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Forceware 169.09 Beta
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SLI is still as poor as before, that will require a patch from Crytek to fix not just a driver boost. However these seem more stable under SLI than the previous 169's since they don't keep giving the "driver recovered" message in DX10 games.
Performance in Crysis for me is still pretty poor at anything over 1600, not a hope of running it smoothly at 2560 for me yet until the patch is released.
However, UT3 engine games seem to have gained a lot as has WiC.
Performance in Crysis for me is still pretty poor at anything over 1600, not a hope of running it smoothly at 2560 for me yet until the patch is released.
However, UT3 engine games seem to have gained a lot as has WiC.
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Does it matter that these are the English US version? Links to the English UK version don't offer the 169.09's
Ignore, OK now.
Ignore, OK now.
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1280x1024 all on medium, no aa, 49.3 before, 48.8 after, no difference really
However it did seem a bit more responsive, might as well be the placebo effect though
Stick another 2 gigs of ram in and try again, it really helped my system with crysis, Especially running vista
[ui]ICEMAN;10479383 said:
That sounds interesting, i'll check COD4 in a sec
I get the driver recovered messages in COD4 and once in Crysis but i don't run SLI, not sure it's purely an SLI problem?
And yes i know i should get another 2gigs, but i'm low on money right now, plus by the time the memory would get here from Overclockers i'll be too loaded up on homework to do anything.
Never was a problem with Nvidia drivers for me, didn't have to disable a thing?
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im downloading these, how do you do the crysis timedemo, ill do a before/after
in the crysis sp demo folder, then bin32, the timedemos are in there.
No difference at all for me on the demo
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Crysis plays the same for me from what i can tell, which is no bad thing really seen as it ran well anyway.
OMG THESE DRVERS ARE THE *oi no swearing!*. ALL SETTINGS ON HIGH, POST PRO ON VERY HIGH NO AA, 1600=1050 absolutely flying lads!!!(Demo version)
lol @ everyone who got fooled by that post
Didnt mean to mislead anyone but they worked for me.
I am having trouble getting it to run in 64bit mode though , any ideas?
I find it very difficult to take seriously the technical opinion of someone who clearly can't even find the shift key...OMG THESE DRVERS ARE THE *oi no swearing!*. ALL SETTINGS ON HIGH, POST PRO ON VERY HIGH NO AA, 1600=1050 absolutely flying lads!!!
Demo version aswell
Just done a quick test.
169.01's @ 1680x1050 ALL HIGH No AA = 34FPS dead.
169.09's @ 1680x1050 ALL HIGH No AA = 34.85FPS
So a teeny tiny improvement (which might have already been there in the 169.04's but I didn't test those).
2fps increase on maximum fps all i got and a headache because when i installed them from the exe file the driver wouldnt load saying they were incompatable with my version of windows and they were wrote for a older version of windows lol 
rolled back to previous 169.04 then installed the 169.09 the old school way via device manager and now they work
rolled back to previous 169.04 then installed the 169.09 the old school way via device manager and now they work
I find it very difficult to take seriously the technical opinion of someone who clearly can't even find the shift key...
your so nice