nVidia 81.82 Beta Drivers Are Amazing Download Now!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:14 am

I've been playing with the leaked nVidia 81.82 drivers and the results are uh... Amazing for nearly everything...

Test Cards: 2 x BFG Tech 7800 GT OC's

78.01 Drivers:
3dmark2005 Standard Run: 9234
1600 x 1200 Comanche 4: 64.62

81.82 Drivers:
3dmark2005 Standard Run: 10265
1600 x 1200 Comanche 4: 75.22

Test Card: 1 nVIdia 6800 GT
3dmark2005 Standard Run:
4830 w/ 78.01
4989 w/ 81.82

NVIDIA Beta Forceware WinXP & Win2k Driver
v81.82
Date: Oct 01, 2005
Size: 30.64Mb
Download Here

Version Notes:

This driver fixes some issues found on Release 75 drivers on Black and White including:
Performance slowdown on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs
Adds SLI profile for the best out of box experience
Texture corruption on GeForce 6 series GPUs

In addition this new driver also adds many new features including:
Dynamic SLI with no reboot when using a single monitor
Drivers come with a setup.exe for easy installing
GeForce 2 and up are supported in this release
Increased performance for GeForce GPUs
PureVideo and HDTV enhancements
Files are dated: Sep 22, 2005
SLI Mixed vendor support
WinZip Packaged

cadaveca · Post by **cadaveca** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:17 pm

No 2d corruption for you?

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:36 pm

Woah, that's quite the improvement! maybe I'll have to give 'em a spin. Thanks!

BTW, what method of updating the GFX driver do you recomend?

alister · Post by **alister** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:34 am

nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP (32-bit) 81.84 Official Beta are out now.

Latest Changes:

* BETA driver to support the availability of the game Black and White 2
* Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI
* Performance enhancements for Dual-core CPUs
* PureVideo high definition de-interlacing support
* Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV
* Microsoft DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.0 support

Alister

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:53 am

same drivers ;)

But still grab the 81.84's

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downl ... 81.84.html

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:48 am

oh man, now I'm definitely leaning towards getting a 7800 GTX, those are great scores and fps

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:29 pm

killswitch83 wrote: oh man, now I'm definitely leaning towards getting a 7800 GTX, those are great scores and fps

Personally, I think the 7800 GT is a better value than the GTX...

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:47 pm

Very true, but what about performance? Think it can stack up against the GTX? And is it very easily overclocked? If you can OC a GT to GTX, then I would be definitely tempted to go with the GT.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:28 am

killswitch83 wrote:Very true, but what about performance? Think it can stack up against the GTX? And is it very easily overclocked? If you can OC a GT to GTX, then I would be definitely tempted to go with the GT.

C'mon man, read some reviews!
GeForce 7800 GT: XFX Overclocked
Vendor Cards: XFX GeForce 7800 GTX Overclocked
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT: Rounding Out The High End
NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX Hits The Ground Running
Nvidia Kicks Ass With 7800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT: Full-Throttle Graphics for $449

eva2000 · Post by **eva2000** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:20 am

Yup 81.82 are nice i gained 78pts with 91mhz LOWER cpu oc!

single BFG 7800GTX stock heatsink air @528(567)/1414(1410)
3dmark05 = 9,542

previous best was 9,464 with cpu at 3091mhz (91mhz higher than new PB)

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:22 am

DAMN, that's a helluva system ya got there eva!!!!!

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:16 am

[quote="gvblake22"]
C'mon man, read some reviews!

yeah, I know I need to start doing so, if it weren't for me having to bury myself in Cisco with every living moment, I would have read quite a few. Most of the ones I read are on this site, so I believe I'll start hunting some more sources. Probably start with Anandtech, after I read the reviews you posted. Gimme a break btw, me poor brain is burned out when I get home from school and a 40-hour work week, lol

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:24 pm

killswitch83 wrote:Gimme a break btw, me poor brain is burned out when I get home from school and a 40-hour work week, lol

Yeah, I know, I'm just givin' ya a hard time

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:28 pm

killswitch83 wrote:Very true, but what about performance? Think it can stack up against the GTX? And is it very easily overclocked? If you can OC a GT to GTX, then I would be definitely tempted to go with the GT.

the GT has 20 pipelines... the GTX has 24!

few games need the power of the GTX... but in the future, they will.. I'd prefer a GTX than a GT OC'd.... but yeah gvblake22 is right... they are better value... unless you can get a good OC out of a GTX ;)

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:58 pm

I was thinking this: go the water-cooled path and go for the GTX, mainly because of the fact I believe you can get one heck of an OC out of a GTX. It would seem to me there would be a little extra headroom, but I could be wrong. I need to read a few more reviews, like Blake said, so I can understand the differences more clearly, besides the fact the GTX has 4 more pipelines than the GT. We'll see what happens