PNY GeForce GTX260 Video Card (Core 216 / 896MB) : What Diver?

[Daubie]

What is the best driver to use with this card playing Aces High in Windows 7, 32-bit, Home Premium?

Not SLI, but a single card.

My CPU is a i7-920 on an Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard.  PSU is a 750 watt CoolerMaster.

I have been using the NVIDIA 285.62 GeForce driver dated 10/24/2011

I am wondering if I would do better with an older driver?

Anybody have experience with this card?

What do you do?  What driver?

Thanks for any help.

[guncrasher]

do you have problems with it?


semp

[Daubie]

do you have problems with it?


semp

I am not sure.

In order to get any of my guns to get good hits, especially my bombers killing fighters, I have to turn everything down and my resolution is set for below 1084.  I don't use the high res pack or add additional skins.

I have never gotten myself to turn around fast enough except when I did try a trial version of the cable Internet version of my local provider---RoadRunner Turbo running at 30 Megs per second download speed.

For whatever is the reason slower aircraft on a flat out run can catch my supposedly faster aircraft (according to the graph plots), except when I ran cable Internet.

I use DSL.  I am locked into a contract until September 2012.  It never runs faster than 3.9 Megs per second download.  But that is a steady 3.9 anywhere in the world.  That is not true with using cable running consistently.

My frame-rates are a steady 75 just about all the time, as to the Control+I combiniation to see the frame rate.

I will see how it goes with my new Alienware Aurora I just ordered.  NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 in SLI at 3.9GHz.

It just might be me.  Some guys playing longer than me suck at this game, too!

[guncrasher]

ok you have vsync off.  turn it on, that's why you having problems.  think that is based on you saying 75 fps since most monitors only have 60. which video card do you have?  are you on a laptop or desktop?


semp

[Daubie]

ok you have vsync off.  turn it on, that's why you having problems.  think that is based on you saying 75 fps since most monitors only have 60. which video card do you have?  are you on a laptop or desktop?


semp

I have always had Vertical Sync turned on.

As stated in the heading topic as to my video card that I use.  I typo'd mistakenly calling a driver a diver.

I have done it both ways:

Advanced 3D Image Settings:  within the NVIDIA Control Panel, under 3d Settings, there are alternative settings within Settings, within Manage 3D Settings in the Aces High "template" (for want of a better word), it uses Vertical Sync on as a preset.  It is set on.  Plus I fine tuned it for performance over quality, and either turned Antialiasing off or minimized the antialiasing settings.

My question is, should I even be using these settings not running a legitimate 3D setup with a dedicated 3D monitor and 3D glasses?  I think 3D in this case does not necessarily mean running the 3D applications, using a specific 3D game.

I have read quite a bit to forums here.   I have not found much info concerning this card.

The other settings, I can do as an alternative, Skuzzy initially, as well as some other people, said to setup within Adjust Image Settings Within Preview, "Let the 3D application decide,"  its button highlighted, but I still set the slider to Performance, anyway.  But I highlighted the top selection's button which I think would override the bottom, unhighlighted.  Even within that setting on Windows 7 Home Premium I get a 75 frame rate at 800 x 600 resolution. 

Then I minimize the NVIDIA Control Panel before starting Aces High.

I have a desktop. 

I dislike laptops at being too slow for me. 

Everything currently is hard wired.  I turned the wireless option within my DSL router to off.

Any other better performance ideas?  I am playing around with older drivers.

Thinning out processes?  Does this really make a difference with using a, 4 core, i7-920 CPU?

My CPU does run at 2.66GHz which is slow and I wonder if this is causing poor performance?  My motherboard, its production run, has a history of blowing the mb if overclocking it, so I never did.

(My new machine will be 3.9GHz preset factory overclocked with a nVidia GeForce GT 545 in SLI in a dual 1 TB RAID setup. water cooled.)   

Thank you for your effort and reply.

[Thorns]

I have an i7 - 920 o/c to 3.8 Mhz on air, with a GeForce GTX260 running highest resolution and full everything on, and the framerate never goes below 60 fps.  If my aim is true, the enemy burns! 

[guncrasher]

you play with  an 800x600 resolution?  what is the native resolution of your monitor?

oh got you are playing in 3d.  I know nothing about that.  last time I tried it was with my nvidia 9800gtx+ when you didnt have to buy their glasses.  I coudnt see well or play well.

I am playing with the same driver 285.62 and have lots of game crashes.  not sure if this is due to me updating bios, ram conflicting with bios, ah or that driver.

cant tell due to things happening at the same time.

-updating vc driver to 285.62
-updated bios
-installed beta
-i had a crash with beta that I had never seen before then I believe windows may have been corrupted.

all on the same weekend.  I have ruled out so far bios conflicting with ram as have stressed tested computer with no problems and reverted to my original bios and I still crash.  I removed the beta, but not sure if there's a conflict somewhere with ah on the registry.

all I have left is

-reinstall vc drivers to another one
-reinstall windows, yikes.


good luck with yours .

funny thing is only ah game crashes on my system.

semp

[Daubie]

you play with  an 800x600 resolution?  what is the native resolution of your monitor?

oh got you are playing in 3d.  I know nothing about that.  last time I tried it was with my nvidia 9800gtx+ when you didnt have to buy their glasses.  I coudnt see well or play well.

