DHzer0point 0.8182 Released

PoopyTheJ · Oct 4, 2005, 10:38 PM

The DHzer0point 0.81.82 Drivers have been released, we've changed the installer around and added some goodies for your computing pleasure....

Whats New -
New Nvidia Control Panel Shortcut, seems Nvidia has given us a new Control Panel to use, based on .Net and similiar to the ATI CCC, we've decided you should be able to play with it too

After installing the drivers choose no to reboot now to install the new Control Panel Shortcut then reboot manually
Changed Mipmpas to Trilinear for increased IQ
LOD Bias allowed so games can set LOD lower if they wish
Shadow bug fixed
PCI Latency Tool removed as it was redundant with this release

Fixed uninstall issues, when uninstalling the drivers there were pieces of the driver being left behind this has been resolved, we do recommend you use drivercleaner pro when uninstalling any driver.

Known Issues
Some users have reported problems with ground textures in Dungeons and Dragons
Some users with 7800GTX's have reported severe lag, we have been unable to track this down but are working on it, if you have this problem please post in the nvidia drivers forum your video card, motherboard, version of windows home/pro, Ram and if your video card is PCI/e or AGP, we will have a dedicated thread for this, also let us know if the patch fixes or makes it worse

Download Here

Vikingod · Oct 4, 2005, 10:50 PM

nice, i'll let you know tomorrow how they went for me.

Snickers · Oct 5, 2005, 12:19 AM

settings dont stick when i exit the control panel and re enter and yes i did click apply

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 12:39 AM

....which control panel?

PoopyTheJ · Oct 5, 2005, 12:46 AM

the New CP is definitely Beta/Alpha but it gives you guys a chance to play with it and see it, it may not work completely correctly for all settings, otherwise everything should stick....

I'm gonna be working for about two days straight so pj will cover it from here

zenkmander · Oct 5, 2005, 03:23 AM

I'd like to report a possible major flaw with this set; I'm not exactly sure if it's the driver itself or the optimization, but a couple of maps in Counter-Strike Source - de_dust2, for example - are extremely choppy and laggy. I was experiencing severe sound distortion and insanely long pauses and skips. I just finished reinstalling the XG 81.82s and the problem seems to have vanished. My system specifications are in my signature, by the way.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 03:28 AM

sound distortion...hmmm

I'll see if we can reproduce that, but haven't had that issue com up yet.

I'll get back to you ASAP, but as I don't have CSS, i'll hafta get a beta tester to check it

SFOSOK · Oct 5, 2005, 06:32 AM

Downloading now

SFOSOK · Oct 5, 2005, 07:27 AM

My Nvidia Control Panel does not seem to work, it has the help on te left but that is it.

starfury6 · Oct 5, 2005, 08:28 AM

Somefeedback from me. I guess most of the things I have trouble with at present are down to the 'betaness' of the driver but here goes.

The new Nvidia control panel is totally blank for me and anything i choose gives the message "help file not found". When enabling the SLI after the reboot for installing the driver, I get the error mesage saying that the SLI bridge is not installed (which it is) but then it seems to enable the SLI no problems at all anyway. However the second card is missing in the Temperature Control Panel tab until after a further reboot. 2D IQ seems to be improved slightly over previous drivers (was using 78.05), haven't had chance to try 3d games yet as I loaded them last thing last night.

Are the game optimisations part of the install still? also it seems to me to be more beneficial to remove the installation source files after the driver is installed, so as to save space. We all downloaded the dhzp exe anyway didn't we?

Looks like the 'official' beta is now out so I'll probably switch to them unless there's something specific you DHZP team would like me to have a look at on my SLI system before I do so?

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFOSOK

My Nvidia Control Panel does not seem to work, it has the help on te left but that is it.

do you have the latest .NET framework installed? (1.1 Service Pack 1, i believe)

starfury, can you see if it's the new CP that's busted, or if it's the drivers?

try enabling the SLI and whatnot in the old CP

SFOSOK · Oct 5, 2005, 08:40 AM

I'm pretty sure I installed it a while ago, where could I find a direct install, not like an in windows update?

