DHzer0point ForceWare 0.9291

Zardon · Oct 11, 2006, 10:25 AM

Added support for all existing Desktop, Laptop, and Workstation cards [Go series, TNT through 7950GX2, and Quadro] If your card does NOT work, let us know, as obviously we don’t have every card to test with.

Written from the ground up…no recycled INF files.

Tweaks include, but aren’t limited to
* MipMap and LOD tweaks
* 4:1 lossless LZMA Z-Buffer
* Intellisample Tweaks
* Blit Queue Limited to Frame Buffer
* Texture Compression tweaks to eliminate “banding” in OpenGL
* Multisample Transparency AntiAliasing
* Overclocking Support [Single GPU Systems]
* Overclocking Support & SLi AntiAliasing Support [Multi GPU SLi Systems]

Brand new installer system written from scratch
* No more self extracting compression archives that fill your desktop with driver folders
* Supports multiple install options [currently limited to SLi or Single GPU…more to come]
* Compressed via LZMA for maximum efficiency [27 MBs as opposed to 32 for the nVidia Release]

As always, get your copy at www.driverheavendownloads.net, and support is offered at www.hardwareheaven.com via the forums.

Cba - Andy · Oct 11, 2006, 11:47 AM

I am very pleased with the texture detail in source engine games with theses drivers my last set '91.47' drivers seem to of had very bland 1's so 5 stars ill see how other games fair

Aligokalppeker · Oct 11, 2006, 02:07 PM

Is there any GoForce 7400 support?I've also asked before when DHzer0point 0.8466 is released : http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...=110018&page=3 , i hope it's added even if there is no news about that

Kezz · Oct 11, 2006, 02:22 PM

Can I just install those over the original 92.91 Betas or do I need to make a proper DCleaning first? First time I'm having an Nvidia card in years

Thanks!

[Aura]W32Led@mm · Oct 11, 2006, 02:34 PM

Sounds good, I will test these drivers today, but first I need to buy new mousepad

[hobo]eclipse · Oct 11, 2006, 03:45 PM

sry to be a prude, but i would live to try these, but...."We need XP X64 support!" All the texture tweaks sound great.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kezz

Can I just install those over the original 92.91 Betas or do I need to make a proper DCleaning first? First time I'm having an Nvidia card in years

Thanks!

I'd driverclean first just to be safe

Not drivercleaning shouldnt hurt anything, but it may cause all the tweaks to not "take" properly, and thus ruin the full effect

Kezz · Oct 11, 2006, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

I'd driverclean first just to be safe

Not drivercleaning shouldnt hurt anything, but it may cause all the tweaks to not "take" properly, and thus ruin the full effect

Okay, will do then, Sir! Thanks a lot

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 06:52 PM

Aligokalppeker - GeForce Go 7400 & 7400 GS ae supported, if it doesn't work, there may be an additional Dev_ID you have that isn't listed....let me know though!

wiskerbizkit · Oct 11, 2006, 07:00 PM

For some reason they dont like nHancer. i have a question though, How the hell do you get that image quality so damn good?

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 07:08 PM

if I told you...I'd have to kill you.

But in reality, it's easy....

...what's nto easy is doing it without bringing framerates into "slideshow mode"

wiskerbizkit · Oct 11, 2006, 07:15 PM

Well in world of warcraft before I could look at the ground and see the lines seperating the texture quality. now i can see perfectly as far as my eyes can tell. I also dont have to go as heavy on the antialiasing to make it look good.Suprisingly i havent taken a performance hit (yet). Lets see how they hold up in a 40 man raid.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 07:34 PM

WoW was one we tested a good bit on, as some of the texture tweaks would cause the PC to freeze up when you Alt-Tabbed back to the desktop

Glad you like em tho...and yes, do let us know how they hold up to a large troll bashing party

BWX · Oct 11, 2006, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wiskerbizkit

For some reason they dont like nHancer. i have a question though, How the hell do you get that image quality so damn good?

I just started using nHancer and plan on using it for the foreseeable future.. Nvidia's profile system lately has been complete crap.. if it works at all (92.91 doesn't).

So what happens? I would like to try these, but I won't if it messes up my nHancer profiles.

I am using 1.2.2

For instance my RBR abd GTR2 profiles.. nHancer rules...

