178.13 Drivers

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178.13 Drivers are out
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Seems there are some preformance increases from these. I hope this doesn't outdate all the work Brent just did on that article!


Release Notes:
WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT and 9400 GT GPUs.
Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04).
Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
Adds support for 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
Supports CUDA™.
Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.13 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10

Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Products Supported:
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9500 GS
GeForce 9400 GT
GeForce 9300 GS
GeForce 9300 GE
GeForce 8800 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 8800 GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8400 SE
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8400
GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce 8300
GeForce 8200
GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a
GeForce 8100 / nForce 720a
GeForce 7950 GX2
GeForce 7950 GT
GeForce 7900 GTX
GeForce 7900 GT/GTO
GeForce 7900 GS
GeForce 7800 SLI
GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce 7800 GT
GeForce 7800 GS
GeForce 7650 GS
GeForce 7600 GT
GeForce 7600 GS
GeForce 7600 LE
GeForce 7500 LE
GeForce 7350 LE
GeForce 7300 SE
GeForce 7300 LE
GeForce 7300 GT
GeForce 7300 GS
GeForce 7200 GS
GeForce 7100 GS
GeForce 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i
GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
GeForce 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i
GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a
GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a
GeForce 6800 XT
GeForce 6800 XE
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 6800 Series GPU
GeForce 6800 LE
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 6800 GS/XT
GeForce 6800 GS
GeForce 6800
GeForce 6700 XL
GeForce 6610 XL
GeForce 6600 VE
GeForce 6600 LE
GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce 6600
GeForce 6500
GeForce 6250
GeForce 6200SE TurboCache™
GeForce 6200 TurboCache™
GeForce 6200 LE
GeForce 6200 A-LE
GeForce 6200
GeForce 6150SE/nForce 430
GeForce 6150 LE
GeForce 6150
GeForce 6100/nForce 420
GeForce 6100/nForce 405
GeForce 6100/nForce 400
GeForce 6100
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Just installed them, tried a couple of things out, CoD4, Lost Planet EC, don't see performance boost for 3x SLI but of course nothing was in the release notes about 3x SLI.
 
Wow... after I spent 2 hours last night going through tons of beta drivers.

I'm going to try this right now. Thanks for the link. :)
 
Zinn said:
Wow... after I spent 2 hours last night going through tons of beta drivers.

I'm going to try this right now. Thanks for the link. :)
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Don't thank me, thank Kyle for the link on the front page, for some reason he didn't add a comments to it, so I tossed this up so we can throw around the increases we get.
 
Gotta love new drivers.... these 177.92 drivers were getting a bit long in the tooth. :D
 
Yay! Something to mess with when I get home.:p

I should also work on my sig.
 
Brent_Justice said:
'tis the nature of computers, i doubt there are any earth shattering differences
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Well, their release notes are claiming 10-15% differences, some people on EVGA were claiming more, we'll just have to wait and see I suppose. I'll be installing them shortly, but I don't normally play with a frame counter and recording the results :p
 
Actually these drivers do downclock perfectly. They really are quite awesome!
 
Due in October

Using the new driver, I got between 0 and 5% improvement from my 8800GT.
edit: on XP32, E8400 @ 4.1GHz so no CPU bottleneck.
 
it seems that these did not fix the problem that i had with the beta drivers, so back to 175's i go..

whenever i boot with these i see my desktop for about 5 seconds then my computer hard locks and the screen goes to some crazy blue/pink epilepsy flashing.. lol
 
i'll have to install these and try 'em out with cod 4... that was the only game preventing me from running the latest betas.
 
