NVIDIA Forceware 163.67 Download & Discussion here!

I can confirm Rivatuner 2.03 allowed me to OC my card with the 163.67 drivers!

OC'd from 610/800 to 640/840 and sticks after reboot now!

 

They have only changed the overclocking for the 8xxx-series so that it works fpr you is no surprise.

 

overclocking works for me with xp? is this a vista issue???

600/1404/900

 

Vista x86,

no SLi still! CODE12 "not enough resources"

damn i wish this would get fixed ....

 

I've read that two people with 8 Series cards are able to overclock with these dirvers, pilistorac and Burnt_Ram, so it it's working for some people with 8 Series cards too!

 

are you using Vista or XP?

 

Both!

Rivatuner keeps the OC in both XP and Vista on my card!

 

It will still allow you to overclock, just not as high as before until the apps get updated.

 

Oups ... it seems that on vista 64 shader can't be overclocked (at least with RT so far) so highest settings for core is 594 ... moving slider higher change nothing it only revert core to 594. On xp it works fine. :O

 

OK, I see the problem, NV screwed up the OC in Vista

 

anyone getting alot of app crashes with these drivers? here and there ? every so often? :hit:

 

Overclocking here works "fine" again. I can oc the memory to the same speeds as I had before but my core won't go further than 580. If I go any further it goes straight back to 580

 

These drivers "broke" a couple times for me. Meaning they either didn't load on startup of windows or games. Or they crashed a game and broke. Back to 163.44...:frown: (8800GTS)

 

wow 8800gts seem to have lots of problems in xp. looks like i'm going to 8800gtx or 8900ultra

 

No they haven't. They have fixed it. It's just that the overclocking tools haven't gotten updated yet.

 

Are we going to have yet another vista vs xp thread? It history repeating itself. It was the same when xp first came out.

 

I don't know why people bother, maybe it's inexperience. Vista will inevitably become the gaming OS of choice, as did XP and so on. Move on or get left behind, it's a simple choice.

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

there are some more vista hotfixes for users of this driver and later ones.

 

nVidia has changed the clocking routines in these drivers in Vista, so that's why your shader domain stays at stock. Rivatuner 2.04 is out now though, and that fixes it: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2426999#post2426999

You have to set the ratio manually, though.

 

Call me stupid if you will, but I wonder, a XP user as I am, can I utilize the OC option to fully take advantage of the Forceware 163.67 as well?