Nvidia 169.25 Driver!

[cr!spy]

Anyone else experiencing problems with this driver under Vista x64?

When gaming the driver sometimes stops responding or I just get a BSOD. Also I've noticed tears in the graphics occasionally...

 

[helmutcheese]

I think there is a .28 for Vista64.

 

[caithomas44]

nope works fine :S

 

[cr!spy]

Google it! Seems like a lot of people are having the same problems as me.

 

[MystaEB]

Yes, actually, .25's seemed to perform a little worse in Crysis than the previous .18's I was using, and I also lost AA+HDR in Oblivion for some reason. There are 169.28's out now though, which work great.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvista_x64_169.28_uk.html

 

[helmutcheese]

Why bother, thats why updates come out.

ForceWare Release 169 BETA
Version: 169.28
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Operating System: Windows Vista 64-bit
Language: U.S. English
File Size: 48.6 MB

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_169.28.html (Im sure I posted at new)

 

[cr!spy]

Cheers MystaEB! I will give them a try tonight.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Those 169.28's are ****, they've been out since last year, they are just an update for UT3, and they have broken profiles and what not, and are only to be used for UT3, so don't watse your time with those, last working decent set for XP are the 169.17 beta's, all sets after those are broken.

 

[cr!spy]

Still having the same problem with the 169.28 drivers.

 

[James J]

Get riva tuner and up the fan speed manually to about 80% mate as your card on auto might be overheating which causes a daft thing called a TDU on vista. Basically your screen goes black whilst your driver recovers itself as thats what mine did but upping the fan speed sorted it

 

[cr!spy]

Ok mate, I will give that a try tonight. I've got an 8800GTX btw...

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Still having the same problem with the 169.28 drivers.

Yeah they are on a roll of releasing broken drivers at present, thats why im still on the 169.17 beta's in XP, last set that worked.

Have you got v-sync on to stop the tearing.

 

[HeX]

Yeah they are on a roll of releasing broken drivers at present, thats why im still on the 169.17 beta's in XP, last set that worked.

Have you got v-sync on to stop the tearing.

I use 169.21's in XP, the WHQL ones, and they work just fine...

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winxp_169.21_whql_uk.html

 

[cr!spy]

Thanks to James J! Increasing the fan speed to 80% done the job. Idle temp was 77 now is 68. If I increase it to 100% I can get it down to 58 idle! But I feel 80% fan speed is loud enough and cool enough.

Cheers!