DHzer0point Nvidia 0.7803 Released!

PoopyTheJ · Sep 4, 2005, 08:32 PM

DHzer0point 0.7803 Nvidia Drivers Released

We've finally gotten off our butts and have returned with the best drivers around, The DHzer0points! We first of all would like to apologize for the long interlude between our last release and this release of the Nvidia 78.03's.

The main reason is the DHzer0point team has gone through some changes, both personally and in regards to the DHzer0point drivers. As you've noticed we have changed our website from www.dhzer0point.net to www.hardwareheaven.com/~dhzer0point. My partner and friend pr0digal jenius has had to leave the team because of time constraints and so we went through a thorough search for a new author. I'd like to formally introduce Jamie "Blackboost" Vazquez as the new DHzer0point Author.

I got a promotion at work and had a complete change in my schedule, then my company decided to roll out a new system and I've spent hours and hours trying to get my stores ready for it. Followed by Pneumonia and a back injury my son starting school, my wife changing jobs, well you guys get the idea.The good news is things have finally started to calm down at least to the point where my schedule is more regular, Jamie is hard at work and we've been frantically getting set's out for our beta testers to work on so development will continue with a much tighter schedule. With that said I'd like to give you guys the DHzer0point 0.7803 set.

-Based on the Nvidia 7803 Beta Drivers
-Unified performance, set the performance slider where you prefer for performance, the set defaults to HIGH Quality.
-Tweak base rewritten and enhanced, older cards should experience a performance boost as well as
the newer cards
-SLI problems should be fixed (let us know if this isn't the case we're in need of an SLI beta
tester)
-7800GTX/GT Support
-PCI Tool Included
-Doom3 Optimizations completely rewritten, up to an 11% performance gain reported
-Source Engine Optimizations redone, performance gains up to 5% reported in some instances
-Full Mobility Support
-Negative LOD bias Allowed
-Shimmering on 7800GTX Cards should be gone (thanks to Nvidia on that one

)

To Do-
-F.E.A.R Game specific Optimizations
-Further tweaks in future sets
-Taking over the world

Thanks goes to,
Zardon for everything!
The Beta Crew, you guys are AWESOME, it's an honor and a privelege to work with you!
Pieter from laptopvideo2go for allowing us to use his mobile settings

Get your modded drivers at www.driverheavendownloads.net/zeropoint.htm

All the best,

Andrew "PoopytheJ" Rady (Lead Modder)
Jaime A. "Blackboost" Vazquez (Modder)

Discuss and let us know your findings, as always we can't fix it if we don't know there's a problem

The_Neon_Cowboy · Sep 4, 2005, 08:44 PM

That was fast...

**MIG-31** · Sep 4, 2005, 08:51 PM

Downloaded.....And it reports the files are corrupt!

fobis · Sep 4, 2005, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

That was fast...

well, these are nearly identical to the 78.01 set... and guess what we were testing for a while...

fobis · Sep 4, 2005, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MIG-31

Downloaded.....And it reports the files are corupt!

poopy... the filesize of the 78.03 up right now is much smaller than i thought it would be...

Zardon · Sep 4, 2005, 08:56 PM

it is corrupted, im reuploading now, sorry guys my bad.

kelticknight · Sep 4, 2005, 09:04 PM

sorry to stick this here,when are ati version out

Zardon · Sep 4, 2005, 09:15 PM

driver is ok now......

Blackboost · Sep 4, 2005, 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kelticknight

sorry to stick this here,when are ati version out

Very soon...
In fact, sooner than you might imagine!!

Let's keep this thread for the nVIDIA discussion.

DarkShadow19 · Sep 4, 2005, 11:39 PM

Doesn't work.... I start the install and it "installs" but when I restart there is no driver installed. And I don't get any optimization options...

Card: GeForce 6800 Go Ultra

fobis · Sep 5, 2005, 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkShadow19

Doesn't work.... I start the install and it "installs" but when I restart there is no driver installed. And I don't get any optimization options...

