nVidia 195.39 beta drivers

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 15:39

FAO those folding who have had 2D clock issues with 19x.xx series drivers

I'm trying these drivers now (195.39betas are on the US site only atm, released 30th oct)

i'll post an update when i've let them run for a bit longer, although i've had no issues yet!

Also they are using CUDA 3.0, so we will see if there is any benifit to ppd.

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EDIT: After 10mins running ppd is up by between 6-10% over the 186.xx drivers. and no clock issues yet.

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 17:07

Update:

All seems well, seems to be on average about 6% faster. No 2d clocks

My gtx295 is now outputing 19k ppd by itself (based on 353 units)

vertica · 30 Oct 2009 at 22:44

Update number 2:

Well 7hrs later and i'm still running full pelt. sorry to here they're not good at multi tasking. But at least they've sorted one of the problems

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 18:17

Not yet, too much work on... any reason you ask?

I'll halt the folding and run Vantage now and see what happens.

EDIT: vantage score is higher (mostly due to the CUDA enhancements since 185/6 I suspect) P24.5K rather than P23K.
But it isn't a game of course so may not be a good representation.

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 19:53

Ah poop, just had my screen flicker and now one core is locked at 400Mhz after EUE ing the WU

It seems the problem MAY still be there (if a lot more infrequent), or this could be a random glitch.

vertica · 1 Nov 2009 at 21:37

i'll stick with them for the moment. not had another issue so it may have just been conincidence...

vertica · 4 Nov 2009 at 00:40

UPDATE:

these drivers have given me no issues since the random EUE (i blame this on a bad WU as it bailed at 2%)

Stable, high ppd, and no 2dclock issues

Good to go if anyone wants to move on from 18x.xx drivers