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Overclocking nVidia graphics cards in Vista, how?

Noxis said:
I cant even find the nvidia control panel in vista :(

Its in the main control panel after you install the beta 2 forceware drivers.

Coolbits just prevents the screen displaying anything in the OS, so no good.
 
BlizzardX said:
Are you running the x64 version of Vista?

I have to run the 32 bit as when I come to install the x64 nVidia drivers in x64 Vista it just hangs and won't go any further...
 
King_Boru said:
looks like i found an excuse to buy a dvd burner,...4GB download,... jeez.... can you burn it to multiple cd's?

Just mount the iso file in deamon tools and launch it.

I'm downloading it now to have a play
 
Noxis said:

If you look at the readme for the nvidia drivers from the site it mentions that the control panel is not included in this release. I tried using the x64 XP drivers but that didn't work either
 
easyrider said:
Just mount the iso file in deamon tools and launch it.

I'm downloading it now to have a play

Yeah, but having downloaded the 64bit version Deamon Tools on XP Home 32bit wont be abl do that...
 
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To forewarn you, don't expect too much regarding drivers for the vista x64 (91.31).

I can confirm the OS, with Aero glass enabled runs surprisingly fast (even faster than XP x64)) on my rig but start up a few games and severe artifacting occurs (don't bother with any source related HL games or farcry64).

Aside from that, 3d chess is good :)

Paul.
 
Just installed the latest beta onto a virtual pc image, runs pretty slow through that, but as I expected really. But, it's much faster than any of the previous versions they have released and does look quite good with driver support being something that they have improved upon by the looks of it :)

Will try loading the latest nVidia drivers later, see how that runs :)
 
In my case, it pretty much picked everything up with the public beta 2 release (even the default nvidia 7900 worked very well, picked up my display and autoset resolution to 1680x1050).

It grumbled at my SMBus driver but a quick visit to the nvidia's main site sorted that out sharpish.

I did notice, it grumbled at some other drivers (after the 4th day of sporadic use) but I've yet to resolve those. So far it has run pretty much cleanly, fast and looks very crisp.

Sata-wise, no issues whatsoever.

In truth I've not done anything to adventurous with it but when I have the time I'll try to break it :) (back on topic, the whole OC'ing is pretty much out till I find a game I have that does not artifact fiercely)

Cheers, Paul.
 
andyr said:
Hi where do you get your mobo drivers from , like lan drivers , sata drivers ect

You will have to use the 2.20 ULi package for your southbridge (from www.nvidia.com). But you will have to run the installation in XP and once it has uncompressed the files, leave the installation routine alone and locate the folder it has decompressed these files and copy them elsewhere. Close the installation routine.

Boot into Vista, goto device manager and manually install the devices relevent to the ULi southbridge.

The ATi northbridge should have its own drivers from ATi

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712
 
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