Nvidia 177.79 Drivers and the 8800GT

Good news. It's all officially launched now. We've got ForceWare 177.83 WHQL, which includes PhysX 8.08.01. Get them here. They also have tech demos to show off your swanky new PhysX abilities.

Hopefully these new drivers fix the CoH issue.


Yep, all fixed. Though I still can't get CoH to run in hardware PhysX mode. I tried manually copying a new PhysXcore.dll file into the City of Heroes directory, but the updater had a fit and fixed it back. Even if I replaced it when the updater was done, no dice; the game must see that it's not the CoH .dll file. I only bring this up because doing so enables PhysX in UT3.

It wouldn't me too much effort for NCNC to use the new PhysX .dll, but I'd rather they focus on this world-beating I13.

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to enable physx in cox you actually need a physx card

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That would go against the entire idea of CUDA. It's all about driver libraries.

so, for those who aren't techie but would like to use the phsyz enabled drivers ( i am techie, but got lost in all the version numbers)

Could someone be so kind as to show a list of versions numbers containing physx that are relevant to the correct operating system please?

example :

Windows XP 32 bit SP2 / SP3 should be running with x version of Nvidia driver.

Windows XP 64 bit should be running x version of nvidia driver

Vista 32 bit version should be running x driver version.

Afaik 177.83 WHQL is the driver you wanna run at the moment thats it for 8 series.


My only issue that is still not resolved is that anyone using more than 2 monitor setups via hardware (Triplehead2go etc etc) use the drivers with caution i still got some BSD's with those drivers although i managed to work around it on my rig for now.

I'm using Windows Vista 64, and with an 8800GT, and this driver still hasn't solved the occasional crashes. The difference however is this time I got an error window which said open GL had encountered a problem and had to close the application. I guess that's progress of a sort.

other than that the driver seems good, frame rate seemed up a little. Its an annoyance that they still haven't nailed those crashes.

XP 32-bit: http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nod...ional_whql.exe
XP 64-bit: http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nod...ional_whql.exe
Vista 32-bit: http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nod...ional_whql.exe
Vista 64-bit: http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nod...ional_whql.exe

Thanks Spad.

I'm now running this version and to me things seems a little crisper in game, too.. but that might be just me thinking that, and therefore seeing it, rather than it actually being correct.

Alternatively, it might be that i just haven't played villains since i had my 2 new 8800GT's installed...But i'm sure i've loaded up villains at some point since..

Im using the GeForce Release 175 drivers on a Geforce 8400 GS on XP.

Basically the drivers increased my speed a fair bit when i put it on, but randomly now i will get a lag spike until i do /reloadgfx

Also since updating the drivers i get a lot of game freezes, where the entire computer just stops responding and needs to be manually reset.

Ive reverted now and its fine again, although a fair bit slower lag wise compared to GeForce Release 175 driver.

New rig arrived yesterday, so I thought I'd chime in with my experience of the new drivers.

I'm now running the current version of the Nvidia drivers (177.41), plus the Nvidia PhysX package (8.06.12) on a Gainward GTX 280 under Win XP Pro, with 2GB of 1150Mhz DDR RAM on a 3.33Ghz Intel Dual Core (E8600).

Naturally, it looks fantastic in CoX with stupidly high FPS even when everything is on maximum/200%.
Surprisingly, I've not encountered any graphics-related problems so far at all, even texture glitches.

However, the PhysX support option is still greyed out in CoH.

Getting a similar problem myself, ticket below sent to support:

While playing, my monitor "switches itself off" during gameplay. The Monitor goes blank, then shows the message "No Signal" as if the PC was switched off and then the LED turns amber to go to powersaveing mode.
This can happen within 5 minutes of logging on or 2 hours, but once it has switched off there is no way to get the image bak (have tried switching the monitor back on at the switch, still get the same "No Signal" message and the monitor LED goes to amber), and the only option I have is to reset the PC.

I am currently dual booting with Vista 64bit which I know you do not support, so have fresh installed onto XP home edition as well on a seperate partition and am still getting the same problem.

I thought I had temporarily solved the problem as I normally have dual screen setup and I setup with only one monitor, I was no longer getting the "No Signal" message, however instead the screen would go blank for a second, then close COH and a message stating "A driver had stopped responding and has been succesfully recovered". Doing some research into this message, I then tried the single monitor on XP, which still gave me the "No Signal" message, and now having gone back to Vista 64, even with the single monitor I am again getting the "No Signal" message.

I am using a Athalon 5200 Processor with a 8800GT card.
I have tried the 175.19 drivers (current recommended, also tried rolling back to 175.16 and also the 175.83 drivers, I have ensured each time I have changed them that the old ones were uninstalled and that I ran Driver Cleaner 1.5 to ensure all traces were gone.

I have also checked all other drivers (motherboard and soundcard) are fully up to date.

