Bioshock and GPU driver issues

Anyone with a 79xx series card playing Bioshock with high settings? If so what drivers are you using? Did you use any "tricks?"

I tried playing this game with my 11 month old drivers (hey, they worked fine for all my other games) only to get poor frame rates and massive stuttering (even when i lowered the settings and with vsync off).

I read that nvidia released a beta driver that helped with bioshock, and lots of people said that helped thier frame rates especially on lower end cards much inferior to the 7950gtx. Sadly the beta driver doesn't support mobile cards (to my knowledge) so i went to www.laptopvideo2go.com and downloaded the drivers with their modded INF file. Drivers work fine, but still I get poor preformance in bioshock.

this thread is where you can get the latest drivers. And it appears people with the 79xx cards are having issues with them. Some how I was able to get them to work, but people with dell laptops get errors with them.

I did a quick search on the 2k forums, and didn't find anything useful.

Hopefully with this thread we can troubleshoot this problem.

 

I got the 165.01's loaded now from lv2g. I used to have 94.~something. Went from 10fps to 30~something. I'm still experimenting though, because I'm extremely dissatisfied with that on a rig like mine.

 

Nvidia is scrambling to optimize its drivers for Bioshock and upcoming "next-gen" games.

 

so pretty much we wait until they generously give us new drivers on our gaming laptops? It's sad i see people with 8600GT M's playing this with better frames and higher settings than I am.

I just love seeing that slogan when i start up bioshock

nvidia, the way it's meant to be played.

 

Im getting very good performance on BioShock with my 7950 GTX. I'm at work now, and can't check which drivers I'm using. If I remember, I'll post it when I get home later tonight.

 

Any help here? I PMed MrCompletely a while ago and he never responded.

 

I have a 7950GTX in my Sager NP5790 and I'm using 163.69 drivers at the moment. I've tried a few other drivers such as 163.44 and 163.67 and they all perform nearly the same. I'm playing it maxed out with vsync off and getting 30-60fps for it no problems at all. Although when I overclock my GPU BioShock doesn't like it (sometimes there are artifacts in the game) but other than that I'm happy with the performance for it.

 

I am using the stock drivers and getting reasonable performance, at least in the areas I've played so far. I tried the updated drivers from the Clevo site a couple of weeks ago and kept crashing to the desk top. So I rolled them back.

I haven't tried any of the other drivers yet, but might. I was playing stalker when there was a lot happening and it started raining. That casued some noticable stuttering.

 

Alright i'll try to re-install drivers (163.xx), and mess around with driver cleaner and installing in safe mode to see if i get better performance.

 

how do you guys measure fps during gaming? Something that stays on top while playing in full screen?

 

FRAPS!!! lol

 

I still find it kinda nasty that SLI is actually reducing my FPS with this game. The people with single 7950's in their rigs are reporting pulling 30-60 FPS while I'm still barely coming up with 30 at all. Most of the time its less than that.
*shakes fist*