NVIDIA Forceware 190.38

[alex24]

Released today and for all intents and purposes appear to be identical to the BETAs recently released. Not sure if some of the issues with those have been fixed though.

This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

New in Release 190.38
Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (cards must already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.

Please post your experiences here for other users so we can see if the problems still exist.

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[alex24]

Ha, fair enough. Have you installed them yet?

 

[alex24]

Yeah I understood. I've just installed, restarting now.

 

[alex24]

Well I've installed with no problems so far, still disappointed I can't turn down the clocks and power for watching video etc with WMC. The card is always in maximum then, and these power options aren't really that useful beyond that for me.

I'll try to post on in-game performance as I try some out.

 

[alex24]

Cause a hard reset after locking up with looping sound on my 9600gt laptop, this happens almost instantly when playing l4d survival...ahh well back to the trusty old 175.90.

Damn, i'll try out a source game now. What's wrong with the 186 releases?

EDIT: I'm not experiencing any problems with Source engine games with my GTX280. This may be a problem with older hardware then.

 

[alex24]

crap driver...back to 186.18

What problem are you having?

Well no surprises then that it's suffering the same issues as the BETA since there are no apparent changes, and there is just days separating their availability.

I have no serious issues with it yet, though I am yet to check general performance/frames. No locking up or anything like that. One thing I did notice was that when I lock my computer and enter the password, on getting back to the desktop the resolution changes down to 800x600. No idea if this was an issue before though, I only locked it by accident. Can anyone else confirm this?

 

[alex24]

looks like am the only 1 not having any issues with games with theses makes a change lol

We both have very similar cards, I think only certain cards are affected by these issues.

 

[alex24]

I sometimes get the feeling nvidia are rushing out these new releases. They've been coming thick and fast this year, maybe they're trying to use it as a new selling point since the whole rebranding thing got kind of tiresome.

 

[alex24]

Thanks for posting, can't say I've observed that anomaly, and I would know as my GTX280 is very loud when spinning up.

I've put in some (read too many!) hours in Fallout 3 and suffered one CTD yesterday with these drivers, but seems pretty stable beyond that, and I've always had issues with Fallout 3 crashing in the past, no drivers seem to completely eliminate that, it's not the most stable game.

 

[alex24]

i get bsod on vantage,also the beta version of this driver was crap also for me...the 190's drivers on my pc are very poor...the last good beta driver i used was the 186.08

It must be an SLI issue then, as my card is running just fine with these. I can't see any changes from the BETA except for the certification. I don't think there are any performance improvements so you may as well stick on the 186's until nvidia sort this one out.

 

[alex24]

I'm going to give these a try. Currently stuck on the 181.22 drivers as they're the latest version that work properly for me... pretty poor show from NVidia really???

What's your setup?

 

[alex24]

I've been installing the 186 release for all the people's PCs I've worked on with nvidia cards. This one seems to have a few too many bugs at the moment, although it's fine on my PC, no issues.