Card: GeForce 6800 Go Ultra

the installer that you download merely extracts the driver install files and the config files for doom3 and hl2. after you run that installer, you have to run the nvidia drivers installer.
hope that clears things up

PoopyTheJ · Sep 5, 2005, 12:51 AM

On the last screen of the installer there is a check box for run Nvidia setup and run PCI latency tool, make sure both are checked then follow the rest of the steps, to use the optimizations copy them from the C:\Program Files\DHzer0point directory to the directories listed during the install process, Doom3\Base for Doom3, Doom3\d3xp for Doom3 ROE and Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\counter-strike source\hl2\cfg for counter strike and D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\half-life 2\hl2\cfg for HL2. Hope that clears things up...

DarkShadow19 · Sep 5, 2005, 01:08 AM

That's the thing, I ran the setup, but then the driver "installs" (but when I restart everything is as if there are no drivers installed). Also there's no screen asking if I'm sure I want to install the drivers (the "Not WHQL" screen), but I dunno if that's intentional or not.

Ulric · Sep 5, 2005, 01:27 AM

"The best drivers around!" <-- Thanks for the laugh. As I've said in other forums, there is a reason for the name. DHZer0point = Zero point in installing them without a good goddamned reason.

fobis · Sep 5, 2005, 01:29 AM

DarkShadow19, so the installshield/nvidia installer run, right? not just the DHzp installer.
Ulric, why do you not like these drivers? it would help us more by telling us what the problem is rather than just bashing on quality work. and aside from that, have you even tried this set? they're quite good.

DarkShadow19 · Sep 5, 2005, 03:16 AM

Yeah, the Nvidia installer ran as if it were installing a driver.

pr0digal jenius · Sep 5, 2005, 03:27 AM

good deal drew

I'll load em up on the big rig tomorrow night and let you know how they fair

Pedro88 · Sep 5, 2005, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkShadow19

That's the thing, I ran the setup, but then the driver "installs" (but when I restart everything is as if there are no drivers installed). Also there's no screen asking if I'm sure I want to install the drivers (the "Not WHQL" screen), but I dunno if that's intentional or not.

Hi everyone:

I'm sure nobody remembers me, as I was in the beta group about 1/2 a year ago for a few short months before having to get emergency surgery on my spine from what was very close to being permanent nerve damage down my left leg and left-foot paralysis. Long story...months and months of physical therapy, more complications, more MRI's & CAT scans...whatever, all is well right now, I'm OK - for which I'm very grateful. Just felt it was appropriate to give an account to PoopytheJ for why I suddenly dissapeared after he was so generous to allow me on board in the first place.

And thanks Andrew for keeping me on the beta tester list! Shocked to sign in after this long and see I still had that sweet Beta-tester Avatar! Woo-hooo!<img>

But enough about all that: as for the new 78.03 release:

I'm having the exact same issue as DarkShadow with a 6800 go (not Ultra). Did everything right and tried it numerous times: DL'ed driver, unplugged ethernet cable, de-activated all antivirus & spyware software, uninstalled all Nvidia drivers thru add&remove CP; rebooted into safe mode; cleaned cabs and used Nvidia filter in DCP; did a quick run of disk cleanup utility & rebooted into OS; followed all directions in installer, installed DHZP driver folder in Program files directory; then clicked setup file just to be sure and splash screen came up followed by progress bar showing actual drivers installing (in front of normal Nvidia black backdrop).

I remember being suspicious first time through that the "Driver not signed" warning didn't pop up. But I restarted anyway after I got the expected dialogue saying the drivers were installed succesfully.

After reboot into the OS, however, NO drivers actually got installed; No Contextual menu of Nvidia Display when right-clicked on destop; the add or remove control panel did reveal that DHZer0Point Nvidia drivers were present, but all that showed up in the Device Manager is that yellow question mark over display adapter icon and nothing listed in its properties.

I even tried - the 3rd time - to install the drivers manually via Device Manager's "Update Drivers" in the display properties; I pointed it to search in the specific DHZP folder, but a screen came up saying: "this folder does not contain Windows XP-compatible drivers."

WTH<img>

Peter D

pr0digal jenius · Sep 5, 2005, 03:48 AM

did you guys run drivercleaner first?

