Latest drivers (NVidia and ATI)

[Jason G]

... the one I linked? 

Yes, and I quoted.  So just shows how vauable I think it is 

[Richard Haselgrove]

The UK download page for XP has been updated to show 160.89 (English, international) as WHQL - both in the description and the filename. I'll give it a try.

Edit - likewise Win7

[perryjay]

Guys, what are we talking here? I've got 258.96 and you're saying 160.89? Are we going backward? Is there any really good reason for me to grab it for my little 9500GT?

[Jason G]

260.89.  I think it may be pre-coffee post weekend hangover time in the UK, for UK nVidia guys, and possibly for Richard's fingers.

[Edit:]

... any really good reason for me to grab it for my little 9500GT?

  258.96 were good drivers,  260 range seem improved to me in some general aspects, so IMO worth a try.

[Richard Haselgrove]

260.89.  I think it may be pre-coffee post weekend hangover time in the UK, for UK nVidia guys, and possibly for Richard's fingers.

My fingers - possibly aggravated by lack of coffee. Read that as 260.89, throughout.

I knew it was a bad idea to take up posting again

[perryjay]

Okay, I've downloaded it, now for the dummy questions. One, will it interfere with my app_info in any way that I would have to change? Two, it says on the download page that it now has an option to remove older drivers, should I do this? I've always just installed over top of my old drivers and not had any problem. I do know to exit boinc completely before I do this. Three, I'm running 6.10.58, would there be any reason to go to 6.12.2 while I'm at it? I'm kinda avoiding that right now until they figure out what they are going to do with the messages and notices.

[Ghost0210]

Okay, I've downloaded it, now for the dummy questions. One, will it interfere with my app_info in any way that I would have to change? Two, it says on the download page that it now has an option to remove older drivers, should I do this? I've always just installed over top of my old drivers and not had any problem. I do know to exit boinc completely before I do this. Three, I'm running 6.10.58, would there be any reason to go to 6.12.2 while I'm at it? I'm kinda avoiding that right now until they figure out what they are going to do with the messages and notices.

Hi Perryjay,This is what I found when I installed these drivers:
Didn't have to modify the app_info and I didn't bother removing the old drivers (couldn't be bothered to setup my ntune profile again) and it runs as good as the old drivers did.
I'm still on 6.10.58 at the moment as I'm testing something, and apart from the benefit of the backup project change can see no reason to swap over to 6.12.2 just yet

[msattler]

Okay, I've downloaded it, now for the dummy questions. One, will it interfere with my app_info in any way that I would have to change? Two, it says on the download page that it now has an option to remove older drivers, should I do this? I've always just installed over top of my old drivers and not had any problem. I do know to exit boinc completely before I do this. Three, I'm running 6.10.58, would there be any reason to go to 6.12.2 while I'm at it? I'm kinda avoiding that right now until they figure out what they are going to do with the messages and notices.

Hi Perryjay,This is what I found when I installed these drivers:
Didn't have to modify the app_info and I didn't bother removing the old drivers (couldn't be bothered to setup my ntune profile again) and it runs as good as the old drivers did.
I'm still on 6.10.58 at the moment as I'm testing something, and apart from the benefit of the backup project change can see no reason to swap over to 6.12.2 just yet

Keep in mind that the 'project backoff' times in the newer versions of Boinc are INSANE.
If you want to try to keep things going when server connectivity is poor, they will cripple you.

I know it's about trying to shield the servers when they are having difficulty, but Jesus.....

[BANZAI56]

NVidia UK (GBR) is offering 160.89 WHQL, released today, as recommended for GeForce 9, XP.

Do y'all mean 260.89 rather than 160.89?



I wouldn't ask other than I'm having SETI computation issues with my 9500GT W2K rig at 257.21 with the 0.37 installer. 

(e non-optimized Collatz is still running fine on the GPU tho.)

[JohnDK]

NVidia UK (GBR) is offering 160.89 WHQL, released today, as recommended for GeForce 9, XP.

Do y'all mean 260.89 rather than 160.89?



I wouldn't ask other than I'm having SETI computation issues with my 9500GT W2K rig at 257.21 with the 0.37 installer. 

(The non-optimized Collatz is still running fine on the GPU tho.)

I'm sure it's 260.89, that's the version I'm downloading now.

But for the computation errors, have you used 0.36 installer? I would think that's the problem more than the Nvidia drivers.

[Ghost0210]

But for the computation errors, have you used 0.36 installer? I would think that's the problem more than the Nvidia drivers.

I haven't seen a lot of computation errors with the new 0.37 installer, would be suprised if the installer was causing this.
The x32f build is a lot more stable and produced less errors than the previous cuda build in Beta testing - what errors are you getting?

[JohnDK]

But for the computation errors, have you used 0.36 installer? I would think that's the problem more than the Nvidia drivers.

I haven't seen a lot of computation errors with the new 0.37 installer, would be suprised if the installer was causing this.
The x32f build is a lot more stable and produced less errors than the previous cuda build in Beta testing - what errors are you getting?

Didn't have errors when I tried 0.37 (I do use stock 6.09 now since it's faster on my PC). The reason I suggested trying 0.36 was more be course I just thought it's being more likely, solely based on a feeling

[Ghost0210]

Didn't have errors when I tried 0.37 (I do use stock 6.09 now since it's faster on my PC). The reason I suggested trying 0.36 was more be course I just thought it's being more likely, solely based on a feeling

Could be possible of course, if app_info is incorrect or file missing/corrupt from project folder - all really depends on what errors the cuda tasks are giving
I'm running the x32f build and the 260.89 drivers so may be worth BANZAI56 upgrading the drivers and re-running the installer to double check everything is correct

[SciManStev]

So far so good. I just installed it, and seem to be stable at 750 Watts. I have no issues yet.

Steve

[glennaxl]

With 260.89 on gtx 295, I can't seem to disable SLI but its crunching pretty well though.