NVIDIA GeForce 180.48 WHQL Drivers Released

[erocker]

Heh, I never use those disks, I'll give it a try.

 

[DonInKansas]

erocker, EVGA Precision will work with any Nvidia card. It worked on my non-ref Palit 8800GT just dandy.

 

[Castiel]

erocker, EVGA Precision will work with any Nvidia card. It worked on my non-ref Palit 8800GT just dandy.

On every card? Never heard of that.

 

[erocker]

The disk that came with the card was a stock Nvidia disk. Evga precision is working wonderfully, thank you.

 

[Castiel]

The disk that came with the card was a stock Nvidia disk. Evga precision is working wonderfully, thank you.

But hey if I find it do you still want it?

 

[OnBoard]

On every card? Never heard of that.

Heh, people don't read the posts Looking at my systems specs and seeing that I have PNY and use EVGA Precision should have been a hint

Anyways, you can't get it here http://www.evga.com/precision/ but little googling gives link to also non EVGA members.

 

[qwerty_lesh]

More importantly, I raise a good question. Who's that chick on your background OnBoard?

 

[a111087]

i get blue screen with these drivers at windows start up

edit: reinstall of drivers helped

 

[ntdouglas]

Guys, does evga precision work with these drivers and sli setup?

 

[ntdouglas]

Evga precision works fine in sli and fc2 is smoother with about 5 fps more gameplay. Looks like a keeper.

 

[Kursah]

Ran WiC in-game bench and Far Cry 2 bench, both increased max/min/avg frames, the average and min fps seem to have recieved the biggest increase overall. Max was average about 3-5 increase in FPS, where-as min/avg increased 4-8fps. I also noticed the FC2 bench had a lot less dips and peaks in comparison to the old betas I've been running.

Now I'll have to see if 4x AA in WiC still causes a CTD in DX10 mode...

 

[OnBoard]

More importantly, I raise a good question. Who's that chick on your background OnBoard?

Haha, good eye, she was so covered It's Jessica Biel, picture nro 41.

http://www.egotastic.com/entertainment/celebrities/jessica-biel/jessica-biel-is-holy-crap-wow-004115

 

[Hayder_Master]

it is better than 180.43 or just because ati release new driver , for me still 178.13 is better one , but i hope this one too

 

[OnBoard]

Don't know about these. Battlefield 2142 screen goes black with explosions or airstrike near and active camo also turns screen black. Either I stop playing it or go back to trusty old 177.83 :/

edit: will try this and report back, seems to be an issue with AA
http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1415/bf2142-black-screen-fix.html
edit2: works without AA in game, but not with it even with above link settings.

 

[Disruptor4]

"Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies"

That sounds insane, can anyone confirm this, by the looks of it Nvida is raining on AMD parade big time, AMD/ATI barely had the crown for a moment in years, i expected this and good thing i didn't go rush out to by a new GPU from ATI like some fools just because of specs and hear say, a spec out highend card is useless without proper backing of drivers.

This is not just aimed at you, but most people here saying they aren't seeing improvements and the like...
They aren't raining on any parade really. They did this with all the previous driver releases.
Seriously, do you not read?
It clearly states (as I'll put in bold):

Blazing Fast Performance:

* Boosts performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of improvements measured with Release 180 WHQL drivers vs. Release 178 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
- Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
- Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
- Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
- Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
- Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
- Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
- Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
- Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
- Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
- Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

The reason why you most likely WON'T see an improvement is that you've been using NEWER drivers to the 178's. Your system may also be what is holding it back a little bit more. Simply read what is said before saying you don't see improvements etc.

 

[Edito]

Hi ppl i installed the new forceware and its working just fine with all the games i have installed Crysis Warhead, COD WaW, GRID but in FarCry 2 damn its a pain i used to play with about 38~55 FPS with the beta 180.43 and with this im just getting nothing more than 14 avg and max 20 any advice or idea???

Thanks...

 

[Disruptor4]

Did you uninstall the old graphics drivers (and the graphics drivers only)? They'll be called display drivers in add/remove programs.
Also did you uninstall the old PhysX Drivers?

 

[Edito]

Im using a fresh installation of Vista 64bit SP1 i formatted the HDD and installed the new forceware... i don't have any nvidia driver installed except the new forceware...