DarkShadow19 · Sep 5, 2005, 03:56 AM

Yup.

PoopyTheJ · Sep 5, 2005, 08:21 AM

Uploading a fixed set now, unfortunately Pedro since you've been gone we've been sorely lacking on mobility testers glad to see you back. Ulric, do me a favor and give me some information rather than "these are the suxxor" blah blah, I get better feedback from my 5 yr old playing blues clues....

rashal · Sep 5, 2005, 09:35 AM

These drivers dont work with x64 windows, right?

*sigh*... I just dont get it why x64 isn't getting the software support it should have gotten. It's the future of desktop computing damnit...

RIV@NVX · Sep 5, 2005, 09:48 AM

All NVIDIA drivers that are series 30 and newer cause black bar on my Toshiba laptop (bug in my laptop's gfx firmware and/or NVIDIA panel detection for GF4Go cards). But I will try these, they might actually work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rashal

*sigh*... I just dont get it why x64 isn't getting the software support it should have gotten. It's the future of desktop computing damnit...

Perhaps because Win64 have only been around for couple of months?

PoopyTheJ · Sep 5, 2005, 10:02 AM

We are investigating x64 support, currently the drivers are fairly immature. In the next few months however I'm sure you'll see some 64 DHzp, at least in the beta stage....

rashal · Sep 5, 2005, 10:36 AM

Thats some good news

thanks.

Zardon · Sep 5, 2005, 12:26 PM

the set has been updated with a mobility fix, please redownload if had issues before.

Pedro88 · Sep 5, 2005, 02:47 PM

Yeah. Ran Driver Cleaner, even cleaned cabs first.

Edit: that was a reply to pr0digal's question from yesterday; I just saw the news about the new fixed set being uploaded, so I'm DL'ing right now.

I'll be back.

DarkShadow19 · Sep 5, 2005, 04:17 PM

Works perfectly

Thanks for the driver!

PoopyTheJ · Sep 5, 2005, 04:23 PM

Good news, punctuation marks are important

Pedro88 · Sep 5, 2005, 04:47 PM

Awesome! Current posted official DHZP 78.03 work like a charm on my notebook. Installed like butta<img>

Time to play some games!! Thanks guys<img>

p.s. - why aren't my smilies working? "Disable Smilies.." is UNchecked. Using Firefox 1.0.6

Sep 4, 2005, 08:32 PM	#1
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 66	DHzer0point Nvidia 0.7803 Released! DHzer0point 0.7803 Nvidia Drivers Released We've finally gotten off our butts and have returned with the best drivers around, The DHzer0points! We first of all would like to apologize for the long interlude between our last release and this release of the Nvidia 78.03's. The main reason is the DHzer0point team has gone through some changes, both personally and in regards to the DHzer0point drivers. As you've noticed we have changed our website from www.dhzer0point.net to www.hardwareheaven.com/~dhzer0point. My partner and friend pr0digal jenius has had to leave the team because of time constraints and so we went through a thorough search for a new author. I'd like to formally introduce Jamie "Blackboost" Vazquez as the new DHzer0point Author. I got a promotion at work and had a complete change in my schedule, then my company decided to roll out a new system and I've spent hours and hours trying to get my stores ready for it. Followed by Pneumonia and a back injury my son starting school, my wife changing jobs, well you guys get the idea.The good news is things have finally started to calm down at least to the point where my schedule is more regular, Jamie is hard at work and we've been frantically getting set's out for our beta testers to work on so development will continue with a much tighter schedule. With that said I'd like to give you guys the DHzer0point 0.7803 set. -Based on the Nvidia 7803 Beta Drivers -Unified performance, set the performance slider where you prefer for performance, the set defaults to HIGH Quality. -Tweak base rewritten and enhanced, older cards should experience a performance boost as well as the newer cards -SLI problems should be fixed (let us know if this isn't the case we're in need of an SLI beta tester) -7800GTX/GT Support -PCI Tool Included -Doom3 Optimizations completely rewritten, up to an 11% performance gain reported -Source Engine Optimizations redone, performance gains up to 5% reported in some instances -Full Mobility Support -Negative LOD bias Allowed -Shimmering on 7800GTX Cards should be gone (thanks to Nvidia on that one ) To Do- -F.E.A.R Game specific Optimizations -Further tweaks in future sets -Taking over the world Thanks goes to, Zardon for everything! The Beta Crew, you guys are AWESOME, it's an honor and a privelege to work with you! Pieter from laptopvideo2go for allowing us to use his mobile settings Get your modded drivers at www.driverheavendownloads.net/zeropoint.htm All the best, Andrew "PoopytheJ" Rady (Lead Modder) Jaime A. "Blackboost" Vazquez (Modder) Discuss and let us know your findings, as always we can't fix it if we don't know there's a problem __________________ [COLOR=Blue]“Alright boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” - John Fritz "I aim to misbehave" Malcolm Reynolds ATI Catalyst Beta Tester[/COLOR] Last edited by PoopyTheJ; Sep 5, 2005 at 08:12 AM.

