Forceware 181.20

[Guest mjc]

First off, THANK U DoX. U R AweSome :) . Just installed the driver and o/c'd at 600/500 on vista 64, and I was surprised by the stability it provided. I haven't done any benchmarking yet, but I did test it with RthDribl for stability purposes, I hit 92 degrees while working all perfect on my laptop. And the interesting part with this version is that during the test it doesn't downclock unlike the previous ones. and when the test was done powermizer did the trick downclocked and got my graphic card cooled off to 60-62. :)

90C and above does permanent damage to hardware... is almost 200F, boiling point of water is 100C/212F

[Guest blast]

Hi there, i got high temp problem with this driver, i got 99 degree C after played for about 2 hours, so what the best suitable for me in to installed this driver?? performance / balance / quality, i also have some wake up from stand by problems

Thanx

[Guest dougbrad82]

can this driver resume from sleep?

[Wraithe]

Yay, was able to log into my account (forgot that the login username and display names were different). I was the guy that was having problems with Fallout 3

Anyways, just like to say that with these drivers I was able to overclock my GPU while playing Fallout 3 higher than before. I have a 8600m GT DDR2 256mb card, with default clocks at 475/400. On the 185.20 drivers, my OC was only able to get to 500/419 on fallout 3 without crashing, fragmenting, or underclocking. With these, I can play Fallout 3 with a rough overclock of 575/475(have been to lazy to get the perfect OC) though I've only played it for one hour at most between sittings after the overclock. Finally, I could overclock the GPU for the Crysis demo with a rough overclock (again, too lazy) of 700/519 (probably could squeeze more out)!!! Now this is besides the reduced heat with these drivers, and fps increase even without overclock. Amazing drivers man!!! Keep it up! Sorry about thinking these drivers had something to do with the crashing in VATS.

P.S. First post on an actual account!!!

[Guest Anthony]

Thought I'd add my own benchmarks here. These drivers are the fastest I've ever tested (for my system).

Specs:

Dell M1710

Core 2 Duo T7400 @ 2.16 GHz

2 GB RAM @ 667 MHz

80 GB 7200 RPM HD

Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Geforce Go 7950 GTX OCd to 625/700 core/memory <-- Can go higher but temps increase dramatically if attempted.

~ 60 background processes running (including FRAPS)

Current Game: Fallout 3 patched to 1.05 (first patch)

Setup: Found one spot on security bridge to Rivet City, went to 3rd person (with Dogmeat), positioned staring south toward Jefferson Memorial, saved there.

For each benchmark, I fired up Fallout 3, loaded the save, waited 10 seconds, then began the 60 sec benchmark with FRAPS.

@ 1680x1050 resolution, preset to High with AA and aniso filtering set to none, 185.20 drivers from LV2Go.com:

2009-01-06 16:38:40 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 185.20

Frames: 1860 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.000 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

@1920x1200 resolution, preset to High with AAx2, aniso filtering x2, Dox 181.20 drivers:

2009-01-13 22:14:30 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1920x1200 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1690 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 28.167 - Min: 25 - Max: 30

When I tested again using the previous resolution (1680x1050) with AA and aniso filtering both at x2 with Dox's drivers, FRAPS showed:

2009-01-14 20:57:50 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1680x1050 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1866 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.100 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

I'd expect a larger increase if AA and filtering were disabled as with the 185.20 drivers, though this area of the Fallout 3 world seems to be CPU intensive. I benchmarked other random 1 minute clips inside the Jefferson Memorial, though with no reference benchmarks from previous drivers (and don't plan on reverting, either, as these drivers seem more stable).

2009-01-14 21:08:02 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2935 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 48.917 - Min: 29 - Max: 61

2009-01-14 21:11:44 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2044 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 34.067 - Min: 16 - Max: 62

2009-01-14 21:03:55 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 3427 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 57.117 - Min: 43 - Max: 61

Hope this helps people. In short, these drivers come highly recommended. **Looks at above posts** At least, for the 7950 GTX.

Cheers,

-Anthony

[Dox]

90C and above does permanent damage to hardware... is almost 200F, boiling point of water is 100C/212F

most cards even mobile cards has "throtlling" point of 110 C before it downclocks it self tot avoid damage.

[Dox]

Thought I'd add my own benchmarks here. These drivers are the fastest I've ever tested (for my system).

