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Windows XP & Linux NVIDIA Display Drivers If you have a problem with the NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers on XP or Linux then this is the place to get help!

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Old Mar 8, 2006, 06:47 PM   #31
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Great to hear Madgoat, we try and optimize for all cards and since most of our beta testers have 6x series or higher cards it can be hard to make sure we've got the earlier versions covered. We'll keep putting them out so you can save some dough
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Wow, these must be good if a modded nVidia driver can make an ATI 9550 perform well!
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Old Mar 8, 2006, 09:51 PM   #33
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are these compatible with Geforce Go 7800 GTX on a sager notebook?
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Old Mar 8, 2006, 11:11 PM   #34
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Madgoat, are you referring to the DHzp ATi 6.2 or the DHzp NV 83.60? The latter shouldn't work with a Radeon 9550... So maybe you just posted in the wrong thread? lol
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Old Mar 9, 2006, 03:23 AM   #35
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Lol, I missed that, yeah that should have been posted in the ATI section Madgoat
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i don't want to scare anyone away from the drivers but it seems I lost a bit of preformance with these drivers. I play quake3,quake4, CS:Source, and WoW and they all suffered fps losage.

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P4 3.4GHz w/ HT
eVGA 7800GS
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I used drivercleaner to remove my previous drivers and all so im not sure what was wrong.
Quake 3 was running a max 60fps....nothing should have been capping it either i checked everything there is there. CS:Source was real boggy in situations with like 15-(minus)-fps and WoW was running considerably low fps.

I went back to the latest forceware and all is good. Maybe I'll give you guys a try agian later on .
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huh, that's odd, these are built for HT/MT situations and we hadn't seen that kind of performance loss in beta testing, a minor hit to be sure to increasing some IQ settings but nothing too severe, we'll continue to look at it though, thanks for the feedback.
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fiftyone I missed your post, I believe they are, I think the DevID is in there although it may not be named correctly, if it's not named correctly let me know your Dev ID so I can get it renamed in the next set.
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 03:04 AM   #39
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huh, that's odd, these are built for HT/MT situations and we hadn't seen that kind of performance loss in beta testing, a minor hit to be sure to increasing some IQ settings but nothing too severe, we'll continue to look at it though, thanks for the feedback.
Actually, It may have not been you drivers. Something happend earlier, i turned on my pc and it was booting into windows and it went to a black screen then my lcd said there was an invalid connection or something like that, so I contacted eVGA.

I read there forums and it seems like there are others having problems aswell.

You guys know of any software that will test a video card for defects or similar?
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 03:13 AM   #40
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Hmm, there's probably not any programs that do that. Like I said in your other thread, you may have to RMA your card for a newer revision.
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evga is great about rma. just do a cross shipment but ask them to test it 1st. aslo see if you can get the 08 vers, these seem to be having less problems. i think you will be fine with any of the newer vers though.
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Old Mar 13, 2006, 06:01 AM   #42
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Well, i sent an email to thier support line and asked them about RMA so hopefully he will give me the ok to do so(never done it before, lol).

it just pisses me off that this happens you know. but i guess it can be expected with cards just being released.
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Old Mar 15, 2006, 02:58 AM   #43
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Hey Guys

Hey! im Looking for the best Driver for my Video im using a Geforce FX 5500 256 MB
im running on a AMD Athlon 1.3 256 Ram
Hoping u have a Driver that runs good for UT 2004 any comments let me know
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Old Mar 15, 2006, 04:22 AM   #45
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thanx m8 ill let ya know how they work
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Quake 3 was running a max 60fps....nothing should have been capping it either i checked everything there is there.
I'm sure you know this already but I'll say this anyway,

* have you adjusted com_maxfps already in quake3?
* do you use 60hz/w vsync on/application preference(nv cp)?
* has this thing happend for q3 through patches/cheat prevent-programs? http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12311

Just some thoughts, perhaps vsync is at different state in non-modded(off)..
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Old Mar 26, 2006, 06:20 AM   #47
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about the colorboost script: so.. is there a quick way to disable it?
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why would you want to? it adds a nice little boost to iq with no perf cost.
if you feel you must, for whatever reason, disable it in the startup via msconfig then delete the folder in your drivers.
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Old Mar 26, 2006, 03:53 PM   #49
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There really is no performance impact it simply sets some reg values for better IQ and quits.
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 04:32 PM   #50
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it wont download i dont know why it just wont when i click on the link
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I tried these drivers with Oblivion while the framerates lacked the detail of this driver is great, will you guys be adding any new drivers soon?
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Hey guys, these drivers just won't work at all on my GeForce 6800 GT. I tried playing World of Warcraft and my cursor lags and skips all over the screen, and the colors get all distorted as if there's some screen tearing. I also tried playing Counter-strike:Source and Day of Defeat Source as well and the same thing happens, my computer seems to lock up and the colors flash all distorted. I have no idea what's wrong, I even uninstalled the old drivers in safe mode with driver cleaner.

**edit**: I just tried rolling back to the .8195's and now my screen looks like its tearing in any game no matter what! I have no idea what's wrong, everything is unplayable.

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Well, i wasn't concerned about a performance impact, but i wasn't sure i wanted to have brighter colors in everything. Also, opening the nvidia tab on the advanced display properties dialog would undo the changes until the next reboot, so i'd be afraid to ever open that.
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