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Cirrus N210MS
November 15th, 2010, 19:29
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-32bit-260.99-whql-driver.html

Running FSX HIGHEST AS IT GOES! NO LAG! AND ITS GREAT!
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Increases performance vs. v260.89 drivers in the following PC games: Civilization V (SLI), Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV, and Formula 1 Racing (DX11).
Adds SLI profiles for the following PC games:

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Fallout: New Vegas

Improves compatibility for Fallout: New Vegas with antialiasing enabled.
Improves Alt-Tab compatibility for several PC games.
Added the following 3D Vision game profiles (http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-3d-games.html): Call of Duty: Black Ops and Tom Clancy's HawX 2.
With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article (http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2765) for more information on the changes.

Additional Information


Installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.
Includes PhysX (http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html) System Software to version 9.10.0514.
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5 (http://www.nvidia.com/adobe).
Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here (http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_flashplayer_plus_nvidia.html).
Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here (http://redirect.vreveal.com/NVIDIA).
Supports DirectCompute (http://www.nvidia.com/object/directcompute.html) with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_opencl.html)) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series GPUs.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology (http://www.slizone.com/page/home.html) on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software (http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools).
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver

CodyValkyrie
November 15th, 2010, 20:05
Can anyone confirm?

Ian Warren
November 15th, 2010, 20:15
Cheers Cirrus , had issues and problems using FSX with the GTX295 , installed this driver days back and yes fixes many issues .
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Cirrus N210MS
November 15th, 2010, 20:23
i am happy they keep making the drivers better! cant wait to see what they do next:salute:

Kiwikat
November 15th, 2010, 21:23
If you're happy with 14 FPS, all the power to you.

...

Naismith
November 15th, 2010, 21:51
64bit W7, seems a bit smoother with these drivers.
:)

NWarty
November 15th, 2010, 23:34
No change whatsoever here

Daube
November 16th, 2010, 00:44
Thanks for the info, I will give them a try.
However, concerning your performance, your settings are not so suitable to your visual quality in your screenshots.
You can save some perf by setting the mesh resolution to 5 or 10 meters, the ground textures to 1 meter, and disabling the ground scenery shadows and the light bloom.

noddy
November 16th, 2010, 03:56
Been using these wth my new GTX460 cards, and no problems so far.

CHBTheDoctor
November 16th, 2010, 06:01
I'm using it with NVIDIA Inspector 1.93
http://blog.orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool

With these (driver and tool) antialising and anisotropic filtering work as expected.

I can post my settings of both if somebody needs them.

Just reply here.

Chuck_Jodry-VJPL
November 16th, 2010, 06:09
Installed and tested , did not see a difference in framerates but encountered no problems.

bobmay
November 16th, 2010, 06:32
I had become rather sceptical of installing new NVidia drivers because they seemed to only address issues with new games and did little or nothing for FSX. However, after reading the reviews above I installed v260.99 and was pleasantly surprised.
I have Vista 64 bit and GTX285 card. My usual 'test track' is set up as a saved flight ...it spawns at La Guardia rwy 40 in the default Cessna 172. I take off and turn left to fly over Manhattan. My scenery is Aerosoft Manhattan, a tough test for any system, I have UTX traffic installed set at 30% and road and water traffic set at 30%.
My best performance up to now has been 14 fps but after installing v260.99 I sailed over at a smooth 19-24 fps. The colors are nice and picture was very sharp. Moving the location to Kelowna, British Colombia, with the same settings and default scenery, the fps was in 3 figures.

http://www.premaircraft.com/screenies/scrshot1862.jpg

Bob.

beana51
November 16th, 2010, 06:39
Adding my frame rates to this..on my GTX 260,I currently use one driver ,after trying very many...the Nvidia 190.38 driver, they seem to work together and for me,its fine in FSX,of which is not my primary Sim....much higher Rates at tasking settings...Even JFK is almost acceptable now...like I say for me this works..No Problems In FS9..all maxed out super performance.....FSX still seems elusive for me,no instant cure,and certainly too expensive to pursue ,even if its capable to perform as promised!!

Peter SWE
November 16th, 2010, 07:28
Installed these drivers on it's release.
They cure a lot of problems, especially with the gtx4xx series. Iv'e got rid of the blue screen of death that has been a problem with fsx chrashing my system everytime i loaded fsx.

I still has some anomalies with the fsx grafics, i get colord spikes that flicker rapidly of and on. They are alomost gone now with these drivers.

ryanbatc
November 16th, 2010, 10:50
If you're happy with 14 FPS, all the power to you.

...

Heck I would be LOL! I normally get about 7 in that area.

Trans_23
November 16th, 2010, 11:47
I had become rather sceptical of installing new NVidia drivers because they seemed to only address issues with new games and did little or nothing for FSX. However, after reading the reviews above I installed v260.99 and was pleasantly surprised.
I have Vista 64 bit and GTX285 card. My usual 'test track' is set up as a saved flight ...it spawns at La Guardia rwy 40 in the default Cessna 172. I take off and turn left to fly over Manhattan. My scenery is Aerosoft Manhattan, a tough test for any system, I have UTX traffic installed set at 30% and road and water traffic set at 30%.
My best performance up to now has been 14 fps but after installing v260.99 I sailed over at a smooth 19-24 fps. The colors are nice and picture was very sharp. Moving the location to Kelowna, British Colombia, with the same settings and default scenery, the fps was in 3 figures.

http://www.premaircraft.com/screenies/scrshot1862.jpg




Bob.

