Nvidia Drivers 177.26 Beta compatible with 8 and 9 series:) Link

[L1qu1d]

Here is the Megaupload link Enjoy

Its the Beta for the July drivers

Windows Xp 32 bit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=56D40EW3
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/121890832/177.26_XP32.rar.html

Windows Xp 64 bit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9J311LI3
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/121990096/177.26_XP64.rar.html

Windows Vista 32 bit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DH19VO3W
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/121993990/177.26_Vista32.rar.html

Windows Vista 64 bit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ALCWFRND
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/121998425/177.26_Vista64.rar.html

Good Luck!

EDIT: The files were leaked from Asus and modified to be compatible with all cards, apperently adding 5-15% increase in games such as Mass Effect, Crysis Vantage etc.,,,

 

[dagger]

So, that's 15%...

Have you tried it, or just using us as guinea pigs?

 

[L1qu1d]

No I have it installed, there are no errors, but theres nothing too loose I'm installing Vantage right now to see if theres a difference. I had to reformat my computer so I can install the OS and games on the Raptors in Raid 0

 

[L1qu1d]

 

[Zenthar]

Anyone got comparative benchmarking between the 175.16 (latest official) and 177.26 for 8800GTS or 9800GTX (pretty much the same thing)? I just want to know if Nvidia is trying to do the 9800GTX trick again (release the new cards claiming 15-20% increase over the generation before and it ends-up the driver is responsible for 15% of it, leaving 0-5% for the card that cost 50%+ than the one before).

 

[shadowthor]

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=264100 <---Mentions some stuff about the increase and problems with the driver.

 

[L1qu1d]

k Well I tried it, I think it took alot of strain off my CPU, but I'm not sure how good my score is

My CPU was clocked at 3.2 for the test and ram at 1066 running on 2 raptors in RAID 0.

 

[sticks51412]

Ignore

 

[L1qu1d]

Here are some benchmarks with out the new drivers 175.19:

So the 177.26 might actually have the PhysX enabled, check out the results of the CPU test.

 

[Zenthar]

So an overall score increase of about 2000 to which the "artificially increased" (PhysX) score contributed for 1850. I was hoping for more.

 

[L1qu1d]

Remember technically its not made for my card, the official drivers should post more, remember THG tests? 12000 to 40,000 CPU score. We'll have to wait and see

 

[Zenthar]

Yest, but only CPU score really gets a boot and I believe the increased Benchmark score becomes misleading because it does not reflect reality in any way.

During real gameplay, there is no way the CPU will be able to offload that much processing to the GPU because the GPU will be busy processing the game. To me the PhysX demonstration is only relevant for people who has CPU intensive tasks (rendering, encoding, ...?), but want to use their GPU power as well when not playing games. It is a cool way to put to contribution components that would otherwise just be idle (who wants to pay 500$ for an idle GPU???). To some extend, it could also be useful in games that do not benefit from multiple GPU as the 2nd (idle) GPU could be used for in-game PhysX.

 

[dagger]

Can you run something like Crysis demo or World in Conflict benchmark instead? I'd rather know about how much it contribute to in-game fps instead.

If you want to make Physx count, there's always UT3 demo to test on.

 

[L1qu1d]

actually that's not a bad Idea, I'll do it tonight when my gf watches The Intervention Show

 

[L1qu1d]

and btw taking stress of the CPu could benefit for heating and life wear on the CPU, its always better to have the feature than to have nothing at all.

Remember when SLI was new nothing supported it almost, games adapted, PhysX since it belongs to Nvidia might get a bigger boost, especially in Nvidia sponsored games

 

[dagger]

and btw taking stress of the CPu could benefit for heating and life wear on the CPU, its always better to have the feature than to have nothing at all.

Remember when SLI was new nothing supported it almost, games adapted, PhysX since it belongs to Nvidia might get a bigger boost, especially in Nvidia sponsored games

I wouldn't count on it. Why should game developers use physx which only work on nvidia cards, when they can use in-house physics engine that works on everything? With multithreading and 8 core Nehalem coming, it makes even less sense to adopt physx. There is already a significant number of games running physx, due to Nvidia's bribing. But most of them, such as Age of Empires 3, don't actually make much use of it. So you play through the whole game without even noticing anything. The only game that really use physx is UT3.

 

[L1qu1d]

Fair enough, but there are many different ways they could approach the situation look at Assasin's Creed and DX 10.1, they could have a certain patch for PhysX, i'm not saying its amazing, i'm just saying its useful.

 

[dagger]

Fair enough, but there are many different ways they could approach the situation look at Assasin's Creed and DX 10.1, they could have a certain patch for PhysX, i'm not saying its amazing, i'm just saying its useful.

Of course, if everything cost the same, having something extra is certainly better. But I wouldn't pay one cent extra just for Physx, it's been dying a slow death since its birth. Developers who took the bribe basically throw a token amount of physics effect in. Developers who don't want to tarnish their images of future blockbuster games, like crytek or blizzard, aren't willing to put it in crysis2 or starcraft2. It's just not working out for Nvidia.

 

[L1qu1d]

well its still young we'll see

 

[L1qu1d]

PhysX enabled

 

[dagger]

It's hard to see how things move on a screenshot. And what's with the 27fps... on UT3?

 

[L1qu1d]

The PhysX lol it stays around 40, but when Items fall down it goes down to 33 and there something broke so it went to 27 LMAo

 

[dagger]

The PhysX lol it stays around 40, but when Items fall down it goes down to 33 and there something broke so it went to 27 LMAo

Ouch... So does that "item" fall down any differently?

 

[L1qu1d]

yeah it seems more realistic, kinda feels like when i layed eyes on HL2 for the first time

 

[dagger]

yeah it seems more realistic, kinda feels like when i layed eyes on HL2 for the first time

Like it dance around a couple times midair? When an item falls, it falls. What's the difference?