nVIDIA Forceware 91.33 Download & Discussion

Guys try 91.28 drivers. They r beta drivers sure. But they r really good and not at all buggy. give it a shot. Everyone will be satisfied by that.

 

84.37 is still the best for me

 

man to many people call each other fanboys
your just really stupid and have no knowledge

 

WTF Are you on? get lost

 

the 91.28 are still the best for me in the 9series .. good IQ with superb image quality ...

 

what are you on???
Why such a threatful post??

 

Sorry :_

 

Yeah. 128 MB of VideoRam is just about enough for almost everything. I play Doom3 and Quake4 with the settings you posted, and play FEAR with ALL settings MAXED OUT, and it`s running smoothly. Call of Duty 2 - the same, all maxed out, AA and AF and runs like butter on my 128MB GF 6600GT on *AGP* !

It`s about how well is the texture-swapping between AGP ( or PCX ) memory and the video-card`s local memory implemented. It is obvious that no game can use more than the 128 MB for a particular scene at the same time. When you go to the other "room", maybe other textures will be uploaded from main (AGP or PCX) memory to the card`s local video memory, but this "swapping" can be done intelligently, in the "background", so that the player won`t notice it.

What happened you might ask. Well, I.M.H.O., when these video-memory hungry applications ( DOOM3, COD-2, FEAR, etc ) appeared, NVIDIA had a very "rough" memory management implemented in their drivers, basically underutilizing the systems`s potential. Then they also started to work on more intelligent video-memory-management system because of the "Turbocache"-thing, where they had to implement these driver routines in order to use main-memory as video memory. And now that these "textures-swapping" routines are ready, I suppose they are running these routines also when you don`t have a card with "Turbocache". It all makes sense.... intelligent pre-loading of textures. That`s why the newest drivers work smoothly with as little as 128 megabytes of video-ram. I have analyzed Call of Duty 2 for example ( using Rivatuner ) and I tracked video-memory usage. Well it uses the full 128 MB from the card all the time, and it uses around 200 Megabytes of so called "non-local" memory ( which is AGP memory in my case, or PCX memory if you have a newer system ). And the swapping between these memory-spaces is so smooth, that I cannot notice when textures are loaded into local video ram from non-local ( system ) ram.

Of course all this is my oppinion, I have no "proof" for this, I just what I experienced trying out almost every driver and "fooling around" in different videogame titles.

I say videomemory-management has *improved a lot* in the latest drivers.
( so you might think that FEAR runs with all "maxed" on your hyper-super
new 256MB or 512MB or SLI videocard... but it`s just the half truth. The other side of the story is that NVIDIA improved their memory management )

 

Second on that. 91.28 are really the best I have tried for my 7800GTX.

 

GRAW runs like warm milk with forceware 91.33 on my system
both graphic card and processor are slightly overclocked. No blue screens
Albeit the game selected optimal settings for my system, medium to high.

PNY7800GT 450/1100
Amd 3200+ 2,2mhz
:mad3:

Although I never ran 91.28, I just jumped from the 8X.XX drivers

 

wow isnt it odd seeing how many people love this driver??

*sarcasm*

 

I still have not found a fix for this :

With either 91.28, 91.31 or 91.33, when my comp comes out of hibernation or standby, my GPU speed does not throttle down betwen 2D (275mHz) and 3D (650mHz) anymore. I'm stuck at 650! I have to restart and avoid using hibernation. I noticed it with Rivatuner Hardware Monitor. Of course, my GPU temp is higher too from 38-39 to 42 average. When I revert back to 84.XX, everything is fine. I did a clean install with the driver cleaner procedure. No Go. Anyone ?

 

Has anyone else noticed that trying to access the CPL takes ages?
I couldn't use the new CPL as the harddrive kept being accessed and nothing showed up so I turned to the old CPL but it takes a while to come up. If I then try to add a new profile it keeps accessing the harddrive endlessly. I have to manually kill the process.:bang:

 

From blurp33
"With either 91.28, 91.31 or 91.33, when my comp comes out of hibernation or standby, my GPU speed does not throttle down betwen 2D (275mHz) and 3D (650mHz) anymore. I'm stuck at 650!"

