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[sgrinavi]

I tried the 257 beta drivers, (Win 7 x64 Ultimate) but Octane would not start, I dropped back to the 197.45 to play it safe. What's everyone else currently using?

[Amplitude]

I think most people here have either the 197.45 whql or the 197.13 dev drivers.

[heydabop]

I'm currently using 257.15 beta with a GTX 470. No problems so far.

[Amplitude]

speaking of the new 257.xx drivers are they solely for the new fermi cards? Because on the nVidia page I never see them for my 285gtx.

[sgrinavi]

speaking of the new 257.xx drivers are they solely for the new fermi cards? Because on the nVidia page I never see them for my 285gtx.

My understanding is that they are for all GeForce cards; I just re-installed them and is now working fine. Best feature that I can see (so far) is you can use more than two displays with SLI (not that it helps with Octane)

[Wayfa]

197.45 with a GTX 285 on WinXP 64
Works fine.

[elias76gr]

257.15 here with gtx 470 and everything's fine so far

[Florinmocanu]

257.15 with a GTS 250 512 MB , flawless until now.

[Chris_TC]

257.15 on a GTX 260, no problems.

[CaneeleT]

I'm return to 197.45 drivers because beta 257.15 , with cuda 3.1 and opengl 4.0 , are less performant.

with my GTX 480 I lost 2Msamples/s in the bench scene.

197.45 -> 12.05 Ms/s
257.15 -> 9.8 Ms/s