Nvidia Drivers 191.07 Boost Your Games

[FoShizzleDizzle]

[citation][nom]Reklatsa[/nom]"Up to...."Marketing tricks again and fooling the idiots.[/citation]
Marketing trick? Are they selling these drivers for profit?

 

[shotgunpadre]

[citation][nom]demonhorde665[/nom]yeah my GF9600 GT hates ANY driver version after 182.50 every thign si great with 182.50 , but every tiem i have tried to up date just aobut every game i own starts crashing massively !!! i've ran driver cleaning software after unistall teh old driver and tehn upadted and it still does the smae thing ... so now this is a no go for me .. and when i upgrade my vid card on this comp i'm going back to ATI preferably in teh form of a juicy 5850[/citation]

this is tom's hardware for english speaking people.

 

[vh1atomicpunk]

Haha! Hardware support has improved tremendously with the advent of widespread internet access. Especially in the last five years - consumer can now expect and receive software upgrades and fixes on a regular basis.

How many had to search endlessly for Diamond or Creative Labs floppies back in the day? How many could *never* expect to find or receive driver upgrades or fixes from Chinese companies back in the 90's?

 

[r0x0r]

[citation][nom]shotgunpadre[/nom]this is tom's hardware for english speaking people.[/citation]

Amazing how demonhorde665 misspelt "the" and "same", but managed to correctly spell "software", "massively" and "preferably"...

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

"Up to 14% performance increase in Fallout 3 (indoor scenes) with antialiasing enabled"

Indoor scenes? Really? That made me laugh.

nVidia always claims a "250% INCREASE IN PERFORMANCE!"

 

[SneakySnake]

Driver updates always increase performance in at least a few games. How is this news?

 

[warezme]

Its just another driver update. No need to pull out any holy crosses. If you old computer suks..., aint no amount of driver or new video card going to help it out.

 

[ryanegeiger]

HEADLINE: New graphics driver does what a new graphics driver is supposed to do.

The reason people are comparing this to the 5870 release, is nVidia hopes that news updates like this make people WANT to switch to nVidia. Right now, the only thing nVidia has over ATI is PhysX, and even that's only about 50% of the games out there if that. So sure, pound for pound it's not a great comparison of newsbytes... but with Tech like Eyefinity, True DX11 support, and a ultra-competitive price point, nVidia is going to have to play catch up at this point.

I know this totally makes me want to NOT get an additional 4870 for $150 to match my existing card and Crossfire them. Right now ATI is just simply the best gaming bang for the buck.

 

[dextermat]

Nice but what about GTA4.....

once again this game defenively need help from nvidia....

stuck on 180.xx version.... caman..

 

[jwl3]

PHYSX - more problems than it's worth.

Batman AA will not work for me on my Nvidia 8800gt platform. I get some general fault error and reinstalling and patching the game/video drivers does nothing. Meanwhile, the game runs perfect on my ATI 4850 platform.

 

[asjflask]

At least NVIDIA is releasing drivers instead of ignoring the problems. Quit being so jealous of NVIDIA.

 

[D2ModPlayer]

Back on my Geforce 4 I noticed a big difference in performance with upgrading drivers.

With my current Geforce 7 I noticed big improvements with driver set they released several 2-3 sets before this one. It had to do with prerendering frames, I set it to 5 and was able to run HellGate London faster (ran fine on 1GB of RAM).

Direct X 10 can wait until I get Windows 7. I haven't even thought about direct X 11 yet. (still on XP, hint hint).

 

[bochica]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]Driver updates always increase performance in at least a few games. How is this news?[/citation]

Exactly. This is not the first time Nvidia has released drivers that claim to have an increase in performance of certain games, it is nothing new. What you should be reporting about is the down clock fix, not the performance upgrades that pretty much come with any driver update.

Ever since I installed Windows 7 RTM (legit copy through MSDNAA) last weekend, it has had trouble down clocking to 2D mode when not in a game. These drivers fixed it, and now I know its true idle temp which is about 2-4 C cooler than it was with Vista SP2.

 

[hoodlum80]

after intalling 191.07 driver i notice a temp rise in the gpu i have evga 8800gts oc have anyone notice same thing in the gpu??? is it a bug or its spose to be like that