Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I posted this in the legacy area but maybe it will help you guys with 240/260/280/285 cards:
A couple easy days of work has enabled me to play around with my old Area51 M17x. Ive been trying to find the best video driver for our video cards. Ive been able to run the newest verde drives (260.xx) but my master video card has been getting too hot (even with AS5) at about 97C after playing the new MOH for a half hour, the slave was reaching about 75C. I was getting excelent frame rates (avg 55fps for MOH on all max settings). I ran the new Hawx II bench rest on 1900/1280 res all settings max, no aa, and no vsnych with a highest FPS of 119 and avg of 68. One big side effect I noticed was that the slave card's clock was maxing out at 500mhz when I wasnt playing a game or even surfing the net.
Today I wiped the drivers, installed the old 181.xx series of drivers, added the latest SLI profile, and the latest phycs profile from nvidia. The results are surprising. Hawx II bench jumped to 126 FPS max and an avg fps of 78!! The higest temps GPU-z recorded after a half hour playing of MOH was 81 for the master and 60 for the slave! SLI and Physx were turned on and I was still seeing an avg of 55FPS!!!!
Im not sure what the newest serries of drivers are doing to our cards but if you use an older driver and update the SLI and phycs profiles you will have an updated system that still runs fast (as exhibited by mine) with out the newest serries of drivers issues (BSOD's, hot cards, etc).
Maybe try old Nvidia drivers.
Discussion in 'Alienware' started by usmc1488, Oct 30, 2010.