Specs:

Dell M1710

Core 2 Duo T7400 @ 2.16 GHz

2 GB RAM @ 667 MHz

80 GB 7200 RPM HD

Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Geforce Go 7950 GTX OCd to 625/700 core/memory <-- Can go higher but temps increase dramatically if attempted.

~ 60 background processes running (including FRAPS)

Current Game: Fallout 3 patched to 1.05 (first patch)

Setup: Found one spot on security bridge to Rivet City, went to 3rd person (with Dogmeat), positioned staring south toward Jefferson Memorial, saved there.

For each benchmark, I fired up Fallout 3, loaded the save, waited 10 seconds, then began the 60 sec benchmark with FRAPS.

@ 1680x1050 resolution, preset to High with AA and aniso filtering set to none, 185.20 drivers from LV2Go.com:

2009-01-06 16:38:40 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 185.20

Frames: 1860 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.000 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

@1920x1200 resolution, preset to High with AAx2, aniso filtering x2, Dox 181.20 drivers:

2009-01-13 22:14:30 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1920x1200 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1690 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 28.167 - Min: 25 - Max: 30

When I tested again using the previous resolution (1680x1050) with AA and aniso filtering both at x2 with Dox's drivers, FRAPS showed:

2009-01-14 20:57:50 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1680x1050 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1866 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.100 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

I'd expect a larger increase if AA and filtering were disabled as with the 185.20 drivers, though this area of the Fallout 3 world seems to be CPU intensive. I benchmarked other random 1 minute clips inside the Jefferson Memorial, though with no reference benchmarks from previous drivers (and don't plan on reverting, either, as these drivers seem more stable).

2009-01-14 21:08:02 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2935 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 48.917 - Min: 29 - Max: 61

2009-01-14 21:11:44 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2044 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 34.067 - Min: 16 - Max: 62

2009-01-14 21:03:55 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 3427 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 57.117 - Min: 43 - Max: 61

Hope this helps people. In short, these drivers come highly recommended. **Looks at above posts** At least, for the 7950 GTX.

Cheers,

-Anthony

thnks for the benchies mate

[Guest Guest]

Hi Dox, just tried your drivers, but I seem to have lost the nvidia control panel, is that installed seperately to your intsaller?

[Abdullah Alhabsyi]

Dox, this new driver perfect install on my laptop, one last asking, which one optimal setting for my laptop, Quality, performace, or balance?

Thanks you, Big appriciate you work.

[sssniper]

Dox, this new driver perfect install on my laptop, one last asking, which one optimal setting for my laptop, Quality, performace, or balance?

Thanks you, Big appriciate you work.

it depends on what result you need and applications/games you`re going to run with these drivers. I would recommend balance :)

[Dox]

Before next release.

I'll do a image and performance comparison with my driver (balance/qual/perf) vs the un modded nvidia ones,

I havent got time to do it now,

playing dead space at the moment (had the game before xmas but been busy modding and refining drivers that I am only playing it now!)

[Guest Guest]

This driver gives a BSOD with nvidia 7300 go

[husky55]

I'm not dropping vista 64 support but XP 64 support.

as for your card can you give me your device id so i can add it to the supported list?

Here are the IDs for the Nvidia M9800 GTS with 1 GB VRAM

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_062C&SUBSYS_0696107B&REV_A1

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_062C&SUBSYS_0696107B

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_062C&CC_030000

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_062C&CC_0300

[Guest Guest]

Dox- can you make a 185.20 with optimization?

[Squall_Rinoa89]

Thought I'd add my own benchmarks here. These drivers are the fastest I've ever tested (for my system).

Specs:

Dell M1710

Core 2 Duo T7400 @ 2.16 GHz

2 GB RAM @ 667 MHz

80 GB 7200 RPM HD

Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Geforce Go 7950 GTX OCd to 625/700 core/memory <-- Can go higher but temps increase dramatically if attempted.

~ 60 background processes running (including FRAPS)

Current Game: Fallout 3 patched to 1.05 (first patch)

Setup: Found one spot on security bridge to Rivet City, went to 3rd person (with Dogmeat), positioned staring south toward Jefferson Memorial, saved there.

For each benchmark, I fired up Fallout 3, loaded the save, waited 10 seconds, then began the 60 sec benchmark with FRAPS.

