NVidia reveals new ForceWare Drivers

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-10-24 06:06am

Link

Anyone tried these yet?

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-10-24 06:13am

downloading now...

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-10-24 07:54am

Work fine for me.

Not put them to an extensive test though.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-10-24 08:31am

D/L Now let's see if I get a BSOD or not

Okay no BSOD but as usual it started it's crummy service and added some crap in autostart.

Removed da stuff and it seems to work fine.

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2003-10-24 11:53am

stupid Tiny Personal Firewall refused to accept it and hung my PC on startup every single time until i went in in VGA mode to disable it.........

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-10-24 02:22pm

Downloading, but I won't be installing it immediately because this apartment is having SEVERE electrical problems when the computer is running

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-10-24 05:41pm

AniThyng wrote:stupid Tiny Personal Firewall refused to accept it and hung my PC on startup every single time until i went in in VGA mode to disable it.........

What verision do you use of tiny?

If it is the old freevare one then perhaps you sholud look at Kerio instead?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-25 12:11am

downloading now....

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-10-25 12:48am

So ForceWare is the new Detonator?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-25 01:09am

Yuppers.

Now to see if they bothered to include Macrovision so I can watch DVDs without it bitching that I have TV out functionality......

btw, 2000 posts!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-25 09:41pm

Is this the infamous fix for Halo then?

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-10-25 10:18pm

Vertigo1 wrote:Yuppers.

Now to see if they bothered to include Macrovision so I can watch DVDs without it bitching that I have TV out functionality......

btw, 2000 posts!

I'd like to know that, too. Could someone confirm this?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-10-26 01:20am

Does it give anything major to be worth upgrading to?

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-10-26 02:04am

Shinova wrote:Does it give anything major to be worth upgrading to?

Nothing in the list looked like "must get" upgrades unless you are a GeForce FX user. This was supposed to be the driver set that would make pixel shading not completely suck under the FX series (which really hurt its performance under DX9), but as I have a Ti4600, it's not applicable to me. Anyone with an FX care to give these a try?

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-10-26 02:08am

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:Yuppers.

Now to see if they bothered to include Macrovision so I can watch DVDs without it bitching that I have TV out functionality......

btw, 2000 posts!
I'd like to know that, too. Could someone confirm this?

Same...

I've alot of dvd's and It fucking pisses me off that I've paid for something that I cannot watch or view because of this macrovision shite. Legally it's mine...and can do what the fuck I like with it...yet I cannot do what it's intended to and watch it?..

meh.

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-10-26 03:05am

It is major.

Geforce FX cards seem to be better competitors with their Radeon counterparts on it, and IIRC, it has some new desktop management features and resolutions.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-26 03:40am

The new drivers have sharpness settings for FX cards. I only have a GeForce4mx, though.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-26 11:39am

Still have the same problem, after installing these new drivers, my
board keeps heating up and up and up and up...

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-10-26 08:49pm

Tried them...and quite frankly...I've never had so much slow down in games before in my life...even on the rig intensive games. hell..IWD2 which ran absolutely perfect on the old drivers, would not even move without stuttering for about 5 seconds before it moved again...at which point it stuttered again...ad infinitum....

I don't know what they've done to them, but that's an old style ati- grade fuckup...anyone else having problems?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-28 01:52am

Coaan wrote: I don't know what they've done to them, but that's an old style ati- grade fuckup...anyone else having problems?

With the new drivers, since 44.02, the temperature on the damn cards keeps
rising and rising even when doing nothing at all

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-28 09:34am

Just tried them yesterday. A big blue screen of death and automatic reboot in XP... I had to boot in safe mode to uninstall it (and safe mode in XP is awful, you can't even move the mouse pointer, but it's there anyway to fuck you every time you try to do something with the start menu)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-28 11:38am

Slartibartfast wrote:Just tried them yesterday. A big blue screen of death and automatic reboot in XP... I had to boot in safe mode to uninstall it (and safe mode in XP is awful, you can't even move the mouse pointer, but it's there anyway to fuck you every time you try to do something with the start menu)

What? Safe mode on XP lets me use the mouse just fine.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-28 12:16pm

Well, mine is always disabled in XP and I dunno why. But the arrow is still on screen, centered and interfering with things.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-28 12:52pm

I'm on a a geforce fx 5600 256mb...

all i can say is that these drivers make some of the games that weren't running well... run well...

especially max payne 2... which im running on full specs at the moment, i only have 256mb system ram.

i haven't had any side effects other than increased performance.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-28 08:48pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:I'd like to know that, too. Could someone confirm this?

Its fixed!

Took them enough time to do it too.