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NVIDIA 260.63 Beta Driver Performance Review

Quote:In our opinion NVIDIA is still leading the GPU driver market by a long shot and the 260 release continues their dominance in this crucial category.

couldn't sum it up any better.
 
The whole driver situation is swaying me to stay with Nvidia on my next card choice. I realise AMD are in the lead with performance but their drivers worry me and in the real world when looking at a single GPU middle of the road solution it really doesnt matter who manufacturers the faster cards and i've always used Nvidia cards and love their drivers as i've never had a problem, i'm still waiting for the release of the 6000 series so I can eye it up and compare with Nvidias cards but at the same time i'm hoping Nvidia will drop the price of their current line up at that time or release some new cards themselves
 
In our opinion NVIDIA is still leading the GPU driver market by a long shot and the 260 release continues their dominance in this crucial category.
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At least the're good at something at NVIDIA
 
I wouldn't worry about ATI's drivers. I reckon the only reason you see more threads about 5xxx series and driver issues is because more people have 5xxx series cards than Nvidia's 4xx series.

Always go for whatever is best for you in regards to performance, price, and any other factors important to you. Drivers should only play a small part in the decision - it's not like they don't work at all, and once you've updated there's no going back.

Oh, I have a GTX480. So no ATI fan-boy-ism here.
 
ive never had many problems with ati drivers personally, currently i have a gtx460 and i cant say nvidia drivers are really that much better like people believe
 
My personal experience is that I've never had any issues with either ......except nvidia's have never sent the screen blank for a second every now and then which all the Ati's I've owned do/did (4870 + 5770 + 5870).

I must stress it would only happen a max. of once each time I switched on and it did not happen at the same point or every time , so never a 'problem' to deal with more a 'glitch'.

Overall - my personal preference would be nvidia BUT it would not/ did not sway me in my choice of gpu.
 
These drivers are a good set of drivers, hardly any issues for me, and good performance, some strange things happening with my uncle's computer (HD5970) he was getting crashes to desktop in BF2 BC2 and random black screens with the latest drivers, rolled them back to 10.4 and it's all sorted...strange!
 
Never had a problem with ati drivers aint had 1 with nvidia i think the only time i have problems with any drivers is whenever i overclock
 
skotish| said:
Never had a problem with ati drivers aint had 1 with nvidia i think the only time i have problems with any drivers is whenever i overclock
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There will be a lot of people here who won't admit the last part, they'd blame the drivers instead, and you'd have another foolish person going on about how the drivers don't work. It's really tiresome, people like Stulid and Cyber-Mav will completely overlook, disregard or outright deny any problems with nVidia stuff, it's a complete joke. ATi and nVidia drivers are just as good or bad as the other, it's down to personal experience.
 
kylew said:
There will be a lot of people here who won't admit the last part, they'd blame the drivers instead, and you'd have another foolish person going on about how the drivers don't work. It's really tiresome, people like Stulid and Cyber-Mav will completely overlook, disregard or outright deny any problems with nVidia stuff, it's a complete joke. ATi and nVidia drivers are just as good or bad as the other, it's down to personal experience.
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Indeed does get a bit tiresome, personally i could't give a flying **** whats in my machine as long as it runs my games. Pity some people think that because they buy a product they have to become flag waving gibbering tards for the product, and leap to its defense at every opportunity...
 
I havn't really had any major problems until ironically I tried these ones (260.63). For whatever reason whenever I install them I lose my onboard sound. This happens on either the 470 or 460. The 260.52 drivers don't cause the same issue (installed in exactly the same way and making sure NOT to tick the HD audio drivers on the selection screen). :confused:

I am putting this down to one of 'those things' that can't really be explained. I am not too bothered as I noticed no improvement from the 260.52 drivers (whereas I noticed a big boost going from 258.xx to 260.52).
 
Not sure if its these drivers but with the new Mass Effect 2 DLC release I thought I'd give the game another whirl and had 2 crashes within an hour of gameplay - played through the game previously on the same PC (except GTX260 SLI instead of GTX470) without any problems. I am forcing 32x TRAA this time around tho so it could be why.

EDIT: Just installed them on my laptop and digital vibrance is seriously messed up lol.
 
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Running perfectly fine on a 480 and windows 7, couldn't be better.

But don't take the word of the few on here, check http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=3711068#post3711068 out.


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Greebo said:
So general consensus is that the 260.63 beta stink and shouldn't be used?
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Nope, running great here, with the one minor exception that was pointed out earlier by another poster, that being Mass Effect having blue chair textures. Every other game I've run has worked better than prior drivers.
 
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