How do you know the GPU is still running in 3D mode do you open rivatuner immedeatly after you come out of standbye and check or do you have a GPU monitoring system running constantly?

 

mmm
Just did a test with rivatuner
I now understand what you mean...blurp33
You (we) need to manually set the overclocking to 2d desktop mode after gaming, otherwise it could lead to extra stress on the GPU.
What do you think?

 

The only temporary solution i found so far when the GPU is stucked at 650 in 2D is to go back in standby mode for a couple of seconds then wake up. The GPU will be at 275.

The best thing to do is to avoid Stanby/hibernate alltogether because it screws normal GPU throttling.

 

In a bonehead move of masterplanning, I updated the BIOS on my MoBo (DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-DR), then installed nForce 6.86 and finally installed Forceware 91.33. All is good EXCEPT when I select an option from the "new" control panel (if I select the same option from the "old" control panel it seems to work just fine). I first get an error message that NVIDIA Control Panel Application, 1.2.1.13 has encountered a problem and needs to close. The Error signature is

AppName: nvcplui.exe AppVer: 1.2.1.13 ModName: nvcplui.exe
ModVer: 1.2.1.13 Offset: 000057d1

When I dismiss the error box I get a windows error box that says

The instruction at "0x7c9105f8" referenced memory at "0x011d0010". The memory could not be "read".

I'm a simpleton here, I have no idea what is going wrong. I tried installing again with the same procedure. I'm anal retentive about this. My procedure was

1. Uninstalled all nVidia drivers except nTune (windows would not uninstall it at this time)
2. Ran Driver Cleaner and removed all nVidia items
3. Emptied the trash
4. Restarted in safe mode and ran Driver Cleaner again. Emptied trash.
5. Restarted normally and now was able to uninstall nTune. Repeated steps 2-4.
6. Restarted normally and installed nForce 6.86
7. Restarted normally and installed Forceware 91.33

Any help in understanding the source of the error would be appreciated. For now I can work around it (provided that nTune is not installed) but my gut tells me if the interface isn't working properly, there is a good chance something else is also misbehaving.

Thank you,

Richard

 

I get that error too using them; and all is not good for me using them - 50% of the time I am not able to boot into windows (it just hangs and my display turns itself off), the other 50% I can get into windows and if i stay long enogh get that memory error message. In addition, windows lags like hell (e.g., if I open up windows explorer, it takes 25seconds to open).

Nope, these drivers are a piece of **** (atleast for my system)

 

Running smoothly doesn't mean <20 FPS , I had a 6600GT with my older computer a while ago which was a 128 6600GT same processor but only a gig of ram and FEAR ran like **** when all maxed, Doom 3 did not run so good on Ultra and Quake 4 was the same.

 

9133 Great driver

I'am using it on 3 System and this driver works great.

System 1
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
2xBFG 7800 GTX 256 PCIE SLI
A8N32 Deluxe
2GB 4x512 PC3200
2x250 WD Sata Drives
2ZS Audigy

System 2
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
2xBFG 6800 GTX 256 PCIE SLI
A8N-SLI Deluxe
2GB 4x512 PC3200
2x160 WD Sata Drives
2ZS Audigy

System 3 my old one
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1xBFG 6800 GT 256 AGP
2GB 4x512 PC3200
2x150 WD IDE Drives
2ZS Audigy

On all 3 of these system these drivers rock, Fear, Urban Terror, Both Quake 3 & 4, Both Doom 3 & 4, Prey, Lineage II, Oblivion, Titan Quest, Sniper, BF2, All the Half-Live, and the list goes on and on.

These drivers Rock when you system is configured corectly, My Son had some problems on his AMD XP 2800+ 1gb mem, 7800 AGP, until he took a little time and cleaned up his startup and put on a good AV (Avast) he had Norton, and now his system runs great with the 9133 drivers.