Hello,has anyone installed this new driver? If so what are your reaction to it.I am looking for a good driver for my Nvidia Geforce FX5500 oc and was wondering what all you Nvidia card users use as a driver version?

Well... funny you should ask. I have a NV 6800 and -- after testing under very similar conditions in weather, aircraft, etc., I could see a small frame-rate increase. I'd go so far as to say as I got about 5 fps more across the board with them.However (ahhh, there's always a "however")... now I have another problem. I run FS9 windowed mode most of the time. Now all I get is some sort of 'artifacts' with these drivers; these artifacts appear, for instance, if I switch tasks. Not every time, but it happens. It also happens if I access the FS9 menu in-game and then call up a window like FSPassengers. I end up with what amounts to a "screenshot" of the 2d window that NEVER goes away. It effectively renders the 2D window useless. And I haven't figured out a way around it except for one thing: reload the aircraft by re-selecting it in the FS9 aircraft menu. That clears the problem right up; of course, it creates other immense problems, especially with more complex aircraft like the PMDG 737. It blows the whole flight plan, and will often shut down engines and such. In other words, it's not do-able in flight.So what am I saying? Well.... if I don't find a solution for the problem, I'm going to have to go back to another driver set. No way around it. The increased FPS are nice, but it really ruins FS overall since I never know when I'm going to lose the 2D window.Incidentally, there's a similar thread about this very issue at: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho..._id=10330&page=Hope I find a solution soon. Additionally (before someone asks), I always uninstall any older NV drivers, and use Driver Cleaner in safe mode, etc., to remove ALL vestiges of Nvidia files and registry keys. As with all things like this, YMMV.

Interesting. I appear to had exactly the same artifacts when I upgraded to the 78.03 drivers yesterday. Pity because I felt there was a noticable performance increase but with these problems they are a non starter. Rolled back to my old drivers 66.81 and all is well fortunately. Thought the problem might have been due to not fully deleting the old drivers but apparently not.Bruceb

If I turn tool-tips off, I lose all those artifacts. It does look to be something related to the new nVidia drivers.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Santiago de Chile

>If I turn tool-tips off, I lose all those artifacts. It does>look to be something related to the new nVidia drivers.Bob:Confirmed. I shut off tool tips and the problem went away.Incidentally, before your post, I had been dealing with the problem (when it occurs) by simply going into the FS9 Display settings and changing the filtering from Trilinear to Bilinear, then doing the same to reverse it (Bilinear to Trilinear). This seems to force FS9 into refreshing everything and the 'artifacts' go away. Not a good solution, but the only one I found that worked.Anyway, don't need tooltips myself for the most part, so your post helped me. Thanks.