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   #66. Posted at 06:35 PM on Nov 23rd 2008 Edit   Reply
Cannyone
These Drivers work great for me, with 2 8800GTs in SLI on a 780i chipset board. The Irony is that I no longer run multiple displays. A practice that I abandoned when I chose to try SLI. Maybe now I'll try connecting to my new 42" TV (via HDMI) as an alternate display. :-) I'd just need to re-arrange my furniture, as the TV is on the opposite side of the room from my computer. Or maybe I'll just get a second 24" display...
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   #65. Posted at 04:52 PM on Nov 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
Murso24
despite all these complaint's about the new drivers, you would expect they want to come out with new drivers for a reason. and with my Single 8800GTX i havn't had any problems in gaming or programming, or CAD. i've actually played with Cuda. its great.

i've had no problems. with no games whatsoever, but gains. in games like crysis, COD5, Supreme Commander..the physXengine actually helps in the physics. but i dont need it because i have the QX6800 Core 2 Quad, and 4gb of RAM. and Vista! no problems here fellas.
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   #61. Posted at 10:45 PM on Nov 20th 2008 Edit   Reply
d0g_p00p
Anyone know how to change fan speed with this release? I was using 175.16 drivers with coolbits and I was able to set the fan speed from the default of 36% to 50% which helped cooling the GPU big time. Now with this release (180.480) I am unable to change the default fan speed. The option is just grayed out?

My worry is that my idle temps are now what my load temps were prior to the the upgrade and I think that my temps are way too high under load. I did coolbits again and reinstalled nTune.
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#61, Never mind. It seems that the "Big Bang 2" drivers seem to h...  :  d0g_p00p  (#64)  «

   #49. Posted at 06:53 AM on Nov 20th 2008, Edited at 06:59 AM on Nov 20th 2008 Edit   Reply
Mystic-G
Installed the driver, started up World in Conflict. Was in-game for 45 seconds and for the first time ever, my monitor turned completely gray. Had to do a hard reboot.

It works fine with CoD5 though. I'm afraid to play WiC again since my comp doesn't like to agree with hard reboots during start-up anymore. So much for a performance boost eh?

-8800GTS 320MB
-Win XP 32bit

Guess, I'll revert back later.
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#49, Why would you install something called "Big Bang" and not ex...  :  Saber Cherry  (#60)  «
#60, LOL... for a second there I thought your comment was gonn...  :  Mystic-G  (#62)  «
#62, Not really. WHQL means "Windows Hardware Quality Lab",...  :  Saber Cherry  (#63)  «

   #7. Posted at 12:13 PM on Nov 19th 2008, Edited at 12:16 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
CasbahBoy
I just got a bunch of new hardware in today, this is just in time. It feels good to have driver updates apply to me again.

Edit: A 3.2GHz Northwood Pentium4 and 7800GS AGP to a Core 2 E8500 and 216SP GTX260...the difference is going to be like night and day :)
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#7, Man I just went from a 2.6ghz dual core Opteron and a 8800GT...  :  ecalmosthuman  (#15)  «
#7, You mean like night on Earth and day on Neptune, right? =) E...  :  Gerbil Jedidiah  (#18)  «
#7, Congratulations for waiting so long. Other gerbils could lea...  :  BoBzeBuilder  (#27)  «
#27, I sincerely appreciate the compliment. I don't want to mi...  :  CasbahBoy  (#28)  «
#27, Yea there's pluses and minuses to upgrading frequently. T...  :  MadManOriginal  (#30)  «
#27, Actually I think I can top that, for upgrades :-) My last...  :  kmansj  (#58)  «
#7, You finally did your dream update and........chose the 260?  :  kmansj  (#57)  «
#57, I did! I boot into Windows every couple days to play game...  :  CasbahBoy  (#59)  «

   #32. Posted at 03:47 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Tumbleweed
No love for my fanless 7600GT. *sigh*
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#32, You seem to be a fan of it. So it's not entirely fanless.  :  kmansj  (#56)  «

   #31. Posted at 03:37 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
ReductiMat
I installed the beta 180.43 on my P6T with 2 8800GTX's yesterday and it says it recognized them as SLI...

