CTDs with 175.16 Nvidia drivers

[LukeFF]

Anyone else having problems with these drivers? I will be playing the game as normal and then, out of the blue, the game will crash. I'm using two 8800s in SLI mode.

[Paajtor]

Did you use the 174.74's before?
I'm using the beta's since they got released, and everything runs fine here.

I have a 88000GTS 512Mb (the new G-92 core).

*edit* uhm, to answer your question...nope, I don't have problems with the 175.16's :p

[barndog]

I was using the beta and things were running fine. Then I switch to the 175.16 release and I get CTD"S and system "hangs" all over the place. Most usually when somethign blows up but at all different times. I run Monsun 200. Going back to the beta. My card is a GTX 8800 753 Vid Ram!

[banjo]

This won't help you but I am getting better performance (less jerkiness) with the 175.16's with my 7600GS over the 169's I previously had.

[kylesplanet]

Originally Posted by barndog

I was using the beta and things were running fine. Then I switch to the 175.16 release and I get CTD"S and system "hangs" all over the place. Most usually when somethign blows up but at all different times. I run Monsun 200. Going back to the beta. My card is a GTX 8800 753 Vid Ram!

Now that you said this, while I haven't had any CTD's with the beta drivers, my system has hung twice.:hmm: Thing was, I was just surfing the net.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

Did you use the 174.74's before?
I'm using the beta's since they got released, and everything runs fine here.

I have a 88000GTS 512Mb (the new G-92 core).

*edit* uhm, to answer your question...nope, I don't have problems with the 175.16's :p

I tried the 174.74s a while ago and had the same sort of problem. I have the older 640 MB card, so that might be the issue.

[Paajtor]

You could try updating your vid.card's BIOS, but that's a little tricky...something I hate to do, personally.
Then try the 174.74's or 175.16's, maybe?

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

You could try updating your vid.card's BIOS, but that's a little tricky...something I hate to do, personally.
Then try the 174.74's or 175.16's, maybe?

Nah, I'm not going to worry about it. It's not like I'm getting unsatisfactory performance with the 8800s. Besides, the new 9900s are not that far away.

[Doolittle81]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Nah, I'm not going to worry about it. It's not like I'm getting unsatisfactory performance with the 8800s. Besides, the new 9900s are not that far away.

I've read that the 9900's are a disappointment...Quite a few folks have even commented that they are inferior to the 8800GTX...I don't remember why.

[clayp]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Anyone else having problems with these drivers? I will be playing the game as normal and then, out of the blue, the game will crash. I'm using two 8800s in SLI mode.

I believe there may be something wrong with the optimization with your system..Go to this site and read some of the guides...

http://www.tweakguides.com/

[Paajtor]

Easy on clayp, he just tried to help.
Tweakguides.com has some great tips about NVidia-drivers and their settings...this article, for example, covers the 175.16.'s

[clayp]

This is why I dont like to try and help here..For some reason I get S**T on no matter what I say or do.....

[Doolittle81]

Originally Posted by clayp

This is why I dont like to try and help here..For some reason I get S**T on no matter what I say or do.....

Sorry if my post came across as unduly 'critical'...but I had gone to the linked 'guide' which you recommended and couldn't see how it related to the specific problem being discussed. Other than that it speaks of Nvidia settings. and...way too many people jump on this issue and immediately blame the "system", specifically VISTA.

I've deleted the post in question.

[Hylander_1314]

I tried the 175.16 drivers, and didn't have any issues, other than it deleted the Nvidia Control panel, with my darn Raid info, so I went back to the stock drivers that came with the eVga cards. BTW, I'm running in SLi, "2" 8800 GTS 512's. The only thing I can't get figured out, as I installed a DVI cable and took the analogue cable out (going to the monitor from the vid-card), but now I get banding like the display is in 16 bit, even though everything on the desktop says I've got 32 bit running.

[Torps]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

Anyone else having problems with these drivers? I will be playing the game as normal and then, out of the blue, the game will crash. I'm using two 8800s in SLI mode.

Running an EVGA 9800GX2, right when the torpedo explodes theres a 1/2 second pause then I get the explosion and on occasion things get jumpy. Otherwise seems ok. I have had the game freeze up in COD4.