Sep 4, 2005, 08:44 PM	#2
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	That was fast... __________________

Sep 4, 2005, 08:51 PM	#3
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,865 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Downloaded.....And it reports the files are corrupt! __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Sep 4, 2005, 09:04 PM	#7
kelticknight DriverHeaven Knight Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: EIRE{great for black stuff ,bulmers cider and Munster rubgy Posts: 1,095 Rep Power: 0	sorry to stick this here,when are ati version out __________________

Sep 5, 2005, 12:51 AM	Thread Starter #12
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 66	On the last screen of the installer there is a check box for run Nvidia setup and run PCI latency tool, make sure both are checked then follow the rest of the steps, to use the optimizations copy them from the C:\Program Files\DHzer0point directory to the directories listed during the install process, Doom3\Base for Doom3, Doom3\d3xp for Doom3 ROE and Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\counter-strike source\hl2\cfg for counter strike and D:\Games\Steam\SteamApps\USERNAME\half-life 2\hl2\cfg for HL2. Hope that clears things up... __________________ [COLOR=Blue]“Alright boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” - John Fritz "I aim to misbehave" Malcolm Reynolds ATI Catalyst Beta Tester[/COLOR]

Sep 4, 2005, 08:56 PM	#6
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	it is corrupted, im reuploading now, sorry guys my bad.

Sep 4, 2005, 09:15 PM	#8
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	driver is ok now......

Sep 4, 2005, 11:39 PM	#10
DarkShadow19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Doesn't work.... I start the install and it "installs" but when I restart there is no driver installed. And I don't get any optimization options... Card: GeForce 6800 Go Ultra

Sep 5, 2005, 01:08 AM	#13
DarkShadow19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	That's the thing, I ran the setup, but then the driver "installs" (but when I restart everything is as if there are no drivers installed). Also there's no screen asking if I'm sure I want to install the drivers (the "Not WHQL" screen), but I dunno if that's intentional or not.

Sep 5, 2005, 01:27 AM	#14
Ulric DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 83 Rep Power: 0	"The best drivers around!" <-- Thanks for the laugh. As I've said in other forums, there is a reason for the name. DHZer0point = Zero point in installing them without a good goddamned reason. __________________ -Ulric

Sep 5, 2005, 01:29 AM	#15
fobis DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 716 Rep Power: 51	DarkShadow19, so the installshield/nvidia installer run, right? not just the DHzp installer. Ulric, why do you not like these drivers? it would help us more by telling us what the problem is rather than just bashing on quality work. and aside from that, have you even tried this set? they're quite good. __________________ MacBook Pro Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz 2GB DDR2-677 ATi Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB 120GB 7200RPM SATA HDD

Sep 5, 2005, 03:16 AM	#16
DarkShadow19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, the Nvidia installer ran as if it were installing a driver.

Sep 5, 2005, 03:27 AM	#17
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	good deal drew I'll load em up on the big rig tomorrow night and let you know how they fair

Sep 5, 2005, 03:48 AM	#19
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	did you guys run drivercleaner first?

Sep 5, 2005, 03:56 AM	#20
DarkShadow19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Yup.

