Question for 8800GTX Graphics Card Users

[jimisham]

I still have the original 97.94 driver for my 8800GTX graphics card in my 2 1/2 year old Windows XP computer.
If you're using the same card, which driver are you using?

 

[Gary25b]

I had that card up until a month ago. I can't tell you the best driver, however, one big caution: I once upgraded the driver to the latest (this was about 3 months ago) and I lost the Nvidia Control Panel in the process. I searched around on the internet and found that that was indeed a known problem with the driver upgrade.

Whether Nvidia has corrected that problem, I have no idea, but I would urge you to read some of the driver forums.

 

[jimisham]

Thanks for the reply.
Problems I've read about on the NVIDIA forum with upgrading drivers is one of the reasons I've never tried it.

 

[Ferngren]

190.62 for me, a stable driver in my system. If your 97.94 works fine - no reason to change. As I recall, beyond a certain build, I lost the control-panel and had to DL the Ntune utility to get the panel back.

 

[JCitron]

I'm using version 196.21 and it comes with the NVidia Control Panel. I remember when the disappearing control panel happened. They had a seperate download to fix that.

The new System utilities lets you change the GPU clock and cooling settings. Since I have an NVidia-motherboard chipset, I can also adjust my CPU and system clock and cooling settings. I don't change th buss speeds, but do increase the cooling particularly in the summer months when it gets really hot where I am.

With the new CP, you can also setup a rule so that the cooling can change depending upon which program is run. When I use Trainz, for example I set the cooling to be higher and reset it back to normal when the program exits.

John