There are Forceware version 100.x drivers available now. Check at the site,
http://guru3d.com. That's where I get the Forceware beta drivers (the
latest available).
| Well I agree with your position but based on your responese I do not
support
| your position that a single 7600GT card has major problems with Vista.
|
| | > The cards and driver worked perfectly in XP Pro. It's impossible to
| > say if the issue is with Vista or Nvidia. I know Nvidia is working on
| > new drivers (hopefully in cooperation with MS).
| >
| > This is pretty disappointing but typical with a new MS OS release. I
| > should have waited until SP1. I'm going to revert to XP if the issue
| > isn't resolved by March15th.
| >
| >
| >>Do you think your problem is do to which graphics chip you are using or
| >>due
| >>to VISTA itself or due to the NVIDIA VISTA RTM drivers (96.85 or 86)
not
| >>being able to properly handle two graphics cards properly? Did the
| >>configuration work OK with Windows XP?
| >>
| >>| >>> My experience
| >>>
| >>> First, here is my system :
| >>>
| >>> - Vista Ultimate 32 bits
| >>> - ForceWare WHQL
| >>> - 2 X GeForce 8600GT (not running SLI) PCIe 16X
| >>> - Intel Quad Core QX6700
| >>> - 4 X 1Gb RAM Corsair PC8500
| >>> - Motherboard Asus Commando (latest Vista drivers)
| >>> - 3 X Samsung SyncMaster 204B and 1 X Wacom Cintiq 21UX. All DVI.
| >>>
| >>> Not a gamer. No comment.
| >>>
| >>> General office and graphics computing:
| >>> WHQL drivers:
| >>> - Both monitors on the second video card flash black and then back on
| >>> frequently (10 or more times per minute) at 1600 X 1200 resolution.
| >>> Work fine at lower resolutions. The primary video card does not
| >>> exhibit this behavior.
| >>> - Beta driver causes blue screen of death and will not boot
| >>> - When the monitors shut down in power saving mode there are dozens of
| >>> warnings in the system log: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding
| >>> and has successfully recovered.
| >>> - Ctrl-Alt-Del causes all monitors to go blank (mouse still visible)
| >>> and the only way to recover is a hard reset.
| >>>
| >>> Hopefully there is a fix in the works for these errors as I'm about to
| >>> revert to Win XP until a usuable driver is released.
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>>I could not get search to work at forums.nvidia.com. Can you provide
| >>>>as
| >>>>short description of your most critical problem when using the RTM
96.85
| >>>>or
| >>>>96.86 drivers. I ask this since apparently the with newer drivers
| >>>>NVIDIA
| >>>>is
| >>>>trying to take advantage of new fetures available for graphic cards in
| >>>>VISTA
| >>>>that they did not get implemented in time for the RTM release so they
| >>>>newer
| >>>>drivers are not as feature rich as the RTM drivers as described in the
| >>>>release notes for the newer drivers.
| >>>>
| >>>>| >>>>> There are huge issues with this card and drivers in Vista Ultimate.
Go
| >>>>> to forums.nvidia.com to read all the problems. Search on my user
name
| >>>>> on the forum "mackmc" to read my problems.
| >>>>>
| >>>>> Nvidia is working on new drivers and expect to release them at the
end
| >>>>> of Feb.
| >>>>>
| >>>>> Mack
| >>>>>
| >>>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:20:13 -0600, "David A. Lessnau"
| >>>>>
| >>>>>>I have the Gigabyte SilentPipe version of that card on Vista
Ultimate
| >>>>>>and
| >>>>>>have had no problems with it. Of course, Gigabyte's utilities
aren't
| >>>>>>updated for Vista and I'm not sure if the driver versions they have
| >>>>>>are
| >>>>>>for
| >>>>>>Vista either. I just use the drivers that came with (and are
| >>>>>>downloaded
| >>>>>>automatically by) Vista. Nvidia has drivers (released) for the card
| >>>>>>dated
| >>>>>>5
| >>>>>>Jan 07. But, I hear they're the same as what Vista has. I believe
| >>>>>>there
| >>>>>>are some more current beta drivers around Nvidia's site, but I
haven't
| >>>>>>tried
| >>>>>>them.
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>>| >>>>>>> Thanks.
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>> | >>>>>>>> The 7600GT is one of the most popular cards expecially for those
| >>>>>>>> with
| >>>>>>>> HFTV cards. I have seen no reports of problems with it or with
any
| >>>>>>>> of
| >>>>>>>> the driver releases that support it.
| >>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>> | >>>>>>>>> In Vista (Ultimate)? I want to upgrade my graphics card and was
| >>>>>>>>> wondering
| >>>>>>>>> if anyone is using a GeForce 7600 GT based card (PCI-E). Any
| >>>>>>>>> problems?
| >>>>>>>>> Drivers OK?
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>> Or suggestions for a comparable card that seems to have good
| >>>>>>>>> working
| >>>>>>>>> drivers.
| >>>>>>>>> I've been reading about the problems with the nvidia cards...
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>
| >>
|
|
