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State of 8800 Vista drivers

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Am about to buy/build a new machine for the gf which will be a 32-bit Vista box with an 8800GTS.

Having read a lot about the state of the beta drivers from Nvidia, I'm a bit wary about this. What is the state of these drivers at present? Are we talking a few graphical glitches in a few odd games or rafts of problems across the board? Try to decide whether to hold fire on the order/build atm.
 
I installed the latest drivers a couple of weeks ago and was getting graphics corruption and lock ups when gaming, SLI was a no go. Not sure if there's been anything released since as I've went back to dual boot XP in the meanwhile.

Jokester
 
I was dual booting vista but ended up deleting my xp partition. Running Vista Business 32 and am having zero problems with the games i play (BF2, CSS, Supcom)
My only grumble is the sound quality is'nt as good as xp but thats down to creative's poor drivers.
 
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My 8800 is sitting back in it's box on the shelf :( ,Currently back running my X1950XTX under Vista64 due to diabolical game performance / corruption. 3Dmark06 results under Vista were quite promising but actual in game performance was rubbish.
For now my X1950XTX does everything I want under Vista64 with the Cat7.2's (& always has for that matter) & plays everything I've thrown at it perfectly smoothly, even if AA performance takes a hit & is't perfect at the res I'm running it doesn't really matter.

For now an 8800 under Vista is a total waste (for me anyway), most games I have are unplayable compared to my ancient ATI card.
 
Someone please post here,How there 8800 can run there games nice and fast in vista 32/64 please..... ;)


As this thread is not making my nice new 2 day old £350 8800gtx look very good :(
 
TBH, why bother with vista at the moment? There's no real need for it, no DX10 games on it and drivers are still in their infancy. There's no problem with 8800's under XP so i'd run XP or dual boot til Vista drivers and performance mature a little. I know there are people on here that'll pipe up that "Vista has been out since November..." blah blah blah but i say just be patient and upgrade to Vista when you have to, not because its new and shiny. And besides, all the grumbles are about DX9 games under Vista, we have no ieda how DX 10 will perform...

Not trying to tread on anyones toes here or annoy anyone, but i'm amazed at how impatient people are!
 
Do you have a licence for xp at the moment? Then you don't need to buy a copy of xp, just get a "back-up" from somewhere and use your existing product key. Thats what i did when i re-built my sisters pc. She had XP pre-installed on a Compaq pc, i completely rebuilt it, with the only original piece being the floppy drive and re-installed windows from a back up. Worked perfectly and no need to buy a new copy of XP.
 
If you dont mind losing up to 100 fps or so... Then vista will suit ya

tbh though thats not for me :P

From a gamer's view, vista is far from a gaming OS atm, maybe once dx10 titles are widespread...
 
KWJay said:
Do you have a licence for xp at the moment? Then you don't need to buy a copy of xp, just get a "back-up" from somewhere and use your existing product key.
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Her current copy of XP is OEM and thus dies with the machine.
 
Trox said:
If you dont mind losing up to 100 fps or so... Then vista will suit ya

tbh though thats not for me :P

From a gamer's view, vista is far from a gaming OS atm, maybe once dx10 titles are widespread...
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It has less to do with Vista and more to do with the drivers TBH. Still, you're right that it will take some time for nvidia and ATI to optimise their drivers in the same way that they have with XP. Let's not forget Nvidia have been releasing new drivers almost monthly for XP for ~4 years and every time people claim they are a bit faster.

These companies are hadware producers, not software. All they have to write is a small driver to published guidelines and 5 years after XPs release they still haven't got it right and have to keep updating :rolleyes:

It's going to take some time for the driver writers to get it right, so yes, short term if absolute FPS is your only concern XP may be the better option. Give it a month or two and we'll have some decent Vista drivers, another 12months and they should, on past performance, have them pretty slick.

This time next year Vista will be the OS of choice for hobbiests/gamers and XP will be seen as old hat in much the same way as other OSs have (although there will as always be a few that cling on to the past and will scorn people using Vista as N00bs ;)).

Still, in the meantime if you're a serious gamer XP, or at least XP/Vista dual boot could be the way to go.
 
Trox said:
If you dont mind losing up to 100 fps or so... Then vista will suit ya

tbh though thats not for me :P

From a gamer's view, vista is far from a gaming OS atm, maybe once dx10 titles are widespread...
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I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 , AND playing games with my 8800GTS. If a game fails to run normally, then there are compatibility options, and you can run as administrator. I have most of the STEAM games, and BF2/BF2142, and they run just sweet. I have the 64bit drivers for my GPU and Fatal1ty sound card installed, and I'm having no issue.

In CounterStrike Source, I have x8 antialiasing and x8 anisotropic and I range between 150 and 290+ FPS!!!

I haven't lost 100 or so FPS. I hear so many people say you will lose all these FPS, and this is obviously not true in all cases. You simply can't say that you run 3DMark and get a lower performance, THEN say it is like that in games. These benchmark progs don't run the way the average game does. I'm running BF2142 in over 150FPS.

Some people will have issues, some won't. If you have the option, r una dual boot and take a look at how it runs before you jump ship. I no longer use XP.
 
You have quite a good 3d card but for those of use with medium grade 3d cards the performance difference is significant.

I played Quake 4 on medium detail and it never went below 60fps with XP...now on Vista with low detail it goes below 60fps all the time...into the 30s occasionally. A real pain in the ass, I can't stand a FPS game going under 60fps
 
I am running Vista Ultimate 64 fine with 8800GT. Supreme Commander runs smooth as silk at 1920x1200, as does Vanguard. Not loaded any FPS games yet. I would say give it a try with the latest drivers from Nvidia and see what it runs like. You can always blast it and put XP on later if you feel like it, but I am not finding the need.
 
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