22nd October, 2008, 05:24 PM
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| Nvidia launches "Big Bang II" beta drivers Written by Daniel Wednesday, 22 October 2008 Following in AMD’s footsteps, Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers that are optimized for the best experience on Far Cry 2. By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Published: October 22, 2008, 11:06 AM EST According to the company, the GeForce 180.42 beta drivers should provide a performance boost of up to 40 percent in the game, but there are a handful of other useful new features in this release. [Front Page...]
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22nd October, 2008, 05:32 PM
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22nd October, 2008, 05:51 PM
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| I hope your happy, you've just made me cry! ":O}
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22nd October, 2008, 06:10 PM
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| Don't cry. It's just great minds thinking alike 
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22nd October, 2008, 06:21 PM
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| What do you think brought on the tears! LOL
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22nd October, 2008, 06:48 PM
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 I'm going to be the "Guinea pig" & test these drivers out & see what they do with my games on XP...  I'll report back on my findings, good or bad. But first I'm going to make a complete backup of my OS Partition just in case... Just downloaded it & they made this a "special" driver by the icon they used for it...oow, perdy... This driver also has an updated version of the PhysX driver. PhysX_8.10.13_SystemSoftware I extracted the contents to a folder to see what was in there.
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22nd October, 2008, 06:52 PM
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| Safe voyage among the Cyber stars!
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22nd October, 2008, 09:28 PM
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 Results: Good & Bad... First the Good: 1. Very good FPS & Improved graphics quality. I tested it out on Crysis because the same company that made FarCry, also made Crysis. I have an average of 40 FPS on High settings using Fraps to see during gameplay. Now the Bad: 1. After installing the driver you have to reset the desktop color settings because it sets Digital Vibrance to 100%. 2. EVGA Precision OCing utility no longer has any fan control on your graphics card, so you card gets hotter when OCed. (screenshot) I always OC my card when playing graphics intensive games. Because I can't control the fan anymore I'm not keeping it installed, otherwise I would as I see no problems with my games. Also in the desktop control panel there is an added area called "Set PhysX configuration". With my card it just gives me 2 options. Enabled or Disabled. (On or off) Here's some screenshots (1400x960) of Crysis on medium & high using driver v180.42. Medium-left / High-right
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22nd October, 2008, 10:21 PM
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| You can download all of these drivers from AOA Files: 1xx-series nVidia Drivers
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