Nvidia 257.15 BETA Drivers released

taken from the gaming thread by stevenxowens792

it says 256 beta release but they are actually 257.15

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NOTE! Under physx it no longer shows an "off or on". Now a pulldown with 3 options.. .auto, cpu, gpu

as these are a beta release you download at your own risk

 

finally when playing wotlk the computer no longer stutter due to dpc lattency. i'm very happy with these drivers

 

there are 2 of these drivers on the drop list for 8800m and windows 7 64 bit. i assume it's a typo or something and that they are the same.

hopefully i can enable SLI with these drivers for wotlk without the annoying stuttering that forces me to stay in single gpu...and i am running the game in 4320x900 as well.

 

Your running the game @ 4320x900 ? could be why you have stutter
Big screen lol

Thanks for the heads up MrDJ

 

This also fixed my dpc latency sutter on both single and hdmi external screen. It stays at 150u snd on games the most I could catc was 778u.Fps are the same as the 197.16 I was trying before and windows index is up for 0,1 on gaming. No problems till now.

 

running 3 monitors.

 

257.15 beta puts a smile on my face.

 

Awesome performance, so far.

That'll do, Nvidia.

 

well these really must be beta drivers. after installation and on first boot windows says it cannot authenticate itself and says i may be running a pirated copy lol. after that nvidica panel pops up saying the sli ribbon cable is not connected lol.

all seems to work fine, though. no BSOD's upon boot with these drivers, unlike the lousy 197 series that are complete garbage.

 

these drivers did not do anything for WoW in SLI mode. that game still runs like garbage and stutters like crazy in SLI despite smooth framerates of 30. only some older drivers worked in sli for that game, if i remember correctly.

 

am I about to witness a miracle? come on, nvidia, formal version!!

 

anyone know how long it generally takes the beta drivers to become official drivers?

 

you just never know with nvidia.
but now the new 480 cards have been released they might pull their fingers out a bit quicker.

 

Didn't fix the powermizer/underclock problem for GTX260M in Linux. Some reported the same for I assume under Windows on Nvidia forums.

 

Thinks your problem is the boring game your playing !

 

I think these drivers have solved the dpc spikes on all clock transitions on my system... yay!

The clocks still wont go lower than stage 3 when displaying on an external monitor though. I wonder if this is a powermizer bug or just the way it was intended to be. Does an external display require more resources for the gpu than the regular flat pannel? I'm talking single display here, no duplication or no extended display on multiple monitors.

 

Yes, when using external monitor, your GPU bumps up to 3D-clocks.

 

i know but is that normal or a bug? and if it is normal why is it?

 

It is normal, but I don`t know why

 

It's a normal bug.

 

I've tried to install these drivers several times on my NP9262/D901c w/8800m GTX's in SLI, and everything is fine up until I enable SLI in Nvidia control panel. It makes me restart after applying the setting, but when windows loads and I try and access the Nvidia control panel again, I get an error saying Nvidia control panel has stopped working and must close.

I've tried the version from Nvidia's site, and also the one off laptopvideo2go.com with the same results.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I completely uninstalled all previous Nvidia drivers, then used driver sweeper in safe mode before installing these. I've never had this issue before, and any other driver I've tried in the past week has installed just fine.

However I've been going through many different driver versions lately because my SLI doesn't seem to be operating correctly, but if I'm wrong someone please let me know.

My issue is that my games have been suffering from poor performance, and I noticed that nvidia system monitor was showing that only one card was reaching max clock speeds while gaming, while the other only went to about 50%. I also have noticed in the past couple months that my fans never go to full unless I force them, in situations where they used to, like during a long game session. It just seems like my system has not been pushing itself like it used to. However, using dox 195.62 drivers, directly after enabling SLI without restarting, I was able to run Dragon Age Origins on highest possible settings, without a hiccup, and nvidia system monitor showed full clock speeds on both cards. After a restart it went back to only showing one card at full speed while gaming, and performance was Much decreased.

Am I wrong to think a that both cards should go to full clock speeds? I think I've proved that they are capable of this, and performance is drastically improved when they do. Every tool I use to view GPU info shows both cards have the same factory clock speeds btw, so its not that the settings are not in sync. Any insight would be helpful.

 

In my mind, SLI should be made to make you have better performance and especially on games. If the one card works at full clocks and the other one just 50%, then the second card showes bottleneck for both. That's what I think of.

 

hahahhahahhaha good one!

or we could also say: "It's Nvidia"