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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:32 pm

That is really odd. The drivers cut the time it takes for the 59XX in half for me, as they were taking over 6 hrs. before, and now it is like 3 hrs and maybe 5 mins.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:56 pm

Has anyone had these drivers make their system crash?

Mine has blue screened twice now, the last time I had a WU at 3 % left and lost the entire thing after it rebooted AAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrgh
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby augie » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:50 am

yeshuas wrote:Has anyone had these drivers make their system crash?

Mine has blue screened twice now, the last time I had a WU at 3 % left and lost the entire thing after it rebooted AAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrgh


All's fine here but I'm thinking of going back to the 182.08s as the the guy who supervises the 590x WUs doesn't like the looks of the outputs. There are folks speculating that these drivers were made for W7 but that's just speculation until nVidia responds to an email that was sent. It was a nice ride but I don't want to jeopardize everyone else's folding that comes after my results are in.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:56 am

augie wrote:
yeshuas wrote:Has anyone had these drivers make their system crash?

Mine has blue screened twice now, the last time I had a WU at 3 % left and lost the entire thing after it rebooted AAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrgh


All's fine here but I'm thinking of going back to the 182.08s as the the guy who supervises the 590x WUs doesn't like the looks of the outputs. There are folks speculating that these drivers were made for W7 but that's just speculation until nVidia responds to an email that was sent. It was a nice ride but I don't want to jeopardize everyone else's folding that comes after my results are in.

Actually I am trying them out on Windows 7 right now, because of all the trouble I was having in Vista, so I will let you know how they work when I finally get a 5900 WU. I have only gotten a 5900 WU worth 420 points since installing them in Windows 7 and it is taking like 1 hr and 20 min
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:11 pm

I finally had it with those beta drivers, system crashed again :-x just as a 5903 WU was at 97 % complete that at least the second one I have lost.

I reverted back to the 182.08 driver it may be slower, but shoot I am losing the points anyway.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby augie » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:12 pm

'ihaque' is the lead here on these 590x WUs and he said he was going to take a good look at the results today. I also just noticed someone else was having issues with the 260 in that thread so you're not alone. Darn man, I thought one place that wouldn't have melodramas was their forums but no, it's there too. *sigh* :no

Ya, best to revert back for you. BTW, a knowledgeable person mentioned to reboot into safe mode first and use a driver cleaner before reinstalling the older drivers.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:07 pm

augie wrote:Ya, best to revert back for you. BTW, a knowledgeable person mentioned to reboot into safe mode first and use a driver cleaner before reinstalling the older drivers.

I probably should have done this prior to installing the beta driver, maybe I wouldn't have had the blue screens crashes.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:36 am

I am beginning to believe this driver was intended for Windows 7 like that guy implied as they are running stable in Windows 7 X86. They don't run the 5904 at least as fast as the driver did in Vista, but it is running stable. It is projecting about 5 and 1/2 hours for the 5904 WU which is what it would take with the 182.08 driver in Vista.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby augie » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:33 am

Well, looks like the party is over on these drivers as I have a pair of 5903s running ATM @ 4K PPD each as opposed to 13K PPD total just for GPU folding. I guess Stanford put some code in to bring them back inline.
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Re: GeForce ForceWare 185.20 Vista 32-bit beta drivers

Postby yeshuas » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:38 am

augie wrote:Well, looks like the party is over on these drivers as I have a pair of 5903s running ATM @ 4K PPD each as opposed to 13K PPD total just for GPU folding. I guess Stanford put some code in to bring them back inline.

I have already switched back to the 182.08 driver, and I was wrong about the 185.20 running stable in Windows 7, it crashed too, so I am back to running the GPU in Vista with the 182.08 driver.
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