NVIDIA Releases GeForce 185.81 BETA Drivers

btarunr · Apr 30, 2009, 05:09 PM

NVIDIA today published a new version of its GeForce driver suite, this time including Windows 7 in the update. Version 185.81 of the driver has been released as a beta, meaning it is unsupported by product warranties. The following changes have been brought about:

Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications
Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso
Accelerates performance in several 3D applications and, compared to Release 182 drivers, delivers:
o Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
o Up to 22% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
o Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror's Edge with antialiasing enabled
Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0408
Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3
Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7

Live OR Die · Apr 30, 2009, 05:20 PM

yer got these a hour ago and tested them alone side the others have a look here LINK and they now drop clock speed on idle

xenos · Apr 30, 2009, 05:26 PM

lol @ nVidia trying to take focus off HD4770 :-P

alexp999 · Apr 30, 2009, 05:49 PM

Updated with Windows 7 links. Great to see Windows 7 is now included in the updates

Now I can give some real Win 7 drivers a try, I hope you are right about them downclocking Live or Die, I have been using Vista drivers to solve that issue so far.

a111087 · Apr 30, 2009, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Live OR Die

they now drop clock speed on idle

wow, thats pretty cool, but by how much does it decrease power consumption?

bogmali · Apr 30, 2009, 05:59 PM

Anyone tested it using F@H yet?

Breathless · Apr 30, 2009, 06:04 PM

These are crap in 90% of opinions at guru3d.

mtosev · Apr 30, 2009, 06:18 PM

ups nevermind.

u2konline · Apr 30, 2009, 07:03 PM

They support the 8 series, AWESOME

Downloading now.

newtekie1 · Apr 30, 2009, 07:15 PM

I'll have to download and install these tonight.

3870x2 · Apr 30, 2009, 07:17 PM

YAY...o wait, i just switched to ATI...
These driver updates really do increase performance, and it feels like even more than the %s they give (tested on 9800GX2) Course, after all was said and done, with the latest drivers, my 9800GX2 was beating GTX285s by 5-6%, except on crysis for some reason.

KieranD · Apr 30, 2009, 07:24 PM

i want to try these but ill wiat till someone takes the pluge heard a bad lot of things about frame rate and stability

Castiel · Apr 30, 2009, 07:31 PM

So are they good? Because I don't want to be installing and re-installing all night.

3870x2 · Apr 30, 2009, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by u2konline

They support the 8 series, AWESOME

Downloading now.

Wow. Awesome! this will take you from 1FPS to 1.15FPS!! 15% increase!

Ill give you an X850XT, it will perform better than the 8400GS. You know you want it, and i know you like AGP.

Edit: Just read your specs: You did upgrade!!! hows it going?

Psychoholic · Apr 30, 2009, 08:09 PM

Excellent! I hate my card running 670mhz core on the desktop!

hope they drop the core clock even when steam is running.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Live OR Die

yer got these a hour ago and tested them alone side the others have a look here LINK and they now drop clock speed on idle

u2konline · Apr 30, 2009, 08:13 PM

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but i notice if you uninstall the nvidia drivers in safe mode and boot back into normal mode, its easy to install them without any hassle and what you uninstall in safe mode, really does uninstall. Vista 32bit btw.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Wow. Awesome! this will take you from 1FPS to 1.15FPS!! 15% increase!

Its all about stability my friend. Even tho i notice these new drivers does increase gaming performance a bit, which is always nice.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Ill give you an X850XT, it will perform better than the 8400GS. You know you want it, and i know you like AGP.

I don't have AGP slots , i have one PCI slot and 3 PCIE slots, one of them being X16. So i am going to buy 2 PCIE cards sometime next month, one of them being most likely the 4670. Haven't figure out yet what nvidia card i am going to get yet.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Edit: Just read your specs: You did upgrade!!! hows it going?

Perfect, everything i want in a new system i have. I have a couple games install now, old ones say from 2004-2006, i use to get 17-40fps, now i get 100-200 lol. But once i get a new powerful card, everything will be better.

3870x2 · Apr 30, 2009, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by u2konline

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but i notice if you uninstall the nvidia drivers in safe mode and boot back into normal mode, its easy to install them without any hassle and what you uninstall in safe mode, really does uninstall. Vista 32bit btw.

Its all about stability my friend. Even tho i notice these new drivers does increase gaming performance a bit, which is always nice.

I don't have AGP slots , i have one PCI slot and 3 PCIE slots, one of them being X16. So i am going to buy 2 PCIE cards sometime next month, one of them being most likely the 4670. Haven't figure out yet what nvidia card i am going to get yet.

Perfect, everything i want in a new system i have. I have a couple games install now, old ones say from 2004-2006, i use to get 17-40fps, now i get 100-200 lol. But once i get a new powerful card, everything will be better.