That is a beautiful screen shot Bob!

Lewis-A2A
November 16th, 2010, 12:10
definate increase for me, not massive but increase in FPS and it seems the smoothness between frames is much better.

Speaking to Scott his test systems over at his end also seem to be providing the same results, one of his test systems is 8800series, my personal system is 460GTX powered.

huub vink
November 16th, 2010, 12:57
Not much but there is some clear improvement with these drivers on my humble system with 8800GTS video card. Thanks the HU!

Cheers,
Huub

beana51
November 16th, 2010, 13:12
I can live with this with whatI got.28.1FR...always lower around big cities but never less than 10 to 13.FPS....GTX 260...190/38 driver....

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Roadburner440
November 16th, 2010, 15:26
I NEVER update my video card drivers after what happened last time when I did it a few years ago. Going to go out on a limb and do it this time though, and pray for the best. I did a full backup a couple days ago so should be alright. lol Does anyone know how this affects Nhancer?

scottmm73
November 16th, 2010, 16:45
Cannot use Nhancer must use Nvidia Inspector.

http://www.simforums.com/forums/nhancer-settings-for-new-drivers-updated-v1932_topic36586.html

Roadburner440
November 16th, 2010, 17:06
Hello Scott, and thanks for the info/link. Looks like I will be spending some time reconfiguring the PC. I ran FSX without Nhancer, or this other program and so far I am impressed by what I see as far as smoothness. I need to go on a long 8+ hour flight though to see if it really improves over all.

peter12213
November 16th, 2010, 18:07
I can't get mine to install it says there's a problem with 7zip it's starts to unwrap then the installer fails that's with Win7 64 and a GTS250

pilottj
November 16th, 2010, 18:20
installed and working fine here, I do like the newer installation proceedure.

stansdds
November 17th, 2010, 01:54
Not much but there is some clear improvement with these drivers on my humble system with 8800GTS video card. Thanks the HU!

Cheers,
Huub
I have a 8800GT and am considering updating from my current 182.50 driver, but only if there is a real improvement. Huub, what improvements did you see with your 8800GTS?

bstolle
November 17th, 2010, 02:00
I can't get mine to install it says there's a problem with 7zip it's starts to unwrap then the installer fails that's with Win7 64 and a GTS250

May I ask what you did have before the GTS250 and if there was a significant difference? Presently I have a 8800GTS and the highest performance GPU in a fanless system is the GTS250....

Quicksand
November 17th, 2010, 05:58
I installed in a HP Entertainment Laptop (dv7) w/ a GeForce 9600M GT card, and I can fly most places except large cities with everything maxed out 14 to 20 fps. With the old driver, I could not even go halfway with the sliders. WOW! I'm a happy camper today!

peter12213
November 17th, 2010, 06:22
May I ask what you did have before the GTS250 and if there was a significant difference? Presently I have a 8800GTS and the highest performance GPU in a fanless system is the GTS250....

I had the ancient 7600GS

gera
November 17th, 2010, 06:33
Its so sad to see FSX still struggling after so many years, three is it??....I update drivers all the time hoping I will "really" see a difference from the previous one but maybe just maybe a very slight one appears. I really hope that a brand new sim gets done some day so I can trash FSX.....geee, with all the tech we have it is really sad to have what we have......but, since this is now, IŽll keep fooling with it, I just canŽt stop making all the fun adventure flights, can I???------get some laughs soon with " African Diary", youŽll be surprised at the end...guaranteed!!

Blade124
November 17th, 2010, 06:36
I updated my machine, which is a quad 2.5Ghz with a GTX 460 and also a test machine here (core 2, 8800 GT). Granted, our test machine had older drivers, but we have seen a huge increase in framerates for FSX. With all settings MED HIGH, we were getting in the 20-30's before, and now we're seeing as high as 60+ in the same exact scenes, inside and out. This is why we re-shot that he219 screenshot video, because we are now able to grab smooth, full screen video real time without stutters.

FSX is now really quite fast even by non flight sim standards.

Scott.

gera
November 17th, 2010, 06:47
oooop!!!! wrong place, sorry...........

GypsyBaron
November 17th, 2010, 08:04
I updated my machine, which is a quad 2.5Ghz with a GTX 460 and also a test machine here (core 2, 8800 GT). Granted, our test machine had older drivers, but we have seen a huge increase in framerates for FSX. With all settings MED HIGH, we were getting in the 20-30's before, and now we're seeing as high as 60+ in the same exact scenes, inside and out. This is why we re-shot that he219 screenshot video, because we are now able to grab smooth, full screen video real time without stutters.

FSX is now really quite fast even by non flight sim standards.

Scott.


