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[johnwillyums]

Thanks Shawn. I'm not precious about Winamp so I might try that but I fear the worst.
Whilst my card was being "tested" by Overclockers.co.uk-they played Crysis in 32 bit Vista apparently- I put my old 8600GT back in. That runs on the 169.25 drivers as well and was fine in both Winamp and games and has been since I got the pc 6 months ago.
Also, I've done a clean install on a brand new drive and installed SP1 which was supposed to be the answer to all ills.
I cannot understand why I'm not able to install the 174.44 drivers (see my earlier post)
I'm at work now but I'll give it some further testing in games later on but the driver issue is weird and the Winamp problem was occurring when the card was crashing in games.
In fact, apart ftom SP1, I'm in exactly the same setup as before so I'm pessimistic.
Cheers, John

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi, further to my last mail

I still can't get any of the newer drivers to install. All I get is:

"You are running a 32 bit version of Nvidia Uninstaller on a 64 bit system. Wrong version of Uninstaller. Uninstaller exits now"

This is after uninstalling through control panel and then running Driver Cleaner in Safe Mode.
This is followed by:

"Nvidia Setup Error
Setup detected the operating system in use is not Windows Vista (64bit)
This setup program is designed to run on Windows Vista (64bit)
The installation will be terminated"

So I'm stuck with a card that BSODs all the time( and the length of time it will function for is getting shorter).
I have no idea if newer drivers would remedy this because they won't install.
Overclockers are fobbing me off. They have tested it on 32 bit systems and said it's fine.
They are now saying tell Gigabyte. I have mailed them several times and their replies indicate they are not really reading (or maybe understanding) my mails.
They basically suggest it's Overclocker's problem.

I wish I'd never bought this card or done business with Overclockers.
This is a nightmare. Does anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks, John

 

[grimreaper]

Hi, further to my last mail

I still can't get any of the newer drivers to install. All I get is:

"You are running a 32 bit version of Nvidia Uninstaller on a 64 bit system. Wrong version of Uninstaller. Uninstaller exits now"

Thanks, John

Wow, and I thought I had this problem...
Check this out...I have a BFG 8800 GTX OCII 768MB using driver 169.25 on Vista's X64, now when I installed 174.44 BETA, from nVidia's site, I had the same problem like John.
Funny thing is evga's site offers 169.44 which is not a BETA release, but if you go to nVidia's site only offers 169.25 stable drivers, and 169.44 is a BETA driver??
Can I use eVga's 169.44 for my GPU?

 

[johnwillyums]

The 174.44s are not betas they are WHQL ( not sure what that stands for). I can't just find the link but I got them from Nvidia.
There is a newer one than that that is beta. 174.79 I think.
As I say I do not know whether they solve any problems as I can't install them.
My card is getting worse all the time.
I don't know whether it is a Gigabyte problem or Nvidia or Microsoft but it's really getting me down.

Yours, John

 

[grimreaper]

Just install 169.25, or 169.44, which i am doing @ the moment.
If it still acts up, then it's ur GPU unfortunately...btw which card is it??

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi reaper. It's a Gigabyte 8800GT OC 512MB with a great big copper Zalman, which is why I got it.
I had to do a system restore to get back to 169.25 drivers which I'm running it on now but the main problem is it won't do anything for long without BSOD and needing hard shutdown and reboot.
Please see my previous posts. I wish I had never seen this damn card.
Off to bed now. I'll be back, John

 

[grimreaper]

I'll let you know if i have the answer- get some rest

Ciao.

 

[johnwillyums]

Well hooray!. I take back all (or almost all)of the bad things I said about Overclockers. Looks like I'm going to get a refund on my Gigabyte 8800 GT OC.

This leaves me with a problem. I want a good graphics card. I want to play Crysis etc.
Looking around it seems that Vista 64 and Nvidia is a problem.
Don't know who's to blame but the driver problems seem to happen to all makes in the 8800 series.
Grimreaper; you are having problems with your GTX by another manufacturer.

