NVIDIA Drivers

[Pyromace]

I've got an NVIDIA 8800GT and recently I upgraded to the newest drivers and then Nexuiz started crashing on me periodically. I reverted to some old drivers and everything is fine now, but I just thought some dev might want to know about this problem. Oh yeah, I run on windows.

[Urmel]

yep, the 175.16 was a peace of crap, the 175.19 ain't much better, but better, nevertheless...

[alphagod]

In my case Nexuiz crashes as well as the drivers, after that they recover but I have to restart the whole system. Any idea why this is happening? And how I can avoid it while still using the latest drivers? The problem seems to be tied to Vista, an XP system runs Nexuiz just fine with the latest drivers.

[vbraun]

I'm having the same issue, but I found that it wasn't just Nexuiz that did this, but all OpenGL games. I'm curious which old driver you moved to? Because I went to 169 and the problem persisted.

I also had an issue with the linux nvidia drivers which would freeze up nexuiz after a while, or would snap and give me strange rectangular snow across the screen. I've also had that happen in windows as well.

[Pyromace]

I actually had some trouble finding drivers that wouldn't crash nexuiz, and weren't crappy in general too. I've finally ended up with 169.21 which I got from guru3D.com and for now everything seems to be working fine.

[Urmel]

I've got a Geforce 7600GT in my company PC. I had to test something and installed the old ForceWare 93.71 driver. Guess what, I started Nexuiz just out of curiosity. Where I had around 120-130fps with the 175.19 driver, I had a rush up to 180-205fps!

So if you've got an older Nvidia card, don't waste your ressources by using a current ForceWare release

edit: oh, however, the bold letters in this orum are displayed worse by far, so I have to enterprise some more older drivers to find teh most pwn of teh ForceWares