Video card drivers Nvidia/ATI

I thought the 74 series drivers were for the 9 series cards only... ?

Cyborg......... you can get a bios from nvidias website. That might help with the cards. ( floppy install )

5/13/08

new drivers avail.....read here.....

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14737

edit: lost 40fps in SH...................... think ati will be my next card of choice !

ATI 8.9 drivers..............9/17/08

minor game fixes......... open gl 3.0 sup.

9/25/08......new nvidia drivers....... these actually show some improvements

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_178.13_whql.html

I just picked up a 9600 GT (should be here today) to pass the time until the card I want drops in price (never ending cycle I know) .... how do games like Spearhead run with the new drivers (if you know). I still play Breakthrough and know about the nhancer bit it get it working. I haven't owned a Nvidia card since the fx5600.

There was a short stint where a few of the drivers wouldn't let you see some textures but that has been taken care of.

I thought about sli'ing a couple of those cards a couple of times but I keep talking myself out of it...lol

Which one did you get ?

ok directly updated them, i dont have hope but maybe less problems

MSI N9600GT 512M OC GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16

I'm just entering the world of pci-e so I figure this budget card will do me for a little while at least.

They get $37 for that game so it's a pretty good deal.

Wow those specs actually look pretty good.

Well like the reviewers say it's rather large. I'm putting it in a full size case so I wasn't worried about that. However, it's probably just the layout of my motherboard but I don't feel I could squeeze two of these on there if I wanted to. The main reason is the feet of backplate that supports the heatsink sticks out too far. I have a 1x pci-e soundcard and the feet are pushing that card at an angle. The other 1x pci-e slot is covered by the heatsink. I've never seen a backplate with feet like that before.

Thats a good deal! I might have to get a new vid card for Xmas

ATI 8.10 Drivers.

nvidia release new drivers version 178.24

180.48 drivers--10/18/08

180.48 drivers....10/18/08........ massive improvements in gaming here........and more

• Boosts performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of improvements measured with Release 180 WHQL drivers vs. Release 178 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
  • Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
  • Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
  • Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
  • Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
  • Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
  • Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  • Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
  • Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
  • Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

What about mohaa?

Who wants to play a game where everybody uses skin hacks and no recoils hacks ?

I heard that game wasn't that great anyway. :crazy:

I reformatted and installed somes games. I installed MoHAASHBT first then more recent games. At the begining, when MoH was alone with Grid on my comp, I had no aliasing problems in MoH but that's a few days now I get unbearable aliasing in MoH only.
I have the 175.16 nVidia driver (and would like to keep this one) for a 8800gts512, under XP SP2. Whatever 3D setting I try to increase or force the game to use, in the nVidia setting panel, doesn't seem to have any effects on the aliasing. I installed the latest DX9.0c, still the same.
Before I reinstall the game, do you have any advice, or is there something I should check? (I play through BT)

**edit** ok I reinstalled the 175.16, it's allright now.