Stable drivers for 7900GS?

[Curio]

Just built the rig in sig and am having problems with the 93.71 drivers. I get pretty frequest BSOD in games saying that the driver (or various components of it...) has crashed the system. Anybody else having problems with these? What are the best stable drivers for a 7900GS?

Also, I'm 99% sure it is the drivers at fault - the system is stable in Prime95 and Memtest, etc. I'm not overclocking the card, although it is the heavily pre-clocked 600M XFX version.

Thanks!

 

[MeatLoaf]

Im running the same drivers here mate no problems. Used them wioth 3 cards so far : 7600GT, 7900GS and now 7900GTO

 

[kevlon]

I'm running the same drivers with a Galaxy 7900gs 512mb overclocked to 615/1700 with no real issues apart from not being able to use high refresh rates (75mhz causes slight screen flicker, lowering to 60mhz fixes problem.

 

[Curio]

Hmmm, I tried some slightly earleir drivers and the same thing happens. However, I may have discovered the problem - Yahoo Widgets. I disabled the Widget engine and so far, so good.

Anybody heard of Widgets causing a problem?

 

[redline]

I'm using the 97.98's with a 7600gt and find them to be a good, stable, fast driver. You can get them from guru3d.com with a modded inf, so they work with all cards.

Worth a try.

 

[Bear]

Ive just built a new computer and using the Gainward 7900GS and found that when ever I right click certain files (mainly avi files) the screen momentarily goes black for a second and comes back. Ive installed the 93.71 drivers but it still does it. The card isnt overclocked at all.

Anyone know how to fix this ?? Thanks.

 

[bliss]

Ive just built a new computer and using the Gainward 7900GS and found that when ever I right click certain files (mainly avi files) the screen momentarily goes black for a second and comes back. Ive installed the 93.71 drivers but it still does it. The card isnt overclocked at all.

Anyone know how to fix this ?? Thanks.

I've had this problem before, and here's the fix i used to stop it happening.

The cause for this lies in nvcpl.dll - a nvidia dll, which scans for connected TVs.

The first time the dll is loaded, is at windows-bootup (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows-& gt;CurrentVersion->Run).
This causes the first flicker and unfortunately the auto-startup-entry can't be deleted.

The flicker when right-clicking on video-files is caused by a shell-extension, which the nvidia-driver installs for all types of video-files. This shell-extension calls nvcpl.dll everytime you right click a video file to scan for connected TVs. If a TV is present, the shell extension shows up in the context-menu as "Play on My TV". I never tested this, but I suppose when you click it, the video is directly shown on your connected TV.

This could have been implemented a lot better, this sync-flicker is driving you crazy when browsing a video archive.

After scanning the registry, I found the key responsible for the shell extension. Just search for "PlayOnMyTV" in the registry and you will find some entries under "shellex" (shell extension). These entries contain an identifier, {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516} in my case, I'm not sure if this identifier is static or created dynamically, so in your registry, it might be another number. Now copy the identifier and search for it in the registry; delete every occurence when it's connected to video-file formats (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg and so on) and afterwards the "PlayOnMyTV"-shellextensions.

That's it, now the flicker when right-clicking on video files should be gone (at least it worked for me ). I hope nvidia fixes this annoying issue asap, not every user wants this (unnecessary) extension and it causes very annoying problems.

Edit: The identifier {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516} is static.

 

[Rroff]

Thats probably a codec rather than driver issue... theres no easy/quick fix if thats a case as its probably caused by installing too many different codec packs. Oh or more likely the explanation in the post above might fix it... I've never had this issue on any of my pcs tho.

 

[Bear]

I've had this problem before, and here's the fix i used to stop it happening.

The cause for this lies in nvcpl.dll - a nvidia dll, which scans for connected TVs.

The first time the dll is loaded, is at windows-bootup (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows-& gt;CurrentVersion->Run).
This causes the first flicker and unfortunately the auto-startup-entry can't be deleted.

The flicker when right-clicking on video-files is caused by a shell-extension, which the nvidia-driver installs for all types of video-files. This shell-extension calls nvcpl.dll everytime you right click a video file to scan for connected TVs. If a TV is present, the shell extension shows up in the context-menu as "Play on My TV". I never tested this, but I suppose when you click it, the video is directly shown on your connected TV.

This could have been implemented a lot better, this sync-flicker is driving you crazy when browsing a video archive.

After scanning the registry, I found the key responsible for the shell extension. Just search for "PlayOnMyTV" in the registry and you will find some entries under "shellex" (shell extension). These entries contain an identifier, {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516} in my case, I'm not sure if this identifier is static or created dynamically, so in your registry, it might be another number. Now copy the identifier and search for it in the registry; delete every occurence when it's connected to video-file formats (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg and so on) and afterwards the "PlayOnMyTV"-shellextensions.

That's it, now the flicker when right-clicking on video files should be gone (at least it worked for me ). I hope nvidia fixes this annoying issue asap, not every user wants this (unnecessary) extension and it causes very annoying problems.

Edit: The identifier {FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516} is static.

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go

edit: well done it, and its fixed. Thanks a lot