Forceware 169.32 Vista32/64 up at EVGA

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jan 2008 at 12:09

Forceware 169.32 Vista32/64/XP up at EVGA

Just found these, looks like these are the new drivers from Nvidia that are due (were supposed to be out Monday), so i imagine they will be upped on their own site soon .

http://www.evga.com/8800driver/

EDIT: Apparently these are just for the new 8800 GS, and are also up on the Nvidia site, but this thread here at Guru3D :-

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=251881

Has the drivers with modded inf's, so they work with all 8 series cards, and apparently the profile AA works in these ones as well.

NOW ALSO FOR XP32/64bit

SixDemons · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:03

Ok, the first question in this kind of post is:

any increase in crysis fps ? LOL!

BTW this are WHQL drivers...

Windows Vista (32-bit):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_169.32.html

Windows Vista (64-Bit):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.32.html

Windows XP (32-Bit):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.32.html

Windows XP (64-Bit):
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_169.32.html

mame · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:06

oh .. 8800 gs only. That was a waste of 5 minutes.

willhub · 30 Jan 2008 at 15:50

So anyone tried crysis benchmark on it? 1280x1024 all high no aa DX9?

alexthecheese · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:07

mame said:
oh .. 8800 gs only. That was a waste of 5 minutes.

Blimey, you must be a slow reader.

willhub · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:14

Loadsa wack em on come on give us some info!

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:14

Well i had to pop out after i downed them, so gona test them now.

The ones on the Nvidia site are 8800 GS only, but in that thread over at Guru i linked to, you can get them with a modded .inf, so they work on all 8800's (i think the Vista sets on the EVGA site have also been modded for all 8 series).

willhub · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:18

I want:

More 3dmarks and more crysismarks

I'm more interested in crysismark so can you give that a whirl?

J.D · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:26

willhub said:
I want:

an improvement on FPS through every game

Sod Crysis, Sod 3dmark

Now this is how I seen your post

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I'm not bothered about Crysis in the slightest due to the reports from people with better systems than mine that say it's a bit choppy. I waited about a year to play FarCry as I couldn't max it out so I might wait for Crysis as I'd love to play it smoothly and at the highest settings for a totally immersed experience.

Looking forward to some benchmarks Loadsa. I hope you'll do the most popular titles at least?.

bee · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:29

i'll be trying these tomorrow when my new card arrives, gotta have profile AA working

RavenXXX2 · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:30

Eh, this driver is only available to give official support to the 8800GS, why the hell would there be some kind of performance boost for other cards.

AA profiles work in the latest beta.

bee · 30 Jan 2008 at 16:40

RavenXXX2 said:
Eh, this driver is only available to give official support to the 8800GS, why the hell would there be some kind of performance boost for other cards.

AA profiles work in the latest beta.

171's were flaky for me, will be good drivers for anyone on a 8800gts where the oldest driver available (169.21) has broken profiles and so do all the rest except the 171's, besides from the guru3d thread seems like their nice drivers with a few performance improvements

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jan 2008 at 17:29

They get a thumbs up from me, Crysis was up from about 37.13 to 38.30, not a huge increase, but it is an increase nonetheless

3DMark 06 was about the same 10.4k, ran the Fear test seen as i have that installed again, again was around the same, 65 minimum, 115 average, 293 max (i think

) Bioshock ran great as per usual, nice and smooth, CoD4 seemed smoother, and again ran great as per usual, Ep2 also ran great, as did Stalker, also the IQ is spot on, nice and sharp, vivid colours, so i'll be keeping these on, finally i can update from the 169.17 beta's.

Also the drivers are dated 09/01/2008, so they are newer than the 169.28 beta's, as they are dated December 2007.

I would have tested a few more games, but those are the only ones ive got installed at present.

FooAtari · 30 Jan 2008 at 19:54

These or the latest 171's for a GTX then?

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jan 2008 at 21:15

The 171's are incomplete, loads of things missing, and unoptimized.

J.D · 31 Jan 2008 at 01:15

Nice one and cheers for giving them a decent run down. Might give these a try now as it's going to be a long night for me

. Fell asleep after a huuuuge dinner and just woke up 10 mins ago (bangshead).

LoadsaMoney · 31 Jan 2008 at 11:53

J.D said:
Nice one and cheers for giving them a decent run down. Might give these a try now as it's going to be a long night for me . Fell asleep after a huuuuge dinner and just woke up 10 mins ago (bangshead).

Np, definately a decent set imo, and its about time we had some

, i wonder if those 171's will be the next proper release, as these drivers are mainly for the 8800 GS, just everyone else has modded them to work on all the 8800's, or they may release those when the 9 series appear.

JonB · 31 Jan 2008 at 11:54

No chance of a fix for the 7900GTO fan then? :-(

LoadsaMoney · 31 Jan 2008 at 12:06

Not sure, they do support 7 series though.

Snakedoctor · 31 Jan 2008 at 12:14

Downloaded these last night, but was too late to install them. Anyone tried using Media centre with AVI's and seen if this fixes the "jumping picture"? This bug was introduced after 163.75, gotta love Nvidia drivers,first they brake PAL TV out, then this.