What nVidia drivers are you using?

Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:44 pm

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?

Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:56 pm

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

Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:15 am

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

Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:39 am

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.

Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:42 pm

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)

Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:31 pm

197.45 with a GTX 285 on WinXP 64
Works fine.

Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:33 pm

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

Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:20 pm

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

Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:18 pm

257.15 on a GTX 260, no problems.

Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:15 pm

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