Forceware 100.95 XP-Vista

Another note when I do reinstall drivers I also reinstall PowerStrip 3.73 Beta and run driver cleaner pro 1.5.
You should reinstall the drivers or overclocking tools anytime you flash your BIOS or change a driver of what you are overclocking. You dont have to but see if it helps. I am having no issues and seems to be a big step up from running

91.47 XFX Driver
93.71 Nvidia
93.81 Nvidia
94.20 Guru
100.95 Station Drivers

100.95 is the smoothest fps for BF2, benchmarks, overclocking.

This is my experience with the driver not all will work im also running AGP but im not complaining about running 2D 285 \ 3D 520 \ 1600 Stable I find when I raise my 2D voltage its more stable in the memory. I also disabled the temp monitoring in my bios on my video card and lowered my temperature about 10C on ldle and load. Another little note was there was not a increase in stability when overclocking the cpu or memory either. Thought it should be mentioned.

Will get more results too you guys if more drivers do not become available before then.

 

These seem very nice. Image quality is superb.

 

I was showing that it allowed me to overclock further with better stability.

512 \ 1580 was max stable with no glitches

now

520 \ 1580 was stable but after further testing raising my 2D clocks

285 \ 520 \ 1600 is stable and will get some scores and some tests but might need to back down gonne find the best performance with no performance loss if I go to far it starts to go down.

 

100.87
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3DMark Score 10037

SM 2.0 Score 4698 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4842 Marks
CPU Score 2116 Marks

100.95
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3DMark Score 10147
SM 2.0 Score 4805 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4868 Marks
CPU Score 2124 Marks

 

Can't seem to get the Old Control panel to work like some of you guys have been able to with the manual install (XP 32 bit)

 

With this version, I can't add application profiles. As soon as I choose a file and click OK, the control panel crashes. (on XP, with an 8800GTX)

 

Playing battle station midway with everything maxed.

2x2 Supersampling AA and man, the image quality is superb!

 

I was not able to get the old control panel to work with these either.

I installed nTune latest version and NVTray tools enabled all features and rebooted and even edited registry entries it still would not enable the old control panel. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG.

 

Call of Duty 2 started up with a blank screen when I tried it with these drivers.

 

Not that anybody cares, but UT2004 is still skipping with bluescreens. Disabling hardware T&L fixes the skipping for the most part, but will cause low FPS and still has occasional bluescreens.

 

for anyone who wants to know Dawn Of War won't run under these drivers (with my 7900GS) says something about Hardware Transform & Lighting

On the other hand it got rid of the bugs with Hitman Blood Money, except the white fog when you enter first person mode....

 

to switch to the old control panel u have to change the "SedonaDisable" string in the registry ->

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2145312#post2145312#2

after that, the "Use Classic NVIDIA Control Panel..." can be found directly in the new one.



but i have still a problem with the AA setting in the old control panel.

 

If you check the event logs at the time of crash you'll notice a "out of video memory" warning.
At first I thought it was Areo, but I disabled it and it still happens. So it might be BF (not flushing during map change) or even Vista taken up the VRAM

Also going in to advanced display settings, clicking on the adapter tab, shows that I (apparently) have 495mb of shared system memory being used for the graphics card...WhyTF is it doing that...

 

Oh..and do people get softshadow corruption in FEAR \ FEAR extraction point?

Apparently that was "fixed" in the 80 series drivers but its been back ever since the 100 series

 

Undesirable:

Make sure you get rid of your former drivers. I installed 100.95 over 101.46 and COD2 would get through loading a MP map but stop at the intro screen. I could hear the audio continuing but the screen was dead.

I used DC Pro to clean up the old drivers then re-booted and loaded in the 100.95 drivers. All okay.

 

The registry entry it refers too does not exist on my computer. Is there some file im missing or not being told about that needs to be more clear. From start to finish how do you get the Old Control Panel working. All we ever get is a little information here and there.

 

You cant get the OLD CP in Vista, only XP.

 

Can you explain further as there is no options or anything for the Old control panel and I would like it thank you.

 

Alright the only way I was able to get the Old Control Panel to work was using this registry key I found. Create a notepad document paste in each information. Two seperate registry entry information below so two different registry documents would need to be created.

Enable Old Control Panel:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]
"DevPolicies"=dword:00000000
"ModePolicies"=dword:00000000
"ModePersist_GPU:0_Mode:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,40,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"LutPersistDesktop_GPU:0_Head:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,\
00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,\
00
"LutPersistFSVM_GPU:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,5a,\
00,00,00,45,00,00,00,45,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001
"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000001

Enable New Control Panel:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]
"DevPolicies"=dword:00000000
"ModePolicies"=dword:00000000
"ModePersist_GPU:0_Mode:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,40,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"LutPersistDesktop_GPU:0_Head:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,\
00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,64,00,00,\
00
"LutPersistFSVM_GPU:0"=hex:00,00,00,00,64,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,5a,\
00,00,00,45,00,00,00,45,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000002
"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000002
"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000002

 

vista or xp?