Is anybody out there having a trouble free time with Vista 64 and Nvidia mid to high end cards?
Hmmn. Maybe I should start a new thread about this?
Surely most people must be doing ok with these card because they are selling like hot cakes.
Also people who have no problems with their 8800 won't be scanning these forums, they'll be too busy playing games.
I don't want to get a different brand 8800 and end up in the same place.

Cheers, John

 

[Brink]

Hi John,

The BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC card I have works great on my Vista 64 bit. It's a great brand. The 9800 cards just came out to, but they are a bit pricey.

Shawn

 

[johnwillyums]

Good morning Shawn (is it morning in Texas?)

Did you have trouble with the 8800?
If you've read my previous posts you'll know I've been having a really bad time with mine.
At the moment I can't change the Nvidia driver at all. I just get this "32 bit uninstaller" stuff followed by " operating system in use is not Vista 64 bit".
That's rather worrying. I hope it goes away when I swap it out for my old 8600GT.
I'll have a look at the 9600s. They'll run on the 174.44 I imagine. Now I need to figure out what to get instead of the 8800GT.
How does the 9600GT compare performance wise to the 8800GT and does it keep going and going.

Cheers, John

 

[johnwillyums]

With the refund from the 8800GT plus another 40 GBP ( about 80 USD ) I could get a BFG 9800GTX.
I could just about run to that.
What do you think? I'm real paranoid about BSODs and the driver issues I've had. I don't actually think there's anything wrong with my Gigabyte 8800. It's just Nvidia can't make a good driver for it in Vista 64x.

John

 

[Brink]

John,

I never used the 8800 GTX, but there are a lot of people that it works fine on.

If you want a very high end card, that will do it. I have not heard of any problems with it yet, but then again it is still new. The drivers for it are the same ones that I use, and I'm not having any problems with them on 64.

 

[grimreaper]

no problems here on my 8800 GTX driver 169.44

 

[xguntherc]

does this apply to my New 8600GT OC??? I put serial number in at web site from Manufacture and it said it installed most current updates and drivers.. I'm not sure if I need newer ones or not. hopefully they are current. my machine is only Decent. nothing special and it plays crysis ok with the 8600GT. most on med. some on High settings.. I just wanna make sure I have the most current drivers...

 

[xguntherc]

I went the XFX web site last night and installed the Latest drivers for 8600GT and they are the 169.32

Should I have something newer??? I'm on a 32 bit by the way.. didn't kno when I made accnt here.. lol. let me kno what I should have please!

 

[DC187]

I'm currently running the 174.74 beta nVidia drivers for my 2x 8800GTX's on Vista x64. They seem to have an intermittent problem when quitting out of games, the display just goes blank!
Official 169.25 worked a treat though.

 

[HexManiac]

No problems here with 2 8800 GTXs, Vista x64 and 174.74. Crysis, Gears of War, Civ 4, World in Conflict, and all Steam games run fine.

 

[Brink]

I went the XFX web site last night and installed the Latest drivers for 8600GT and they are the 169.32

Should I have something newer??? I'm on a 32 bit by the way.. didn't kno when I made accnt here.. lol. let me kno what I should have please!

Hi xguntherc,

Those would be modified drivers by XFX, not the official nVidia drivers. The latest ones for your card is 169.25 or 174.74 beta from the link on the first page here.


Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi all. Eventually got a BFG 8800GTS OC 512MB for just a few pounds more than Overclockers refund.
I've just installed it. Played Crysis for about an hour on default settings and it looked amazing. Temperature about 75c.
Then played some music in Winamp for 2 hours with Milkdrop 2 on full screen, temp 65c.
Huge beefy card (though not as big as the 9800GTX), had to move one of my hard drives to get it in.
I'm running on 169.25 and so far so good, I'll keep you posted. J

 

[grimreaper]

yeah I haven't been online this site much this week...my damn evga 780i mobo died on me after using it for less than 30 days, but got a replacement.
Anyways, I finally bought another BFG 8800 GTX OCII to run SLi...do I have to install my nvidia drivers 169.44 twice?