They seem to look worse than the previous set with the colors being very washed out and Digital Vibrance in XP SP3 is not working. If you have time compare with color on 177.79, I went back to those and Warhead, DiRT, Grid look much more vibrant with Digital Vibrance set at 50%.
 
hafiqb said:
They seem to look worse than the previous set with the colors being very washed out and Digital Vibrance in XP SP3 is not working. If you have time compare with color on 177.79, I went back to those and Warhead, DiRT, Grid look much more vibrant with Digital Vibrance set at 50%.
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Somethings not right with your setup if you need 50% vibrance!
I have to agree that with the new drivers, Digital Vibrance doesnt work for me on XP32 either.
 
well these fixed the memory leaks from the 177.83 drivers. now task manager shows 1.83gb ram being used while playing Clear Sky where it was 2.16 gb before. also total memory usage during DX9 Warhead is down well below 2gb too. I may just give my roommate back his 1gb that I "borrowed" fom his comp since it looks like I can get by with just 2 gigs again.
 
They broke Vsync for me, had to do a complete clean up and reinstall 177.41 to get it back.
 
Nothing to do with my setup, but more personnel preference I would say...Many PC games have drab colors by design so by setting this level of DV it just looks better IM(humble)O.
 
hafiqb said:
Nothing to do with my setup, but more personnel preference I would say...Many PC games have drab colors by design so by setting this level of DV it just looks better IM(humble)O.
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Nothing wrong in setting it up to your tastes. :)
 
Blind Man said:
it seems that these did not fix the problem that i had with the beta drivers, so back to 175's i go..

whenever i boot with these i see my desktop for about 5 seconds then my computer hard locks and the screen goes to some crazy blue/pink epilepsy flashing.. lol
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Wow, I have the same exact issue. And from what I can see in your sig, we have almost an identical computer. Although im still using a 7950x2.

Sucks but im glad im not the only one lol.
 
hafiqb said:
They seem to look worse than the previous set with the colors being very washed out and Digital Vibrance in XP SP3 is not working. If you have time compare with color on 177.79, I went back to those and Warhead, DiRT, Grid look much more vibrant with Digital Vibrance set at 50%.
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What is your display?

If connected via HDMI/DVI check that it has the right setting for TV vs. computer display. I remember that causing poor colour on another person's setup.
 
Ok so no longer is Nvidia Control Panel On the right click menu in windows and in the PhysX all options except "No Acceleration" are grayed out. Weird...
 
I'll take a couple FPS here and there when I can get it. Hopefully that'll be the case. I will take note of Digital Vibrance. Don't have it set very high - 20%, but it does help with the crap, backlight-bleeding 22" monitor I'm using. Its washed out enough as it is without the graphics driver adding to it.
 
Kowan said:
DV can be set using RivaTuner if it's broken on XP. ;)
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Thanks, and it is "broken". RiverTuner does work though (just wish it showed a numeric value there). I do seem to have a few more FPS - just tested it in Oblivion at 1680x1050 and in seems about 2- 4 FPS faster in similar situations (using "TDT" command in the console).
 
bad, still running full clock during video playback like the previous beta craps
 
Mine don't downclock at all... do I need to do something extra to decrease the clock speeds in desktop mode?
 
I'm having same problem as some posters above-some weird lines during vista startup, then a quick hard lock and blue screen.
I can't figure out how to get these drivers out before vista auto reinstalls them, even in safe mode.
Can anyone help please?
 
Thansk for the tip, had already tried that. Problem is windows is pulling the old driver with the currepted/bugged file out of the system32 driver repository, and for the life of me haven't been able to give myself, even under hidden admin, the access to delete that file so vista would stop installing it automatically at startup.
 
Well, 2 days of using these and COD -4 has crashed 4 times....Its always when there is a lot of explosions or flashes on the screen....if I get flash banged, instant crash...
it will pink screen and freeze my system....
I guess I'm going back to my old ones..
 
Downclock perfectly? eVGA Precision shows my 9800GX2 @ full bore (602MHz) sitting here at desktop...

Unless that's because Vista uses a 3D desktop so it runs full throttle all the time?
 
The GT200 series downclock while in 2D. Your GX2 can if you use RivaTuner and create 2D/3D short cuts with clock speeds of your setting.
 
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