Have sent DXDIAG and Everest reports to support as well, they have let me know it is a known issue, but don't have a fix as yet.

Anyone got any idea's please?

Anyone tried the new 177.92 drivers? For what I've read same package includes the PhysX software so no need to install it separately. Will try it later today myself, just curious if anyone had already tried it.

I've tried these 177.92 beta drivers with the PhysX software included in the driver package. The game looks better with the Very High Resolution plus managed to play a few hours yesterday without the "driver stopped responding" thingie (or however it is translated into English on a system with Vista 32 bit and 8800GTX card.

If this driver stops the random crashing for good (weekend stretch test pending) then me iz happy

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Good luck this weekend testing these drivers and I, like so many others, look forward to hearing your report on them, good or bad.

2nd day, and so far no crashes, (5 hours logged and no crashes is unusual).

What worries me now is the alleged massive security breach on Vista discoverd this month, trying to get a link in English.
For what I've read it goes as far as people announcing Microsoft will have to retire Vista and build a brand new OS

Is this what you've read?


Linky

Pretty much, I got a review from a spanish website about the matter.

I hope this is a hoax or something like that since not sure what steps to take right now, prolly for the time being getting rid of Internet Explorer and getting Firefox... or formatting and getting back to XP, no idea what to do tbh

That's rather a lot of scaremongering. The exploit cannot run if you leave UAC enabled, and thus IE will be running in protected mode and the DLL needed won't have access to the rest of the system. Ignore it, guys.

Good to know, thanks FFM!

What is UAC btw?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control

Cool thx, I already got that enabled

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2nd day, and so far no crashes, (5 hours logged and no crashes is unusual).

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This is looking hopeful, very hopeful.... I am keeping my fingers (and toes for good measure) crossed.

Thanks for the update, I look forward to hearing how you get on still in the next hours/days to come.

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Getting a similar problem myself, ticket below sent to support:

While playing, my monitor "switches itself off" during gameplay. The Monitor goes blank, then shows the message "No Signal" as if the PC was switched off and then the LED turns amber to go to powersaveing mode.
This can happen within 5 minutes of logging on or 2 hours, but once it has switched off there is no way to get the image bak (have tried switching the monitor back on at the switch, still get the same "No Signal" message and the monitor LED goes to amber), and the only option I have is to reset the PC.

I am currently dual booting with Vista 64bit which I know you do not support, so have fresh installed onto XP home edition as well on a seperate partition and am still getting the same problem.

I thought I had temporarily solved the problem as I normally have dual screen setup and I setup with only one monitor, I was no longer getting the "No Signal" message, however instead the screen would go blank for a second, then close COH and a message stating "A driver had stopped responding and has been succesfully recovered". Doing some research into this message, I then tried the single monitor on XP, which still gave me the "No Signal" message, and now having gone back to Vista 64, even with the single monitor I am again getting the "No Signal" message.

I am using a Athalon 5200 Processor with a 8800GT card.
I have tried the 175.19 drivers (current recommended, also tried rolling back to 175.16 and also the 175.83 drivers, I have ensured each time I have changed them that the old ones were uninstalled and that I ran Driver Cleaner 1.5 to ensure all traces were gone.

I have also checked all other drivers (motherboard and soundcard) are fully up to date.

Have sent DXDIAG and Everest reports to support as well, they have let me know it is a known issue, but don't have a fix as yet.

Anyone got any idea's please?

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I think from previous experience with mine you need to turn down your resolution a little, it did it with me too for a while, i dont understand it either but it worked fine after i put it down one setting.

Also check your settings on your computer arent set to 'Force' anything because that causes a lot of bugs.

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2nd day, and so far no crashes, (5 hours logged and no crashes is unusual).

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This is looking hopeful, very hopeful.... I am keeping my fingers (and toes for good measure) crossed.

Thanks for the update, I look forward to hearing how you get on still in the next hours/days to come.

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And 3rd day and two crashes in less than 3 hours

Weird, tody it displayed an error window:

The Nvidia OpenGL driver found an unrecoverable error and had to close the application

Error 14

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2nd day, and so far no crashes, (5 hours logged and no crashes is unusual).

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This is looking hopeful, very hopeful.... I am keeping my fingers (and toes for good measure) crossed.

Thanks for the update, I look forward to hearing how you get on still in the next hours/days to come.

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And 3rd day and two crashes in less than 3 hours

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Oh blast! I had high hopes this time around especially after your initial 5 hour run with no crashes.

If it's any consolation, your frustration at this is being shared by me and many many others... pity that collective frustration can't get things moving to finally fix this problem... clearly it's resolution is to a large extent out of hands and in the hands of..... well.... who's hands is it in???

I live in the hope (hopefully not vain hope) that this well get resolved sooner than later with a future driver release.

Meanwhile, frustration appears to be our lot in life both real and virtual