What are the best drivers for the 9800 GX2?

ya, i noticed much beter performance with the 177.92's in cs:s

 

i really like the 177.92 as well

 

177.92 seem good for me too. Untill I try to turn on Physx in games such as Graw2 - then it crashes.

 

physx drivers were just released. i would say away from it for awhile.

 

177.92 for me too.
However I haven't tried physX yet!

 

Crysis Warhead sucks with 177.92??



Anyone tried it with the latest official drivers for gx2?

 

Crysis Warhead sucks with 177.92 and 177.98 I tried.
Dont know why.Maybe poor sli scaling?

 

Yap,but after i turned nhancer off I got a huge fps boost.
Threre might hane been a conlict...

 

Warhead runs perfectly using driver 177.98! no stuttering - I tested at gamer,
Loaded the save right after the iced ship and it gives me 60 fps-no aa 1650*1080

 

so how are the new 179 or 178.13 drivers?

 

I 'm running the 178.13 drivers and they run great. I've seen a difference in Crysis and Warhead for sure. I haven't benchmarked it but my in game framerate is higher and it feels smoother.

 

I tried them, Warhead still runs like rubbish for me. Not everybody seems to have that problem, just look at Hornblower's numbers in this thread.

 

Have you tried modifying your Nvidia control panel settings?

Set the following:

Maximum pre-rendered frames = 1
Multi-GPU Performance Mode = Force alternate frame rendering 2
Multi-Display/GPU acceleration = Single Display Performance Mode.

 

178.13 Drivers showed improvement for me in many games and also 3dmarks. I don't get "stuttering" anymore in STALKER clear sky.

I say keepers =]

 

Sorry to say,your all wrong,best drivers for you 9800 is 174.74

 

178.13 and the incl physx still crash in GRAW2.

And the DV only working at 33% and 66% problem is still here.

what a farce

 

XP32 174.74 were good drivers but the Nvidia control panel was borked for me & countless others, took a minute or two to appear & then hung & crashed when altering 3D settings otherwise I would have kept them myself, current 178.13 aren't as fast but at least I can alter the settings.

DV seems stuck about midway so colour is o.k. never had this problem before

 

Sorry to say, I'm not. I've tried both and the new ones are much better. All the guys in my clan who have updated have commented they have not seen a performance increase in a new driver like this one in a long time.

 

new .15 drivers. going to install vista ult after being in xp. hopefully my sensitivity won't be ****ed last time i switched to vista for source games. mousefix/acceleration fix dont work.

 

A little bit better in Vantage with new FW 178.15 compared to 178.13

with 178.13 at 800/2000/1140 - 15210:
, 810/2000/1200 - 11956 without PhysX:

178.15 at 800/2000/1140 - 15433:
, 810/2000/1200 - 12200 without PhysX:

but it's much better then my favorite until now FW 177.73, because I make 15386 in Vantage with higher settings of RAM 800/2000/1172
In Crysis bench also have increasing from 36 to 38 Avg FPS, Very high, DX10, 1680x1050.