Changing Drivers & Rivatuner

[ten80p]

Have latest Rivatuner and the 169.21 Forceware's loaded

May want to compare in game benchies with 169.21, 169.28 and new Omegas, may even try the 169.09 due to the profile/AA issue

Running XP Pro and 8800GTX

Do I have to uninstall/install drivers each time with likes of Driver Cleaner Pro and also uninstall/reinstall Rivatuner each time ?

Thanks

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I always do the safe-mode DriverCleaner way when changing drivers, not sure if you'll need to keep uninstalling/reinstalling RivaTuner though, but i can't see it.

 

[Proc]

You shouldn't need to reinstall RivaTuner, but it may bring up a message when you first run it, about it not being tested with the new drivers. Or something to that effect, should be ok though.

 

[FooAtari]

Sorry to bring up an old thread but this seem the most relevant when doing a search. What is the best drivers to use with RivaTuner? Is it be to use the latest on guru3d site or is safe enough to use the latest beta drivers?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Latest beta's are absolute garbage, have broken profiles the lot, best ones are either the 169.09 beta's, or the 169.17 beta's, all sets after are buggered.

 

[FooAtari]

Why use older betas? Would there not be better final versions?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Why use older betas?

As all later sets are buggered.

Would there not be better final versions?

No as the final WHQL's are also buggered like the beta's.

The 169.17 beta's are the last set of working drivers, WHQL or not.

If you want the very latest, but non working drivers, then get the 169.28's.

 

[FooAtari]

So would they also be the best drivers for stability and overclocking?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

They are stable, and should be fine for overclocking also, Tom|Nbk is still using them as are a lot of ppl, and hes got no problems at all with them, hes even got his GTX clocked to Ultra, or more.

 

[ten80p]

Anyone tried the Omega's based on .21 WHQL ?
Also if you were only playing one game at the moment or don't mind the hastle of forever changing AA/AF globally switching between games, are the .28's otherwise ok, is it just the profile issue surrounding AA/AF
Thanks

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah the profiles is the main issue, not sure on other probs they have, so you could give them a try if your not bothered about the profiling, also the Omega's are just the same as the WHQL set they based on, they still have buggered profiles, but ive read good things about those, they fix graphical errors, stability problems and add extra quality/speed to games, so worth a try as well.

 

[ten80p]

Time allowing, next week once I've finished my cpu, memory and fsb overclock I'm planning on comparing a few drivers inc the Omega .21's, especially in-game benchmarks and for IQ like you say. Used to use Radeon Omega's on my X800XT-PE and IQ noticeably better and a couple of fps to boot, even though synthetic tests had no improvements
Only playing COD4 SP and Red Orchestra MP ocassionally so the global profile thing I can live with for now

 

[FooAtari]

Post your results here if you don't mind