Best nvidia drivers?

Hey guys i have a 6800gt and i was wondering which drivers have given you guys the best performance?

 

What brand is it, if any? Different brands yeild different results with drivers, or at least they used to.

 

personally i use the beta 77.76's... fast and stable for me and my 6800 heavily OC'ed

 

also using the 6800gt the problem with drivers now that every release includes alot of updates and driver fixes for games and the likes, you would have to read the readme for the release set you prefer and the one after it, to verify that whatever you play isnt being affected.

 

oops, i meant im using the newest beta set.

 

i use the 40.72 drivers for my Geforce Ti4400 : )

 

wow,what a happy guy!6800gt,that's what i want!


enhh,i am using the gf 5900 and in my opinion,....66.93 may be the best and i have read about much of this one ...it offers the best effects in the hf2 and
far cry....


last...i don't really think it has alot of effects of the board.....you can get more 2--5 points in the MARKS ..only...after you have setted for long long time...on the board...

 

it has been proved that "the lastest ,the best"......is WRONG!!

i have used the 71.20.....the points i got ...came down alot....errrrrr

of course , i am using the gf 5X and you are the gf 6X..i don't resure that they are terrible the same.

 

oh....can HOLA you understand chinese???wow,i think you will have to study chinese first then come into this one......errrrr
具体推荐如下：GeForce256显卡无论Win98和Win2000都推荐27.42版驱动。 GeForce2 GTS Win98下推荐41.09版，Win2000下推荐40.72版, WinXP下推荐41.09版； GeForce2 MX Win98下推荐40.72版，Win2000下推荐42.01版, WinXP下推荐42.01版；GeForce3 Ti系列 Win2000下推荐44.03版, WinXP下推荐43.51版；GeForce4 MX系列Win98下推荐40.72版，Win2000下推荐43.51版, WinXP下推荐43.51版；对于GeForce4 Ti系列我们是全系统推荐43.51版。
this is from a chinese forum and i think we need it ...all the same...?!//

do you know chinese ? look this if the key is right !:
http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/bbs/showtopic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43804&Forum_id=18&page=

 

O f course i can offer you the link..and if you know chinese...errr,waiting for your answer......i don't mean to beat anyone here and what i want is to just ..prove something taht someone doesn't understand!!!

 

well bad news for you i only know español and inglish.

 

brilliant.....two ?yes ...I know two too...English and 中文

落霞与孤骛齐飞，秋水共长天一色.----王勃《腾王阁序》


if anyone can understand this, i will prefer sending my computer .....to that guy.
who can translate it?try to?

 

Damn i tried to translate it, but all i can translate is 中文 which means chinese because it looks like chinese and not japanese.... wait what the heck!!!! how did you wrote chinese!!! do you have a chinese keyboard???

 

I have had a situation (not personal) where I was trying to run a game using the 77.x drivers, but found out that the 66.x drivers worked better. So, I uninstalled the 77.x drivers and installted the 66.x drivers and the older game worked flawlessly. BUT. Halo and and a few others had major rendering problems. Switch to the newer drivers and the newer games worked great but the older ones didn't.

I just want to clarify, this was not my personal computer, and the video card was a 6600gt.

So, my question is, what games are we talking about here? Old ones or new ones?

 

oh, i started to know how the drivers worked....errrr..maybe....
but,as i have said,i have read about a report of some "STRONG" game s that comes out lately...for EX:HF2 and doom3...FarCry...

and but again..the drivers in it does not contain a 7X one,all of them are the 6X and 4X ones...oh, i have a 5900.so the best maybe the 6X ones....

it did sure that the 72.17 that i have tried didn't give me any surprise.when i use it..many games' frames get down ...not smoothly running.

is this right that the 7X offers better for the 6X00 Video cardS?

if so....i 'll prefer changing one...6600GT may be the nice choice.

 

hey hola...I really started to believe your opinions!"THE EFFECTS IS EFFECTED BY MANY FACTORS" so good a guy.

 

Cool i also have a 5900 se and the best driver was 77.72 and i didn't see any difference when i changed to 77.77. (when i changed the driver to 77.72 it went 100+ 3dmarks for 3Dmark05)

 

A link to an older article I wrote...
http://www.goldfishsbowl.co.uk/?p=15

This was some time ago, and done using my Ti4200. I never had the time to do the full investigation. From what I can see, newer drivers have (or at least had) different optimisations depending on trends in 3D applications at the time of release. Running a new benchmark with new drivers will have comparable results to an old benchmark with old drivers.

Also, some drivers support higher functions which older versions do not support. Disabling these functions (such as higher version shaders) will dramatically increace performance, since the card is doing less work. This does not mean the card works any faster in reality though!

However, its possible to disable Shaders in new drivers too. I've disabled 2.0 in my current driver set, because this card is complete crap and none of the games I have require 2.0. Along with other tweaks, I get both the performance of an older driver which doesn't support the new functions while ALSO getting the optimisations for the newer games which I run.

Similarly, if you have an older card, optimisations for that card/chipset will be phased out in favour of newer models to conserve disk space and improve stability / reliablity.

Anyway, thats what I've found since the last argument in this forum about old drivers