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    • brodieB Offline
      brodie
      last edited by

      Anyone w/ an 8800GT happy w/ their driver? Right now I've got 6.14.11.7516 and it works ok w/o the Anti-Aliasing turned on. When I turn AA on in the OpenGL options the lines look much better but I often get an issue where as I'm working for a second the colors will shift around the screen and lock up for a second (sorry, I can't recall the name for it but I know it's a common graphics card issue).

      I just tried the 169.02 which was the SU recommended one but had similar issues.

      -Brodie

      steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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      • tbdT Offline
        tbd
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        I use 169.25 with hard acceleration, fast feedback, 4x AA and I have no problems

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        • brodieB Offline
          brodie
          last edited by

          Hrm...looks like that's only for Vista, I'm running XP 32 bit. I think I'm going to try the latest one 178.13 and see what happens.

          -Brodie

          steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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            dylan
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            I have recently had to change my 8600GT 512mb after trying so many different drivers and never getting it right in SU.

            http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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            • C Offline
              chango70
              last edited by

              I've upgraded to 176.something something already. From Nvidia website I think.

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                Stu
                last edited by

                @unknownuser said:

                I have recently had to change my 8600GT 512mb after trying so many different drivers and never getting it right in SU.

                What did you change to Dylan?......and what prolems did it solve?

                Im thinking of seriously of scrapping my 512 8800GT and getting something like a nVidia GeForce GTX 260, http://www.trustedreviews.com/graphics/
                but to be honest it would be pretty much a stab in the dark.

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                • brodieB Offline
                  brodie
                  last edited by

                  Reporting back w/ my findings...

                  I've been using what seems to be the latest driver as of this writing (178.13) for a couple days now pretty intensively and it's been working great for me.

                  Basically the performance w/ AA enabled (I think I'm at x4) as my old driver was w/o AA. Beyond that I don't have the weird graphics issues I had before on my old driver w/ AA on.

                  -Brodie

                  steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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