*Nvidia Beta Drivers 169.21 Released*  | | 
December 11th, 2007, 07:42 PM
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| *Nvidia Beta Drivers 169.21 Released*
Quote: Along with NVIDIA's new 8800 GTS 512 MB release NVIDIA also unveils a new ForceWare driver, revision build 169.21. - Added support for GeForce 8800 GTS 512 GPU.
- Recommended driver for the latest DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
- Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please refer to the release documentation for more information on features, driver fixes, and known issues.
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They helped me out a bunch. At least 5 FPS more across the board on games. The biggest bump was in Crysis, gave me about 10FPS more then the previous beta drivers.
Plus my card is at 490/1275 now, before the max was 480/1250. 
You should try them out...
EDIT:
Nvidia released more drivers today for Vista 32bit and 64bit. Still beta drivers though, just to remind you.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_169.25.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.25.html
Enjoy! 
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December 11th, 2007, 08:30 PM
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Well if the drivers over clocked your card that would explain the gains you got. I will have to give them a shot. | |
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December 11th, 2007, 08:41 PM
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I should have made that more clear, my bad.
I overclock my card in Rivatuner. What I was trying to say before that the max I could go without artifacts in 3D mark or Aquamark before were 480/1250. But when I change drivers, that number changes. IDK why per say, it's just when I upgrade drivers, I always adjust my overclock with the change. The new drivers my max number now is 490/1275.
Did that clear things up? 
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BTW, my stock clocks are 425/1050..
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December 11th, 2007, 09:17 PM
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just installed the 64 bit version on my Vista system (2 x8800GTX) and working good. No telling on the FPS increase yet.
but they are stable
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December 11th, 2007, 09:42 PM
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nice  Yes that is more clear. | |
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December 11th, 2007, 10:08 PM
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After the download, according to AQM3, i had an 8.15 FPS increase.....nice.
Thanx for the tip KK | |
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December 11th, 2007, 10:23 PM
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December 12th, 2007, 03:18 AM
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Awesome. Downloading now.
EDIT--
Just tested them out and yeah... I can't notice a difference with my own eyes and I never really took precise FPS measurements, so... Good, but nothing life changing here in my opinion.
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December 13th, 2007, 07:24 PM
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More drivers released for Vista today. Links in original post above. | |
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