ForceWare 77.76 out!

*Raff_3DC* · Jul 20, 2005, 05:14 PM

http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/7...xp_english.exe (eng.)
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/7...ernational.exe (mulitlang)
ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/77.76/

Single GPU Issues

• GeForce 7800 GTX: At extremely cold temperatures (less than-10 degrees C), the GPU clock speed enters "high temperature" slowdown mode.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: Enabling gamma-correct antialiasing causes poor performance in Far Cry.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: When playing Half-Life 2 with Transparency Antialiasing set to supersampled, the grate texture is too bright.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: When playing Battlefield 2 with Transparency Antialiasing set to supersampled, the fences are not rendered.

• GeForce 6800/6800GT/6800 Ultra, GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional x64: NVIDIA Overlay gamma controls under Standard mode do not work properly, resulting in overly dark or overly bright video.

• GeForce 6800/6600, GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP: Half-Life 2 does not render properly when antialiasing is enabled from the NVIDIA control panel.

• GeForce 6800 Ultra, Windows XP: The wave splash particle effect in the game Silent Hunter 3 does not render correctly.

• GeForce FX series, Windows XP: In the game Halo, tank cannon projectile trails fail to render and smoke clouds either fail to render or flicker.

• GeForce 5950/5900/5700, Windows XP MCE 2005: DivX files show corruption when played with MCE.

SLI Related Issues

• GeForce 780 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: There is no video when playing WMV9 high-definition content with SLI.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI, Windows XP: There is a Z-fighting/texture loss in EverQuest II when using the extreme quality level.

• GeForce 7800 GTX / GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI, Windows XP: Adding five new application profiles may cause a memory overflow and cause some applications to crash, such as Splinter Cell 3.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: When disabling the overclocking. feature, the GPU performance speeds become artificially low.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Flickering occurs below the split line in the game Far Cry when 3D stereo is activated.

• GeForce 6600 GT, SLI, Windows XP: Textures flicker in the game Everquest II if antialiasing or anisotropic filtering is enabled within the NVIDIA Control Panel. The issue does not occur if using application controlled antialiasing and anisotropic filtering.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Corruption occurs in the game Rome Total War during loads if when the NVIDIA Control Panel is used to enable 2x antialiasing and anisotropic filtering is set to application controlled or off.

General Issues

• All GPUs: Fixed a memory allocation issue that caused general instability in a variety of games

Happy testing.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

ReTiCuLeX · Jul 20, 2005, 11:24 PM

If this fix's the BF2 Stuttering, I want you to have my children then; ALL OF THEM!

Anything beyond 77.13 drivers cause BF2 to stutter. I don't care if you have 10GB's of ram heh. Hopefully i'll see these drivers being as smooth as the XG drivers as well for all gaming.

LDBlues · Jul 20, 2005, 11:59 PM

Ah...beta...worth a shot I guess.

Warpy · Jul 21, 2005, 12:36 AM

How new are these?

ReTiCuLeX · Jul 21, 2005, 12:43 AM

July16th, now that's new !

Firstperson · Jul 21, 2005, 03:46 AM

using them now, not anything different with my 6600GT agp and BF2

SFOSOK · Jul 21, 2005, 06:24 AM

thats pretty sweet, I'ma give it a try with my 5900 GT, hopefully it will help with the gpu assraping of BF2 : )

Dahaken · Jul 21, 2005, 08:07 PM

Sooooo.... Did anybody try these with BF2 yet? How's the performance ?

Thanks...

Firstperson · Jul 21, 2005, 08:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firstperson

using them now, not anything different with my 6600GT agp and BF2

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*Raff_3DC* · Jul 21, 2005, 09:50 PM

According to many user's statements @ 3DCenter.de many bugs like the overlay problem are gone. So this is the driver the 77.72 WHQL should have been.

Greetings,
Raff

Warpy · Jul 21, 2005, 10:57 PM

I have tried these with BF2 and there are no problems with dynamic shadows like the 80.40 betas produced. Overall image quality appears to be the same from what I can tell. I am going to stick with these for a while.

ReTiCuLeX · Jul 25, 2005, 10:49 PM

they they they stllll stilll stilll stutter stutter with bftwooooo bf222222. Sigh.... Any driver about 72.18's stutter for me, wth is up with this?

*Raff_3DC* · Jul 27, 2005, 12:35 AM

But any driver over 77.18 is free of bugs in BF2.

77.30 is the first that can display the shadows correctly. And 77.76 seems to be nice ... try it!

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

FR4GGL3 · Jul 27, 2005, 10:13 AM

fullack! also try latency config and play around with the latencies of your gfx card and your pci bus.

ReTiCuLeX · Jul 28, 2005, 08:02 PM

I did try these drivers, they give me lockups every 5mins, then the game continues where I last was. It's quite annoying.

