New 8800 drivers, wait what?

Stormcrow · August 25th, 2007

I've been playing Oblivion ever since I got in my 8800, and it's been great. Somehow the game didn't have that touch I've seen in screenies and all the reviews, but I chalked it up to being a year old and having seen the previews to Bioshock and Crysis.

However, after installing the new beta drives for Bioshock from nVidia, I go back into Oblivion..and, everything's alive! The water looks so smooth, and has translucent ripples. I never noticed the shadow filtering, but now it seems to jump right out. The textures just look..more detailed, hair looks like hair and not like Morrowind "hair". Theres even new sound effects now. When I go into the menu, I hear little effects for scrolling, opening submenues, equipping items. People actually speak their lines instead of just mouthing it, doors squeak open and close, when the characters run I can hear the armor rustling and jingling. I thought Oblivion before was how it was supposed to be, but this is just so much more vibrant.
And all I did was just install this beta driver, damn. Nothing else. I guess the G80 really does have some issues

Zambini · August 26th, 2007

does this mean I should install those ATI drivers for Bioshock too?

Panda Man · August 26th, 2007

What drivers did you have originally? Some of the drivers for the 8800's had rendering issues before

EDIT - In vista anyways, I donnu about XP.

Phosphorous · August 27th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Panda Man

What drivers did you have originally? Some of the drivers for the 8800's had rendering issues before

EDIT - In vista anyways, I donnu about XP.

Yeah, no doubt, details, details my friend.

What OS you using?

What vers. drivers did you install?

Do they have beta drivers for XP and Vista?

Stormcrow · August 27th, 2007

Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Previous: 158.xx
New: 163.44 Beta

Yes, the beta is for both XP and Vista, the current WHQL certified one is 162.22. I installed the Beta ones to run the Bioshock demo, and with the humongous performance increase in Oblivion I'm glad I did. I was having issues with Guild Wars and STALKER as well, I'll see how they work now tonight.

Phosphorous · August 27th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Previous: 158.xx
New: 163.44 Beta

Yes, the beta is for both XP and Vista, the current WHQL certified one is 162.22. I installed the Beta ones to run the Bioshock demo, and with the humongous performance increase in Oblivion I'm glad I did. I was having issues with Guild Wars and STALKER as well, I'll see how they work now tonight.

Cool deal bro, thanks for that. I will have to download those badboys. I wasn't having any problems with any of my games, but I'll have to see if I get any performance improvements.

OCNoob · August 27th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Vista Home Premium 32-bit

Previous: 158.xx
New: 163.44 Beta

Yes, the beta is for both XP and Vista, the current WHQL certified one is 162.22. I installed the Beta ones to run the Bioshock demo, and with the humongous performance increase in Oblivion I'm glad I did. I was having issues with Guild Wars and STALKER as well, I'll see how they work now tonight.

Sounds like Nvidia's getting their shit together again!

frostybrad · August 27th, 2007

i noticed artifacting or rendering/texture problems in a few maps on COd2. I was thinking it was the card, wonder if I should try these drivers... thanks...

Yellowhello · August 27th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by OCNoob

Sounds like Nvidia's getting their shit together again!

Yeah! +1.

Panda Man · August 27th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by frostybrad

i noticed artifacting or rendering/texture problems in a few maps on COd2. I was thinking it was the card, wonder if I should try these drivers... thanks...

AA set above 2x always gave me issues in CoD2.

August 25th, 2007	#1
Stormcrow HL's Technomancer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Frozen North Posts: 1,168 Blog Entries: 1	New 8800 drivers, wait what? I've been playing Oblivion ever since I got in my 8800, and it's been great. Somehow the game didn't have that touch I've seen in screenies and all the reviews, but I chalked it up to being a year old and having seen the previews to Bioshock and Crysis. However, after installing the new beta drives for Bioshock from nVidia, I go back into Oblivion..and, everything's alive! The water looks so smooth, and has translucent ripples. I never noticed the shadow filtering, but now it seems to jump right out. The textures just look..more detailed, hair looks like hair and not like Morrowind "hair". Theres even new sound effects now. When I go into the menu, I hear little effects for scrolling, opening submenues, equipping items. People actually speak their lines instead of just mouthing it, doors squeak open and close, when the characters run I can hear the armor rustling and jingling. I thought Oblivion before was how it was supposed to be, but this is just so much more vibrant. And all I did was just install this beta driver, damn. Nothing else. I guess the G80 really does have some issues

August 26th, 2007	#2
Zambini Lvl 1 College Student Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: St. Mere du SantaCruz Posts: 1,919 Blog Entries: 1	Re: New 8800 drivers, wait what? does this mean I should install those ATI drivers for Bioshock too?

August 26th, 2007	#3
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,907	Re: New 8800 drivers, wait what? What drivers did you have originally? Some of the drivers for the 8800's had rendering issues before EDIT - In vista anyways, I donnu about XP. Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

August 27th, 2007	#5
Stormcrow HL's Technomancer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Frozen North Posts: 1,168 Blog Entries: 1	Re: New 8800 drivers, wait what? Vista Home Premium 32-bit Previous: 158.xx New: 163.44 Beta Yes, the beta is for both XP and Vista, the current WHQL certified one is 162.22. I installed the Beta ones to run the Bioshock demo, and with the humongous performance increase in Oblivion I'm glad I did. I was having issues with Guild Wars and STALKER as well, I'll see how they work now tonight.

August 27th, 2007	#8
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