Nvidia Video Cards + Drivers

[Jacco Cornelissen]

Thanks Marcel will try it out.

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

Is it stg you suggest to go for then Marcel? The last beta was a huge performance drop on my system.

p.s.: also i remember you suggested some nice setting for the Nvidia Control Panel, but since the video card change i lost them, would you be please so kind to repost them what was it? triple buffering setting, AF etc... thanks a lot in advance!

As soon as i get home i will post some screenshots with the settings i use.

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

I tryed it with CoD4 and it seems to work fine

 

[Attila Domján]

As soon as i get home i will post some screenshots with the settings i use.

thanks buddy :thumb:

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

Here are my settings.

 

[Attila Domján]

Thanks, copy pasted Just i pulled back a bit AF and AA to 4* and 2*, as i remember using more then 4* can create issues with replay recording.

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

Thanks i set it like that and i will try it tonight

 

[Attila Domján]

Seems nice, and also looks like for the first try that this beta is good, bit performance increase and picutre seems more smooth.

 

[Maik Peters]

Tnx m8... i'll give it a try tonight...

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

Tryed it on CoD4 with your setings Marcel and it all looks great and works fine

 

[Jacek Kozlowski]

Here are my settings.

Wow Race07 looks really good under those settings:thumb:Thanks Marcel
I wonder if it would be good use those for other games or as default settings?

 

[Hansje van Hees]

Nvidia PhysX 8.07.18 are out too !!

Nvidia PhysX 8.07.18 - Guru3D.com Forums

AND

Nvidia's Big Bang II Comes this September !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GPU Café Nvidia's Big Bang II Comes this September [Updated]

Hans :wink:

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

That's good news
So with the big bang 2 i can watch multi monitors in sli, that's what i need :becky:

 

[Simon Bacon]

Nvidia GeForce PowerPack

New driver 177.83, PhysX driver and support and a host of other good things for 8xxx, 9xxx and 200 series owners.

Force Within: Download

 

[Simon Trendell]

Will try them later, hopefully their stable.
Now to wait for more games to support PhysX

 

[Lee Downham]

Here are my settings.

Hey dude

Thanks for the settings - haven't tried em yet but something that might also improve smoothness and quality on faster setups and help stop "screen tearing" on TFT's ...
Set Vertical Synch to "on" and triple buffering to "on".
Long explanation behind this here ... TweakGuides.com - Gamer's Graphics & Display Settings Guide
... but basically from what I remember it stops the graphics card sending more FPS than your monitor it is actually capable of displaying - usually ~60fps on TFT's ... which is all that you need really, especially when you consider European TV's only do 24fps ...
Triple buffering on faster kit actually helps increase framerates over double buffering, so would suggest trying with it on first ... read the relevant section of this above article if you wanna know more ...
... remember to set the triple buffering option in your race07 graphics options too (ie the settings for resolution etc before launching the game)
:thumb:

PS another good resource:
nVIDIA Geforce 280 260 9600 8800 8600 9800 GT GTX AMD ATI Radeon HD 3850 4870 X2 - Guru of 3D: PC Hardware Reviews

... has all latest beta graphics drivers and info on them, plus loads of tweaks and utils :wink:

 

[Marcel Hulsbergen]

Hey dude

Thanks for the settings - haven't tried em yet but something that might also improve smoothness and quality on faster setups and help stop "screen tearing" on TFT's ...
Set Vertical Synch to "on" and triple buffering to "on".
Long explanation behind this here ... TweakGuides.com - Gamer's Graphics & Display Settings Guide
... but basically from what I remember it stops the graphics card sending more FPS than your monitor it is actually capable of displaying - usually ~60fps on TFT's ... which is all that you need really, especially when you consider European TV's only do 24fps ...
Triple buffering on faster kit actually helps increase framerates over double buffering, so would suggest trying with it on first ... read the relevant section of this above article if you wanna know more ...
... remember to set the triple buffering option in your race07 graphics options too (ie the settings for resolution etc before launching the game)
:thumb:

PS another good resource:
nVIDIA Geforce 280 260 9600 8800 8600 9800 GT GTX AMD ATI Radeon HD 3850 4870 X2 - Guru of 3D: PC Hardware Reviews
... has all latest beta graphics drivers and info on them, plus loads of tweaks and utils :wink:

I know about this, i have tried it but i notice stutters when i use VSYNC, without VSYNC my games run smoother. But i will give it a second try with the newest drivers 177.83.

 

[Jacco Cornelissen]

I tryed it
It works fine on Race07 and GTR2.`
My 3dMark Vantage did go from 13700 to 17584 i don't no if it was this driver or the new Directx update

 

[Lee Downham]

With Vsynch enabled I run my games at a res of 1650x1050 (and a 2nd monitor in "dual view" at the same time as Race is running on the 1st) ...

EVERYTHING in the Race graphics options is maxxed out ... and it runs smoother than a smooth thing for me, constant 60FPS, with only a drop of 10fps for a second or so or so when I initially enter a busy game

No stutter, no jitters, no jagged lines or screen tearing ... just beautifully rendered graphics

Maybe double check the triple buffering options are set right everywhere (both in the Nvidia settings and in your Race07 graphics options)... one might be overriding the other??
Also try setting "max pre-rendered frames" to "3", I believe that setting only affects opengl, but would do it just in case?
When you use Vsynch, double versus triple buffering makes a huge diff to smoothness of game in my marginal experience of it ...

BTW I do got me a pretty quick machine (despite it being on Vista) which could also make a bit of a difference, has a 3dMark 2006 around 13500 ... Intel Quad core Q6600 o'clocked to 3Ghz, Nvidia 8800GT 512MB overclocked to something like 690Mhz core and 1990 mem timings ... 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM (which is also tweaked a bit faster) and lots of extra cooling 'cos its hot here in summer without air-con in the house (might have to go "water cooled" with my next machine :evil

 

[Lee Downham]

Another thing I noticed with the settings that are posted up (not being a smart-arse honestly, was having another fiddle with my settings earlier whilst I was in the mood ) ... you should have good reason to turn the "threaded optimisation" to "off"? ... by default I would set it to "Auto" or even "Yes".

I have a quad core CPU, and most here I guess will have at least dual core systems, surely its better to take advantage of that fact ... unless Race07 has a problem with multicores/cpu's that I am not aware of?
:noidea:

To quote the Nvidia setup at tweakguides.com:
"Threaded Optimization: Controls the use of [CPU] multithreaded optimization for all 3D games on Dual Core/HyperThreading systems. The available settings are Auto, On and Off. I would strongly recommend the default option of Auto, allowing the drivers to set this appropriately for various games based on your hardware. Only turn Off for troubleshooting purposes if you believe a particular (older) game is not compatible with dual core CPUs."
(If you are interested, read all about the control panel settings here: TweakGuides.com - Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide)

Sorry, don't mean to hijack, but these settings are relevant to all the latest and probably all future drivers for some time to come ... just hoping that my ramblings help some folk get better system / graphics performance :thumb: