Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[Mashed1316]

New NVIDIA 301.42 WHQL drivers released. See first post for more details.

Thank you, Shawn! Let's give that driver a test

EDIT: well, after 12hrs and some testing... This driver feels good, there's almost NO stutter at all in FIFA '12 or the EURO 2012 DLC, Battlefield 3 is practically the same, NFS The Run is the same thing (the game is capped @ 30fps), Skyrim is a lot snappier... and I ran out of games... hehe

 

[A Guy]

Thanks Shawn

A Guy

 

[jeepmann4x4]

Have not run any games on it yet, nor do I know of its the driver update or the cards BIOS update but my WEI dropped to 7.7

 

[paulpicks21]

Have not run any games on it yet, nor do I know of its the driver update or the cards BIOS update but my WEI dropped to 7.7

Mine was the same Jeepman, 7.7

I had a quick look in Nvidia control panel and discovered that the update had disabled SLI, I re-enabled it and hey presto, back to 7.9


Paul.

 

[Spidey1976]

New NVIDIA 301.42 WHQL drivers released. See first post for more details.

Skyrim is a lot snappier

Sweet - I've been working like mad lately and I plan to spend some snuggle time with the PC very soon. I'll download this and the Skyrim 1.6 beta patch tonight and be going to town!!

 

[jeepmann4x4]

Have not run any games on it yet, nor do I know of its the driver update or the cards BIOS update but my WEI dropped to 7.7

Mine was the same Jeepman, 7.7

I had a quick look in Nvidia control panel and discovered that the update had disabled SLI, I re-enabled it and hey presto, back to 7.9


Paul.

Everytime I update I have to redo my setting(they never keep). Plus I know my sli settings is on because I run Tri-screen (3x24"). So I'm still not sure what's up with it yet. Just before I updated the driver I also updated the cards bios, to unlock the fan speed limits. So it could be ether that have made it drop to 7.7??

 

[PwnFrnzy]

> GTS 450
What?

Edit: My performance in games dropped like a rock too, I'm worried. The performance drop happened after the reassessment.

 

[jeepmann4x4]

> GTS 450
What?

Edit: My performance in games dropped like a rock too, I'm worried. The performance drop happened after the reassessment.

That is when mine happened too.

 

[PwnFrnzy]

The latest drivers seem to have screwed over my graphics and I need my card running in tip-top shape in 8-9 hours.

I'm rolling back to the 296.10 drivers.

EDIT: The rollback seems to have fixed it, the new drivers are very buggy, I read there is some "idle bug" or something. I'll be researching drivers before updating from now on.

 

[RoloDman]

Working fine on GeForce 9600M GT. All video card startup services disabled as well.

 

[smarteyeball]

Everytime I update I have to redo my setting(they never keep). Plus I know my sli settings is on because I run Tri-screen (3x24").

WEI only counts the primary card - it doesn't matter if you're running SLI or Crossfire.

WEI performance drops aren't unusual (usually it drops to 6.0) and actual performance isn't affected. For most, a re-run of the assessment is enough to get scores back to normal.

The latest drivers seem to have screwed over my graphics and I need my card running in tip-top shape in 8-9 hours.

I'm rolling back to the 296.10 drivers.

EDIT: The rollback seems to have fixed it, the new drivers are very buggy, I read there is some "idle bug" or something. I'll be researching drivers before updating from now on.

I've been running these since they were in beta and I haven't noticed any bugs myself. My idle clocks are fine too, but I did recall reading some people experiencing some issues.

I guess you're one of the unlucky ones.

 

[paulpicks21]

Smarty,

I used to have a single 560ti, I ran wei many many times with the card at stock settings and it would only reach 7.8

I recently added a 2nd 560ti and wei immediately changed to 7.9.

so wei must notice something with sli.

Paul

 

[Mashed1316]

Smarty,

I used to have a single 560ti, I ran wei many many times with the card at stock settings and it would only reach 7.8

I recently added a 2nd 560ti and wei immediately changed to 7.9.

so wei must notice something with sli.

Paul

^ This!

My single GTX 560 Ti gives 7.8/7.8 with stock clocks or even with heavy O.C., so i guess SLI should do something (at least with 0.1 points) to the WEI

 

[jeepmann4x4]

Same as paulpicks21 my single card was 7.8,after sli went to 7.9, and now after update I'm 7.7 (I have re-run it many times) Now I'm not saying it is hurting anything (that I've noticed so far) I also know that a WEI does not hold much ground to say what performance is. All I'm saying is that the update dropped my score. Will I roll back the Drivers...Not till I need to because of problems, If they arise.

 

[MrNeeds]

had a lot of BSOD's with this latest driver, rolled back to 296's and it's fine now, got a 0x03b a few times and a 0x00a

 

[Britton30]

My WEI went from 7.6 to 6.4 after the new WHQL driver update.
Version: 301.42

 

[RoloDman]

My score has not changed and things seem to run as usual. Geforce 9600M GT

 

[Gornot]

The latest driver update was awesome for me. The partitions I use for Windows 7 and Vista have grown silent in the last few months because of my GPU problems, and even before this update I could not use hardware acceleration in FF or IE in Vista. These drivers seemed to improve the performance of my faulty GPU nevertheless

 

[darkfriday]

had a lot of BSOD's with this latest driver, rolled back to 296's and it's fine now, got a 0x03b a few times and a 0x00a

I didn't get BSOD but out of no where games like Modern Warefare 1 & 2, Borderlands and Hard Reset suddenly would not play without being choppy and very slow with mouse control even in the menu sections of a game.

I rolled back to 296.10 and all is well.

Very odd.

I had the latest drivers for a few weeks without problem and then....BLAH!

I'm nearing 100 posts. I'm gonna bake myself a cake

 

[Gornot]

It's always advisable not to update your GPU drivers as soon as they come out, not until there is a bit of testing to them, assuming you're not into testing that kind of stuff. I usually get an email from nVidia informing me of new drivers, but I always let at least a week or two pass before updating just in case, unless the previous drivers were already giving me problems, and I'd rather "risk it"