Jul 20, 2005, 05:14 PM	#1
Raff_3DC 3dcenter.de Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hessen, Germany Posts: 113 Rep Power: 0	ForceWare 77.76 out! http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/7...xp_english.exe (eng.) http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/7...ernational.exe (mulitlang) ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/77.76/ Single GPU Issues • GeForce 7800 GTX: At extremely cold temperatures (less than-10 degrees C), the GPU clock speed enters "high temperature" slowdown mode. • GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: Enabling gamma-correct antialiasing causes poor performance in Far Cry. • GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: When playing Half-Life 2 with Transparency Antialiasing set to supersampled, the grate texture is too bright. • GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: When playing Battlefield 2 with Transparency Antialiasing set to supersampled, the fences are not rendered. • GeForce 6800/6800GT/6800 Ultra, GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional x64: NVIDIA Overlay gamma controls under Standard mode do not work properly, resulting in overly dark or overly bright video. • GeForce 6800/6600, GeForce FX 5700/5600, Windows XP: Half-Life 2 does not render properly when antialiasing is enabled from the NVIDIA control panel. • GeForce 6800 Ultra, Windows XP: The wave splash particle effect in the game Silent Hunter 3 does not render correctly. • GeForce FX series, Windows XP: In the game Halo, tank cannon projectile trails fail to render and smoke clouds either fail to render or flicker. • GeForce 5950/5900/5700, Windows XP MCE 2005: DivX files show corruption when played with MCE. SLI Related Issues • GeForce 780 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: There is no video when playing WMV9 high-definition content with SLI. • GeForce 7800 GTX, GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI, Windows XP: There is a Z-fighting/texture loss in EverQuest II when using the extreme quality level. • GeForce 7800 GTX / GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI, Windows XP: Adding five new application profiles may cause a memory overflow and cause some applications to crash, such as Splinter Cell 3. • GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: When disabling the overclocking. feature, the GPU performance speeds become artificially low. • GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Flickering occurs below the split line in the game Far Cry when 3D stereo is activated. • GeForce 6600 GT, SLI, Windows XP: Textures flicker in the game Everquest II if antialiasing or anisotropic filtering is enabled within the NVIDIA Control Panel. The issue does not occur if using application controlled antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. • GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Corruption occurs in the game Rome Total War during loads if when the NVIDIA Control Panel is used to enable 2x antialiasing and anisotropic filtering is set to application controlled or off. General Issues • All GPUs: Fixed a memory allocation issue that caused general instability in a variety of games Happy testing. Greetings from Germany, Raff __________________ ATi Catalyst-Shootout 3.2 - 5.3 @ 3DCenter.de Detonator/ForceWare-Shootout for GeForce4 Ti 44.65 - 80.40 Detonator-Shootout 16.30 - 44.90 for GeForce3 @ 3DC-Forum Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 driver comparison

Jul 21, 2005, 12:36 AM	#4
Warpy DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: USA Posts: 2,761 Rep Power: 0	How new are these? __________________ The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Jul 21, 2005, 03:46 AM	#6
Firstperson What? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Grand Rapids MI Posts: 232 Rep Power: 0	using them now, not anything different with my 6600GT agp and BF2 __________________ Last edited by Firstperson; Jul 21, 2005 at 08:29 PM.

Jul 21, 2005, 09:50 PM	Thread Starter #10
Raff_3DC 3dcenter.de Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hessen, Germany Posts: 113 Rep Power: 0	According to many user's statements @ 3DCenter.de many bugs like the overlay problem are gone. So this is the driver the 77.72 WHQL should have been. Greetings, Raff __________________ ATi Catalyst-Shootout 3.2 - 5.3 @ 3DCenter.de Detonator/ForceWare-Shootout for GeForce4 Ti 44.65 - 80.40 Detonator-Shootout 16.30 - 44.90 for GeForce3 @ 3DC-Forum Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 driver comparison

Jul 21, 2005, 10:57 PM	#11
Warpy DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: USA Posts: 2,761 Rep Power: 0	I have tried these with BF2 and there are no problems with dynamic shadows like the 80.40 betas produced. Overall image quality appears to be the same from what I can tell. I am going to stick with these for a while. __________________ The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Jul 20, 2005, 11:24 PM	#2
ReTiCuLeX DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	If this fix's the BF2 Stuttering, I want you to have my children then; ALL OF THEM! Anything beyond 77.13 drivers cause BF2 to stutter. I don't care if you have 10GB's of ram heh. Hopefully i'll see these drivers being as smooth as the XG drivers as well for all gaming.

Jul 20, 2005, 11:59 PM	#3
LDBlues DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Ah...beta...worth a shot I guess.

Jul 21, 2005, 12:43 AM	#5
ReTiCuLeX DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	July16th, now that's new !

Jul 21, 2005, 06:24 AM	#7
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	thats pretty sweet, I'ma give it a try with my 5900 GT, hopefully it will help with the gpu assraping of BF2 : )

Jul 21, 2005, 08:07 PM	#8
Dahaken DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Sooooo.... Did anybody try these with BF2 yet? How's the performance ? Thanks...

Jul 25, 2005, 10:49 PM	#12
ReTiCuLeX DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	they they they stllll stilll stilll stutter stutter with bftwooooo bf222222. Sigh.... Any driver about 72.18's stutter for me, wth is up with this?

Jul 27, 2005, 12:35 AM	Thread Starter #13
Raff_3DC 3dcenter.de Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hessen, Germany Posts: 113 Rep Power: 0	But any driver over 77.18 is free of bugs in BF2. 77.30 is the first that can display the shadows correctly. And 77.76 seems to be nice ... try it! Greetings from Germany, Raff __________________ ATi Catalyst-Shootout 3.2 - 5.3 @ 3DCenter.de Detonator/ForceWare-Shootout for GeForce4 Ti 44.65 - 80.40 Detonator-Shootout 16.30 - 44.90 for GeForce3 @ 3DC-Forum Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 driver comparison

Jul 27, 2005, 10:13 AM	#14
FR4GGL3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	fullack! also try latency config and play around with the latencies of your gfx card and your pci bus. __________________ [color=Green]Yes Sir, I Can Boogie[/color]

Jul 28, 2005, 08:02 PM	#15
ReTiCuLeX DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New York City Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	I did try these drivers, they give me lockups every 5mins, then the game continues where I last was. It's quite annoying.