December 27, 200619 yr Guys, I need a recommendation on an Nvidia video driver. I bought a new Nvidia 7600 GS card with 512MB today which was a substantial upgrade from my old Nvidia 4800 Se card! In any case, I have downloaded and installed the current WHQL approved Nvidia drivers, 93.71. They run ok, but flash some and are slightly jerky. I was wondering can anybody tell me which drivers might run the most stable for this card?Also are there any specific settings I ought to put into the cfg files for FS9 (which is all I will run...dont like FSX.)?ThanksEric AND
December 27, 200619 yr Hi Eric,Have a look here since there is no "best" driver so just alot of trying out various ones http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?option=...docman&Itemid=1 those are tweaked drivers, and have for me always given better performance and the least issues over the official nvid releases. And as for the cfg here's mine maybe that works for you too.DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX by TweaksRUs.0Mode=1280x1024x32DISPLAYUPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=32TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400TERRAINTERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=96.000000TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=3TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=0TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.500000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.50000TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=5Hope thats of some help.
December 27, 200619 yr There are a few more things to look at with that new AGP card...first, its probably worth revisiting your AGP aperture size set in the BIOS. Second, make sure you have loaded the latest (currently Oct 2006) DirectX 9c from the Microsoft support website...preferably prior to installing your video drivers.Last, if you did not use a cleaner utility like Nasty File Remover (available from www.Guru3D.com) to delete all the remnants of your old nVndia drivers, I suggest you use the control panel, uninstall your current driver, reboot (and do not allow WinXP to search for or install a new driver when prompted), run the file cleaner, reboot again (again do not allow WinXP to try to find a driver) and then run the driver installation. This'll make sure you don't have a piece of the old drivers still mucking up your new drivers for your new fast vid card.RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Santiago de Chile Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
December 28, 200619 yr Author Thanks Bob.I did make the BIOS changes to change my AGP aperture to 512 from 128 (old card). I also changed my AGP speed to 8x. I did this after checking for an ASUS bios update (there was one) on my mobo.Good info and reminder on the cleaning of old drivers too!Eric AND
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