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FILE xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<INFO Number="" />
	<PROFILESET>
		<PROFILE Label="GTR2">
			<APPLICATION Label="GTR2.exe" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aa_default" Value="1000000e" />
			<PROPERTY Label="gamma_correct_aa" Value="100000" />
			<PROPERTY Label="transparency_aa" Value="10000" />
			<PROPERTY Label="af_default" Value="10000010" />
			<PROPERTY Label="vsync_default" Value="8416747" />
			<PROPERTY Label="color_profile" Value="GTR-gamma1.47" />
			<PROPERTY Label="image_settings" Value="fffffff6" />
			<PROPERTY Label="trilinear_optimization" Value="1" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aniso_optimization" Value="0" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aniso_sample_optimization" Value="0" />
			<PROPERTY Label="d3d_negative_lod_bias_status" Value="1" />
			<PROPERTY Label="forcemipmaps_advanced" Value="2" />
			<Description>{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Microsoft Sans Serif;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs17\par
}
&#x0;</Description>
		</PROFILE>
		<PROFILE Label="RBR">
			<APPLICATION Label="RichardBurnsRally.exe" />
			<APPLICATION Label="RichardBurnsRally_NoSSE.exe" />
			<APPLICATION Label="RichardBurnsRally_SSE.exe" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aa_default" Value="10000005" />
			<PROPERTY Label="af_default" Value="10000001" />
			<PROPERTY Label="vsync_default" Value="8416747" />
			<PROPERTY Label="color_profile" Value="DV7" />
			<PROPERTY Label="image_settings" Value="fffffff6" />
			<PROPERTY Label="trilinear_optimization" Value="1" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aniso_optimization" Value="0" />
			<PROPERTY Label="aniso_sample_optimization" Value="0" />
			<PROPERTY Label="d3d_negative_lod_bias_status" Value="1" />
			<PROPERTY Label="forcemipmaps_advanced" Value="2" />
			<Description>{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Microsoft Sans Serif;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs17 Richard burns - SSAA no lines\par
}
&#x0;</Description>
		</PROFILE>
	</PROFILESET>
</FILE>

wiskerbizkit · Oct 11, 2006, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWX

So what happens? I would like to try these, but I won't if it messes up my nHancer profiles.

I am using 1.2.2

For instance my RBR abd GTR2 profiles.. nHancer rules...

when i installed and rebooted i got 2 system registry errors with nhancer, but reinstalling nHancer fixed it for me.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 07:50 PM

I haven't tested it with enhancer BWX, that's one I didn't get to....everything registers fine with the new CP, old CP, and RivaTuner. I'll look into nHancer, or perhaps just doing all the XML myself for the next revision

Mind you, if profiles are broken in 92.91, I won't much be able to fix that, and my guess is that's where the problem lies with nHancer...what i can do for future releases is write my own nvApps.xml. I will look into it though, after work tonight.

PS - there is a beta version of nHancer out that is supposed to be most excellent...it's what I'll be trying tonight

BWX · Oct 11, 2006, 08:15 PM

Yeah the profiles are broken for my in 92.91... but it only "breaks" when you open up the profiles in the regular NV CP.. It basically erases them after you even look at them.. nHancer when started automatically detects this problem, and asks you if you want to apply your settings, and it fixes it.

I would definitely try to get nHancer to work with you drivers... because it is so much better than anything Nvidia has. So I hope making your own nvApps.xml won't "break" nHancer's functionality when using the modded drivers.

About getting those reg errors after installing the drivers.. I had a strange problem where my PC was detecting a PCI device and couldn't install the drivers for it the last time I changed drivers.. it was fixed after i ran nHancer once, so maybe that is just an nHancer problem nothing related to drivers at all except the fact that you just changed them.

yeah I might try the new beta version of nHancer too... although this version works great too.

edit- are you talking about nHancer 2.0 Beta 9 (32bit) ?
http://www.nhancer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148)

ViP3RH3LL · Oct 11, 2006, 09:10 PM

When I had my old ATI 9600XT I used the ATi DHzer0point drivers and they were the only ones I used at the time, I tried others but these never felt laggy in games. Ill try them for my nvidia card now, should be fun to take them threw there paces. I'll let you know how it goes

.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 11, 2006, 09:45 PM

good to hear viper, and yes...please do post results

and yes, that's the Beta i'm talkin about BWX...i've read good things.

