Anyone who has had issues with the BFBC2 stutter try these yet?

It is nice to see a chance to select what you want to install rather then unpacking and deleting files.


**EDIT**
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=562906

Discussion on these is in DNOTTIS's thread and the feedback from one Guru3D member is great!

yup... not there anymore

I see.  I'll just stick with ye old 197.45 driver for my 260.  Just used for folding anyway and its stable with this driver.

What advantages for the 200 series?

yea Mumble is a 3d app but doesn't trigger 3d clocks ! check out the SS SWEET downclocks both cards !
http://a.imageshack.us/img814/1338/260y.jpg
 

Robs03gts

Well, looks like I can finally get my old HD 5870 up on ebay since BFBC2 appears to now be working great with the GTX 480. Finally!

I don't have that game, but this sounds like good news, on these drivers. Dl'ed, but not installed yet.

staypuft

Robs03gts

Well, looks like I can finally get my old HD 5870 up on ebay since BFBC2 appears to now be working great with the GTX 480. Finally!

Good news.  I might grab one of those 480's when they hit low $300's.

 
Check newegg.com every now and then and search for open box deals. I got lucky and purchased an Open Box MSI GTX 480 for $338 yesterday.

Ran a Vantage test and picked up 850 points on the gpu score with this driver.

_virus_

rovian

Robs03gts

Nice, i hope there is more upgraded stuff and performance gain in games with this driver, btw, anyone knows what kind of theme he's using in this picture? it looks so freaking awesome, please let me know what it is.

hy there, thats me that did the reupload and has the theme there, hehe

so, im using the

Mr Grim & Razorlight Nucleus themes Black and Blue Versions

get it here and use blackglassenhanced for it..
http://virtualcustoms.net/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=2447

and have fun with these drivers löl..

greetings, ViruS, aka BetA13 ;)
 
Thank you!! This theme is very awesome :D!

Let's hope they set something up on their Nvidia page soon.

For Dynamic tiling, whats the difference between Off, Safe, and Unsafe?

shiarua

For Dynamic tiling, whats the difference between Off, Safe, and Unsafe?

Im pretty sure this is how I got the beta of bfbc2 to use more gpu% when I was running my 9800 gtx's, I have never noticed an issue between turning it on/off or changing the value, as the previous posts description stated it could cause a performance impact by changing the value +/-, I would say if so change it to a different value. other than that its not like a nuclear turbo button that will grenade your hardware, its just another switch to flip for a possibility of better optimization IMO.

The answer to this exists within the expanded description for dynamic tiling that the block of text posted elsewhere is taken from, and an understanding of Safe vs Unsafe threading.

more here http://citeseerx.ist.psu....;rep=rep1&type=pdf

reading here will give some idea as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_safety

the numermical values are apparently no longer valid.

Simultaneous multithreaded processors use shared on-chip caches, which yield better cost-performance ratios. Sharing a cache between simultaneously executing threads causes excessive conflict misses. This paper proposes software solutions for dynamically partitioning the shared cache of an SMT processor, via the use of three methods originating in the optimizing compilers literature: dynamic tiling, copying and block data layouts. The paper presents an algorithm that combines these transformations and two runtime mechanisms to detect cache sharing between threads and react to it at runtime. The first mechanism uses minimal kernel extensions and the second mechanism uses information collected from the processor hardware counters. Our experimental results show that for regular, perfect loop nests, these transformations are very effective in coping with shared caches. When the caches are shared between threads from the same address space, performance is improved by 16–29 % on average. Similar improvements are observed when the caches are shared between threads from different address spaces. To our knowledge, this is the first work to present an all-software approach for managing shared caches on SMT processors. It is also one of the first performance and program optimization studies conducted on a commercial SMT-based multiprocessor using Intel’s hyperthreading technology.

You can see my results here. I ran a few different bench's and will be adding to them. So far these drivers look to be great. Although it seems there is a problem with SLI in Mafia 2. I get a better score with one card with new driver then I do with SLI.

http://adamcbowen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=41&p=60#p60

use your dropbox public folder to share the link.