below/with 1280 resolution, 86GT/GTs just run pretty well, somehow beyond 1280 resolution, 88 series would be best choice


graphic card, depending on your desire gaming resolution before making any purchase and yet monitor > 60Hertz refresh rate would bring different gaps performance compare to just only 60Hertz

This post has been edited by eluna: Jun 7 2007, 08:30 PM

HELLO~~~~ No one knows the answer?

Guys, wanted to know, what is the latest and most stable driver to use on the 8800GTS?

go and check www.nvidia.com.
They'll have with them the most stable driver.
But if you would like to use beta drivers, then need to do some googling..

Ic..But which do you guys really suggest?Is there any difference using those beta drivers or those Nvidia certified one?

I'm currently using 158.27 (downloaded from Guru3D) as opposed to nvidia's official ones which is 158.22 and so far so good. Havent encountered any problem.

i get this from the Guru3D website, regarding the driver Sprinta using

ForceWare 158.27 for Windows 2000/XP/MCE just popped up everywhere on the internet. WHQL or not, this is to be considered a beta driver, we always recommend using the latest official NVIDIA driver.

The best is to use the latest official Driver.

So, downloading the driver from nvidia's site would surely be the latest stable one?

i just have everything on max but no AA as my card crashes on AA for some reason

Really hope the problem is due to poor coding of the game. If not, even the 8800GTS series looked doomed on DX10 games..LOL..

no u guys should read up

aa/as still driver problem on vista.
heck on sli even worse.
cant enable both of them.. cause it will cause ramdom crashes.

i not sure who is giving u the idea that vista is stable.

this are vista driver problems

1. no AS/AF
2. Video Overlay random crashes
3. SLI very buggy
4. OpenAL /OpenGL performance is really bad.



This post has been edited by cstkl1: Jun 8 2007, 09:37 AM

so its BOTH of them enabled causing random crashes? so its not my graphic card then? thats the confirmation i needed. anyways thanks for the reply man.

but from what i read on the vista beta drivers release notes, AA/AF issues are fixed, but i guess nvidia lies

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just to clarify ive never had the impression or said anything that vista is stable, and i do know of their various issues, just not this one. overall, this issue doesnt affect me much except the annoyance that i couldnt pump out more detail seeing as i have a GTX.

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jun 8 2007, 10:46 AM

i was thinking about this too, and I don't think it's possible unless there's a DVI to HDMI dongle for the card. I wonder if the 2900XT's dongle will work on the 8800 series.

Vista issues ? Hmmm. single 8800gtx experience:

Buggy yes (IE has crashed a few times) performance wise ? maybe slower than XP, but still plenty fast. AA and AF ? Works fine on some titles with no problems. OpenGL ? Haven't installed my copy of D3 and Q4 yet. Game crashes ? None so far. (cnc3, stalker, call of juarez, far cry, RE4, colin mcrae dirt demo).

My user experience = it's ok. wouldn't change back to XP.

tried both AA/AF? my graphic card just dies (windows still functioning rofl... got background sound/music during game, just graphic dies out. but if i go alt+ctrl+del can see the screen lol... and have to restart from there)

other than that, no issues at all.

but since its mentioned BOTH aa/af causing crash, i havent tried JUST AA without AF. have to try it out to confirm, cuz all the games i run i have AF maxed, no issues, just when i turn on AA, after a period of time randomly it'll crash (ONLY the graphics)

yup. I run my games with AA+AF.

akachester: You can stick with the WHQL ones or get the latest beta from www.nzone.com.

then what could be my problem ;

cheer EOMA. but is the ATI dongle availble for sale? i tot that small little dongle can only be bought with an ATI card...

another question.. if and IF i get the HDMI output dongle does that mean i can discard the audio cable as well since HDMI is both for AUDIO and VIDEO also right?

on a side note has anyone with a GTX and ULTRA tried the Doug Jones Human Head demo.......that demo is sick. i know its supposed to be an ULTRA demo but the whole thing still ran butter smooth on my GTX.. its damn unreal

for those who are interested here is the linky!!
HUMAN HEAD ULTRA DEMO

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Added on June 8, 2007, 3:39 pmi think u have to go the NVIDIA SETTING. from there u can access the display setting for each display

some tvs are stuck to 800x600 so u cant change them anyways..

what tv is this card hooked on anyways?

This post has been edited by obefiend: Jun 8 2007, 03:39 PM

If I remember correctly, the tv out adjustments are just not working (yet) in Vista. Blame Nvidia.

haven't heard of it being sold seperately, maybe buy it off someone with a 2900XT ?
Erm, if you're not using a 2900XT then an audio cable would still be neccesary since in the case of the 2900XT, it's the card itself which is generating the audio signals, hence only 1 HDMI connection for both video and audio. Don't think you can pass audio through the GTX and out the HDMI link.

thx for the clarification on HDCP supporting specs...
i wouldnt expect it require both LCD + gc to be HDCP compliant...
guess i miss out HDCP feature for taking the 1st batch 8600gt...

ok.. good enough for an answer... thanks dude...