Forceware 188.25

Drivers seem pretty good, but I haven't tested them too extensively. Rose my SF4 Benchmark score from 174 to 180 which is a nice gain.

However I noticed these drivers have no native SLI profile for Dragon Age. I used the SLI Profile Update on the NVIDIA site and it restored SLI functionality.

 

I tried installing the same SLI profile update but when I do it says CPL never started ??? XML updated and it doesn't update my profiles .

 

I think I got the same error at first but I did it so quickly I didn't read what it said. So, I did it again immediately after and watched it his time and it updated fine. So try it again.

 

After whole day testing, comparing 188.25 vs. 195.81 I can say something more about fps in games:
CoD MW2 (Max, AAx4, AFx16) - average 8 fps more on 188.25 and no fps droops
CoD 2 (Max, AAx4, AFx16) - both are good, no big differents
CoD 4 MW (Max, AAx4, AFx16) - the same situation like in CoD 2
Crysis (CCC v2.21 Lvl5 Settings, DX10, AAx4) - a little bit more (+2 fps) on 188.25 with AAx4 and CCC v2.21
DiRT 2 (Max, AAxQ16, AFx16)- minimal fps a lot worse on 188.25, average fps too, for example from Benchmark (188.25: min - 28, avg - 42) and (195.81: min - 32, avg - 45)
Dragon Age: Origins (Max, AAx8, AFx16) - I'm very confused here, but overall both are the same
Far Cry 2 (Max, DX10, AAx4, AFx16)- a lot better on 195.81, for example Benchmark (188.25: min - 15, avg - 40) and (195.81: min - 31, avg - 45), on 188.25 are annoying low fps droops
TDU (Max, AAx4) - a little bit more on 195.81, max fps is much higher
NFS: Shift (Max, AAx8) - in here 188.25 totally sux, no support for OpenCL, in Menu fps is 60, and on 195.81 was 90, in race on 188.25 minimal fps is lower by 5, avg lower by 8 and maximal lower by 17, so it's rly big difference
RE5 (Max, AAxQ16, DX10) - a little bit more on 195.81, average fps higher by 6
WiC (Max, AAxCS16, AFx16, DX10) - in Benchmark 188.25 was better, no weird fps droops, but in game no difference, both are good, no problems

At last I came back to 195.81, less problems with these.

 

Ugh, seems that these drivers have a problem downclocking from 3D clocks the majority of the time also. I guess I'll stick with them though until the next set of WHQL. I play L4D2 frequently and the 195 series drivers has that SLI blug on map change, in which I need to alt+tab to fix the FPS constantly.

 

1. Set the DV to your preference.

2. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak\Defaults\Overlay]
"OverlayColorControlEnable"=dword:00000001 (hex=1)

3. Reboot

 

still resets to 0 after reboot, but oh well i can deal with manually setting it back to 33% i guess since i usually only reboot a few times a week

 

Sehr Gut!

This fixed my focus monitor scaling issues.

 

Only the registry reset to 0 after I done as described.
But DV setting sticks to what Ive chosen.
Tested on Windows 7 x64 Pro RTM and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate Retail.

 

im back on 188.22 and they're on par with these and game profiles work fine.

@ stefik

yea i noticed too Dirt2 runs a bit slower, i had to use 2xaa insted of 4x to get the same performance, but still not a big deal imo, i barely see any jaggies and im only at 1280x1024 (i see more jaggies in nfs shift with 4xaa then here).

NFS Shift ran fine though, 4xaa and get the same 104fps in main menu as with any other driver also the same speed with 188.22.

 

I also noticed that the game profiles were broken in the .25's (win7 64 bit), and I had some minor issues with alt-tabbing. It didn't crash the game, but it took a couple of tries to restore properly.

went back to the 195.62 whql's for now, which work good for me, so I'll probably stick with them. Though I may give the 188.22's a try sometime if I encounter any issues (none so far), or I get the bug to try another set of drivers.

 

Broken game profiles?
How are they broken for you?
Just want to know since I got all my profiles working with 188.25.

 

Probably the same I got with profiles not saving, and someone else reported a similar thing with profiles:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3401015&postcount=76

 

best drivers for me...

 

They didn't stick/save when I set them. every time I went back into the control panel, all the 3d settings for game profiles were back to the defaults.

 

Try this.
Go to C:/Windows/System32 and manually delete file NvApp.xlm file.
Go to C:/Programdata(Hidden folder)/Nvidia and manually delete NvApp.xlm file.

After this try and reinstall the driver with Driver sweeper in the safe mod.

See if it helps.

 

Anyone know how to set DV to 5% because the slider moves in 2% increments?

 

I went back to the 191.07 drivers.. The Alt Tab issue started to peeve me off..
Also for some reason Dragon Age became much slower when playing it for a longer period of time...