Alternative Nvidia Geforce Drivers?

[Schizophonic]

I'm having trouble what i think is my software.

When i'm playing a few games like COD4, ProEvo 2008 and etc. My computer locks up and gets some weird pattern on the screen. Now i dont think its anything to do with my hardware overheating as i know what tearing in graphics look like and its been alright when i first built the PC.

I've been monitoring the temps and its been about right and its nothing to do with my CPU. The Gefore 8800GT i've got - its even got Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev. 2 VGA Cooler so thats not at fault.

When i run 3dMark 06 it gives me an error message relating to DirectX blah blah blah. I googled it and peopel suggested i re-install drivers and etc. I've tried that and its happened again. Now i need to know its not anything to do with the drivers and need to know if there are any Nvidia alternatives *custom* complied ones.

If the crashes persist on that i think its down to the overclocking.

 

[BuToNz]

www.tweakforce.com - Xtreme-G Drivers

 

[Schizophonic]

www.tweakforce.com - Xtreme-G Drivers

Yeah trying them now. See how it goes.

THanks

 

[Schizophonic]

I now get this:

Might be a time to rebuild as i'm always getting error messages now.


EDIT: After a bit of meesing i think i got to the reason why it keeps on failing.

After overclocking the core and meory - it freezes after a certain point. What i dont understand is that its not getting very hot. About 64C max. Any ideas what i can do?

 

[Angilion]

I use the Omega drivers, mainly because I've found it fine to install newer versions straight over the top of older ones.

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Support seems to have pretty much died, though.

Heat isn't the only thing that can place a limit on overclocking. I've often hit the limit on overclocking long before excessive temperatures are reached.

Or, possibly, something unmonitored is overheating. You're only getting the GPU temperature - there's other stuff on the card that can overheat.

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Yeah trying them now. See how it goes.

THanks

ive never been able to install them allways saying haver the install that no files have been modified dispite running eveything you can to clean the old ones off