Driver for 8800M GTX that does not suck?

XP running
all hot-fixes

 

we are all Beta-testers for them
and we paid allot to be it ;-))

 

Falcon, I had the same problem as you, and made a post a few pages back. Unfortunately, the only thing that could get me back to stock was a system restore. I'm a bit annoyed that not only am I stuck with 167.43, but I'm stuck with the 167.43 that was installed on my system by PCMW.

I'm thinking there's an image quality setting somewhere, or something similar, that gets changed when we reinstall drivers.

 

I had something happen very similar to this. I tried different drivers (using driver sweeper each time in safe mode to clean out the old ones) and had a huge hit in both FPS in games and 3dMark scores. I ended up also doing a system restore for things to go back to normal.

I've since made too many other changes to my computer to do this again...

 

I also went ahead and did a fresh install of vista after my retailers "recovery" partition failed me. And im back to 9300ish 3d marks. I guess ill just stick with this driver until I encounter any serious problems in one of my games

thanks for the update though guys

 

I think it's ridiculous that we lose performance if we change drivers and then switch back. I did notice that Aero started to act weird each time I installed a new driver. I had a hard time activating it, and it would only switch to Aero after I opened a few windows. It could be a Vista problem.

 

I`m having good results with 174.31 .
I heard a lot of 88M GTX users having good results with it also.

 

quick question; does system restore also restore drivers and all settings with them?

 

yes it does

 

Indeed it does. Where do you think the disk space lost goes ? into recycling previous disk states

 

174.82 on vista64 still cuts my clock speeds in half..

How do you get this one running on full speed with the M570RU(-U) 8800M GTX?

 

Have anyone ever tryed to dissect the 167.43 drivers and the ie. 174.31 drivers??

Ive been trying to compare the installs of the to drivers above and ive come to that conclusion, that there are atleast some diffrence in how its installed. For example, there are several of files that are diffrent in names between the two, also a rough readthrough of the .inf's, which also have diffrent names, there are some .dll's that are left out in the 167.43 ones

Maybe we just need to mod the newer drivers slightly, and we would be able to use newer drivers without DC and having to do bios updates?

This leads me to think that the 167.43 ones are just forced to work with the 8800M GTX as it is atm.

 

I am so very far away from being able to dissect drivers and get them to actually work after modification, but maybe laptopvideo2go should know about this.
If someone can fix em wouldnt it be them?

 

They should be able to

But well, maybe its just me thinking about this, as it is like that with other drivers aswell ?? Im no real modder, so I was just wondering about it as I came across it while modding the resolutions the 167.43 will accept

 

Well, according to this guy, it's a driver issue that nvidia know about and are in the process of fixing and in fact we're not quite restricted to 167.43, there are some others that work (any older than that should - I am in fact using 167.51 with no issues).

I know its an M15x thread, but it seems to be the same issue

 

Read the whole thread and I too hope this gets fixed soon. Does anyone believe it has to do with the "power saving" function of the bios or OS? I read a thread a few months ago stating how people see the clock speed change due to the demand needed from the GPU, i.e. testing it in different power modes.

Do you all think the driver and/or bios are not allowing the GPU to go into full power mode?

When I test my GPU on "balanced", the results show a low clock/shader speed. When I put it in full power, these numbers are higher. Everyhing is still stock on my machine.

I have a NP5792 with Vista x64.

Rebel

 

I installed the 174.82 drivers on my m570ru-u with 8800m gtx and got 9600 points in 3Dmark06 so I can recommend that driver Not sure if it`s the best one out there though.

 

just a quick question to all your NP9262 owners with the specs as per my sig below.. what drivers are u guys using for SLi and what program you using for OCing your cards..??. does rivatuner do the job..?? cheers

 

Maybe a stupid question, but what OS are you running?
On Vista64, this driver still cuts clock speeds in half for me..

 

Hi,
he's using XP. I'm using Vista HP 64bit and 174.82 does not downclock my 8800MGTX actually it's the best so far driver for me 9184 3D Mark 06 and for Crysis. Bios .08 and Vbios .14.

