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#3 ·
Godwin said:
None. The version of nforce has little (less than 1FPS) to no effect on speeds in games. It all depends on CPU and GPU and maybe latency on the RAM.
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forceware = graphics drivers mate.


it depends on your graphics card, if you have a 7 series or below, 94.20 give the best performance, altho the most recent drivers might be just as good. The bug that appeared in 94.24 has been fixed according to RPGWizard
 
#5 ·
I used Forceware 91.47 on 7900 GS (bundle driver)NO OC FPS 49- 120
---------------" 91.47 "--------- "------------" OC FPS 64- 150
And on by way 163.17 7900 GS NO OC FPS 50- 120
---------------" 91.47 "--------- "------------" OC FPS 64 -136
Now !! I can say " Forceware Newer work better for Non oc User " ^^
What about other ?
 
#6 ·
If you want you can give Omegadrivers.net a try, I belive that it can support overclocking a little better, but I have found if your board has an Nvidia Nforce, than using forceware and Nview, and Nvidia monitor is DEFINATLY the best option
 
#7 ·
Vista ultimate sucks, business is the way to go :) (in response to your sig)

as for the forceware. i have found that the newest forceware has dropped my FPS by about 10 in every PC game i have. It dropped pcsx2 performance for about 1 fps.
 
#9 ·
KhaosTheory said:
That is your personal choice, I have not had one problem to this day.
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Yeah it is personal choice. For me, i am never going to use media center, and the Vista Ultimate extras....well they leave a LOT to be desired, thats for sure. Other than that, ultimate has nothing over business except the exceptionally high price tag :p.

If someone handed me a copy for free would i use it over business? Probably.
Would i go out and buy it when i already have business? not a chance in hell.
If ultimate and business were the same price would i get ultimate? debatable...

But hey, if your making use of the two extra features in ultimate, good on ya :)
 
#10 ·
shockertwin said:
Yeah it is personal choice. For me, i am never going to use media center, and the Vista Ultimate extras....well they leave a LOT to be desired, thats for sure. Other than that, ultimate has nothing over business except the exceptionally high price tag :p.

If someone handed me a copy for free would i use it over business? Probably.
Would i go out and buy it when i already have business? not a chance in hell.

But hey, if your making use of the two extra features in ultimate, good on ya :)
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I like the Media Center for look on an HDTV, but you are right it is trival.
When I orginally bought it, it was my first vista experance, so I figured if I gave big brother a little extra cash, maybe they would throw me a bone every once and a while. I do belive there might be a differance with SP1 though.
The 100 extra bucks I can see as being a difference. Like I stated before I had never operated either one, so I didn't know the difference. The my local computer store was out of stock of PRO X64,(I am planning on 8gb of ram), so I went ULT, but hey it wasn't my money, so no harm done.
 
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Well at least yo ugot the Vista x86_64. the xp pro version isnt great.

Media center would be amazing on an hdtv. If i had a pc dedicated solely to being a PVR/media center, i would probably use ultimate (or myth tv:p). But seing as how i got a Playstation 3 (which i really wish could play my backed up ps2 games that i melted :(), i am not wasting my money on that garbage.

I really hope your right about SP1 being good for ultimate. Microsoft promised that the ultimate extras would be well worth the upgrade to ultimate. The thing is that so far, its been nothing special outside of a crappy card game :(

Back onto the forceware. Anyone know which as thus far been the bext 8800 forceware? I am not exactly impressed with the latest version.
 
#12 ·
shockertwin said:
Well at least yo ugot the Vista x86_64. the xp pro version isnt great.
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It freakin sucks!
I had it for 2 years, and it was a waste of space.

MS released Pro X64 not for 64 bit computing at all. It was to start getting driver coders to put in 64 bit drivers, *drum roll*, for Vista. It is the worst operating system since Mil Edition!
 
#13 · (Edited)
For PCSX2 you should be using either 94.20 or older or 163.67 or newer, 94.24 was the first driver to introduce a texture management bug and was finally fixed in 163.44 but I generally recommend upgrading at least to 163.67 though especially if you're a 8800GTS 320MB owner.

I saw ~50% FPS reductions in some games with a driver that had this bug on PCSX2.

Currently I'm using Xtreme-G 163.71 32bit BETA driver and this is the fastest driver that isn't both fast but also have awesome IQ. This is the best driver so far I've tried with my card at least. In some games you can see a few FPS difference between 9x.xx drivers and the latest 163.6x or 163.7x drivers, generally nvidia drivers seems to have improved a lot with these latest drivers IMO, both IQ but also performance wise. In PCSX2 it's only a matter of around 2 at most where the FPS is quite high for me in RE4 for example but still something.
 
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RPGW1ZaRD said:
For PCSX2 you should be using either 94.20 or older or 163.67 or newer, 94.24 was the first driver to introduce a texture management bug and was finally fixed in 163.44 but I generally recommend upgrading at least to 163.67 though especially if you're a 8800GTS 320MB owner.
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Is that the same for the 640mb version of the 8800GTS?
 
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hjh5990 said:
RPGW1ZaRD:so is the 94.20 for older cards, and if so, how old? I have a GeForce4 MX (yea...).



well, youll definitely have problems in the future.
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For a GF4 MX I'd suggest try 93.71 perhaps. This card isn't supported in the later drivers so. Back in the days I had a GF4 Ti 4200 64MB card I found OMEGAs 44.03 driver to be the absolutely best but this is a bit old by now and may cause compability issues with some games I could imagine.
 
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hjh5990 said:
oh ,yea i just found the omega drivers yesterday. so would you prefer 93.71 or the omega drivers.
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If image quality is more important, try 93.71, if performance try OMEGAs.

93.71 was an usually great 9x.xx driver for me that was very balanced and had both awesome image quality and performance, it was the best 9x.xx driver for me.
 
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