169.38 Forceware drivers out

rickfin · 6 Feb 2008 at 09:00

J.D said:
This is what I miss about ATI the most.

You feel like waiting a couple of months to be able to play the newest games with decent performance. I must admit though that ATI drivers didn't have these constant problems with digital vibrance, AA, colors...

J.D · 6 Feb 2008 at 09:41

rickfin said:
You feel like waiting a couple of months to be able to play the newest games with decent performance. I must admit though that ATI drivers didn't have these constant problems with digital vibrance, AA, colors...

Exactly what I was meaning. My GTX beats my 2900Pro no problem at all with AA but I just feel as if the drivers are better with ATI. Especially with support for older games as I get terrible lag in close battles in Call of Duty 1 as I still play that as well as CoD4. CoD1 on my ancient 9800Pro and a single cored 3700+ SD overclocked to 2.6Ghz ran it flawlessly. My m8 that is in the same community as me is having the exact same issues with his 8800GT as well as another friend with the 8600GT.

jimmyboy2008 · 6 Feb 2008 at 16:14

When you change drivers with a 8800gt and rivatuner, you dont have to do anything to rivatuner so the fan profiles work again?

Thanks

ten80p · 6 Feb 2008 at 22:07

These drivers are def the best I've tried to date, have tried the Forceware .21, Omega .21 and NGO .25

MOH:Airborne biggest difference, better IQ esp textures and everything is smoother, used FRAPS in COD4 & MOA:A and get +3 fps and a better min fps, also added 2fps to my Crysis demo benchmark, almost 50fps now

Sime · 6 Feb 2008 at 22:25

So ive just bought a new 512 GTS, would these be worth getting then?

Anyone else post some perfromacne differances between these and say the 169.25's?

ten80p · 7 Feb 2008 at 12:53

Sime said:
So ive just bought a new 512 GTS, would these be worth getting then?

Anyone else post some perfromacne differances between these and say the 169.25's?

I was in same situation, except a different card, couldn't find any figures online so I just put an hour or so aside and tried all three drivers as in my post and ran FEAR in-game test, Crysis demo benchmark and then COD4 and MOH:A using FRAPS to as near as dammit replicate same gameplay as I couldn't find any time demo's etc, also rounded off with 3DMark06

For myself, the .38s are def best for IQ, smoothness and a couple of fps but you'll not really know unless you try yourself

Secret_Window · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:22

I made the mistake of downloading these and now my fan is spinning 100% and won't shut up! lol

rjk · 7 Feb 2008 at 13:42

i probably sound like a douche but i always go for the latest off nvidias site
after all
they have to be stable if they are up there

rickfin · 7 Feb 2008 at 14:13

I can't figure it out why they can't fix the overbright video issue. I never had any problems watching my HD videos with 2900XT.

Secret_Window · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:29

I know what you mean, that has been present in as long as I can remember. It's annoying having to manually change everything.

RavenXXX2 · 7 Feb 2008 at 15:42

You have settings in the control panel to correct video color/brightness problems.

rickfin · 7 Feb 2008 at 16:20

RavenXXX2 said:
You have settings in the control panel to correct video color/brightness problems.

Yeah I know but the settings should be broken by default.

RavenXXX2 · 7 Feb 2008 at 16:26

rickfin said:
Yeah I know but the settings should be broken by default.

They are broken by default according to you.

Secret_Window · 7 Feb 2008 at 16:33

they are pretty rubbish, as default settings.

rickfin · 7 Feb 2008 at 17:53

RavenXXX2 said:
They are broken by default according to you.

Maybe you should google and find out that they are broken by default according anyone except you. If you saw the difference using ati and nvidia drivers you would make this kind of comment. Well, have you?

willhub · 7 Feb 2008 at 18:20

Just tried these drivers, they very good and I like the IQ on these, deffinate improvement in some games like TDU.

Secret_Window · 7 Feb 2008 at 18:37

I am actually getting pretty good performance in these. Playing most source games on high settings and getting a minimum dip of 45fps in 24 player servers when action gets intense.

Duke · 7 Feb 2008 at 21:30

Thanks, downloading now.

dbmzk1 · 7 Feb 2008 at 23:06

rickfin said:
Maybe you should google and find out that they are broken by default according anyone except you. If you saw the difference using ati and nvidia drivers you would make this kind of comment. Well, have you?

I don't have the issues you are talking about and never have. And yes I have compared to ATI and older Nvidia products. I have a GTS 512MB though if that makes any difference?

Secret_Window · 8 Feb 2008 at 08:54

These drivers are better than the official ones in terms of performance (in my experience). When things dipped when large amount of players were on screen my game would lag, whereas now it runs silky smooth. Weird.