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 08:43 AM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

starfury6 · Oct 5, 2005, 08:44 AM

I do indeed. I tend to update using Autopatcher XP since it provides some nice tweaks and goodies and .NET 1.1 SP1 is included.

Edit: I'll check to make sure when I get home from work tonight.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 08:47 AM

starfury: the sli bridge message si a known bug, listed under the fixed issues on the 81.84

so fear not, it shall be no more next go around

starfury6 · Oct 5, 2005, 08:54 AM

Cool. Haven't read the new rel. notes yet.

Is there anything SLI related I can check for you before removing the zp's?

SFOSOK · Oct 5, 2005, 09:09 AM

Downloaded re-installed and still the same.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 5, 2005, 09:09 AM

check battlefield 2 if you have it, and see if you get nasty lag

I think it's just a 7800GTX issue, but let's make 100% sure

and SFOSOK, that's quite odd...I'm gunna head on to bed(class in 6 hours

)
but I'll see if I can come up with anything else for ya tomorrow evening

PoopyTheJ · Oct 5, 2005, 09:48 AM

SFOSOK, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting can you post a screenshot or email it to me? btw we should have you added shortly....

Vikingod · Oct 5, 2005, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFOSOK

My Nvidia Control Panel does not seem to work, it has the help on te left but that is it.

same here.

Other than that, the drivers are great on my ASUS 7800gtx. Tried out COD2 and FEAR demos as well as DOOM 3.

Snickers · Oct 5, 2005, 04:44 PM

oh lol stupid me didnt install .net 1.1 i guess thats why it didnt stick.

rebels · Oct 5, 2005, 06:17 PM

Just download it and BF2 just wont start after loading maps. Install the driver again and BF2 still same problem hiks hiks.... hope next driver fix go back to orginal 8182 works weird....

PoopyTheJ · Oct 6, 2005, 12:51 AM

rebels can you elaborate a bit on that, just so I know I understand completely, it loads the map but won;t start the map? Online or instant action?

rebels · Oct 6, 2005, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoopyTheJ

rebels can you elaborate a bit on that, just so I know I understand completely, it loads the map but won;t start the map? Online or instant action?

Sorry for late post! yes in single and multi they just load and drop out of windows. here another wierd part
File Name Dhzero 8182.3dr

Benchmark
Width 1024
Height 768
Anti-Aliasing None
Post-Processing No
Texture Filtering Optimal
Max Anisotropy 4
Vertex Shaders Optimal
Force PS 1.1 in GT2 & GT3 No
Repeat Tests Off
Fixed Framerate Off
Comment

3DMark Score 6443 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury 207.2 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 39.6 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair 35.4 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature 46.6 FPS

Anyone have the same stuff!! BTW i use xp sp2 pro

PoopyTheJ · Oct 6, 2005, 05:41 AM

rebels are you interested in Beta testing a set?

studbagel9 · Oct 6, 2005, 03:49 PM

FEAR and DOOM 3 are faster but DOD:S is slower versus the beta nvidia 78.05 drivers. I guess speed is not the point, but DOD:S drops half the frames over the 78.05's. I tried both with the HL2 optimizations and without. This is on a 6800GT with DOD:S running at 1280 by 1024 at 2 times AA and 4x AF. However, the 78.05's have graphical anomolies every once in a while, like strange bump mapping and lighting effects

rebels · Oct 6, 2005, 04:16 PM

I love to be beta tester!!!! i waiting this long time..... (even most of my program are beta i thing my windows still beta too :P)

pr0digal jenius · Oct 6, 2005, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by studbagel9

FEAR and DOOM 3 are faster but DOD:S is slower versus the beta nvidia 78.05 drivers. I guess speed is not the point, but DOD:S drops half the frames over the 78.05's. I tried both with the HL2 optimizations and without. This is on a 6800GT with DOD:S running at 1280 by 1024 at 2 times AA and 4x AF. However, the 78.05's have graphical anomolies every once in a while, like strange bump mapping and lighting effects

the 78.05's are a 78.03 release tweaked to hell and back just for DOD:Source

so that's why

studbagel9 · Oct 7, 2005, 01:33 AM

I see, well that's PJ. Too bad I can't have the best of both worlds.

