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Hi folks, I'm running the 185.65 drivers in W7 (7057) and they seem good. I love the ambient occlusion effect although it's quite subtle in some games ie you don't notice it.

However my WEI has gone down by 0.4 for gaming from the MS drivers provided.
I'm beginning to think these WEI scores are a bit rubbish. It would be interesting to look at the variation in scores on same spec machines as, looking at the relevant thread, it seems to vary for no apparent reason.

best wishes, John

185.66..

Wow, another one. First post updated. Thank you Aaron.

Oh, anytime Mr. MVP.

Hope the ambient occlusion drivers for 8 series is out soon


Edit: Nevermind, they are. I was just doing a general look with keeping it set to 8800 Ultra, but did a search for 8800GTS 512s (what I have) and ambient occlusion drivers are available for the 512s , just nothing for the G80 cards.

So does the 182.50 that is WHQL Cert have the AO.. or no? only the other ones. I'm not a fan of BETA Nvidia drivers after my bad experience. but the increase in Crysis Warhead, FarCry2 and other games in 185.66 looks great.. so maybe I'll try that.

I'm going to try out the 185.66 right now. if all good then cool, otherwise I'm going back to 182.50

I'm guessing the .66 just fixed a few urgent bugs that were in the .50s.

It says the .66s have AO in them, not tested them myself yet. Think will have a go with them when I get back from work tomorrow. It is suppost to be a big fps killer, though. Up to 40% performance drop.

Ya, from what I've seen AO kills your FPS.

Right now 185.66 is FROZE in middle of install.. about 65% done. been this way for almost an hour now. I'm about to restart. I've never had a Nvidia install freeze. Can't be a good sign. Time to go back to 182.50..

I might try again, not sure.

Was that in safe mode or just normal mode?

Gunther, it took a bit for the 185.66 to install at that point for me as well, but it eventually came back saying that it was unable to start the service and asked to restart the computer to finish installing instead.

It runs fine now though.