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   #30. Posted at 07:46 AM on May 17th 2008 Edit   Reply
Saribro
I'm somewhat confused as to why only the beta widget points to the "whql, nvidia recommended" 175.16, where as the regular one still refers me to the 169 release...
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   #3. Posted at 01:55 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
bogbox
what about the 5 serie ?a lot of people have FX cards , bad Nvidia
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#3, I have an FX5600 Ultra in my spare P4 system. By now it's me...  :  ludi  (#5)  «
#3, I was in the same boat. Its far better to invest in a consol...  :  albundy  (#14)  «
#14, That's funny...I got a year out of that FX card I already...  :  ludi  (#19)  «
#3, Unfortunately, the 5 series cards are old enough now that mo...  :  PetMiceRnice  (#29)  «

   #21. Posted at 12:48 AM on May 14th 2008, Edited at 01:04 AM on May 14th 2008 Edit   Reply
Prospero424
Crap, I have a major problem with these drivers.

I cannot get them to treat my 24" Westinghouse L2410NM as a 16:10 display. No matter what I try, the new drivers force it into 16:9 mode at any resolution other than 1920x1200 or 720x480. I'm using a DVI-HDMI interface and I haven't had even the slightest problem with any of the older Nvidia drivers.

I tried unchecking "treat as HDTV", I tried checking the option to allow non-standard resolutions. I even tried creating custom resolutions; I tried 1280x800 and it would allow me to switch to this resolution, but it displayed at 1280x720 (black bars at top and bottom) even though it was reporting 1280x800.

It did the exact same thing no matter if I let the drivers handle the scaling, the monitor itself, or even disabled scaling altogether.

I can't play any of my games at 16:10 because my vid card (7800GT) isn't really fast enough to play them at 1920x1200 and I'm certainly not going back to 720x480!

I read that Nvidia had made some modifications to the way the drivers handled displays. Looks like they have some more work to do, and I guess I'm stuck with the 169.21 drivers until they finish it.

I can't believe these passed WHQL certification in this state...
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#21, That's all right it's not like you'll have to wait 6 months ...  :  poulpy  (#22)  «
#21, A lot of people have been complaining about 7800 series havi...  :  Mavrick88  (#25)  «
#25, That makes sense. I do indeed have a 7800GT.  :  Prospero424  (#28)  «

   #27. Posted at 06:32 PM on May 14th 2008 Edit   Reply
Creamsteak
Well this is somewhat laughable, but the new driver won't work on 3d acceleration mode on my TIE Fighter game. The 1994 one. I had to downgrade to standard hardware acceleration. I'm running a 7600 GS. Havn't had any other problems with more modern games though.
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   #26. Posted at 05:44 PM on May 14th 2008 Edit   Reply
Usacomp2k3
Figures. They come out the minute I disassemble my computer.
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   #11. Posted at 03:30 PM on May 13th 2008, Edited at 08:11 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
Mystic-G
Just updated my 8800GTS 320mb Superclocked from 169.04 and ran 3D Mark... no real performance difference, I actually lost like 30 points lol.
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#11, And we all know 3DMark is the BEST measurement of real world...  :  LoneWolf15  (#24)  «

   #23. Posted at 08:17 AM on May 14th 2008 Edit   Reply
deinabog
The driverrs would not update my GeForce 7800 GS card but did work for my 8800 GT. Looks like Nvidia has some work to do.
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   #4. Posted at 01:57 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
Ryu Connor
what about the 5 serie ?a lot of people have FX cards , bad Nvidia

They have FX support as well. Second bullet on the driver page.

Supports GeForce FX, 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs
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#4, No such support exists or is official in the case of Vista, ...  :  Meadows  (#6)  «
#6, Pretty much. As well to whine about no longer getting new...  :  bthylafh  (#8)  «
#8, What about my RIVA128!? I just need for a few more fps...  :  netkcid  (#10)  «
#10, Yeah omg they gave up on that one way too soon! Nev...  :  swaaye  (#13)  «
#4, FFS, use the Reply function.  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#18)  «
#18, There's a huge UI bug in the forum script -- if you are v...  :  ludi  (#20)  «

   #17. Posted at 07:13 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
herothezero
Strange, I've had no such issues. Under what circumstances do you get the BSOD's?

Extended runs of Red Orchestra or Sins of a Solar Empire.

Annoying more than anything.
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   #16. Posted at 06:57 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
fpsduck
Thanks Cyril for this news.

Now I can get rid of the 169xx and 174xx drivers.
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   #9. Posted at 02:29 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
herothezero
Please, please, please let these fix my video BSODs in Vx64...
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#9, Strange, I've had no such issues. Under what circumstances d...  :  JdL  (#12)  «
#12, Vista x64 seems to be a lot more sensitive to bad drivers...  :  nstuff  (#15)  «

   #7. Posted at 02:24 PM on May 13th 2008, Edited at 02:25 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
2x4
hope that i can run oblivion now. the 175 series beta were kind of buggy. woudnt start, also nba live was struggling with 15fps (i had about 40 with 16xaa, 16af from the nvidia control with previous drivers). hopefully this will change
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   #2. Posted at 01:47 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
kvndoom
About. Fugging. Time.

Will try these when I get home. I'm using some recent betas now with no problems, but no harm in making it official.
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   #1. Posted at 01:30 PM on May 13th 2008 Edit   Reply
indeego
No issues. Been running the beta's of these for a week or so.
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