Nvidia driver 275.33?

[sniper297]

Currently have 257.21 installed, got two systems, one with an 8400GS the other an 8500GT. I don't get very good framerates with TS2010, but they're okay, and I'm reluctant to fix what ain't broken and have to sweep up the pieces.

Anyone with Nvidia 8000 series and TS2010 - TS12 tried the new 275.33 yet? Any real improvement, any problems?

 

[mrscsi]

Currently have 257.21 installed, got two systems, one with an 8400GS the other an 8500GT. I don't get very good framerates with TS2010, but they're okay, and I'm reluctant to fix what ain't broken and have to sweep up the pieces.

Anyone with Nvidia 8000 series and TS2010 - TS12 tried the new 275.33 yet? Any real improvement, any problems?

Well I'm not sure whether it was the actual driver or not, but I hadn't been in Trainz for about a week and a driver update came through so I went ahead and updated to it. It was then that I started having the graphics tearing in DirectX and it was happening in both TS12 and 2010 which told me right there that it had to be something on my system.

I did everything including reimaging which brought up an older Nvidia driver and I went in and noticed that the problem was still there, which was really frustrating at that point. I found that switching Trainz anti-aliasing down to 2 and then overriding it with the Nvidia 3-D settings Trainz went back to normal.

So that's just what it is for what it's worth, I'm currently running 275.33 without an issue no other software DirectX or OpenGL seem to mind it. I just had that little hiccup in Trainz and I'm still not sure what it was at it may very easily have not been the video driver at all it could've been something with 3DS Max 2009 for all I know because I was doing a lot of work and I think I ran some scripts which may have corrupted something.

As for actual improvements I can't say with 100% certainty but setting the anti-aliasing down to 2 in Trainz and setting it to 8X in the 3-D control panel and telling it to override actually seems to make Trainz TS12 seem smoother and more detailed, again it may have done that if I did all those things in an earlier version of the driver, I couldn't tell you for sure.

 

[ivantr]

What upgrades or improves driver 275.21. I have a geforce 8600 GTS and driver 270.61. Does someone know if 55º/131.0ºF is a good temperature for this card on sleep/not use mode??

Greetings

 

[sniper297]

First question, I always gotta ask cuz so many miss it - boot into safe mode, uninstall, reboot, run driversweeper;

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655

to make sure all the old kibbles and bits from the previous drivers were gone before installing the new one? I gotta say, I would have thought they got their act together and designed the installation better, but we still need third party utilities to make sure. I hadn't had trouble in a few years so I had gotten out of the habit, and when I suddenly did have a problem I ran driversweeper and found remnants of assorted old ATI and Nvidia drivers scattered all over creation.

ivantr; You being in Spain;

http://www.nvidia.es/page/home.html

That's where you would have the best luck.

Normal temps for that series, 50 to 60 when it's not working, running a game that pushes the limit it's normal to run 70-80.

 

[ivantr]

Thx and happy birthday snip

 

[sniper297]

Gracias, amigo! Just noticed something, they added a little message halfway down the page that guru3D discontinued driver sweeper? Anyway, here's another link;

http://download.cnet.com/Driver-Sweeper/3000-2094_4-75219868.html

Green button on the left side, not the red "start download" at the top, what is with all these misleading links to scanners lately?

 

[clam1952]

Nvidia gives you the option for a clean install, which supposedly removes the drivers, worked OK for me on the last few drivers I installed.
Apparently DriverSweeper was pulled due to allegedly containing adware in the installer, can't say anything was ever picked up here and I'm pretty much locked down as far as nasties are concerned.
As well as the usual places other than 3dguru, the latest version is available from phyxion.net, it's their program.