nVidia 195.39 beta drivers

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 15:39

FAO those folding who have had 2D clock issues with 19x.xx series drivers

I'm trying these drivers now (195.39betas are on the US site only atm, released 30th oct)

i'll post an update when i've let them run for a bit longer, although i've had no issues yet!

Also they are using CUDA 3.0, so we will see if there is any benifit to ppd.

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EDIT: After 10mins running ppd is up by between 6-10% over the 186.xx drivers. and no clock issues yet.

shadowscotland · 30 Oct 2009 at 16:00

191.xx drivers give a 4-5% boost over the 18x.xx ones btw - might try these myself

Happy · 30 Oct 2009 at 16:44

Excellent guinea pig time

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 17:07

Update:

All seems well, seems to be on average about 6% faster. No 2d clocks

My gtx295 is now outputing 19k ppd by itself (based on 353 units)

Marine Iguana · 30 Oct 2009 at 17:30

Excellent and thanks for testing

Happy · 30 Oct 2009 at 17:49

Oh good news for us then! Will give these a go when I reinstall 7 over the weekend.

Cheers

Marine Iguana · 30 Oct 2009 at 18:46

These drivers are very good so far on 787 point WU i have gained around 200ppd

shadowscotland · 30 Oct 2009 at 21:53

not cad friendly - but showing a .5sec improvement on 353pts - 8714/8970
MAJOR slow down on ppd with cad two - well below 5k ppd

not for me 9-5 - will see how they do over the weekend.

verbal · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:07

Going to wait until they come out of beta. Might finally upgrade from 181.20.

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:44

Update number 2:

Well 7hrs later and i'm still running full pelt. sorry to here they're not good at multi tasking. But at least they've sorted one of the problems

dekez · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:17

I installed these last night, PPD is now over 17K

It may just be some good WUs but normally doesn't go that high. How are you guys measuring the performance increases, with FahMon benchmarks or PPD / other method?

Marine Iguana · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:21

Well on 353 i used to get

186.24 driver
Project : 5771
Min. Time / Frame : 37s - 8243.03 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 37s - 8243.03 ppd

now its up to

195.39 driver
Project : 5771
Min. Time / Frame : 35s - 8714.06 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 35s - 8714.06 ppd

not bad i think

shadowscotland · 31 Oct 2009 at 21:39

Fahmon
191.06 - 35/35/35/35/35/35/35/sec
195.39 - 35/34/35/34/35/34/35/sec

seams like it's still doing ok based on the EOC stats

Happy · 1 Nov 2009 at 17:28

Anyone tried playing any games on these yet?

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 18:17

Not yet, too much work on... any reason you ask?

I'll halt the folding and run Vantage now and see what happens.

EDIT: vantage score is higher (mostly due to the CUDA enhancements since 185/6 I suspect) P24.5K rather than P23K.
But it isn't a game of course so may not be a good representation.

Marine Iguana · 1 Nov 2009 at 18:22

Erm I'll have a go at what games i have installed and let you know.

Edit:
Need for Speed:Shift - Works OK
Need for Speed

ro Street - Works OK
Half Life 2 - Does not work, don't know why

COD4 - Works OK
COD5 - Works OK
Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising - Works OK
Call of Juarez:Bound in Blood - Works OK
Saints Row 2 - Works OK

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 19:53

Ah poop, just had my screen flicker and now one core is locked at 400Mhz after EUE ing the WU

It seems the problem MAY still be there (if a lot more infrequent), or this could be a random glitch.

Happy · 1 Nov 2009 at 19:54

Ah, I may hold off a bit longer then

sir-les-mp · 1 Nov 2009 at 20:38

well ive fgave em a try for folding and found they dropped my PPD by 2/3 rds on a standard 353wu instead of 6200ppd i was getting around 2000 ppd per unit
So im back to 190.62 drivers i will wait till a more mature version of the drivers appear before retrying them.

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 21:37

i'll stick with them for the moment. not had another issue so it may have just been conincidence...