the size of your installation by using NVLiTE to rip out unnecessary languages and miscellaneous files without losing any driver features. via if you find what we do useful and would like to help us pay for hosting these files into the future. Please post any comments, suggestions, questions and other information related to this driver in this thread. Additionally, use of the Forum's Search function and Frequently Asked Questions section is recommended. If you still have a general problem that is not related with this driver, please post in the Support section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 Performance is identical to 81.82. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maier Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 This drivers doesnt work for me neither, like the 81.82. Again a black screen after login and doest boot further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HULK Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 this driver works just fine for me. performance is ~1 fps faster than 81.82 in the css vst dell xps2, 2 ghz pm, 2 gb ram, go 6800 ultra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 I've just made a performance enhanced INF, this is for benchmarking or where quality isn't an issue. These are my own settings I have stolen no one elses. Install these as normal, they shouldn't require any more input. Also as a first I've added Quadro tweaks to the INF, they will only be used when a quadro is installed (ie any other GPU won't install those settings) This should enable some features that Quadro's have disabled by default. I 'd be very interested in how you guys get on, even if these settings are crap let me know. I might keep them going, or expand to Quality as well. To get the Performance INF headback to the top of this thread and links can be found there, for both 32 and 64 bit. Enjoy :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 What kind of tweaks are in the performance INF? Is the Quality loss noticeable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 FYI, Your performance INF completely locked up and restarts my PC when attempting to install the driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 My INF too fast for your laptop :) OK must go and investigate. I'm using nVidia documented tweaks, so they shouldn't be the problem :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightfox Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 So what are the Quadro tweaks? What do they do? Nightfox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 [Quadro_Tweaks]HKR,, OGL_AALineGamma, %REG_DWORD, 0x23HKR,, OGL_EnableOverlaySupport, %REG_DWORD, 0x1 HKR,, OGL_EnableSingleBackDepthBuffer,%REG_DWORD, 0x1 HKR,, OGL_MultisampleCompatibility, %REG_DWORD, 0x1 Nothing too dratic but should help some out. These features are off by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Any clue as to why my system melted down with the INF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hmmm, this is harder than I thought. Just spent 2 hours trying tweaks, rebooting, more trying, booting... I found 1 problem with a setting but still get a no boot with another. I'll have to try and find this problem next, takes ages to narrow it down to a single tweak. Curse nVidia, I'm using their own performance tweaks, trust them not to work :) I 'll get back here later tonight after more testing, this is my first attempt at my own tweaks. I don't want to just copy others work and have no idea what the actual tweaks do. I hope to have this sorted very soon :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamika007z Posted October 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Just noticed that there isn't any "nvcplui.exe" located within this driver set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Yes, noticed this as well, 81.82 was probably not suposed to be leaked. DON'T try and run that file from 81.82 as errors (version mismatch) occur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hmmm, this is harder than I thought.Just spent 2 hours trying tweaks, rebooting, more trying, booting... I found 1 problem with a setting but still get a no boot with another. I'll have to try and find this problem next, takes ages to narrow it down to a single tweak. Curse nVidia, I'm using their own performance tweaks, trust them not to work :) I 'll get back here later tonight after more testing, this is my first attempt at my own tweaks. I don't want to just copy others work and have no idea what the actual tweaks do. I hope to have this sorted very soon :) Cool, looking forward to the new INF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Done, many, many ,many tests and reboots later. I have taken out the culprits The INFs have been uploaded (see 2nd post for links) Let me know how you get on, is there any performance gain ? This will be a work in progress, but good to get feedback (good and bad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Done, many, many ,many tests and reboots later.I have taken out the culprits The INFs have been uploaded (see 2nd post for links) Let me know how you get on, is there any performance gain ? This will be a work in progress, but good to get feedback (good and bad) I'm a curious cat, what tweaks have been implemented? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 He describes each tweak right in the inf -- about halfway down. Very handy! One that might not be clear is the "FlipBuffering" switch. This controls the number of frames ahead D3D will render. (Setting it to 2 will render two frames ahead, etc.) Nice work Pieter! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maier Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Pieter, any idee why this driver and the 81.82 doesnt work for my notebook? After the reboot and the login screen of windows my screen stays black Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terror_adagio Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 OpenGL does not work with the performance INF, completely locks up and restarts my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmzmaster Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Yea.. this BETA driver is really bugged to me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 has the regular inf been modded as well or is this discussion restricted to just the performance inf? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Maier, look about halfway down the inf and you'll find a line you can enable to fix the black screen on reboot problem. Guest, yes, the standard inf has been modified as well. This thread is for both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 I may need to shift the performance side of things to somewhere else. Or maybe give up on it as I'm wasting an awful lot of time on and let the other "performance enhancing' sites do this. I'll have a wee think. terror_adagio, bugger this is where the biggest gains would have been. It looks like the tweaks are no longer valid for the 80's series :) I'll have a play with this as I get time, I still have some tricks up my sleeve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightfox Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Well After trying the first Performace inf and having it fail (Black screen lock-up) I tried the second one (your update after my first post) and that one doesn't work either (but I did get farther). The main problem is when I right mouse click on the desktop and go to the "NVIDIA display > Laptop display" to bring up the control panel; It hits the HD a bit and then blue screens I tried using your normal INF with only the Quadro mods added in, that blue screened. Then I just did the Performance INF with the quadro mods removed - but that blue screened as well. Thank you for all the time spent on the Performance and Quadro mods - I appreciate all the work you have put into this so far. Nightfox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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