Nvidia Geforce 178.13 XP/Vista Drivers with PhysX Released.

[MUff1N]

I just checked their site & this driver is for all graphics cards 6 series & up... Nvidia Drivers Download Site/US.
Normally I'm on top of this but these have been out for 5 days already.
I'll post my testing results after I get it installed & ran.

# WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, and 9400 GT GPUs.
# Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04).
# Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
# Adds support for 2-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
# Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
# Supports CUDA™.
# Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
# Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
# Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.13 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:

* Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
* Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
* Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
* Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
* 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
* 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10

# Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

[MUff1N]

Slight improvement over the 177.98 drivers I had installed from 12083-12087.
I'm sure this was a big improvement over the 175.19 drivers though.
So this driver package gets my !

[timmysk]

I was just wondering if that would work on my 8600 gt 256mb on my dell labtop?

[danrok]

It should work, but might slow things down a little. You'll just have to try and see.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by timmysk

I was just wondering if that would work on my 8600 gt 256mb on my dell labtop?

Will it work? Yes
Will it improve the performance of your card? Only testing will tell.
You'll just have to check them out to see how they perform on your laptop.

Btw Timmy, welcome to the AOA forums!

[Samuknow]

I'll load these up. And forget forlding for team nVidia. AOA all the way----Team 45.

[danrok]

This site specialises in laptop video drivers, just in case you get stuck:
NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com

[dsio]

Driver supports CUDA for GPU folding as well incidentally.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by dsio

Driver supports CUDA for GPU folding as well incidentally.

These new drivers Nvidia released support everything.
They should at almost 90mbs!

[ThunderRd]

@dsio:

Maybe you know already, but just in case...even thought there's no GPU client for Linux (yet) you can run the windows client in WINE, see here for some info:
Folding Forum • View topic - GPU2 in Linux via WINE
This page in particular:
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...tart=75#p45909


You could get that 8800GT working for the team...it looks like a bit of work to get the wrapper sussed but it's worth 3500-4000 ppd for the project.

[dsio]

Man I tried running GPU2 + SMP client under windows for a while, and I got a loud screaching from my UPS.

I think while games can push it, this system had never experienced all four cores under stress while the gpu was also under stressed and that must have pushed it over its limit.

Will give it a go under linux with the UPS removed when I can.

[ThunderRd]

If you had to make a choice, it would be more productive to run the GPU client than the SMP. Under Linux as well.

I can say, though, the Linux SMP client draws fewer watts than the Windows client [at least for me, YMMV], so you may be able to get them both going under Linux without your UPS complaining. I think all the info you would need to run it in WINE is in that thread I gave you.

If the UPS still gives you a problem and you were successful in running the Win GPU2 client in WINE, run that instead of the SMP for a large gain in ppd.