Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[petrossa]

running 190.56 now for some time. No special observations, GPU at 48c idle maxed out at 56c

190.56 - NVIDIA Forums

 

[johnwillyums]

Ok. Back on topic. I've found some Tweakforce drivers-190.15- and am trying them now.
Anyone else tried these? J

 

[petrossa]

Ok. Back on topic. I've found some Tweakforce drivers-190.15- and am trying them now.
Anyone else tried these? J

they are gamer modded drivers. If you game heavily, else no real improvement.

 

[johnwillyums]

Depends on what you mean by "heavily". I think I'm more like an occasional gamer, once or twice a week.
Still, if they improve that experience and perform decently elsewhere I'll give them a go and report back.

Cheers, John

 

[holo88]

nvidias site seems to be f'd up? anyone kwow of a mirror site that has the latest *official* drivers? i still have 186 on xp and 7. Batman says i need to update them, lol

 

[Ex_Brit]

The website is working fine for me.

 

[holo88]

i keep getting this message:


oddly enough, i got the Win7 driver, with no problem.
this happened last night too. every time. (xp only?)

-edit-

i got it, after jumping through a few hoops. going through the "archived and beta" link, i found the whql for xp. still an odd event. must have been a bug, maybe.

 

[risky]

does anyone know how to load the drivers before installing windows 7. I seem to get blue screen during install right near the end. there is a point where the screen resolution changes and at that point i get bluescreen, so i'm thinking i need to pre-load the win 7 drivers first.

 

[Joey Ravn]

I've updated from Dox's 186.65 (modified and streamlined drivers) to 190.38, but now RivaTuner doesn't recognize my card, an XFX 8600GT. What tool can I use to manage my OCs? Does the eVGA Precesion software work with cards from other brands?

 

[mansrm81]

eVGA Precision works with all cards.

 

[johnwillyums]

Further to the above eVGA Precision is an excellent tool. I found that I couldn't download it from eVGA's site as they asked for my card number etc( and I don't have an eVGA card) but Guru3d and other download sites have it.

Cheers, John

 

[petrossa]

eVGA Precision works with all cards.

what does that do?

 

[mansrm81]

Here you go.

EVGA | EVGA Precision | EVGA Precision

 

[Mark]

what does that do?

It lets you overclock you graphics card, and you can have multiple clocks saved in profiles and can also see exactly what all your clocks are doing plus temp readouts.

 

[mansrm81]

Further to the above eVGA Precision is an excellent tool. I found that I couldn't download it from eVGA's site as they asked for my card number etc( and I don't have an eVGA card) but Guru3d and other download sites have it.

Cheers, John

It didn't ask me for my card. Try signing up with the site cause that is how I got it.

 

[petrossa]

Here you go.

EVGA | EVGA Precision | EVGA Precision

oh, i see. tnx; I'm getting to old for that stuff

 

[petrossa]

It lets you overclock you graphics card, and you can have multiple clocks saved in profiles and can also see exactly what all your clocks are doing plus temp readouts.

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tnx Grim. quit gaming after LaraCroft got smaller .....

 

[Joey Ravn]

Thanks! eVGA Precission worked really well. With these new drivers and the OC my 8600GT rating went to 5.2 to 6.2!

 

[johngalt]

Precision is a lot more than just an overclocking tool. It is a monitoring tool, as well as allows for custom profiles to be set to do things like not only OC your car but the fan as well.

It also allows you to show the stats on your screen, in your system tray, and (if you have it) The LCD screen on your Logitech Gaming KBs.

The best part for me is that I keep the GPU settings constant - clocked to GTX260 SSC speeds. However, I have profiles changing the fan speed depending upon what I am doing - so if I am at my desktop of watching a movie, it can stay relatively low, and my graphics cards are fine. If however, I am gaming, I can easily bump the fan speed up to accommodate for the increased heat out put of the GPUs, keeping them cooler (and thus, increasing their longevity) as I continuously game.

a month ago I was heavily gaming, splitting my time between GRID and The Last Remnant and Prototype - There were days when I spent several (meaning more than 10) hours gaming, b/c I simply had nothing else to do. On those days, my fans were churning between 80 and 85% - and my cards stayed well below 70 deg C, even when using max settings in all three games (and prototype is pretty heavy on resource usage)....

 

[Airbot]

Physx System Software updated to:

Version:9.09.0814



NVIDIA DRIVERS 9.09.0814 WHQL