Anyone have this graphics card other than me :3eyes: , is it performing well in the 19x set? I'm having issues with every single 19x driver , however EVERY 179 , EVERY 188 driver works perfectly. Don't mention clean uninstalls or :biggun:
Have you done a clean install ? jks but yeah my older GTX260 didnt like the new nvidia drivers at all always needed to use 188 or older
My Palit GTX 260 likes 195.62 and 186.18 the others cause freezes or stutters, but I'm very happy with this card. Just tested with 196.75 and he likes that to with XP/Win7.
Mine isn't a 260 of course, but it is Palit and works great with the 196.75 drivers. The previous 190.xx drivers gave me occasional stutters in BF2. All cleared up now though.
I may not have a Palit i got a bfg but still the 196.75 drivers are pretty good BC2 performance is really good getting like 60+ Fps on a really good server.
I have Palit 260 sli'ed with a Evga 260 and have had no install problems. I would RMA it. My evga card was RMA'ed because I could not install the any driver with out changing the Device string in the Nv_disp.inf because some how the card had the wrong ID or it got corrupt and changed a bit some how. On advice from unwinder I RMA'ed it and all is good. The fact is it SHOULD WORK!
Gosh, that's incredible...normally that only happens if the card is flashed with an incorrectly written custom bios....:3eyes: Amazing...
i have the palit gtx260 sonic and have been using the 196.34 drivers with no problems what so ever.. Plan on installing the new ones tonight.
No its not in the bios. This value is hardwired on display adapter's PCB and most likely some of the strapping resistors defining PCI DeviceID on the card are damaged/missing. This why I say RMA.
Well i'm not going to RMA it because im pretty damn sure that the person testing it out wouldn't notice it , but being as i'm fussy i notice the slightest stutter or lag and it puts me off. The difference between the 188's and the 19x's is enough lol. For example , battlefield 2 any driver in the 19x range gives me laggy gameplay and at times it stutters even though the frame rate says everything is ok. Walking through an area and it's fast and perfect then suddenly it goes into a slight slow mo , walk out of that area and it's fine back again slow mo. There is a wierd texture issue aswell , walking beside a fence for example it looks more glared and the AF seems broken. AVP 3 for example in the 19x felt much more lagged and stuttered , it felt like the frame rate was some 20fps less but according to fraps nope everything is fine. Go back to the 179x or 188x perfectly fine and fast , whats different? the adaptive / Performance option that's the only thing i can think off. I've also read a few others having the same issue , but when they put in another card SLI the issue just vanish's. Something to do with the memory management in the drivers one response i was given. I've reported it to Nvidia but how many drivers and it's still the same It could also be going on with alot of other people but they don't notice it and report everything is fine , hell i can notice a 10fps drop even without a benchmark hah
