NVIDIA 77.50 Beta Forceware Driver

***Zardon*** · Jun 13, 2005, 01:41 PM

Yes yet another beta driver from nvidia.

You thought the 77.30's were the latest beta driver eh? Well our resident connection hooked us up with the latest version 77.50! As always we give you the user a chance to play with the latest available. These are considered beta so be for warned if your PC explodes. Heh. The drivers have a build date of May 26th, 2005 and are a WHQL Candidate. If you have a hard time downloading the drivers, are anti-leech script presents cut-n-pasting. You might have to turn off your fireall software you are running or disable your anti-virus program to allow the download script to recognize. So without further adue we present you the 77.50 beta Forceware. Enjoy...
WinXP & Win2k Beta Forceware Driver

v77.50
Date: Jun 13, 2005
Size: 20.05Mb

Version Notes:
Drivers come with a setup.exe for easy installing

All GeForce Series based GPU's are supported

No word on compatibility or performance

Files are dated: May 13th, 2005

WinZip Packaged

3dchipset

Stop It · Jun 13, 2005, 02:28 PM

Hehe, Might as well try them, and they are nearly 2 weeks newer than the GF2 build, I wonder how good they'll be

ericdrum · Jun 13, 2005, 04:21 PM

Anyone try em with BF2?

Warpy · Jun 13, 2005, 07:03 PM

Seems to be very little word on these

dsdsdk · Jun 13, 2005, 07:23 PM

#4, try here:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread....hreadid=140719

ZeroOne · Jun 14, 2005, 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ericdrum

Anyone try em with BF2?

No Mouselag anymore with these driver on a FX5600 Mem/Clk @552/@270 .
The BF2 runs verry smooth with these drivers.

Btw i can set my clk frequency @290 now i discovered, without any trouble on all games.

Looking forward to the 77.xx WHQL (77.60 i think ??)

*Raff_3DC* · Jun 14, 2005, 04:16 PM

Look at these:

FarCry 1.3, Pier Timedemo
1600x1200x32, no AA/16xAF:

FW 77.50 => 36,2 fps
FW 77.13 => 33,4 fps
FW 76.44 => 34,0 fps
FW 73.00 => 32,6 fps

UT2004 3355, Primeval Timedemo
1600x1200x32, 4xAA/16xAF:

FW 77.50 => 13,3 fps
FW 77.13 => 13,1 fps
FW 76.44 => 12,3 fps
FW 73.00 => 12,3 fps

Doom³, timedemo1
1600x1200x32, 4xAA/16xAF:

FW 77.50 => 19,4 fps
FW 77.13 => 19,2 fps
FW 76.44 => 19,3 fps
FW 73.00 => 18,8 fps

The Chronicles of Riddick, Intro
1600x1200x32, no AA/16xAF:

FW 77.50 => 33,1 fps
FW 77.13 => 33,1 fps
FW 76.44 => 33,0 fps
FW 73.00 => 33,8 fps

Painkiller & BooH 1.6.1, C5L1
1600x1200x32, 4xAA/16xAF:

FW 77.50 => 75,3 fps
FW 77.13 => 67,3 fps
FW 76.44 => 50,2 fps
FW 73.00 => 49,7 fps

Tested on a 6800 @ High quality with no optimizations!

Nice. The improvements in Painkiller are phenomenal. It seems that nVIDIA's driver guys worked on better VRAM management because without AA the performance gain is near zero.
In addition to that I can say that all my problems with FarCry have gone -- and it's faster too.

Soundbug in WoW? Nope.

Shadow bugs in BF2 Demo? Nope. Runs faster than ever ... but I can't get AA work.

Greetings from Germany,
Raff

Warpy · Jun 14, 2005, 04:33 PM

Well AA and AF doesnt work on these drivers for me. They are enabled but dont work. The game profiles also fail to work.

***Zardon*** · Jun 14, 2005, 05:22 PM

I have found 76.44 a good all round set, especially for the 6800 go.

rebels · Jun 15, 2005, 10:39 AM

where dhzero gone? allot driver come out but new dh just zero! can't wait for it urrggggh

mike2h · Jun 15, 2005, 11:50 AM

'the boys' have had a lot of things going on in real life lately. that & for whatever reason

they have been spending their time on ati drivers

.
what a waste of great talent

!

i think as soon as they get done with their dark side work they will be coming back to the light. as soon as they are able to release a beta we will get busy testing it & get that final out to everybody.