Author Topic: new beta Nvidia forceware drivers (Read 1350 times)

Brenjen · « **on:** May 24, 2006, 10:35:57 AM »

The 90 series BETA drivers are available for download here:

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

These are BETA drivers & I make no claims as to their performance. I just felt some of you folks who are like me, might want to give them a try.

Brenjen · « **Reply #1 on:** May 24, 2006, 05:40:18 PM »

I've got them installed & guess what - they have introduced a totally new control panel interface! You can still use the old one if you prefer by selection after installing the new drivers. The new interface looks a little more like the windows interface, but not difficult to use so far from what I've seen. Coolbits will work with this new control panel also. I am off to try them in the MA, I'll let you folks know what I find.

Krusty · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2006, 05:40:33 PM »

Are they gonna help us poor schmucks running 4400Tis?

Brenjen · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2006, 08:27:47 PM »

I have no idea Krusty I didn't develop them & I'm not familiar with what a 4400Tis even is.

Is it an old Nvidia card?

I played AH with these drivers until just now & it was problem free, it seems they perform better than the EVGA 84.56 drivers I was using & I hadn't had too much trouble with them. I'm not even positive the few little glitches were because of those drivers, but I did get a little rendering lag now & then in certain situations. I experienced no frame freezes or rendering lag at all anytime during this session. So maybe the drivers were to blame. So far I'm impressed; If I experience anything negative I will be sure to post it.

Krusty · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:38:43 AM »

Yes, the 4400 is one of the better "older" series nvidia cards. Mine's a Ti (like a GT, St, Ultra, it's a suffix, short for Titanium series).

Brenjen · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:23:39 AM »

Cool, that's what I thought but I couldn't find any information on them because of how old they are. I would venture a quess that it will not work well with these drivers, but hey, you can always change them back. Do you have a copy of the drivers your using now somewhere? Or were you just throwing out a J/K about how old your vc is?

38ruk · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2006, 11:09:34 AM »

I had a PNY TI4400 about 5 years ago , i remember that was the first card i bought that was over 300 bucks and it was an upgrade from the 1st radeon ATI made, the 64MB VIVO, that was in my machine . I also remember being mad as hell that i bought it when a month or so later ATI released the 9700pro that blew it out of the water errr.

Krusty · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:30:48 PM »

Oh, no I was serious, I really have this card. It runs pretty well on most games. I can play HL2, AH2, the FEAR demo (although, THAT game needs a MUCH better card, really, I can only just barely play it), and lots of others.

I've got 61.77 drivers on it now, and was just curious if the drivers would help any. I doubt it, but I was curious.

38ruk, I have the 128MB version, AGP4x It's a great card, but it's showing its age a little. Just a little. Hell before this I had a Ge256 (not even a GeForce2!) 32MB, so this is much better than I used to have.

Brenjen · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2006, 03:00:50 PM »

It wouldn't hurt/damage anything to try it. Just go back to the old drivers if it's not solid. A lot of video cards have that "sweet" driver set that works well with it.

With a card that old I'm sure Skuzzy knows which drivers are the "sweet" ones for it. (yes I was smiling to myself when I typed that)

Krusty · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2006, 05:19:00 PM »

Oh, I know what skuzzy'd say. I asked him before. 61.77 is what you use for pre-6000 series (pre-6600? I don't know the cut-off, but I'm behind it). Newer drivers seem to hinder older cards, I'm told.

The sad thing is I got 5x the performance out of my Ge256 DDR 32MB by upgrading the drivers. From 26.xx to the 40.xx series I gained 5x the performance from the same card. Doesn't seem to be the case for the Ge 4400. Maybe the old one was just so slow that any help makes it run better (

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Brenjen · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:19:25 PM »

Well, like I said, you can always give it a try, if it hurts performance, change it back. I have a habit of changing drivers, I don't hesitate.

For all you 78 & 7900 jockies out there, these have done really well so far, better than the latest EVGA drivers.

38ruk · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:55:45 PM »

I had the same krusty , 128mb 4X . I remember that it was very big for a video card , it was a tight fit in my case . The 44-4600's were very good cards , and im not suprised to see people still using them .

Kev367th · « **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2006, 08:26:34 PM »

Supports all nVidia based cards apart from -

TNT2
TNT2 Pro
TNT2 Ultra
TNT2 Model 64 (M64)
TNT2 Model 64 (M64) Pro
Vanta
Vanta LT
GeForce 256
GeForce DDR
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce2 Pro
GeForce2 Ti
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce2 MX Integrated graphics
Quadro
Quadro2 Pro
Quadro2 EX

Geez I remember having a GF2 GTS, I'm getting old, lol.
Hell I can remember owning a pair of Voodoo 2 with proper SLI. (zimmer frame ordered)

[Sg]ShotGun · « **Reply #13 on:** May 27, 2006, 08:52:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Kev367th
Hell I can remember owning a pair of Voodoo 2 with proper SLI. (zimmer frame ordered) [/B]

i still have both of mine...8mb ea

Brenjen · « **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2006, 09:42:44 PM »

Hey Kev, have you tried these drivers?

I am interested to know if my excellent results with them are a fluke. B.T.W. I continue to have 100% perfect graphics, I am impressed.