ForceWare 97.94 for GeForce 8800s

Jimmy 2004 · Apr 6, 2007

NVIDIA has updated the display drivers for users with GeForce 8800 series cards running on Windows XP. Some minor issues have been fixed issues including the media player hanging when playing MPEG2 HD video clips using overlay in 1080i and then switching to full screen mode, system crashes after four or more suspend/resume cycles and screen corruption when running Company of Heroes in SLI mode. You can download these drivers here.

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WarEagleAU · Apr 6, 2007

Nice to see Nvidia working hard on their drivers. Do they finally have working Vista drivers?

zekrahminator · Apr 6, 2007

Yes, but nothing that's going to use them till the middle of May :roll:

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BXtreme · Apr 6, 2007

I think I've seen it before in a 3rd party site :wtf:

newtekie1 · Apr 6, 2007

Time to start modding these to work with the 7 series and lower cards, AKA doing nVidia's job for them.

Mussels · Apr 6, 2007

leaked betas are in the 10x.xx range (yes for XP) but have their own bugs to deal with.

Nvidia have 'working' Vista drivers, they just happen to crash a lot

(at least for GTX users, 7/8 sreies cards work fine)

D007 · Apr 6, 2007

i had another physical memory dump error NV4 last night on my 3rd round of age of empires 3.. made no sense to me.. 1st 2 round i went against 4 apponents on hard, the went against 3 on extreme on the last round and it froze me out md game.. black screen to blue screen to memory dump NV4... i hope the driver fixes something cause this is out of hand now.. my back is killing me..lol..

well, at least they updated the driver finally. I hope it does something.. nice find.

Eric_Cartman · Apr 6, 2007

an nv4 dump usually means an unstable overclock, but it can also be a driver problem

i suggest you drop your cpu back to stock and see if that fixes the problem, my bet is that it will

kureng · Apr 6, 2007

does it really work this time?? huh...

D007 · Apr 6, 2007

Eric_Cartman said:
an nv4 dump usually means an unstable overclock, but it can also be a driver problem

i suggest you drop your cpu back to stock and see if that fixes the problem, my bet is that it will

Gotta say if im not stable at 1.55 v on a 3.2 ghz oc on a e6400, nothing would ever make me stable, not even a lightning powered chipset.. my timings i have varied from 4-4-4-12 all the way to 6-7-7-31 in small steps and in just about every direction.. 4-5-4, 6-4-6 etc.. and nothing helped.. if it was an unstable overclock why would it run perfectly for the two games before it that i was against 4 opponents then black screen to the blue screen of death after only going against 3 opponents.. it should of failed vs 4 opponents I would of thought.. anyway I hope this driver fixes something.. im going home, uninstalling anything with the name nvidia on it and starting over again. i cant handle another reformat. i swear ill slam this thing into a wall.. I didn't buy all this "enthusiast" hardware for high prices to not be able to oc it properly.. dropping my fsb is not an option. it should run like this and even way more. up to 3.4 even 3.6 ghz for this processor.. 3.2 is nothing..

D007 · Apr 6, 2007

kureng said:
does it really work this time?? huh...

lol you took the words right out of my mouth...

newtekie1 · Apr 7, 2007

Well no use in modding this one since Guru3d already has 97.95 with a modded INI available.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1601

D007 · Apr 7, 2007

newtekie1 said:
Well no use in modding this one since Guru3d already has 97.95 with a modded INI available.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1601

hows that better? seriously i dont know..lol..should i get it for xp? would it maybe help with my memory dumps u think?

newtekie1 · Apr 7, 2007

Newer drivers generally mean more bug fixes, so 97.95 should be slightly better than the 97.94, but that isn't always true.

D007 · Apr 7, 2007

newtekie1 said:
Newer drivers generally mean more bug fixes, so 97.95 should be slightly better than the 97.94, but that isn't always true.

lol oh.. i know.. im not expecting much..

newtekie1 · Apr 7, 2007

Well I can already say these drivers don't fix my problems with videos randomly freezing my computer <strike>when SLI is enabled</strike>. :cry:

psychomage343 · Apr 7, 2007

has anybody tried the guru3d drivers on a 7 series card successfully, i just reinstalled windows i don't need another driver mess, andi can't just driver cleaner it off, i'm so picky i gotta redo windows and it's like the third time this week lol, so do they work or not??

newtekie1 · Apr 7, 2007

I have been using the 97 series drivers on my 7900GTs for the past few months. They have their bugs, but they do work. They are still much better than the 93 series, IMO.

psychomage343 · Apr 7, 2007

excellent well i guess i'll give it a shot then

D007 · Apr 8, 2007

will having an overly high core clock for your gpu cause memory dumps normally?

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