Dox Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 I dont usally look for highest FPS. I try and get things to run smoothly with less "Hitching" and stable/better min FPS as well as keeping image quality good :) Of course all this slows things down, but not much due to the performance tweaks. I feel its a better gaming experience this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gameo Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 My bad, I thought your drivers were for "godly" performance only. Well, let's see if it reduces my stuttering in WoW..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikechristo Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 My vista indexing score for my Gaming Graphics used to be 5.5 and after installing this driver it got decreased to 5.4. Do i have to worry about it? What do you recommend? Stick with these drivers or revert back to the original drivers? Core 2 duo 2.6 Ghz, Nvidia 8600 M GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 whay are you worried about an unreliable index score? you should play some real games and check the performance. if it really bothers you then go back to the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikechristo Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 whay are you worried about an unreliable index score?you should play some real games and check the performance. if it really bothers you then go back to the original. I recently formatted my laptop, so i don't have any game installed on my laptop yet. I'm going to stick on with this driver until I get GTA 4. I'll then test the performance and decide which driver to use. Thanks for your response Dox. -Nikechristo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakey_Jake33 Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Having a bit of an issue with these drivers. They install fine and run lovely... except for one thing. When I try to run a game/application in anything but native resolution, I get the error 'Error loading NvMCTray.dll, The Specified module could not be found.', obviously because these drivers have NVTRAY removed. This is fine in itself, but this error appears everything I try to play anything at non-native resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 ahhh, interesting.... so can you still play games with that error? or does that error doesnt allow games to be played? does it appear when you change the res in the nvidia control panel or in the settings in the game itself? Thanks for telling me this, Now I know what all the nvidia files does :) :) :P Please let me know answer to my questions so I can fix thing next release accordingly. also have you fully cleaned uninstall the previous drivers?? since it may be a left over reg value (from previous drivers) looking for the missing file, which shouldn't be the case since I removed that from the reg enteries :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 My 3dmark 06 doesn't work with this drivers. It gives the message about NvMCTray.DLL error and another message: IDirect3DDevice9::Present failed: Device lost (D3DERR_DEVICELOST). What's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakey_Jake33 Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 The games still continue to run and work perfectly fine (although because of the error notification popup box, many games are minimised and unable to be re-maximised, such as UT3). It also happens when trying to change resolution from Display Properties, as well as from the Nvidia Control Panel... any resolution change causes the error to appear. I always uninstall driver from Add/Remove Programs, run DriverSweeper, restart into Safe Mode and run DriverSweeper again to be sure... so it's always a clean install. I've had to revert to my previous driver for now, but aside from the error, the drivers are excellent, and I look forward to a fixed release! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 oh, boo hoo, seems like I over optimised this time round :) Will get it fixed for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 the min fps gets increased by 2 in FEAR benchmark while max fps dropped by 1 ~ 2 which I don't care so much. Thanks for great driver and waiting for your new fix driver :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jinhaber Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Just curious, Im using a gateway 7811 and tried out these new drivers from dox, anyone else see a drop in temps during games or is that pretty normal.. i was using 180.43 from dox and my temps were about 70 when gaming and now there about about 60 but the fps is the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalangelbr Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Dox my friend i've got a question for you, this driver have all the Boosts performance that was applied in 180.48? like Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2 Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID etc Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted November 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Just curious, Im using a gateway 7811 and tried out these new drivers from dox, anyone else see a drop in temps during games or is that pretty normal.. i was using 180.43 from dox and my temps were about 70 when gaming and now there about about 60 but the fps is the same the clocks on 180.43 and .44 didnot downclock to 2d perf level, they were stuck on mid way clocks. that issue is fixed now Dox my friend i've got a question for you, this driver have all the Boosts performance that was applied in 180.48?like Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2 Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID etc Thx yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziddy Posted November 27, 2008 Report Share Posted November 27, 2008 Hi, If I change the 3D settings in the Control Panel, does that remove your tweaks? Or are the tweaks across the board so its always in effect whether I change it to high performance or high quality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dox Posted November 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 no it wont change it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galdere Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Looks great, as your custom drivers always do. Most recent games I'm getting a slight FPS improvement, particularly with the minimum and average. Other games are still not as strong as they were with your 178.24 etc. Up just over a percent on 3dmark06, compare to your 180.44. No problems with anything noticed so far. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meruyantoro Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 i continue with the wake up error on 8700m gt In my XP Pro 32 SP2 , 8600 MGT Some times, i'm still can not continue from wake up, but i never find wake up error and, cannot start and play Time Shift Games so, i roll back to 180.70 from XFastest, and all working normaly but with temp. (over heat) problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sinni Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 digital vibrance aible but.... #%$@%#savelessness%^$%^%&^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Oodle-Bear Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Latest version of my fat free optimised drivers out.Supports mobile users only. Based on 180.70. [update] XP: you make get an error and games may fail to play, with an error for nvmctray/ you may not. will be fixed when I can. Release Highlights -Supports all mobile gpus from 6-9 series and quadro equivalent -Added extra resolutions not found on original set -Added Image quality and performance tweaks -Highly optimised drivers Full changes -Added support for all Nvidia mobile GPUs 6-9 series and quadro equivalent -Removed all desktop support -Added numerous Direct X and OpenGL performance tweaks -Adjusted MipMap level of detail for sharper textures -Added tweaks to help reduce stuttering in games -Added compatibility tweaks for older games -Added extra resolutions -Optimised Nvidia driver service -Improved responsiveness of Nvidia control panel -English language release only -Removed helps files -Removed language files -Removed Stereo Vision server -Reduced Nvidia startup items -Removed Nview and its associated files and reg enteries (XP only) -Removed NVcolor.exe (XP only) -Removed Nvidia tray icon (XP only) -Reduced Nvidia startup items -Removed unnesseccary reg enteries made by nvidia -Fixed issue with not "waking up" from sleep for some users -Includes optional "Powermizer Switch" app (vista only) -Drivers files highly compressed in an installer -No driver setup files are left on the system after driver installation Download Links XP_180.70 | Mirror XP64_180.70 | Mirror Vista_180.70 | Mirror Vista64_180.70 | Mirror Post feeback, suggestions, comments and issues here. Hi Dox, your support for mobile Gaming is legendary, just a quick question, i'm assuming your Clevo is running 8800GTX i Sli, I tried the latest 180.170, drivers i.e. not your version and wneh playing Oblivion performance was worse than using the 179.13's and Blu-Ray would not work.... again! Seems that I can either have performance of Blu-Ray working, does your driver support both? Thanks OB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokkos Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Dox Without superfluous :) I thank and is very grateful for Powermizer Switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Areez Oke Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Is the Powermizer Switch just for Vista? what about XP? :) I want to try this driver tonight...ohyea, if Im going to install this driver, all I have to do is double click the .exe files right? Im just a noobie... :) thank u Dox...u awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBouncer Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 Hi DOX, can't say how much i appreciated your custom drivers. Great work! :) However I realised that the 180.70 seems to be slower than the 180.44 With 180.44, COD4 seems to run smoothly without stuttering but that's not the case for 180.70 Besides, i also noticed that 180.70 is not as responsive as 180.44 while working in vista 32-bit I was wondering is there an explanation for this. Your help would be much appreciated, thank you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Areez Oke Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 is that right? :) maybe I just use DOX 180.44, because I just start playing CoD4... @The Bouncer Which one is better for CoD4? original 180.48 that Im using right now, or DOX 180.44? thanks bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marchewa Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 thx Dox, its awsome driver for me, higher min fps and omg what a score in 3d mark 06. with my samsung r560 (p8400, 9600gt, 4gb ddr3, and unfortunetly vista 32 bit 3gigs o ram in use :c ) i got: - with native resolution 1280x800 - 5730 3DMarks - with 1024x768 resolution - 6345 3DMarks thats totally awsome. im gonna try to oc a bit with this driver later. gonna let u know how it works :) thx again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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