84.66

BWX · May 12, 2006, 05:54 AM

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1393

bug77 · May 12, 2006, 06:04 AM

Unofficial beta, non-WHQL, no known fixes...
People with 7800GT/GTX are having problems with this (continuous reboots).

BWX · May 12, 2006, 08:27 AM

good to know..

I mean to put very beta in the title actually- I just noticed I didn't.. fixed.

~~Alien1~~ · May 12, 2006, 02:56 PM

Well the good thing from what i heard is that these driver is great for Counterstrike
fixes the shimmering and gives a good boost in performance for that game

The bad is that yes they are unstable especially for the 7800 series

BWX · May 12, 2006, 03:55 PM

Well I have a 7800 GTX.. so I won't be installing them.

I wonder how good they work for 7900 GT's and GTX's? They must be good for something?

~~Alien1~~ · May 12, 2006, 04:02 PM

I will probably skip them and try the new 87.08 that just got out

BWX · May 12, 2006, 05:47 PM

Since it just came out that would probably be a good idea.. who knows if they have the same problems though..

hmmm......

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/...our/page7.html

Quote:

The next driver to be released was version 87.08, which was the official shipping driver and was sent to some customers with systems. This fixed many problems, but when we received the Falcon Northwest system there were still issues. We updated the system in our California lab and the same results were seen.

At this time we spoke with Nvidia and the system builders regarding their machines. Kelt Reeves at Falcon Northwest was like a hound on the hunt for a fugitive - he could not rest until he knew what his customers were going to face with their systems. We corresponded daily, if not hourly sometimes, as we tried to uncover issues and find the source of the problems.

While this driver was going to go for WHQL certification, I noticed that two driver versions existed for 87.08 - apparently one was for system builders and the second for the public. The only disparities between the uncompressed files was an XML file that contained the Nvidia profiles for each game. After further review with Nvidia we found that the one driver had the XML compressed while the other was in its native state.