New nVidia beta forceware with new control panel.

[GeneticWeapon]

WinXP Download right here

I'm trying as we speak...

 

[dvdpiddy]

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

 

[GeneticWeapon]

They're a bit strange........and incomplete somehow?

I was able to adjust the colors on my second monitor better than anytime in the past with these though....

I need to game a bit and see how the performance is.

Post your findings as well.

 

[dvdpiddy]

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

 

[rHy0]

Hey how is your game performance with the new forceware? I would just like to know if its safe...

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Hey how is your game performance with the new forceware? I would just like to know if its safe...

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...

 

[dvdpiddy]

I'm testing them out right now!

 

[Heyyou27]

Nice; can't wait to try these out.

 

[rumcooler]

Downloading now thanks. Will report back....

 

[Heyyou27]

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.

 

[tenaciousleydead]

ok started dl ill try to get some before and after on my 6800.

 

[tenaciousleydead]

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)

 

[kwalker]

I was fighting a driver issue for a rig I threw together for one of my sons.
I installed one of Asus's finest N6200 agp cards (knew better)
the asus driver was a nightmare.
would you believe the beta fixed the crash issue and atrifacts.
couldnt even load warcraft III before.
none of the other drivers cured this.
odd
I'll burn it in and keep you informed.

 

[GeneticWeapon]

the biggest thing i saw was image quality, i noticed a biggg difference

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

 

[buckiller]

This sounds noob, but is this nf5 driver work on nf4 ultra boards or only AM2?

 

[GeneticWeapon]

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

 

[hatsurfer]

Awsome!! Just got my 7900 GTX from EVGA today. I ran all kinda benchies to compare. I will test this out when I get home from work.

 

[JonathanDeane]

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

Well that answers my question lol

 

[chuckshissle]

Woooo finally it's out, I hope it doesn't dissappoint me.

Thanks,

 

[rumcooler]

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.

 

[chuckshissle]

No good on my 7800GTX 256 SLI setup.

Nvidia settings at 2xAA, 4xAF, Multisampling, Bilinear, and everything esle turn on.

FEAR settings at 2xFSAA, 4xAF, Volumetric light, SoftShadow and everything else on maximum.

Using X-Fi sound card on "Game Mode".

My results:



Why is this happening to me?

Anyways, I have noticed also that I can only view one temp monitor of my two cards, whichever it is.

I might switch back to the 84.21.

 

[dvdpiddy]

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?

 

[rumcooler]

In order to see 2 gpu temps you have to use coolbits or the old cp.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

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...

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! :tongue:

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. :twisted:

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Control centre are FULL of Control Panels, so obviously it's going to be a bit slower it's like huge! :tongue:

But the new nVidia control panel has control panels in it too