Awesome, you should look at 4670, it got good reviews.

csendesmark · Apr 30, 2009, 08:23 PM

"Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI"

30% on a CPU limited application? NICE!

u2konline · Apr 30, 2009, 08:36 PM

Alright i have these drivers install, but why is my desktop screen slightly cut off on the right side? Is there a fix for this?
Only seem to be happening with the 185.81 or higher?
Its not a big deal, but its kinda scary.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Awesome, you should look at 4670, it got good reviews.

Yea most likely i will get it, all depends on what i find at best buy for my price range.

OnBoard · Apr 30, 2009, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by u2konline

Alright i have these drivers install, but why is my desktop screen slightly cut off on the right side? Is there a fix for this?
Only seem to be happening with the 185.81 or higher?
Its not a big deal, but its kinda scary.

Center it(the picture)? Different graphics card, different resolution, different Hz give different picture positions on VGA, why not drivers as well.

thebluebumblebee · Apr 30, 2009, 10:14 PM

u2konline: IMHO, consider a 4830 or 4770 before the 4670.

EarlZ · May 1, 2009, 12:32 AM

Still has some issues with correct 3d detection, Ive been wondering why its so hard for nvidia to implement that.

Kursah · May 1, 2009, 12:57 AM

Hey this driver works with the old EVGA gpu voltage tuner 1.0, woot! good to have that little program back since they won't integrate it w/Precision!

Flyordie · May 1, 2009, 01:03 AM

Nvidia decoupled their core... its virtually impossible to be perfect on 3D Detection when you do that.

puma99dk| · May 1, 2009, 03:09 AM

works great, and now my 8800GT is not called Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (Pre-Release WDDM 1.1) just Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

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May 1, 2009, 12:32 AM	#22
EarlZ Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 228 (0.08/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts System Specs	Still has some issues with correct 3d detection, Ive been wondering why its so hard for nvidia to implement that.

Processor:	Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.8Ghz
Motherboard:	Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Rev1.1
Cooling:	Noctua D14
Memory:	4GB G.Skill 9-10-9-27-1T 2133Mhz
Video Card:	GTX580 1.5Gb
Hard Disk:	2x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
Optical Drive:	Samsung H203N
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung T220
Case:	Lian Li PC-P80
Sound Card:	X-Fi Extreme Music
PSU:	Silverstone Strider Gold 850
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate x64

May 1, 2009, 12:57 AM	#23
Kursah Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Missoula, Montana, USA Posts: 6,558 (2.72/day) Thanks: 727 Thanked 1,349 Times in 1,118 Posts System Specs	Hey this driver works with the old EVGA gpu voltage tuner 1.0, woot! good to have that little program back since they won't integrate it w/Precision! __________________ Overclocking is Easy! Get Results! - GTX 260/280 Unofficial Support Thread TPU's Gaming Headphone/Headset Thread - Share your experience - My Heat -

System Name:	Kursah's Rig 2011
Processor:	i5-760 2.8Ghz - 4.0Ghz @ 1.29v
Motherboard:	Asus 55i Sabertooth
Cooling:	Xigmatek Balder S1283
Memory:	2x4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600 9.9.9.24 1.5v
Video Card:	XFX HD5870 Rev.2 @ Stock
Hard Disk:	WD Black 1.5Tb, Seagate 1.5Tb LP
Optical Drive:	Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD/CD Burner
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 32" LN32D550 LCD TV - 1920x1080
Case:	Lian Li Lancool PC-K62
Sound Card:	Auzen X-Fi Forte 7.1 + FiiO E9 to Denon D2000, JVC HA-DX3 and a Custom Hi-Fi 2.1 setup.
PSU:	Corsair HX750 Modular
Software:	Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1, many games
Benchmarks:	Hi-Fi 2.1 setup: Dayton DTA-100a Class-T Amp to Pioneer SP-BS21-LR Speakers. Dayton Sub-100HT Sub

May 1, 2009, 01:03 AM	#24
Flyordie Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,496 (0.90/day) Thanks: 101 Thanked 249 Times in 219 Posts System Specs	Nvidia decoupled their core... its virtually impossible to be perfect on 3D Detection when you do that.

System Name:	Shay's Revenge
Processor:	Phenom II X2 550 @ 4,012Mhz 1.488V
Motherboard:	DFI LANParty 790GX-M2RS
Cooling:	ThermalTake V1 "Black Widow"
Memory:	2x2GB OCZ Reapers 4-4-4-12-1T @ 1.8V
Video Card:	BBA HD5770 Crossfire @ 900Mhz Core 5.6Gbps VRAM
Hard Disk:	3x SATA (320GB/ 160GB/160GB Seagates)
Optical Drive:	HP SATA-HD-DVD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Westinghouse L1916HW 1680x1050 VGA/DVI/HDCP
Case:	ThermalTake Element V
Sound Card:	RealTek Onboard
PSU:	SeaSonic SS-550HT Active PFC F3 80PLUS Bronze
Software:	Windows Vista Home Premium x64 w/ SQL Hack
Benchmarks:	3DMark06 13,200 http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=495939