Vista64/32 goodies for Nvidia Folders

BUCK NASTY · Mar 21, 2009

Edit: Stanford has corrected the boost and their is no advantage to using these drivers.

OK, I'm still testing this myself, but it appears that the beta 185.20 Vista 64 drivers give your primary card a huge boost in PPD. This is excellent news for single card folders and so-so for multi-card folders. It's said to have similar effect on Vista32, but I cannot test that OS. Looks to work best with 59xx WU's. I gain 500+ ppd on a multi-card set-up and 1000 ppd on a single card. This is only a 8800GTS 512! I wonder what the GTX2XX cards will do? Post up your results so we know where this is going. Make sure to open the driver folder and manually install PD Set-up(performance drivers) and PhysX 8.11.18 as well as the normal driver set-up.

Here are the links @ Guru3D:

Vista64: http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-ForceWare-185.20-Vista-64-bit-download-2156.html

Vista32: http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-ForceWare-185.20-Vista-32-bit-download-2155.html

EDIT:Primary 8800GTS 512 is now @ 7880 PPD :eek:

on 5903 WU

newtekie1 · Mar 21, 2009

The only problem is that the 185.20 drivers caused my machine to blue-screen after about 2-4 hours of folding.

BUCK NASTY · Mar 21, 2009

newtekie1 said:
The only problem is that the 185.20 drivers caused my machine to blue-screen after about 2-4 hours of folding.

Yep, still a beta. I'm hoping to get a little more stability from my Vista rig. I always wake up to a frozen screen and a hard reset when I run SMP on 2 cores of my X3. We will see...

Guttboy · Mar 21, 2009

Buck,

You may have seen this already but there is a thread at Stanford's site discussing this. Here is the link to the last page (currently) that shows that at least one of the Pande group thinks that these "may" be unreliable......

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9075&start=75

It seems like there is quite a debate about the validity of the error checking.

Regards,

fadedmemories · Mar 21, 2009

Driver patch to increase PPD by ALOT.

Go here; http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/478433-why-my-ppd-so-high-double.html.

bogmali · Mar 22, 2009

I'm getting a 30-35% boost with my 2X 8800GS and GTX260 with this beta driver :rockout:

mmaakk · Mar 22, 2009

Vista 32

I gave a shot using the 185.20 and the results are weird.

- Vista 32bit
- Dual 8800GTS G92
- E6850 folding SMP

When a started folding with the new driver, I initialized folding with the Client GPU_1 - secondary card - and I got a 40% BOOST - form ~5K to 7.2K PPD folding a 1680pt WU.

My primary card - Client GPU_0 was initialized later and didn't get any boost. Same PPD performance as before the 185.20 driver.

So, just for testing purposes, I closed both clients and this time I started the Client zero - primary card - first. Result: NOW THE CLIENT ZERO GAINED THE BOOST. Secondary card GPU_1 went back to ~5K PPD. :eek:

WhiteLotus · Mar 22, 2009

Why cant ATI do good folding!?!? bah

mmaakk · Mar 22, 2009

About driver installation

There is nothing "special" about the Guru3d drivers.

I did install the drivers provided by TPU

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Drivers/NVIDIA/

And I did the regular installation.

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	AMD FX-4130 @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M5A99X Evo
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory	8GB GSkill DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 970 Strix @ 1503Mhz Core
Storage	Corsair Force 90gb SSD/ WD Caviar Blue 750gb
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Antec TP750 80+
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

Processor	Intel Core i7 10850K@5.2GHz
Motherboard	AsRock Z470 Taichi
Cooling	Corsair H115i Pro w/ Noctua NF-A14 Fans
Memory	32GB DDR4-3600
Video Card(s)	RTX 2070 Super
Storage	500GB SX8200 Pro + 8TB with 1TB SSD Cache
Display(s)	Acer Nitro VG280K 4K 28"
Case	Fractal Design Define S
Audio Device(s)	Onboard is good enough for me
Power Supply	eVGA SuperNOVA 1000w G3
Software	Windows 10 Pro x64

System Name	Main Rig
Processor	AMD FX-4130 @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS M5A99X Evo
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper 212+
Memory	8GB GSkill DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS GTX 970 Strix @ 1503Mhz Core
Storage	Corsair Force 90gb SSD/ WD Caviar Blue 750gb
Display(s)	ASUS 24" IPS
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 590
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Antec TP750 80+
Software	Windows 7 Ultimate 64

System Name	First Build 2009
Processor	Intel E8400 (E0) 3.0GHz
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Cooling	Xigmatek HDT S1283 (120mm)
Memory	G.Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Video Card(s)	EVGA GTX260
Storage	WD Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm 32MB SATA
Display(s)	LG W2600H-PF 25.5" (1920x1200)
Case	Cooler Master CM690
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Power Supply	Corsair 750TX
Software	Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

System Name	Daily Driver/Part Time
Processor	Core i7-13700K/Ryzen R5-7600
Motherboard	ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 APEX/Asrock B650 Pro RS Wi-Fi
Cooling	Corsair H150i RGB PRO XT AIO/Deep Cool LS-520 White
Memory	Patriot 2x16GB DDR5-7200/XPG Lancer Blade 2X16GB DDR-5-6000
Video Card(s)	MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX-4080 Super/Sapphire Radeon RX-7800XT
Storage	Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe 2TB/KingSpec XG 7000 4TB M.2 NVMe/Crucial P5 Plus 2TB M.2 NVMe
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DW
Case	Corsair 5000d AirFlow/Asus AP201 White
Audio Device(s)	AudioEngine D1 DAC/Onboard
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime Ultra 1K Watt/Seagotep 750W
Mouse	Corsair M65 RGB Elite
Keyboard	Adata XPG Summoner
Software	Win11 Pro 64
Benchmark Scores	Xbox Live Gamertag=jondonken

Vista64/32 goodies for Nvidia Folders

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

newtekie1

Semi-Retired Folder

BUCK NASTY

4P Enthusiust

Guttboy

New Member

fadedmemories

bogmali

In Orbe Terrum Non Visi

mmaakk

WhiteLotus

mmaakk

System Name	Vintage
Processor	i7 - 3770K @ Stock
Cooling	Scythe Zipang II
Memory	2x4GB Crucial DDR3
Video Card(s)	MSI GTX970
Storage	M4 124GB SSD// WD Black 640GB// WD Black 1TB//Samsung F3 1.5TB
Display(s)	Samsung SM223BW 21.6"
Case	Generic
Power Supply	Corsair HX 520W
Software	Windows 7