Vista - Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers

Thanks Shawn. I was hoping you'ld say that.
It's quite late here so I think I'll wait until tomorrow night and do the whole safe mode-uninstall 169.25-driver- cleaner routine which I understand is the recommended method.
Probably won't see any difference although I am getting a sleepy screen problem. After not doing anything for ten minutes I normally go into the my photo screen saver but since I got this card I've been getting these weird grey screens more and more.
After much mouse clicking and thumping num lock on and off I get the blue swirl thingy and my desktop comes back but it's odd and seems to be increasing.
I don't get any driver failed notifications so it's as likely something to do with SP1 which coincided with the GPU. Must remember in future not to make two major changes at the same time. You don't know which to blame.

Thanks once again and I hope the new computer is coming together, John

If it is running hot (as my eVGA 8800 GTS does) get RivaTuner and adjust your fan speed - I changed mine (using an eVGA supplied utility) to about 75%, and now my card stays in the mid 40s when not gaming and mid 50s when gaming. I selected 75% because at that speed it is still not overtly noticeable over the rest of my hardware, but provides adequate cooling.

Shawn, John. Thanks for your input.
I just installed 175.16. I think. It all went rather strangely.
I booted into safe mode and uninstalled 169.25. I was just about to run driver cleaner when Vista installed a driver. When I rebooted I ran Rivatuner and it seemed to be 169.25 again.
I had 175.16 on the desktop so I ran that as administrator and went through a Nvidia driver install and then reboot.
The system booted up in normal mode and everything looked good in terms of resolution etc. I put some music on Winamp and played a visualisation and that looked good too.
However when I ran Rivatuner the bottom half of the box was empty and I have a message saying: "no supported driver detected"
I rebooted and Rivatuner still says the same. I booted into Ubuntu and the restricted driver manager tells me that I have an Nvidia driver installed.
Back in Vista I opened device manager-display adapter-properties-driver and found driver 7.15.11.7516. That certainly seems to contain some of the right numbers but I don't really know.
So. I haven't tried any games yet so I don't know whether this driver is going to be as stable as 169.25 or whether it is actually 175.16 and not 169.25.
Any ideas why Rivatuner is not showing it?
Also, John; assuming I can get Rivatuner working again and still have an overheating problem how do I increase fan speed?

Thanks for your help, John

I never got really good at working with RivaTuner (mainly because I used it for 3 days and then dumped it for the eVGA utility) but on one of the tabs there will be a slider to adjust the speed of the fan - of course the bad news is that this will be reset on reboot, hence my desire to *sometime* figure out how hack the hardware profile manually so I can change the thresholds manually and have the fan kick in at lower temps....

Sorry to barge in but could you tell me the difference between
GFORCE RELEASE and FORCEWARE RELEASE?
I have the latest Forceware release but I do not know about the GForce release
thanks guys

Hi Frenchy,

GeForce is just the type of hardware series for the model of the graphics card. Forceware is the driver software.

Shawn

@johnwillyums - I found this - this should help you out - I am doing it right now as I type this, so once I get it working the way I want I'll be happy to assist you if you run into problems.

RivaTuner 2.0 fan speed & Overclock Guide

hi
thanks for the information you have and the article also talked about the 8800GTS...I have the 8600GTS!!!will this make a difference...surely?

let me know .please
thanks

Hi Johngalt,

Thanks for your and others help. I think I'm running 175.16 now but can't be sure.
I uninstalled Rivatuner and then reinstalled a latest version but it still cannot see a driver. The box is just blank with "no supported drivers detected for this display adapter" wrtten over the top.
Might it be that Rivatuner cannot see it because they are not up to date with the very newest drivers?
I hope it's that simple.
I hope this goes. I've been trying to post for a few days but keep getting a "message too short" error. Apparently Firefox RC1 won't play nicely with this website. The beta was ok so may have to go back to that. fingers crossed.
Cheers, John


edit: well whatever the problem was it's sorted now.

John,

I'm glad to hear it sorted itself out. You can check to see what driver version you have for a device in Device Manager in the Control Panel (Classic View). For example, expand Display adapters and double click on your graphics device listed under it. Next, click on the Driver tab to see the driver version. For this you will see 7.15.11.7516 for the 175.16 version.

Hope this helps,
Shawn