158.45 is out! (vista 32/64)

Hey guys...I manually went in and installed the driver though device manager and it took it alright. With previous drivers I would ALWAYS get blue screens with error 124 / 0x0000124 while playing video (usually Divx) files. These seem to have helped out very much now. I am playing back 3 files in VLC now and they have gone on much longer than they would have with older drivers.

Anyone else seeing similar results? Or maybe I'm the only one who had this problem before.

 

i get a "code 12" error in Vista Ultimate with SLi. i cant get Vista to enable my second card. under XP i now have no SLi issues.

has anyone had this problem with SLi and Vista? driver problem? i'm at a total loss here ...

 

Well, this driver fixed a few things and improved performance. Halo 2 for me got the biggest boost, followed but Rainbow six.

 

Lost 3000 points in 3dmark05, from 16587 to around 13500

 

thats crazy, dunno whats happened there, I get increased performance with my rig, but like i say, i cant run 3dmark on vista, it errors with openal.

 

false alarm, i uninstalled .45 again, rebooted, driver cleaner, reboot, install, reboot and im back at 16588 @ 3.0ghz cpu, 628/945.

 

Very tempted to try these, just 160.03 are the first drivers for me which don't crash/error every few hours

 

There is a thread about this fps problem in either the FEAR forum or the Condemned forum. I don't recall which, and I'm not at home right now. IIRC it's a problem with something USB. I didn't have the problem with FEAR, but I experienced the same in Condemned (FEAR engine). I deactivated some USB devices (remote control and other stuff) and the problem would be gone. A bad and annoying workaround, but it worked.


Blue, how much was the increase in Rainbow Six?

 

Yep there is a thread on this very thing at the FEAR forums , something to do with countless unused USB devices.

 

ok i ran rainbow six vegas with HDR and AA and i got to say, wow. it run better now. 40fps feel like and dont even drop to 20fps.

 

downloadig now, so will see how they go with the modded inf.


also where are these hosted as love the download speed, even for me in down under lol

 

Nvidia brotha!!:smoke:

 

not working for me with the modded inf,

they install properly, but when l restart me computer l get the following message and ideas.


"error loading c:\windows\system32\nvsvc.dll

the specified module could not be found"

and it was also another .dll

mostly it is about the system try

 

lol like this guy says give us zombies in dx10 good driver i think best yet !!

 

very good driver. boosted my fps with oblivion alot. still kinda down compared to how it played on xp, but eh, getting there. btw, does anybody know if the Jedi Academy Slowdown bug is ever going to be resolved on vista? i miss playing that game

 

I haven't found a comparison yet, so I have to ask:

158.45
or
158.24

Which is the better driver?

I'm running Vista 32 w/ dual 8800 GTS cards.

 

158.45 is the way to go, 158.24 does not support SLI in DX10 games.

 

Nice drivers working well here

 

So skip these if we have 7950GT card and running Vista 64? Stick with 158.24?

 

these drivers so far rock. I am on a Geforce Go 7800 GTX and these have helped out alot. i was using the 158.42s before these. here are some of the benchs i have got so far.

Fear max settings no soft shadows 4xAA 8xAF
res 1280x960
158.42 158.45
min 19 23
avg 39 40
max 90 91


CSS VST max settings 4xAA 8xAF
res 1680x1050
158.42 158.45
26.93 73.71

I didn't get a big jump with fear but i got a few more fps on my min which i am happy with. I did get a really big jump with CSS which makes it so i can play with AA and AF on now with no problems. These also made it so i can turn on AA and AF with C&C3 before i had everything at the max settings no AA or AF now i am using 2xAA and 4xAF.