NVIDIA ForceWare 163.67

[Spajdr]

Windows XP

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• Release Notes

Release Highlights:

• Beta driver release.
• This driver supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 support.
• Improved compatibility for Crysis and BioShock.

Windows Vista

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• Release Notes

Release Highlights:

• Beta driver release.
• This driver supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
• Improved compatibility for Crysis and BioShock.

Changes in Version 163.67

What’s New in Version 163.67
New Features
• Improved performance of the graphics on GeForce
8 series GPUs running DirectX 9 applications in single‐GPU
configurations.
These improvements solve cases of reported performance slowdowns in
some 3D applications with high graphics settings and resolutions.

This driver supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
Improved compatibility for Crysis and BioShock.


Fixed Issues–Windows 32-bit
Fixed Single-GPU Issues
All GPUs

• Company of Heroes (DirectX 10) ‐ ʺout‐of‐memoryʺ errors may occur
at high resolutions and high antialiasing levels.
GeForce 8 Series GPUs
• GeForce 8600 GTS: The Microsoft DirectX SDK Blob demo–the screen
turns blank when changing the multisample type while in full‐screen
mode. GPUs GeForce 7300GT, GeForce 6150/6100: The display becomes corrupted
after entering Hibenate mode from Standby mode (linked standbyhibernate).
• GeForce 7050PV/7025, Civilization4–the game menudoesnʹt show the options. [330106]
Fixed SLI Mode Issues
• [SLI]: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl–game performance with
SLI mode enabled may be lower than under single‐GPU mode in
some areas. [321749]
• [SLI], GeForce 8600: Age of Empires 3–blue‐screen crash or blank
screen occurs after exiting the game. [322085]
• [SLI], GeForce 8600: 3DMark06–ʺGT2‐Firefly Forestʺ shows massive
corruption at 1600x1200 resolution with 8xAA enabled. [321355]
• [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: 3DMark05–the benchmark crashes or
results in an intermittent blank screen when run with Override AA set
(from the Control Panel) and at resolutions higher than
1920x1200. [330368]
• [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The desktop resolution resets to
800x600 after switching between SLI‐mode enable and SLI‐mode
disable. [327233]

Fixed Issues–Windows Vista 64-bit
Fixed Single-GPU Issues

• GeForce 7300GT, GeForce 6150/6100: The display becomes corrupted
after entering Hibernate mode from Standby mode (linked standbyhibernate).
[339269]
Fixed SLI Mode Issues
• [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Screensaver crashes after resuming from
preview. [340179]
• [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The system automatically restarts
when SLI is either enabled or disabled with UAC enabled. [332104]

[Masster]

Podle popisu to vypada, ze tohle by mohlo byt konecne reseni onoho memory bugu u 320MB verzi 8800GTS, uvidime, jestli se na to nekdo podiva.

[Spajdr]

od unwindera, autora rivatuneru (nelze zatím taktovat přes rivatuner)

Guys, I've got very good news for G80 owners. I've just examined overclocking interfaces of newly released 163.67 drivers and I was really pleased to see that NVIDIA finally added an ability of independent shader clock adjustment. As you probably know, with the past driver families the ForceWare automatically overclocked G80 shader domain synchronicallly with ROP domain using BIOS defined Shader/ROP clock ratio. Starting from 163.67 drivers internal ForceWare overclocking interfaces no longer scale shader domain clock when ROP clock is adjusted and the driver now provides completely independent shader clock adjustment interface. It means that starting from ForceWare 163.67 all overclocking tools like RivaTuner, nTune, PowerStrip or ATITool will adjust ROP clock only.
However, new revisions of these tools supporting new overclocking interfaces will probably allow you to adjust shader clock too. Now I've played with new interfaces and upcoming v2.04 will contain an experimental feature allowing power users to definie custom Shader/ROP ratio via the registry, so RT will clock shader domain together with ROP domain using user defined ratio.
And v2.05 will give you completely independent slider for adjusting shader clock independently of core clock.

[Masster]

3DMark06 w/ 163.44 = 12626

3DMark06 w/ 163.67 = 14048

To je docela velky skok

Taky lidi hlasi zmizeni memory bugu ve FEAR, CoH, Stalker uz taky nekterym neblbne.

[tnema]

8800GTS 640MB 650/2000/1512 E6600 3,6GHz rozdíl pár bodů (-9) v 3D2006 (zanedbatelné),
F.E.A.R. 1600*1200 2*AA+8*AF nárůst min 3 FPS

[Zilla]

Chvili jsem uvazoval, jestli to sem napsat, ale zrejme mi instalaci tohoto driveru zmizel zahadny bug, ktery se mi uz nejakou dobu projevoval v systemu:

cas od casu se mi stalo, ze jsem pri prochazeni adresaru proste "uvazl na mrtvem bode". Otevrene okno prestalo reagovat a obsah slozky se nenacetl, stavalo se mi to i na urovni zobrazeni obsahu rootu, resp. slozky Tento pocitac. Trvalo treba 10 minut, nez se pocitac jakoby probral a obsah slozky zobrazil, ale jakmile se chyba poprve objevila, uz jsem se ji do restartu nezbavil, zacala se pak projevovat vicemene porad. Kdyz jsem se pokusil prazdne okno zavrit, tak se mi shodil a zrestartoval Explorer, a pak to zase chvilinku bezelo. Parkrat to zaslo az tak daleko, ze mi system spadl do BSOD s chybou nvidiackeho driveru.

Nerad bych to zakrikl, ale od instalace teto verze se mi tahle lapalie jeste neobjevila, takze doufam, ze uz je nadobro pryc...