pr0digal jenius · Oct 7, 2005, 02:09 AM

the 81.84 may be the best of each, and we're on them

Oct 4, 2005, 10:38 PM	#1
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 64	DHzer0point 0.8182 Released The DHzer0point 0.81.82 Drivers have been released, we've changed the installer around and added some goodies for your computing pleasure.... Whats New - New Nvidia Control Panel Shortcut, seems Nvidia has given us a new Control Panel to use, based on .Net and similiar to the ATI CCC, we've decided you should be able to play with it too After installing the drivers choose no to reboot now to install the new Control Panel Shortcut then reboot manually Changed Mipmpas to Trilinear for increased IQ LOD Bias allowed so games can set LOD lower if they wish Shadow bug fixed PCI Latency Tool removed as it was redundant with this release Fixed uninstall issues, when uninstalling the drivers there were pieces of the driver being left behind this has been resolved, we do recommend you use drivercleaner pro when uninstalling any driver. Known Issues Some users have reported problems with ground textures in Dungeons and Dragons Some users with 7800GTX's have reported severe lag, we have been unable to track this down but are working on it, if you have this problem please post in the nvidia drivers forum your video card, motherboard, version of windows home/pro, Ram and if your video card is PCI/e or AGP, we will have a dedicated thread for this, also let us know if the patch fixes or makes it worse Download Here __________________ [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]

Oct 4, 2005, 10:50 PM	#2
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Oct 5, 2005, 12:19 AM	#3
Snickers DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	settings dont stick when i exit the control panel and re enter and yes i did click apply __________________ AMD Athlon 3400+ @ 2.4 GHz 200 MHz FSB 2x512mb Kingston PC4000 DDR500 HyperX + 1x512mb Kingston PC3200 DDR400 ValueRAM (yes stable) nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 370/1000 MHz ASUS K8V-X Motherboard VIA K8T800 chipset Antec 400W PSU Audigy2 ZS Windows XP Professional

Oct 5, 2005, 12:46 AM	Thread Starter #5
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 64	the New CP is definitely Beta/Alpha but it gives you guys a chance to play with it and see it, it may not work completely correctly for all settings, otherwise everything should stick.... I'm gonna be working for about two days straight so pj will cover it from here __________________ [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]

Oct 5, 2005, 03:23 AM	#6
zenkmander DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 136 Rep Power: 0	I'd like to report a possible major flaw with this set; I'm not exactly sure if it's the driver itself or the optimization, but a couple of maps in Counter-Strike Source - de_dust2, for example - are extremely choppy and laggy. I was experiencing severe sound distortion and insanely long pauses and skips. I just finished reinstalling the XG 81.82s and the problem seems to have vanished. My system specifications are in my signature, by the way. __________________ Intel Pentium 4 Prescott Processor (socket 478) 3.0GHz @ 3.60 GHz BFG GeForce 6800GT OC @ 385/1170 2048gb G.Skill PC4000 DDR RAM SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS Asus P4P800-E Deluxe Motherboard

Oct 5, 2005, 12:39 AM	#4
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	....which control panel?

Oct 5, 2005, 03:28 AM	#7
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	sound distortion...hmmm I'll see if we can reproduce that, but haven't had that issue com up yet. I'll get back to you ASAP, but as I don't have CSS, i'll hafta get a beta tester to check it

