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HU - NVidia Drivers

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DaveKDEN

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185.85 NVidia drivers now available. Tried them on my GF8800 GTX card and they're terrible running FSX. Caused severe stuttering, and the Acceleration Hornet's instruments didn't work. Rolled back to the 182.50's and things are working fine again. The 185.85's are the first drivers since I've owned my new computer (over a year now) that have been a significant set-back on FSX. Just thought I'd pass this along.
 
Yes I have tried the 185's and just wont work for me. Many problems such as no AA options, so rolled back to the 182.50 and no problems with this one.
 
noddy said:
Yes I have tried the 185's and just wont work for me. Many problems such as no AA options, so rolled back to the 182.50 and no problems with this one.
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That's what I'm using now too and they work so I better stick with them. :ernae:
 
Thanks for the info.. I rolled back the 179s because i just didnt trust anything over 180. glad to see that 182s work. i'll change over to them instead..
 
Generally, arent these stutters caused by the GPU being too fast for the CPU and causing a stutter while the CPU catches up?
 
rwmarth said:
Generally, arent these stutters caused by the GPU being too fast for the CPU and causing a stutter while the CPU catches up?
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That's a good question. Not sure of the answer, however, I'd imagine my 8800GTX is a pretty close match with my Q6600 o/c'd to 3.0GHz/core.
 
rwmarth said:
Generally, arent these stutters caused by the GPU being too fast for the CPU and causing a stutter while the CPU catches up?
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Not at all. You can easily force a GPU bottleneck and it will have no impact on stutters. Just fire up nHancer and select 4x4 pure supersampling. At 1600x1200 it will be rendering at 6400x4800 inside the frame buffer, which will produce a GPU bottleneck on any current GPU.
 
Duh, if I am not mistaken, it says on the nVidia site that the 185.85 drivers are for 9-series and up nVidia cards only, they are not for the 8-series. The 182.50 are the latest current forceware drivers for the 8-series.

Caz
 
No problems with my 8800 GTS 512. Driver does support these "older" cards.
I use the latest NHancer, with the recommended settings for FSX.
Works for me.

R.
 
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