And i'm gunna be analyzing how nHancer works, but i think it edits the nvApps.xml file, so making my own would essentially be doing it a favor

The only issue lies in getting all the XML syntax right, since XML is kinda picky, especially when dealing with other entities like driver/reg settings too

SFOSOK · Oct 11, 2006, 09:58 PM

I hope you guys enjoy it. The entire team, especially pj, worked hard on getting this set out to you guys. I hope you like it as I believe its probably one of the best releases thus far.

Thanks guys.

wiskerbizkit · Oct 11, 2006, 10:23 PM

Well the big thing for me is i got a 7950gx2 so this is the first release ive been able to try. Been messin around all day and I cant put into words how good these drivers make my games look. Thanks guys

pr0digal jenius · Oct 12, 2006, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wiskerbizkit

I cant put into words how good these drivers make my games look

that's an awfully good start

ViP3RH3LL · Oct 12, 2006, 01:12 AM

These drivers are pretty good, I like them a little better then the XG 9291 drivers I been using for a week. You guys do good work.. congrats I'm gonna be using these now. It all comes down to which ones you feel give you less clipping and more fps and good gameplay. If I don't like how one plays ingame I'll try the other and see if that one is more smooth and stay with that one til next the next round of releases.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 12, 2006, 02:24 AM

what kinda games are you into viper?

rebels · Oct 12, 2006, 07:37 AM

Hi again all!!! long time no see.. hiks after long2 time not coming to this forum... (my internet still sucks hard). Browsing a while and walla find a gems that rock the card for my 7900gt!!!! this set is the best!!! try on company of heroes the high set look like ultra believe it. thanks for PJ and all beta team that working hard to pimp my driver hehehehe ^^

Aligokalppeker · Oct 12, 2006, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

Aligokalppeker - GeForce Go 7400 & 7400 GS ae supported, if it doesn't work, there may be an additional Dev_ID you have that isn't listed....let me know though!

I installed DHzer0point 0.9291 and it works good , and the driver , it's rock solid

medeni73 · Oct 12, 2006, 06:18 PM

hi people

one stupid question:
Why is it set on High Performance by default???
DHzer0 were always on high quality oriented or am I wrong?
Should I leave all advanced settings or if I change something (f.e. Transparency aliasing from Multisampling(default) to Supersampling (isnt it better?) or from Force mipmaps (trilinear default) to none (wasnt that always on none?)

Sorry for my newbie question!
Keep up with good work !!!

pr0digal jenius · Oct 12, 2006, 06:29 PM

Trilinear is correct, and supersampling is about a 1% visual improvement at about a 5-10 FPS performance hit, so it's hardly worth it [you can barely notice a visual improvement, but it tremendously degrades smoothness]

As for high qualtiy vs. high performance, did you run driver cleaner after unisntallign the old drivers, ro did you just isntall over top of them, because that doesn't sound right, no....I'm at school right now in the CS lab, so I can't check it for certain [DeepFreeze makes upgrading drivers useless

], but I'll look when I get home.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 12, 2006, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aligokalppeker

I installed DHzer0point 0.9291 and it works good , and the driver , it's rock solid

excellent...glad to see we got that worked out for ya

medeni73 · Oct 12, 2006, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius

Trilinear is correct, and supersampling is about a 1% visual improvement at about a 5-10 FPS performance hit, so it's hardly worth it [you can barely notice a visual improvement, but it tremendously degrades smoothness]

As for high qualtiy vs. high performance, did you run driver cleaner after unisntallign the old drivers, ro did you just isntall over top of them, because that doesn't sound right, no....I'm at school right now in the CS lab, so I can't check it for certain [DeepFreeze makes upgrading drivers useless

], but I'll look when I get home.

I did complete Driver Cleaner Routine...Thanx for explanations, as for High Performance, should I set it to High Quality or just Quality ? and Triple Buffering is ON and Negative LOD Bias is on ALLOW is these setting correct too? If yes then I hope its just this High Performance slider....Thanx in advance!

