Video Drivers

I started this thread for the purpose of Video Card Driver related discussion, helpful links, new releases and your experiences with them, this goes for beta and/or WHQL ForceWare or other!
ATI or NVIDIA included....

Currently I have a EVGA 8800GTS SSC with 640mb of ram.
I'm using 185.20 Beta drivers and run a program called RivaTuner v2.22 to force 100% cooling as my card is factory overclocked and can run hot.

Specs
DirectX version: 10.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8800 GTS
Driver version: 185.20
Stream processors: 112
Core clock: 576 MHz
Shader clock: 1350 MHz
Memory clock: 900 MHz (1800 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 320-bit
Total available graphics memory: 1919 MB
Dedicated video memory: 640 MB
Bus: PCI Express x16

One site that I find very informative is guru3d, you could call it one stop shopping for PC Video driver info and downloads! I test alot of driver releases and will share my finding in this thread for anyone interested!

http://www.guru3d.com/

Cheers,

Lorin

Hi Guys and Gals

Here's some of my specs (Need to look up the data for the rest):-

DirectX version 9c (Windows XP)
ATI Sapphire Radeon X 1650 Pro.
Driver update age:- 2 months
256 GDDR3 Memory.
PCI Express x 16 lane, 32 bit bus.
Digital and HDD link to Digital flat-panel monitor.
12 pixel shader processors
Self Overclocked, Cooling by ATI Catalyst Control Centre.
400 Watt power supply (Upgraded from original).

Personal Note:: I switched to ATI from Nvidia after a dispute over Nvidia warranty many years ago.

Cheers
Pete

One thing most gamers know is the newest drivers are not always the best drivers, I plan on falling back to something in the 17x.xx range as the new betas are causing problems with CTD with Fallout 3 and I've noticed a FPS hit with TS2009 SP1 while forcing 4xAA.

I also recomend a driver cleaner app and ccleaner in safe mode beetween driver installs to keep things clean, a disk check never hurts either!

Lorin