aarste

These drivers are beta.

Nice deduction Sherlock Holmes.....


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HDMI color specs are broken YCbCr444 is broken

But overall any frame below 60fps doesn't stutter anymore

After further play in BC2 MP, it appears that they did in fact fix the stutter. But, now there is a stutter created whenever the frame rate drops into the 30s from the 70s or 80s. Very annoying. This type of frame dip never happened before.

chump7431

now if they could only fix the stutter in mafia 2

They did for me lol I see you are running two EVGA 480GTXs how about you go into the 3d settings and set SLI Performance mode to AFR2

Installed this driver this morning. Vantage benchmark went up almost 1k with this driver compared to the 258.96. Playing METRO 2033 seems smoother also. Very happy with everything so far but I did have to uninstall the Audio driver and reinstall the 2.41 Realtek.

I have my rig hooked up to my Home Theater equipment and with the audio driver that was installed along with everything else it didn't give me an option to use my receiver as a default in nVidia CP.

Other than that minor issue I am very happy with it so far!

chump7431

seronx

chump7431

now if they could only fix the stutter in mafia 2

They did for me lol I see you are running two EVGA 480GTXs how about you go into the 3d settings and set SLI Performance mode to AFR2

yeah i am aleady set to that.  i have more problems with physx.  after level 7 it will kick out every so often.

If you are using the steam version delete the PHYSX stuff and reverify the cache
steam corrupted the physx on the first install

HeavyHemi

20mmrain

Anyone here getting issues with MSI afterburner and EVGA Precision with Fan Speed issues?


What happens for me is that when I open the application or when I set the fan speed or sometimes on startup of Windows.... the fan speeds drops to a different level.

If I press the Auto Fan Button off and then back on a few times on both of these applications. I can usually get it to stay the speed I want. Sometimes not.

I have tried all the Driver trouble shooting techniques on my side. But sill the problem still is there.

Is anyone else having fan control issues with these drivers? Especailly on GTX 460's it seems.

Are you running both at the same time or, any other application concurrently that monitors or can adjust the fan speed?

I am running both GTX 460's with the Same fan speed. 85% I use MSI Afterburner for this. I completely reinstalled the Drivers (After being whiped clean with Driver sweeper and manually) Also before this I re flashed with the latest FPB BIOS. Then after all of that... I already had uninstall-ed MSI afterburner and EVGA Precision. Then I reinstalled only MSI Afterburner.


So MSI Afterburner is the only FAN controlling software on my computer right now. 


Any other thoughts?

squall-leonhart

futbalguy

Just in case it helps others. I have a 460 gtx and I noticed lower framerates with the new driver and Starcraft 2. The global setting by default had multiple monitor performance selected (or something similiar). I changed this to single monitor and it increased my fps back to around what I had. Im not sure if its my setup or what caused this but maybe give it a try if things seem slower.

thing is, that option is only for OpenGL, and Starcraft uses D3D.

OH snap I never noticed that before holy cow xD

http://www.phoronix.com/f...showthread.php?t=24208

Rat-Boy

Lot of Betas from NV work much, much, much better than the WHQL driver. At least it was a WHQL driver, which burned a few cards with that fan problem :-) So the truth: you will never be sure, if the WHQL works better or the Beta, both can be with a bug or work very well.
At least i trust(!) Evga so much, that they wouldn't put a link to a bad driver on the forum.

I agree. It was 196.75 WHQL which had the fan problem. My Asus Glaciator 8800 GT died because of it.

when you click on precision and hit the info tab does it show any active 3d processes ?

When dose the WHQL come out?

Boogyman93

When dose the WHQL come out?

For the love of God, you have asked at least four times or more in this thread. No one knows yet.

I do notice many feedbacks in other overclock forums these beta drivers are a known issue for SLi users. and they are currently working on it especially for the bfbc 2 players who use sli. I wonder if these new beta drivers will solve the annoying flickering i see from time to time in Star Trek Online. For now i'm not so sure if these beta drivers are worth it but i may try them this weekend and see how it goes. Especially with Just Cause 2 benchmarks and Crysis. May see just probably a 2 to 3 fps difference but perhaps this driver will solve known issues we gtx 400 series owners have. I never NEVER had any stutters and i think those stutters are sli owners. I'm still unsure if i should get another gtx 460 if i hear these stutters are not solved yet. But likely they will be fixed by the holidays or earlier and it'll be a great reason to upgrade :D

Sorry off point but does anyone know what is the max and least average safest overclock for gtx 460 SC edition? I'm too used to the old precision and the nbrs look different rofl.

LOL.. are these drivers really that good? I heard it actually cleans the left over drivers better than your average driver sweeper? Does that really do the job? I really am glad they came up with that. No more driver sweep anymore :D

I just played a few hours of Star Wars The Force Unleashed (Nerd I know) anyway a couple times during game play the game just stopped and I went right to my desktop. Windows informed me that the game stopped and was looking to solve the problem. No Sh*%... I just started it right back up and it would be fine. It happened twice in about 2 hours so I'm not sure if it's a driver issue or not because SW Unleashed is known for issues to begin with.

The performance increase is to good to go back to the 258.96 driver so I will just live with it till they come out with the WHQL. Unless I start having some big issues. I haven't had any problems like that with any other games I play either but I haven't put the time into them yet with this beta driver.