It says very clearly on the Nvidia site that the 197.41 are GF400 series only... why are you guys trying to run them on 285s?

Because I said 'I think' they should.. evidently I was wrong. nVidia drivers work under a driver foundation they call 'Unified Driver Architecture' (UDA) which allows their drivers to work with old (and new) hardware.So, my guess is they modified the .inf file to allow only instalation for the 400 series on this particular case

Because I said 'I think' they should.. evidently I was wrong. nVidia drivers work under a driver foundation they call 'Unified Driver Architecture' (UDA) which allows their drivers to work with old (and new) hardware.So, my guess is they modified the .inf file to allow only instalation for the 400 series on this particular case

LOL, Oh God, and your this years Flight Simulation know-it-all. :(

and your this years Flight Simulation know-it-all. :(

Well.. evidently, I'm not :) and when I'm wrong I will admit it openly, certanly people will appreciate that.

Thanks loads for the thread.For the past few weeks, I was afraid my GTX285 video card was beginning to die. When I began to taxi, particularly in turns I got the brief texture flashing with only FSX. This is the only time I ever saw it, and even then it was only at specific airports (Naturally, my home airport, KLWB was one of them). I had formerly stuck with the 182.50 drivers but recently decided to try the 196.21 and 197.13 versions. Back and forth, I got the flashing with any of these and could detect little difference in anything else.Just installed the "197.45_desktop_winxp_64bit_english_whql" drivers, and so far I don't now see any sign of the flashing. Everything else looks normal to me.Thanks again:RTH

Because I said 'I think' they should.. evidently I was wrong. nVidia drivers work under a driver foundation they call 'Unified Driver Architecture' (UDA) which allows their drivers to work with old (and new) hardware.So, my guess is they modified the .inf file to allow only instalation for the 400 series on this particular case

This suite is working just fine with my system, which is an actual nVidia 285'er. No problem whatsoever. nHancer is playing nice with it as well. It could be perhaps problems with those that have an nVidia chip that not on an O.E.M. card.

This suite is working just fine with my system, which is an actual nVidia 285'er. No problem whatsoever. nHancer is playing nice with it as well. It could be perhaps problems with those that have an nVidia chip that not on an O.E.M. card.

So the 197.41 drivers for the nVIDIA 400-series did install and work OK on your system? Did you benchmark them? Any feedback regarding performance and IQ would be appreciated if you did some benchmarking!

So the 197.41 drivers for the nVIDIA 400-series did install and work OK on your system? Did you benchmark them? Any feedback regarding performance and IQ would be appreciated if you did some benchmarking!

Hi UlfB,Yes, they loaded just fine, are reported by nHancer in its installed driver mask, and I don't actually benchmark anything. The 197.41's are working just fine, and give me hard 30 plus FPS running with the Frame Limiter app, with using all Bojote tweaks, and BufferPools at 1000000. I'm using ENBSeries with my posted ENB init file. No flashing, no artifacts, fan as quiet as normal, and temps as norm.I run FSX pretty much full out in the graphics department. Only water is set one below full out, and Resolution is set to 2m. Other than that...full out to the right. Eye Candy is superb!My recommendation is to use it, if you can. As stated, there was no difference in installing this suite as there was with any 197.x that I have tried.Visuals are excellent, but then so were the prior 197's.Dell XPS 730x/i7-975/nVidia GTX285

Well.. evidently, I'm not :) and when I'm wrong I will admit it openly, certanly people will appreciate that.

Hey JesusWould you mind posting you video card's Nvidia control settings, that goes with your pinned FSX cfg mod.

I noticed that the fan is now working much sooner that ever before.Maybe they deleted some of the code. lol

McCrash, I was at this site,and not sure who owns the company but they build computer systems and here is the link: http://www.jetlinesystems.com/performance.htmlThis is what is posted on that pageWarningThe Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 and ATI Radeon 5970 has tested to be a significant performance inhibitor to FSX. This is due to their integrated dual GPU design. Jetline is not offering these models due to low FSX test results.Bob G

Hi UlfB,Yes, they loaded just fine, are reported by nHancer in its installed driver mask, and I don't actually benchmark anything. The 197.41's are working just fine, and give me hard 30 plus FPS running with the Frame Limiter app, with using all Bojote tweaks, and BufferPools at 1000000. I'm using ENBSeries with my posted ENB init file. No flashing, no artifacts, fan as quiet as normal, and temps as norm.I run FSX pretty much full out in the graphics department. Only water is set one below full out, and Resolution is set to 2m. Other than that...full out to the right. Eye Candy is superb!My recommendation is to use it, if you can. As stated, there was no difference in installing this suite as there was with any 197.x that I have tried.Visuals are excellent, but then so were the prior 197's.Dell XPS 730x/i7-975/nVidia GTX285

I use the 197.45 drivers and they work OK on my system. Why would I use the 197.41 drivers?

I use the 197.45 drivers and they work OK on my system. Why would I use the 197.41 drivers?

I'm using the 197.45's as well. My comments on this thread was only referring to the 197.45's.

I'm using the 197.45's as well. My comments on this thread was only referring to the 197.45's.

So your previous answer to my question:

So the 197.41 drivers for the nVIDIA 400-series did install and work OK on your system? Did you benchmark them? Any feedback regarding performance and IQ would be appreciated if you did some benchmarking!

was not correct?

So your previous answer to my question:was not correct?

Right. I was using the 197.45's, as per my download link.

Hi,I installed the 197.45 driver, and I find that I get lots of white flashes but only in theFTX NA Blue region to the point where I have had complete system lockout.However no problems at all elsewhere, am using the latest FSX tweaks. The fpsare about the same as others, before was using the 186.18 drivers with no problem, so I mayhave to revert back.Helmut

Hi,I installed the 197.45 driver, and I find that I get lots of white flashes but only in theFTX NA Blue region to the point where I have had complete system lockout.However no problems at all elsewhere, am using the latest FSX tweaks. The fpsare about the same as others, before was using the 186.18 drivers with no problem, so I mayhave to revert back.Helmut

Well that just goes to show you how machine dependent they are. I do not get the flashes and have increased throughput.Bob G