Oct 5, 2005, 06:32 AM	#8
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	Downloading now __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Oct 5, 2005, 07:27 AM	#9
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	My Nvidia Control Panel does not seem to work, it has the help on te left but that is it. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Oct 5, 2005, 08:28 AM	#10
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Somefeedback from me. I guess most of the things I have trouble with at present are down to the 'betaness' of the driver but here goes. The new Nvidia control panel is totally blank for me and anything i choose gives the message "help file not found". When enabling the SLI after the reboot for installing the driver, I get the error mesage saying that the SLI bridge is not installed (which it is) but then it seems to enable the SLI no problems at all anyway. However the second card is missing in the Temperature Control Panel tab until after a further reboot. 2D IQ seems to be improved slightly over previous drivers (was using 78.05), haven't had chance to try 3d games yet as I loaded them last thing last night. Are the game optimisations part of the install still? also it seems to me to be more beneficial to remove the installation source files after the driver is installed, so as to save space. We all downloaded the dhzp exe anyway didn't we? Looks like the 'official' beta is now out so I'll probably switch to them unless there's something specific you DHZP team would like me to have a look at on my SLI system before I do so? __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 5, 2005, 08:40 AM	#12
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	I'm pretty sure I installed it a while ago, where could I find a direct install, not like an in windows update? __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Oct 5, 2005, 08:43 AM	#13
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Oct 5, 2005, 08:44 AM	#14
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I do indeed. I tend to update using Autopatcher XP since it provides some nice tweaks and goodies and .NET 1.1 SP1 is included. Edit: I'll check to make sure when I get home from work tonight. __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 5, 2005, 08:47 AM	#15
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	starfury: the sli bridge message si a known bug, listed under the fixed issues on the 81.84 so fear not, it shall be no more next go around

Oct 5, 2005, 08:54 AM	#16
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Cool. Haven't read the new rel. notes yet. Is there anything SLI related I can check for you before removing the zp's? __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 5, 2005, 09:09 AM	#17
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	Downloaded re-installed and still the same. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Oct 5, 2005, 09:48 AM	Thread Starter #19
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 64	SFOSOK, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting can you post a screenshot or email it to me? btw we should have you added shortly.... __________________ [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]

Oct 5, 2005, 04:44 PM	#21
Snickers DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	oh lol stupid me didnt install .net 1.1 i guess thats why it didnt stick. __________________ AMD Athlon 3400+ @ 2.4 GHz 200 MHz FSB 2x512mb Kingston PC4000 DDR500 HyperX + 1x512mb Kingston PC3200 DDR400 ValueRAM (yes stable) nVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 370/1000 MHz ASUS K8V-X Motherboard VIA K8T800 chipset Antec 400W PSU Audigy2 ZS Windows XP Professional

Oct 5, 2005, 06:17 PM	#22
rebels -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: EaSt JaV@ Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Just download it and BF2 just wont start after loading maps. Install the driver again and BF2 still same problem hiks hiks.... hope next driver fix go back to orginal 8182 works weird.... __________________ 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 6, 2005, 12:51 AM	Thread Starter #23
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 64	rebels can you elaborate a bit on that, just so I know I understand completely, it loads the map but won;t start the map? Online or instant action? __________________ [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]

Oct 6, 2005, 05:41 AM	Thread Starter #25
PoopyTheJ DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,588 Rep Power: 64	rebels are you interested in Beta testing a set? __________________ [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]

Oct 6, 2005, 03:49 PM	#26
studbagel9 Rolling the Hard Six Join Date: May 2003 Location: Lock Haven, PA Posts: 767 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	FEAR and DOOM 3 are faster but DOD:S is slower versus the beta nvidia 78.05 drivers. I guess speed is not the point, but DOD:S drops half the frames over the 78.05's. I tried both with the HL2 optimizations and without. This is on a 6800GT with DOD:S running at 1280 by 1024 at 2 times AA and 4x AF. However, the 78.05's have graphical anomolies every once in a while, like strange bump mapping and lighting effects __________________

Oct 6, 2005, 04:16 PM	#27
rebels -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: EaSt JaV@ Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I love to be beta tester!!!! i waiting this long time..... (even most of my program are beta i thing my windows still beta too :P) __________________ 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 7, 2005, 01:33 AM	#29
studbagel9 Rolling the Hard Six Join Date: May 2003 Location: Lock Haven, PA Posts: 767 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I see, well that's PJ. Too bad I can't have the best of both worlds. __________________

Oct 7, 2005, 02:09 AM	#30
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	the 81.84 may be the best of each, and we're on them