Any chance this is a typo? I'm hesitant on trying these out tonight and losing my current (apparent?) SLI...
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#31, Finally, Nvidia says X58 mobos will only work in SLI mode If ...  :  Byte Storm  (#46)  «
#46, I have that board. I am using it as I type this. 180.43 dr...  :  ReductiMat  (#53)  «
#31, Not sure why they didn't just add 8800 SLI support from the ...  :  ReductiMat  (#55)  «

   #12. Posted at 12:56 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
Strange that Capcom games seem to get the most gains.
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#12, Why do you think this is strange? Perhaps they use the same 3...  :  sdack  (#16)  «
#16, I love how you call people who have probably had a much b...  :  TREE  (#20)  «
#20, Why so sensitive?? Maybe I do have a better education ...  :  sdack  (#33)  «
#33, At the rate you're calling everyone "noobs", I don'...  :  Meadows  (#38)  «
#38, He just needs a hug.  :  no51  (#40)  «
#40, What you need is a spanking.  :  sdack  (#43)  «
#38, Well if you say so, Mr. Misconception, then it m...  :  sdack  (#42)  «
#12, Maybe they were unusually low to begin with. Taking 10 FPS t...  :  ImSpartacus  (#22)  «
#22, Yes this response makes the most sense.  :  ssidbroadcast  (#24)  «
#24, Spartacus is on point!  :  eitje  (#39)  «
#39, There is some truth in it but it is also not that s...  :  sdack  (#44)  «
#44, Then again, ATI's numbers are just as useless, b...  :  Meadows  (#45)  «
#45, It is not illusions. I am sure these gains ar...  :  sdack  (#48)  «
#48, Better ask God then. By the way, are you i...  :  Meadows  (#51)  «
#51, I have already spoken to God. We are on...  :  sdack  (#52)  «
#52, No, but because it was on topic.  :  Meadows  (#54)  «

   #4. Posted at 11:43 AM on Nov 19th 2008, Edited at 01:47 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
DrDillyBar
Finally, Nvidia says X58 mobos will only work in SLI mode with GeForce 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, 9800 GX2, and 200-series GPUs.
Imposed obsolescence FTW!
Edit: funny stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqEzyvvc6o8
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#4, Yes, because every company loves to work indefinitely on pro...  :  Kunikos  (#10)  «
#10, Yea but 9800GTX and up is kind of absurd since it shows t...  :  MadManOriginal  (#11)  «
#11, How many people will be using a x58/i7 system and 2 su...  :  Farting Bob  (#21)  «
#21, Yea that's true and I'd thought of that but people ...  :  MadManOriginal  (#23)  «
#23, NVidia's evil marketing geniuses have more influ...  :  JustAnEngineer  (#50)  «
#21, Yeah, but it doesn't work with 8000-series cards. T...  :  A_Pickle  (#34)  «
#10, True. And yet not applicable to the 8800 or 9600 that are...  :  ludi  (#13)  «
#10, Maybe, or maybe they had to make it to a deadline and sup...  :  sdack  (#19)  «

   #2. Posted at 11:39 AM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Scorpiuscat
Finally!!!! Multi-Display support for SLI!!

Man, I cant wait to get home and install these drivers and then enable SLI and dual monitors....WOOHOO!
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#2, It's been available since over a month, via the v180.43 beta...  :  Meadows  (#3)  «
#3, Lol @ your troll comment.  :  Jon  (#5)  «
#5, I'm reminded of pots, kettles and the colour of grief.  :  Meadows  (#6)  «
#6, <Insert incredibly witty and sarcastic reply in res...  :  Jon  (#8)  «
#6, It is well to remember that the entire universe, wi...  :  eitje  (#25)  «
#3, Though you are indeed correct, one thing I am not chancin...  :  Byte Storm  (#47)  «

   #41. Posted at 02:11 AM on Nov 20th 2008 Edit   Reply
PoohPall
What about the major letdown drivers ?
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   #36. Posted at 06:41 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Rza79
Preview: http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/2008/test_...
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#36, Je ne parle pas se habla Sprechen ze nothing.  :  indeego  (#37)  «

   #35. Posted at 05:33 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
happyxix
I still get a BSOD when installing this driver just as with the beta driver. >=[
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   #29. Posted at 03:17 PM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Knuckler
Where's OpenGL 3.0?
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   #1. Posted at 11:31 AM on Nov 19th 2008 Edit   Reply
Meadows
While you can technically modify the setup's .inf file in 3 seconds with a simple copy-paste, I'm still not sure if it'll help the other cards. Theoretically, nothing should prevent this driver set from working for 8600-owners or integrated owners.
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#1, What about the 6800 cards for PhysX? Will it apply? The card...  :  SomeOtherGeek  (#9)  «
#9, Does it support CUDA? If not, then I'd doubt it.  :  Scrotos  (#14)  «
#9, PhysX isn't a set of graphics instructions, you need a C ...  :  Meadows  (#17)  «
#17, Cool! Thanks for the info... I guess I'll just burn th...  :  SomeOtherGeek  (#26)  «
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