 

I have similar 3DMark06 score as you with that driver. But mine downclocks to half!

 

Not a stupid question at all Running xp pro sp2.

 

That's nice! What CPU do you have?

 

T8300, I`m running xp pro so I guess that explains why my score is higher than those running vista.

 

I fixed the drivers problem on my system. got 9460 3dmarks with 174.82 drivers. No downclocking. How to fix: open Nvidia control panel of your new driver and set the multi threading option (making use of dual core proc) form AUTO to ON.

 

Hmmm gonna try this one

 

I only get 8472 3DMarks :s

I really don't know what's wrong :s


Hey wait a minute... I just looked at rivatuner at the clocks are: http://i30.tinypic.com/34ypqqg.jpg , so @ standard 2D
But when I put it on Performance 3D I get this: http://i28.tinypic.com/wslaip.jpg

So maybe it's because of that...

Gonna run 3dmark again now

 

8722 3DMarks now... a little better but still not that good, right?

 

ehm, @ mr.proim rivatuner doesn'T show correct clock speeds!!!!

use atitool instead

btw. i'd regard 8722 as normal @ stock speeds with vista

 

but if u are unhappy with ur 3dmarks, OC GPU via biosflash

 

Isn't atitool for ati products oO
Ok thanks.

 

u cans till ise it for nvidia card though, its a good program too

 

Ok, this is what I get: http://i27.tinypic.com/2cps2hf.jpg
But are my clocks now 500&799 or 383 & 301? -.-

I'm getting maximum 69°c when playing Trackmania Nations Forever when the fans aren't going fully so could I overclock it by doing the "Find Max Core" & "Find Max Mem"?

 

your clocks are 500/799,

if u use forceware 167.43 u can overclock with atitool, u should easily reach 550//880

just try,

btw. if u can't OC via software u have to overclock via biosflash

regards

 

try using a different version of atitool, if OC with this version isn't possible.

 

K Thanks, I'm using use 172.82

I'm using the newest beta because the stable doesn't recognize my card ^^

 

Hmmm I don't think it's working because whatever I slide to nothing changes...

 

Hmm, last time I checked, my 8800 ran at 540\1350\799. Is that right? Sometimes it dropped a bit lover, like 232\1350\300. Is that usual?

 

Powermizer will drop the frequencies in 2D mode, ie. when not gaming.
You should get 600/1500/900 easy,but at those frequencies,consider using full FN+1 fan speed.
Riva Tuner should work if AtiTool doesn`t, 174.31 is OCable.

 

I have a Sager 579x with the nvidia 7950 card..

How in the world do i figure out which driver from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com to use?

165? 167? 169?

 

Look around the forums to see feedback about particular driver version. There is no clear answer, and sometimes different driver versions work best for particular games.

 

is there a specific branch i should be using?

 

Lol Dude.
Do like me : 174.82. Best performance*attention not 3dmarkscore,it`s not a valid point here* and best image quality,no flicker,no stutter

 

alright, i like the recommendation and will give it a shot.

 

Thing is, I have never overclocked. I meant to ask if that was the correct speeds?

 

500/800 default. Yes.

 

Nothing changes when I try to overclock

 

Cause my default speed are 540\1350\799 without any overclocking, it`s seems higher than the usual then. Maybe due to video bios etc?

 

Ok, so I downloaded the updated driver, 17482. I popped in Hellboy.. BluRay of course, and I get this message saying the driver is incompatible with my dvd software. Has anyone else gotten this and know of a fix?

I've rolled back my driver for now.... really want to watch a movie! The new driver works great with Assassins Creed! I guess until there's a fix I'll keep the new driver on hand for gaming and roll it back for video! blahhh

 

Yea, you`ll need a digitally signed driver.
Look for the latest 174.x driver with WHQL.
I think it`s 174.31 or something.
@taraquin , it`s odd that yours is like that. But a bigger clock means better performance