Driver for 8800M GTX that does not suck?

[johnksss]

have you tried disabling the powermizer options in the registry?

[MrProim]

No, how do I need to do that?

[johnksss]

which driver are you using now?

[MrProim]

The one on from the sager website.

[eleron911]

Can somebody with Vista try something for me pls?
Go into the Manage Custom Resolutions in the Nvidia Control Panel, and try creating a custom one, and tick the "allow modes not displayed by windoze" and see if it stays that way.And name the driver you're using if it works.

[sterben]

Eleron911, with Vista64/SP1 and 175.70 that seems to work just fine.

[eleron911]

I don't get it, neither .75 nor .80 allow me to set custom resolutions.
I'll have to give .70 a try now.
Thanks.

[johnksss]

The one on from the sager website.

ok, here is your fix for that stupid clock speed dropping

1: open regedit
2: go down to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\ this is mine and yours is a different number - {DEB039CC-B704-4F53-B43E-9DD4432FA2E9}

go to the first 0001 or 0000 file folder that shows all your vga settings. it will be a long list.

3: scroll all the way down to the bottom where it says: RMPowerSupplyCapacity=3
meaning=performance level 3 when no ac adapter is detected.

change the 3 to 0
meaning: no performance level change detected due to no ac adapter connected.

4: reboot computer. you should be able to reboot on battery and start a game and the clocks should stay in the high 3d range. stop the game and it should drop back down (5 to 20 seconds after that)

this should work with all the newer drivers which are down clocking.

hope this helps if you haven't already done it.


edit: your card will down clock like it should, but once you draw on the gpu. the card will clock itself back to your max clocks and stay there till your done. once the game or gpu app is shut down, the clocks will drop to help cool the gpu down quicker.

[M3z3iAs]

Can somebody with Vista try something for me pls?
Go into the Manage Custom Resolutions in the Nvidia Control Panel, and try creating a custom one, and tick the "allow modes not displayed by windoze" and see if it stays that way.And name the driver you're using if it works.

Works fine here, havent rebootet with it tho, but is able to change to a custom resolution with the "Manage Custom Resolutions"-menu, also the allow modes not displayed by windoze" seems to stay ticked here. Running Vista HomePremium 32bit and 175.75 lv2g drivers.

ok, here is your fix for that stupid clock speed dropping

1: open regedit
2: go down to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\ this is mine and yours is a different number - {DEB039CC-B704-4F53-B43E-9DD4432FA2E9}

go to the first 0001 or 0000 file folder that shows all your vga settings. it will be a long list.

3: scroll all the way down to the bottom where it says: RMPowerSupplyCapacity=3
meaning=performance level 3 when no ac adapter is detected.

change the 3 to 0
meaning: no performance level change detected due to no ac adapter connected.

4: reboot computer. you should be able to reboot on battery and start a game and the clocks should stay in the high 3d range. stop the game and it should drop back down (5 to 20 seconds after that)

this should work with all the newer drivers which are down clocking.

hope this helps if you haven't already done it.


edit: your card will down clock like it should, but once you draw on the gpu. the card will clock itself back to your max clocks and stay there till your done. once the game or gpu app is shut down, the clocks will drop to help cool the gpu down quicker.

Nice one johnksss, now I dont got DC-problems anymore, so cant really test it my self. But should the DC-ing reoccur, its nice to have a fix around the corner

[eleron911]

I still don't get it, it won't stay ticked for me, no matter what driver I tried.
Hopefully somebody will be able to help me on this, it's driving me nuts.