New nVidia beta forceware with new control panel.

Kick ass! I have been waiting for them thx GW thank you so much!

I only have 1 monitor. And when i am done i will post my results i'm gonna test it out now on cod2.

The performance is great. And if you dont like the new control panel, you can click a button, and switch back to the old one.

I'd like to say that the new control panel loads hella-fast, and is nothing like the piece of shiit, bloated Catalyst control center...

Nice; can't wait to try these out.

I used the F.E.A.R. in game benchmark on release 90.

With SLI disabled on 1280x1024 2XMSAA 16XAF all details max SS disabled
Minimum: 35
Average: 59
Maximum: 130

0% below 25FPS
13% between 25 and 40FPS
87% above 40FPS

I'll test SLI performance later.

my frames went up a little but the biggest thing i saw was image quality, i noticed a biggg difference in the before and after of farcry plus my frames arent as unstable(like from 89-12 fps in 1 sec) much smoother. i dont really like the panel though. but thats alright 8)

Many others have said this as well, the driver itself is quality.

This is just the Forceware display drivers we're talking about here, not the nForce drivers.

Well that answers my question lol

Boost in FEAR fps. And HL2 image quality is awesome. Control panel works great compared to the beta one they had before. Some people are complaining about profiles not saving and open gl games not working. All is good over here. If anyone is having trouble with them they recommend a reinstall. These are keepers.

Hmm i got some mixed results. 4xAA Antrioscopic filtering and medium settings i got 2 fps drop when the action heats up from 30-31 fps to 28-29 fps.
But my frames on idle went up from 60 -61 fps to 62 fps. Why?

Of course it's faster, it's only a control panel, whereas the other is a control Centre. Haven't you even seen one of those? Control centre are FULL of Control Panels, so obviously it's going to be a bit slower it's like huge!

PS, CP with Traytools is ok for speed, but it'd be nice if they got CCC faster and less memory hoggish (not that it matters much with 2GBs).

PPS, Oh yeah these just crash my laptop, I'm going back to the 6.4s.

I switch back to the 84.21 which has better performance than this new beta forceware on my SLI rig.

Some VERY interesting things are in the release notes PDF file...for one it mentions that the driver works with the GeForce 7600 GT AGP card (woot!), another is that it allows for running 7300 series in SLI--implying not just the 7300GT but the GS and LE versions as well. Anyone else notice these hidden treasures?

A panel inside a panel? Is that like a wheel inside a wheel or picture in picture?

Still a centre could have more of these panels within panels within it's walls.

Next come Control City, Followed By Control County, Control State/Province and then Control Country (don't mix up wiht ControlCounty though), then Control Continent, followed of course by Control Planet which would be the max for the single IHV's card.

However with the amount of complimentary hardware out there, it's likely all be connected through .NET's control SolarSystem, working in conjunction with the LAN's Control Galaxy which would then connect to everyone else via the WAN's Control Universe (one controller to rule them all 8) ).

Of course there would be theorized supposed alternate universes for Apple and Linux, but really what settings are you going to change on those? Screensaver?

You're missing the very credible rumour that there will be one.

It's been floating out there for over a month, and this is sorta confirmation of that 'fact'. That would be so good of Nvidia if they made one cause then i could choose something better to upgrade my freinds comp with then the x1600pro(heck i'd even settle for a 7600gs agp)

EDIT: oops--TheGreatGrapeApe beat me to it

Wouldn't that be slower than AGP?

I think a 7900GTX AGP would be much cooler.

Not necessarily, could be faster than the fastest implementation of AGP (AGP 12+X occurs on the cards not the slot).

I don't see how with considering we've already got a GF7900GT on AGP and a whole bunch of other cards. But hey, different strokes, eh!?!

I can't get it to even load on Windows x64, my guess is that it's a Windows issue though.

The drivers currently only support Windows XP 32-bit edition as it says on the website. :?

Other then the drivers thing (I hear 64 bit drivers are still not the norm for alot of things....) How is the performance ? I have heard that its faster.

It's a little faster, but I would rather have everything I own work that have certain things work just a little faster.

I got back to the 84.21 forceware and things went normal again.

With the same settings (above) Im hitting an average of 74fps on FEAR test. I don't know what's wrong with this new forceware on my rig.