New Nvidia 180.48 Drivers released today 11/19

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#1 Gooeykat
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Supposedly they are pretty good.  Check it out.

 

www.nvidia.com

 

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#2 Devour2Survive
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It said it would give me a 10 percent increase in Crysis Warhead, but I haven't noticed a difference.
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#3 Lonehwolf1
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It said it would give me a 10 percent increase in Crysis Warhead, but I haven't noticed a difference.Devour2Survive

LOL XD

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#4 Floyd-TheBarber
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tyvm for the update and reminder! =)
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#5 redneckdouglas
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This update just made GTX 260 216 faster than AMD's 4870 1GB. :) Congrats to such owners.
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#6 bedram793
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Wow, only for 8800 and above?
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#7 nimatoad2000
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thank god they fianally came out, i have been checking the site daily for the last two weeks, i got the farcry 2 beta drivers for fc2 and while using them i had crashes in cod4 and lower fps in all other games..

i hope this fixes things and allows rivatuner to adjust fan speed again. thx for the thread.

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#8 Truth_Hurts_U
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I can't adjust my fan speeds any more with this new driver... Arg!

Anyone else having the same issues?

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#9 nimatoad2000
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it was the same with the previous beta's and now with these.. ARGHH nvidia!!!!!!
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#10 nimatoad2000
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it was the same with the previous beta's and now with these.. ARGHH nvidia!!!!!!
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#11 siskokidd
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Ive never been able to adjust fanspeed, but my computer is cool. i dont need to. ASUS p45 with an antec 900 case. The fan controller says i need an asus video card to control the fan. bummer.
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#12 GodLovesDead
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It said it would give me a 10 percent increase in Crysis Warhead, but I haven't noticed a difference.Devour2Survive

That's 178, these are 180 - you already received your boost.

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#13 X360PS3AMD05
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You're getting your boost, a 5FPS increase in Crysis WH :lol:
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#14 Truth_Hurts_U
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I switched my drivers back... Rather have fan speed control and stability... Then a few extra frames.

Maybe Nvidia will be smart next time and add fan speed support to it's drivers.

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#15 digitalman42
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It probaly means a 10% increase in the video card speed in warhead, not overall speed. Keep in mind 10% video increase is probably a 5% overall increase in a game.
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#16 znoop2006
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Wtf...I install'd the new drivers and my fan speed vanished from GPU-Z :(.Is there any fix for this?.I noticed a slightly little fps incrase in some cases with this driver,but i had a scene in 3dmark06 where my FPS dropped below 20 and usually it was a minimum of 30 with my old driver.I can't decide if its better to leave it on or rollback to 178.13 :|
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#17 Daytona_178
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Wtf...I install'd the new drivers and my fan speed vanished from GPU-Z :(.Is there any fix for this?.I noticed a slightly little fps incrase in some cases with this driver,but i had a scene in 3dmark06 where my FPS dropped below 20 and usually it was a minimum of 30 with my old driver.I can't decide if its better to leave it on or rollback to 178.13 :|znoop2006

You need to wait for the software makers to update tpo support the new drivers!

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#18 viper0982
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using these drivers cod5 finaly runs correctly, game doesnt slow down randomly just from looking a certain direction.
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#19 Floyd-TheBarber
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the new drivers are working fine for me. With Rivatuner i'm still able to control the fan-speed, and all my custom fan profiles remain unharmed.
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#20 Hot_Potato
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When were these released? I just updated my drivers this week, however I feel there's a slight possibility I have the older ones. How do you check your driver numbers? I'm kind of a noob at these things :P
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#21 Jamiemydearx3
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the new drivers are working fine for me. With Rivatuner i'm still able to control the fan-speed, and all my custom fan profiles remain unharmed.Floyd-TheBarber
Same
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#22 bedram793
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When do the 8600GT get new drivers?
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#23 Floyd-TheBarber
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When were these released? I just updated my drivers this week, however I feel there's a slight possibility I have the older ones. How do you check your driver numbers? I'm kind of a noob at these things :PHot_Potato
to check your current ones go to your Nvidia control panel and click "system information" under the help menu. it should tell you there. im not sure how to look at your previous drivers
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#24 DavidRI
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Update your nTools to 6.03 for fan speed control

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.03.html

 180.48 dricver claims:

  • Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
  • Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
  • Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
  • Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
  • Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
  • Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  • Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
  • Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
  • Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

 

Yeah, right!! ROFLMAO!

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#25 LibertySaint
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Update your nTools to 6.03 for fan speed control

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.03.html

 180.48 dricver claims:

  • Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
  • Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
  • Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
  • Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  • Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
  • Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
  • Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  • Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
  • Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
  • Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

 

Yeah, right!! ROFLMAO!

DavidRI
with my 9800gt i got a big increase in performance with warhead i went from getting a minium of 18 fps on gamer setting to a min of 23!!! more then expected, but with fall out 3 i seem to be getting more frame rate dips.....lost plant really did get a big jump i'm now getting a F* load of frames, i don;t need that game for benching anymore seeing as it runs as good as unreal tournment 3 now...or better lol.
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#26 TrooperManaic
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This driver is a bomb every couple of days I have to reinstall the driver because it messes up. I hope this is fixed soon because I can actually see this killing my computer.
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#27 Adversary16
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Thanks for the heads-up!
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#28 RayvinAzn
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Great job Nvidia...with these new drivers multi-core support in Left 4 Dead is bricked. If you update to the 180.48 drivers and experience random stuttering in Left 4 Dead it's probably the multi-core issue at work. Disable multi-core support in the game and things will smooth out.
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#29 Shing87
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thx for the reminding XD Nvidia rules...=X
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#30 DavidRI
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Great job Nvidia...with these new drivers multi-core support in Left 4 Dead is bricked. If you update to the 180.48 drivers and experience random stuttering in Left 4 Dead it's probably the multi-core issue at work. Disable multi-core support in the game and things will smooth out.RayvinAzn
On my machine with gtx 280 & quadcore, Left 4 dead runs fine. On my other system with a gtx 260, it stutters constantly. On my other system with 8800gts, the 180.48 driver freezes the video on the desktop right when Windows is done loading the ntools.
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#31 Gamerkat
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They suck

i crashed in l4d and in css

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#32 kemar7856
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ur not gonna notice 10% in crysis thats like 1-3fps lost planet is 80% increase that's huge
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#33 redneckdouglas
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It makes no sense buying any 4000 series card unless it's a 4850 or a 4870X2 for guys with singleslot PCI-Express x16.
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#34 digitalman42
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I'll take 1-3 extra frames over 0 extra frames any day, especially at no cost.
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#35 jak522
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80% in lost planet thats crazy
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#36 yetiHUNTER001
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New NVIDIA drivers 180.70 beta released 4 days ago . Go to guru 3d.com--->forums----> nvidia drivers . And there are the 180.60 drivers too.
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#37 Swiftstrike5
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I hate these drivers. Some of my older games using OpenGl started to crash more often and I got much worse performance also. Graphical glitches on games using older versions of DirectX (DX 8 I think). Piss poor performance in L4D at some points (drastic loss of FPS during intense action from my older drivers).