Sep 5, 2005, 08:21 AM	Thread Starter #21
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 66	Uploading a fixed set now, unfortunately Pedro since you've been gone we've been sorely lacking on mobility testers glad to see you back. Ulric, do me a favor and give me some information rather than "these are the suxxor" blah blah, I get better feedback from my 5 yr old playing blues clues.... __________________ [COLOR=Blue]“Alright boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” - John Fritz "I aim to misbehave" Malcolm Reynolds ATI Catalyst Beta Tester[/COLOR]

Sep 5, 2005, 09:35 AM	#22
rashal DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	These drivers dont work with x64 windows, right? sigh... I just dont get it why x64 isn't getting the software support it should have gotten. It's the future of desktop computing damnit...

Sep 5, 2005, 10:02 AM	Thread Starter #24
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 66	We are investigating x64 support, currently the drivers are fairly immature. In the next few months however I'm sure you'll see some 64 DHzp, at least in the beta stage.... __________________ [COLOR=Blue]“Alright boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” - John Fritz "I aim to misbehave" Malcolm Reynolds ATI Catalyst Beta Tester[/COLOR]

Sep 5, 2005, 10:36 AM	#25
rashal DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Thats some good news thanks.

Sep 5, 2005, 12:26 PM	#26
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	the set has been updated with a mobility fix, please redownload if had issues before.

Sep 5, 2005, 02:47 PM	#27
Pedro88 -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Yeah. Ran Driver Cleaner, even cleaned cabs first. Edit: that was a reply to pr0digal's question from yesterday; I just saw the news about the new fixed set being uploaded, so I'm DL'ing right now. I'll be back. __________________ [color=Blue] AW AREA-51M 7700 "DTR"[/color][color=white][/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] Clevo D900T Case ,17" SXGA, [/color][color=DeepSkyBlue]Intel 915P,[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] [/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] P4 570 3.6GHZ + HT, 1MB L2, 800FSB, LGA775 TRAY - 2 GB DUAL-CHAN.[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] DDR2 4200 SO-DIMMs at 533MHz - NVIDIA GEFORCE 6800 GO w/ 256MB DDR2 (OCed to 350/670)[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] - 2 x 'ENHANCED' 7200RPM HITACHI[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] TRAVELSTAR E7K60's (RAID 0). [/color][color=white][color=Black]Vantec Lapcool2+[/color][/color][color=white][color=Black]SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook (PCMCIA)[/color][/color][color=white][color=Black][/color] [/color] Last edited by Pedro88; Sep 5, 2005 at 02:54 PM.

Sep 5, 2005, 04:17 PM	#28
DarkShadow19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Works perfectly Thanks for the driver!

Sep 5, 2005, 04:23 PM	Thread Starter #29
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 66	Good news, punctuation marks are important __________________ [COLOR=Blue]“Alright boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” - John Fritz "I aim to misbehave" Malcolm Reynolds ATI Catalyst Beta Tester[/COLOR]

Sep 5, 2005, 04:47 PM	#30
Pedro88 -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Awesome! Current posted official DHZP 78.03 work like a charm on my notebook. Installed like butta<img> Time to play some games!! Thanks guys<img> p.s. - why aren't my smilies working? "Disable Smilies.." is UNchecked. Using Firefox 1.0.6 __________________ [color=Blue] AW AREA-51M 7700 "DTR"[/color][color=white][/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] Clevo D900T Case ,17" SXGA, [/color][color=DeepSkyBlue]Intel 915P,[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] [/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] P4 570 3.6GHZ + HT, 1MB L2, 800FSB, LGA775 TRAY - 2 GB DUAL-CHAN.[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] DDR2 4200 SO-DIMMs at 533MHz - NVIDIA GEFORCE 6800 GO w/ 256MB DDR2 (OCed to 350/670)[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] - 2 x 'ENHANCED' 7200RPM HITACHI[/color][color=DeepSkyBlue] TRAVELSTAR E7K60's (RAID 0). [/color][color=white][color=Black]Vantec Lapcool2+[/color][/color][color=white][color=Black]SB Audigy 2 ZS Notebook (PCMCIA)[/color][/color][color=white][color=Black][/color] [/color]