Oct 11, 2006, 10:25 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	DHzer0point ForceWare 0.9291 Added support for all existing Desktop, Laptop, and Workstation cards [Go series, TNT through 7950GX2, and Quadro] If your card does NOT work, let us know, as obviously we don’t have every card to test with. Written from the ground up…no recycled INF files. Tweaks include, but aren’t limited to * MipMap and LOD tweaks * 4:1 lossless LZMA Z-Buffer * Intellisample Tweaks * Blit Queue Limited to Frame Buffer * Texture Compression tweaks to eliminate “banding” in OpenGL * Multisample Transparency AntiAliasing * Overclocking Support [Single GPU Systems] * Overclocking Support & SLi AntiAliasing Support [Multi GPU SLi Systems] Brand new installer system written from scratch * No more self extracting compression archives that fill your desktop with driver folders * Supports multiple install options [currently limited to SLi or Single GPU…more to come] * Compressed via LZMA for maximum efficiency [27 MBs as opposed to 32 for the nVidia Release] As always, get your copy at www.driverheavendownloads.net, and support is offered at www.hardwareheaven.com via the forums.

Oct 11, 2006, 11:47 AM	#2
Cba - Andy Got milk? Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Uk - Scotland Posts: 385 Rep Power: 0	I am very pleased with the texture detail in source engine games with theses drivers my last set '91.47' drivers seem to of had very bland 1's so 5 stars ill see how other games fair __________________

Oct 11, 2006, 02:07 PM	#3
Aligokalppeker DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: TR Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	Is there any GoForce 7400 support?I've also asked before when DHzer0point 0.8466 is released : http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...=110018&page=3 , i hope it's added even if there is no news about that __________________ [color=#0000ff][AGP][/color] Last edited by Aligokalppeker; Oct 11, 2006 at 02:53 PM.

Oct 11, 2006, 02:34 PM	#5
[Aura]W32Led@mm DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 285 Rep Power: 0	Sounds good, I will test these drivers today, but first I need to buy new mousepad __________________ 3DMark05 score:7856 3DMark06:3753

Oct 11, 2006, 08:15 PM	#17
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	Yeah the profiles are broken for my in 92.91... but it only "breaks" when you open up the profiles in the regular NV CP.. It basically erases them after you even look at them.. nHancer when started automatically detects this problem, and asks you if you want to apply your settings, and it fixes it. I would definitely try to get nHancer to work with you drivers... because it is so much better than anything Nvidia has. So I hope making your own nvApps.xml won't "break" nHancer's functionality when using the modded drivers. About getting those reg errors after installing the drivers.. I had a strange problem where my PC was detecting a PCI device and couldn't install the drivers for it the last time I changed drivers.. it was fixed after i ran nHancer once, so maybe that is just an nHancer problem nothing related to drivers at all except the fact that you just changed them. yeah I might try the new beta version of nHancer too... although this version works great too. edit- are you talking about nHancer 2.0 Beta 9 (32bit) ? http://www.nhancer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148) Last edited by BWX; Oct 11, 2006 at 08:22 PM.

Oct 11, 2006, 02:22 PM	#4
Kezz DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 36 Rep Power: 0	Can I just install those over the original 92.91 Betas or do I need to make a proper DCleaning first? First time I'm having an Nvidia card in years Thanks!

Oct 11, 2006, 03:45 PM	#6
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	sry to be a prude, but i would live to try these, but...."We need XP X64 support!" All the texture tweaks sound great.

Oct 11, 2006, 06:52 PM	#9
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	Aligokalppeker - GeForce Go 7400 & 7400 GS ae supported, if it doesn't work, there may be an additional Dev_ID you have that isn't listed....let me know though!

Oct 11, 2006, 07:00 PM	#10
wiskerbizkit DH ***** hobo Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 467 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	For some reason they dont like nHancer. i have a question though, How the hell do you get that image quality so damn good?

Oct 11, 2006, 07:08 PM	#11
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	if I told you...I'd have to kill you. But in reality, it's easy.... ...what's nto easy is doing it without bringing framerates into "slideshow mode"

Oct 11, 2006, 07:15 PM	#12
wiskerbizkit DH ***** hobo Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 467 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Well in world of warcraft before I could look at the ground and see the lines seperating the texture quality. now i can see perfectly as far as my eyes can tell. I also dont have to go as heavy on the antialiasing to make it look good.Suprisingly i havent taken a performance hit (yet). Lets see how they hold up in a 40 man raid.