I am playing with the same driver 285.62 and have lots of game crashes.  not sure if this is due to me updating bios, ram conflicting with bios, ah or that driver.

cant tell due to things happening at the same time.

-updating vc driver to 285.62
-updated bios
-installed beta
-i had a crash with beta that I had never seen before then I believe windows may have been corrupted.

all on the same weekend.  I have ruled out so far bios conflicting with ram as have stressed tested computer with no problems and reverted to my original bios and I still crash.  I removed the beta, but not sure if there's a conflict somewhere with ah on the registry.

all I have left is

-reinstall vc drivers to another one
-reinstall windows, yikes.


good luck with yours .

funny thing is only ah game crashes on my system.

semp

1920 x 1080 is my native resolution.

Among many possible factors why my bullets do not hit well, running 800 x 600 I do a lot better, especially in my bombers, killing fighters.

Discos, for me, is because of a process firing in the background, like my antivirus doing background checkups or updates.  I cannot figure out how to turn off Microsoft Security Essentials in Windows Home Premium, 32-bit.  I can turn off the firewall.  There is a guy named, "Black Viper" who has a web-site dedicated to thinning out processes for the flight-sim community.

I ONLY disco in Aces High.  The other sim I play is Digital Combat Simulation's A-10C Warthog and Black Shark---I never disco.

I tried going back to Update 190.38 and it messed up my system to the point I had to go into the registry and clear everything NVIDIA related.  That was a 4 day mishap.  I eventually got it back on and I too am running the latest NVIDIA GeForce Update 285.62.  It is supposed to support my card in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7; I have both in a Dual Boot setup.

Almost everything I learn doing concerning computers is trial and error and a lot of mistakes in the learning process and reading various forums..  I have never had a college or high school course concerning PCs.

My new machine on order is Alienware Aurora, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit and bought a 3D ready monitor and wireless 3D glasses.  Wireless is all Dell was selling.  I would prefer them hard-wired.  It will be running at 3.9 GHz on a second generation i7 CPU.  The new video card is a GT 545 in dual SLI.  Will see how that goes.  The machine has room to rebuild.  Wanted the GTX 580, but that single card is still $500.  Some PCs are cheaper than that.

I think my DSL running at 3.9MB/second is my limiting factor.   Road Runner Turbo is on my wish list when my DSL contract expires.

This new rig is almost what I paid for my 1st new car in 1972!  LOL!

Thanks for replying.

[guncrasher]

1920 x 1080 is my native resolution.

Among many possible factors why my bullets do not hit well, running 800 x 600 I do a lot better, especially in my bombers, killing fighters.

Discos, for me, is because of a process firing in the background, like my antivirus doing background checkups or updates.  I cannot figure out how to turn off Microsoft Security Essentials in Windows Home Premium, 32-bit.  I can turn off the firewall.  There is a guy named, "Black Viper" who has a web-site dedicated to thinning out processes for the flight-sim community.

I ONLY disco in Aces High.  The other sim I play is Digital Combat Simulation's A-10C Warthog and Black Shark---I never disco.

I tried going back to Update 190.38 and it messed up my system to the point I had to go into the registry and clear everything NVIDIA related.  That was a 4 day mishap.  I eventually got it back on and I too am running the latest NVIDIA GeForce Update 285.62.  It is supposed to support my card in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7; I have both in a Dual Boot setup.

Almost everything I learn doing concerning computers is trial and error and a lot of mistakes in the learning process and reading various forums..  I have never had a college or high school course concerning PCs.

My new machine on order is Alienware Aurora, Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit and bought a 3D ready monitor and wireless 3D glasses.  Wireless is all Dell was selling.  I would prefer them hard-wired.  It will be running at 3.9 GHz on a second generation i7 CPU.  The new video card is a GT 545 in dual SLI.  Will see how that goes.  The machine has room to rebuild.  Wanted the GTX 580, but that single card is still $500.  Some PCs are cheaper than that.

I think my DSL running at 3.9MB/second is my limiting factor.   Road Runner Turbo is on my wish list when my DSL contract expires.

This new rig is almost what I paid for my 1st new car in 1972!  LOL!

Thanks for replying.

that computer runs fast enough so you wont really have to turn off ms essentials or the firewall. as long as you dont overload with other apps.  it would be better in the long run if you get used to running 1920x1080 as it is the native resolution for your monitor, that it itself it is possible to cause warps as ah runs always better on native resolution.  dls is not limiting you in ah as the connection doesnt really have to be very fast but steady.  a steady connection is always better than a faster one.  perhaps you should do a tracing see if that is your problem with rubber bullets.

-change your windows updates to manual check only, not automatic or any other setting.
-have ms esentials run anti-virus scan at 3 am only.
-check your start up process and make sure you dont have any auto updates like java, etc.

dont forget to post pics of your new puter when it arrives.  make sure all the pretty lights are on .

semp