Drivers to allow overclocking in XP

It seems that the good people at NVIDIA saw fit to disable all driver based overclocking in the new 160 series drivers for XP.

So i wanted to see what's the latest drivers people are using to overclock there cards,
I have a 8600m GS and have not been able to overclock with drivers above 100 series.

Has anyone had any success o'cing with any of the 158 series.

 

I somehow managed to do that on the new bioshock drivers (163.44) with my go7700. Which was awesome, since it let me keep them underclock to make them generate less heat.

 

What program did u you. Rivaturner??
I have had no success in overclocking using 163.44

 

I used AtiTool, which works with nVidia.

Atitraytools doesn't, but that's a completely different application.

 

It will give it a try.

I am keen to see what other versions ppl have been able to overclock.
At the mement it seems very limited.

 

I was amazed that i could OC as well. I did not uninstall my older (86.02) drivers. And i used the setup.exe file

 

No go for me. Doesn't work.

Anyone found any other good drivers for overclocking.

 

163.44 works very here too. I can overclock my Go 6600 in both XP and Vista using Riva Tuner. I also tried it on my brother's G1 with the Go 7700 in Vista and it allows overclocking in Riva Tuner as well.

 

First of all, 163.44 is listed under the XP 64 BIT section.
Are you guys really on XP 64 bit??
Second, what version of rivatuner are you guys using?
Saber, were u able to compare the 3dmark scores of your overclocked stock drivers to the 163.44 without overclocking?
I was curious how much of a difference it was.

 

since when are they only 64-bit?!

 

I'm using the 163.44 on Xp pro 32bit...

 

The new drivers aren't "locked" from OC'ing like some people claim, as they work fine with Rivatuner (latest version, think it's 2.04) with Go7 cards, and with desktop cards (even G84's). The problem, as best as I can tell, is an incompatibility with newer 8m cards, as they're not officially supported by OC'ing programs.

 

but how come people overclock them with older drivers then?

 

I'm not denying that it's not the installation of the newer driver that's causing the incompatibilities, I'm merely saying that there's nothing inherent in the 163.xx releases that prevent overclocking.

 

yeah, yeah...i'm just wondering why it works on the older drivers, but not on the newer ones. freaking nvidia needs to get its crap straight...

 

Well, considering that nVidia does not design mobile cards to be overclockable, I don't really see how they can be blamed.

 

doesn't mean if something that is not designed to overclock, can't. oh, and i'm not blaming it, i'm just saying that it should take care of it by coming up with newer drivers, so guys from l2g don't have to do all the work for it.

 

Anyone found a solution to this?
I'm able to overclock in Vista just fine with the F3Sv, from 500/400 to 650/550, which is a huge difference in performance.
If I roll back to XP I need to have the same performance or better, or it's no point.

 

yeah, u can overclock with a newer version of riva and newer drivers