@ 1680x1050 resolution, preset to High with AA and aniso filtering set to none, 185.20 drivers from LV2Go.com:

2009-01-06 16:38:40 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 185.20

Frames: 1860 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.000 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

@1920x1200 resolution, preset to High with AAx2, aniso filtering x2, Dox 181.20 drivers:

2009-01-13 22:14:30 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1920x1200 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1690 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 28.167 - Min: 25 - Max: 30

When I tested again using the previous resolution (1680x1050) with AA and aniso filtering both at x2 with Dox's drivers, FRAPS showed:

2009-01-14 20:57:50 - Fallout3 Rivet City Bridge 1680x1050 Dox 181.20

Frames: 1866 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 31.100 - Min: 28 - Max: 33

I'd expect a larger increase if AA and filtering were disabled as with the 185.20 drivers, though this area of the Fallout 3 world seems to be CPU intensive. I benchmarked other random 1 minute clips inside the Jefferson Memorial, though with no reference benchmarks from previous drivers (and don't plan on reverting, either, as these drivers seem more stable).

2009-01-14 21:08:02 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2935 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 48.917 - Min: 29 - Max: 61

2009-01-14 21:11:44 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 2044 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 34.067 - Min: 16 - Max: 62

2009-01-14 21:03:55 - Fallout3 Dox 1680x1050

Frames: 3427 - Time: 60000ms - Avg: 57.117 - Min: 43 - Max: 61

Hope this helps people. In short, these drivers come highly recommended. **Looks at above posts** At least, for the 7950 GTX.

Cheers,

-Anthony

Finally someone posted some forum of benches x.X <3

[wulfe]

just installed this set and tested using various games...i got better performance, but there was stuttering..i tinkered around using rivatuner, i turned off anisotropic mip filter optimization, and everything was running smooth again...

i got some fps increase in almost all my games, except in PoP 2008, but gameplay was much smoother...and its more OC friendly..

thanks again for the hard work Dox..=D

[Guest Guest]

So I got fallout 3 to work by renaming it to oblivion.exe, but I think the image quality went down from my previous drivers. Especially the transparency anti-aliasing setting makes transparent textures look weird, not to mention I get a lot more aliasing overall within the game (such as with thin wires) despite an anti-aliasing setting of 4. I've only tried the balanced setting; I'll give quality a go when I have time.

[Abdullah Alhabsyi]

it depends on what result you need and applications/games you`re going to run with these drivers. I would recommend balance :)

Thank you for information, my quality video card high now with mode balance setting, just last asking, can i install PhysX 9.09.0010, i hope if i install this can make up my performace video card.....

Thanks before :)

[sssniper]

Thank you for information, my quality video card high now with mode balance setting, just last asking, can i install PhysX 9.09.0010, i hope if i install this can make up my performace video card.....

Thanks before :)

You can do it, but it will increase the performance ONLY in the games, that support PhysX, not the performance generally :)

[sssniper]

Last result with this driver on my 8600m gt 512 ddr2: 5011 3D Mark06 :)

used 8700m gt soft-mod

[Guest asdf]

I have an 8400m GS on my HP laptop. Would using these drivers be safe from hardware issues such as overheating? I'm trying to find the best driver without overclocking.

[Dox]

Last result with this driver on my 8600m gt 512 ddr2: 5011 3D Mark06 :)

used 8700m gt soft-mod

nice score, thats 7950GTX territory :)

[Stryker Zero]

(w00t first post... OK, now that THAT's out of the way...)

First off, tank you so much, Dox, for taking the time to improve these drivers for us... if one person can do it, you have to wonder why it takes NVIDIA so long! But yeah, Acer's website still hasn't fixed their driver download service, so sites like this one are literally my only hope... and so it's nice to see that you've taken all the guesswork and heartache out of modding files and all else. I know I'll be coming back here in the future, because this driver gave me a significant frame boost in TF2/L4D...

...sadly, though, it also has an error so severe it forces me to rollback to your previous release. Once I put my computer to sleep (Acer Aspire 6920, Vista Ultimate x86, NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS), it doesn't want to wake back up without a power-cycle. Reading through the posts in this forum, I'm apparently not the only user experiencing this problem... does anyone have any advice, and will rolling back to Dox 180.84 resolve the problem if this driver can't be made to?

(If this has been discussed elsewhere outside of this forum, please don't bite my head off... I AM new here.)

[Guest Guest]

Hey DOX I have problems with resolutions in Farcry 2, the higher I can go is 1600x1200, and my native resolution and with previous drivers I could max it out but not now, any ideas? Im running an 9800M gs

[Guest Guest]

I forgot to say what my native resolution is haha but it is 1900x1200 and these driver seems not to support it at least in crysis cause I can use that resolution in Left 4 Dead and Prince of persia