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Title: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: 100Coogn on April 18, 2011, 11:22:50 PM
See Nvidia's website for details, if you're interested. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
If not, then no worries.  :D

Coogan
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: Chalenge on April 19, 2011, 12:06:49 AM
Supports GTX 590 at last!  :aok

EDIT: OOPS! Bad release I think. Performance dropped.  :rofl
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: guncrasher on April 19, 2011, 12:29:37 AM
I learned to make a back up copy of my system, couple of times i got burned with new drivers giving me bad fps at the begining.  for some reason if i d/l'd them 2 or 3 months later I would have no problem.

semp

edit: installed the drivers, w/o the updater and 3d have no need for them.  my fps remained the same and it looks a little better.  then again, i just bought a new monitor. to replace my 9 month old acer.
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: Pudgie on April 20, 2011, 03:00:22 PM
D'ld them Monday & installed them................all good except that drivers wouldn't read my monitor's native res--read all other res below native just fine--?  Cleaned out drivers, went into safe mode & ran Driver Sweeper & cleaned out all traces, went back in & reinstalled these & got the same thing--? Cleaned out again using the process mentioned & reloaded the 270.51 betas & all was well.

This had me stumped.

Today I had noticed that I had saved the drivers to the Downloads folder on the C:\ drive (have installed MSIE 9-used to MSIE 8 auto saving to my E:\ drive folder). Downloaded 270.61's again but saved them to my E:\ drive folder (where the other Nvidia driver downloads are saved to--about 30 to date). Cleaned out the 270.51's & installed the 270.61's from my E:\ drive folder & all is well. They recognize my monitor's native res & run smoothly--just like all the one's before them.

Weird stuff.

All is golden now.

 :lol :D :salute
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: Skuzzy on April 20, 2011, 03:09:37 PM
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT install these drivers if you are using an 8000 series video card, or older.  Please do not install them.
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: morfiend on April 20, 2011, 04:30:23 PM
Quote from: Skuzzy on April 20, 2011, 03:09:37 PM
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT install these drivers if you are using an 8000 series video card, or older.  Please do not install them.



 QFT,tried them on my 8800GTS and lets say it wasnt good!! :o    Lucky for me I could recover from this but it took quite some time to do so.



     :salute
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: 100Coogn on April 20, 2011, 05:05:34 PM
Quote from: Pudgie on April 20, 2011, 03:00:22 PM
D'ld them Monday & installed them................all good except that drivers wouldn't read my monitor's native res--read all other res below native just fine--?  Cleaned out drivers, went into safe mode & ran Driver Sweeper & cleaned out all traces, went back in & reinstalled these & got the same thing--? Cleaned out again using the process mentioned & reloaded the 270.51 betas & all was well.

This had me stumped.

Today I had noticed that I had saved the drivers to the Downloads folder on the C:\ drive (have installed MSIE 9-used to MSIE 8 auto saving to my E:\ drive folder). Downloaded 270.61's again but saved them to my E:\ drive folder (where the other Nvidia driver downloads are saved to--about 30 to date). Cleaned out the 270.51's & installed the 270.61's from my E:\ drive folder & all is well. They recognize my monitor's native res & run smoothly--just like all the one's before them.

Weird stuff.

All is golden now.

 :lol :D :salute

I had the same problem.  Got lucky and a simple PC re-start was all I needed. 
So far I see no improvement or decline in performance.
EVGA GTS 250

Coogan
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: Pudgie on April 20, 2011, 05:28:37 PM
Quote from: 100Coogn on April 20, 2011, 05:05:34 PM
I had the same problem.  Got lucky and a simple PC re-start was all I needed.  
So far I see no improvement or decline in performance.
EVGA GTS 250

Coogan

Yeah, EVGA GTX 560Ti SC here.
A sense of relief in knowing that I wasn't the only 1 that had this issue.
Funny thing when the driver is saying that your vid card & monitor (HP 2710m) were HD-capable & compatible but driver wouldn't recognize the monitor's native res!

 :D

Edit: If you're like me Coogan & all the games you play are AH II then any new driver updates won't get us any speed gains. What I look for is any graphical rendering improvements--these should give a smoother game experience, provided that the area of improvement is an area that AH II can take advantage of. :)
Title: Re: GeForce/ION Driver v270.61 Released 4/18/2011
Post by: 100Coogn on April 20, 2011, 06:28:50 PM
Quote from: Pudgie on April 20, 2011, 05:28:37 PM
Yeah, EVGA GTX 560Ti SC here.
A sense of relief in knowing that I wasn't the only 1 that had this issue.
Funny thing when the driver is saying that your vid card & monitor (HP 2710m) were HD-capable & compatible but driver wouldn't recognize the monitor's native res!

 :D

Edit: If you're like me Coogan & all the games you play are AH II then any new driver updates won't get us any speed gains. What I look for is any graphical rendering improvements--these should give a smoother game experience, provided that the area of improvement is an area that AH II can take advantage of. :)

Yep, this is all I play on here.  Not really looking for any big speed gains myself, but I'm all for the smooth game-play.
I noticed that this driver has an auto-update feature (which I did disable), and it installed an icon in my system tray display. 

 :aok Coogan