Oct 11, 2006, 07:34 PM	#13
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	WoW was one we tested a good bit on, as some of the texture tweaks would cause the PC to freeze up when you Alt-Tabbed back to the desktop Glad you like em tho...and yes, do let us know how they hold up to a large troll bashing party

Oct 11, 2006, 07:50 PM	#16
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	I haven't tested it with enhancer BWX, that's one I didn't get to....everything registers fine with the new CP, old CP, and RivaTuner. I'll look into nHancer, or perhaps just doing all the XML myself for the next revision Mind you, if profiles are broken in 92.91, I won't much be able to fix that, and my guess is that's where the problem lies with nHancer...what i can do for future releases is write my own nvApps.xml. I will look into it though, after work tonight. PS - there is a beta version of nHancer out that is supposed to be most excellent...it's what I'll be trying tonight

Oct 11, 2006, 09:10 PM	#18
ViP3RH3LL DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: BF2142 Posts: 265 Rep Power: 0	DHzer0point 0.9291 :D When I had my old ATI 9600XT I used the ATi DHzer0point drivers and they were the only ones I used at the time, I tried others but these never felt laggy in games. Ill try them for my nvidia card now, should be fun to take them threw there paces. I'll let you know how it goes .

Oct 11, 2006, 09:45 PM	#19
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	good to hear viper, and yes...please do post results and yes, that's the Beta i'm talkin about BWX...i've read good things. And i'm gunna be analyzing how nHancer works, but i think it edits the nvApps.xml file, so making my own would essentially be doing it a favor The only issue lies in getting all the XML syntax right, since XML is kinda picky, especially when dealing with other entities like driver/reg settings too

Oct 11, 2006, 09:58 PM	#20
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	I hope you guys enjoy it. The entire team, especially pj, worked hard on getting this set out to you guys. I hope you like it as I believe its probably one of the best releases thus far. Thanks guys. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Oct 11, 2006, 10:23 PM	#21
wiskerbizkit DH ***** hobo Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 467 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Well the big thing for me is i got a 7950gx2 so this is the first release ive been able to try. Been messin around all day and I cant put into words how good these drivers make my games look. Thanks guys

Oct 12, 2006, 01:12 AM	#23
ViP3RH3LL DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: BF2142 Posts: 265 Rep Power: 0	Good Drivers These drivers are pretty good, I like them a little better then the XG 9291 drivers I been using for a week. You guys do good work.. congrats I'm gonna be using these now. It all comes down to which ones you feel give you less clipping and more fps and good gameplay. If I don't like how one plays ingame I'll try the other and see if that one is more smooth and stay with that one til next the next round of releases.

Oct 12, 2006, 02:24 AM	#24
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	what kinda games are you into viper?

Oct 12, 2006, 07:37 AM	#25
rebels -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: EaSt JaV@ Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi again all!!! long time no see.. hiks after long2 time not coming to this forum... (my internet still sucks hard). Browsing a while and walla find a gems that rock the card for my 7900gt!!!! this set is the best!!! try on company of heroes the high set look like ultra believe it. thanks for PJ and all beta team that working hard to pimp my driver hehehehe ^^ __________________ DFi Lanparty Ultra 4-D + A64 3000+ (Venice) Kingston KVR BT-4D 1 gig Samsung Spinpoint 160 GB Seagate 200 GB Gigabyte 6600GT TT 550 Watt

Oct 12, 2006, 06:18 PM	#27
medeni73 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9 Rep Power: 0	hi people one stupid question: Why is it set on High Performance by default??? DHzer0 were always on high quality oriented or am I wrong? Should I leave all advanced settings or if I change something (f.e. Transparency aliasing from Multisampling(default) to Supersampling (isnt it better?) or from Force mipmaps (trilinear default) to none (wasnt that always on none?) Sorry for my newbie question! Keep up with good work !!!

Oct 12, 2006, 06:29 PM	#28
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	Trilinear is correct, and supersampling is about a 1% visual improvement at about a 5-10 FPS performance hit, so it's hardly worth it [you can barely notice a visual improvement, but it tremendously degrades smoothness] As for high qualtiy vs. high performance, did you run driver cleaner after unisntallign the old drivers, ro did you just isntall over top of them, because that doesn't sound right, no....I'm at school right now in the CS lab, so I can't check it for certain [DeepFreeze makes upgrading drivers useless ], but I'll look when I get home.