Scott, as that an XP or Win7 machine?

Paul

Cazzie
November 17th, 2010, 08:34
I have had these drivers since their release. The 258.96 drivers were the first in the 200 series that I found were superior to the 197.45 drivers I had been using. I installed right over old drivers with no problems and it make it much easier to roll back to the older drivers should I need to.

I installed the latest 260 drivers here and have had no problems, I cannot really note much difference to tell the truth.

Thanks for the NVIDIA Inspection Tool link Scott. I am sure nHancer is probably working on an interface with the new drivers. But I like the Inspection Tool, will use that and the NVIDIA Control Panel for the time being. For some reason, I can only activate my SLI arrangement in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

I have two 748 MB 9600 GSO cards in an SLI link.

Caz

Caz

Blade124
November 17th, 2010, 09:53
Paul,

The core 2 with the 8800GT is a win7 32bit machine, and mine (quad with the GTX460) is Vista 64bit.

Scott.

peter12213
November 18th, 2010, 04:41
I'm still getting a 7zip:Data Error message any ideas?

noddy
November 18th, 2010, 06:33
I use CamZip never had a problem with this.

http://www.camunzip.com/download.htm

or this one.

http://www.winace.com/

have you tried to download from else were?

http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-Forceware-260.99-Win-7-%7C-Vista-64-bit-download-2634.html

Butcherbird17
November 18th, 2010, 08:18
I'm still trying to figure out why 7zip is throwing up a data error message on a binary file.(application exe) I use winRAR but it does not start when i click on an exe file.
Are you trying to unpack the driver? Do you have 7zip associated with exe files?
As Noddy posted have you tried d/ling from guru3d, although they are the same size files that you get from Nvidia (x64 is 128mb and x86 is 96mb) wins7 and vista.

Joe

peter12213
November 18th, 2010, 11:27
I din't even realise I had 7zip installed, eitherway I tried it again and it worked but it has got me baffled why for 2 days it gave me that error! Thanks for the help though guys!

noddy
November 19th, 2010, 01:37
Glad it's sorted.

gera
November 19th, 2010, 12:28
Loaded the driver:sleep:.......not impressed at all..:sleep:

olderndirt
November 19th, 2010, 18:12
MY 8800GTS said "no way Jose" got me down to 9 FPS instantly - back on the 158.

Blade124
November 19th, 2010, 18:24
That is strange, we have a core 2 machine with an 8800GTS and we're seeing framerates way up near 60 at times, on MED-HIGH settings. We set the frame limiter to 30. This is a win7 32 bit machine, btw.

However, we run stock FSX on all machines. Do you have any 3rd party scenery or other global addons loaded?

Scott.

peter12213
November 19th, 2010, 18:27
I actually didn't notice a huge improvement, but I have so much crap installed over my old one that I can honestly say thet the GTS/GTX series do benifit from this driver update!

Forgot to say thanks to Noddy and others too for the advice chaps! Thanks :salute:

Honestly though it's all about your FSX settings and I don't mean sliders but the tweaks and stuff, if it wasnt for FSX I'd know nothing about computers! Massive pain. I've had FSX sinse 2007 and still learning somthing new everyday!

falcon409
November 19th, 2010, 20:43
. . . . .uninstalled NHancer (never saw any advantage to that over the normal control panel), downloaded and installed the "Inspector" tool. . .uninstalled the current driver, rebooted, ran the new driver, rebooted. . .ran the Inspector, saved the profile. . .rebooted and ran FSX.

First impressions:
No change in FPS but much better clarity in all areas. I think my system is giving all it can as it is so thinking I might see a nice increase in FPS is more wishful thinking really. I'm going to stay with this driver though because of the increased resolution/sharpness.:salute:

dswo
November 20th, 2010, 03:21
System: Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (stock), 4Gb RAM, Nvidia 8800GT (512Mb), Windows 7 (64-bit).

After creating a system restore point, I installed these directly over the previous drivers (in my case, 195.39, which was the most current version when I installed Windows 7 a year ago). Replaced nHancer with with Nvidia Inspector and set it up for FSX using NickN's instructions: http://www.simforums.com/Forums/nhancer-settings-for-new-drivers-updated-v1932_topic36586.html.

I did a short test in FSX; looks good, but it's been more than two weeks since my last flight -- a very busy autumn for me -- so I can't say whether it looks better or smoother than it did before. Certainly no worse than I remember, and it didn't bork my system.

Even if we don't get better framerates, it's possible that we'll get better image quality. According to NickN (same page as above), Nvidia's drivers were tested with FSX RTM/SP1, not Acceleration/SP2, until just a few months ago. So to the degree that Nvidia cares about FSX at all, the more recent drivers should work better with our program.

Of course, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is usually good advice too.

stiz
November 20th, 2010, 06:19
well i didnt really get a boost so to speak, but i can now maintain 40fps pretty much constant now which i couldnt do before :jump:

falcon409
November 20th, 2010, 06:38
. . . . .After creating a system restore point, I installed these directly over the previous drivers (in my case, 195.39, which was the most current version when I installed Windows 7 a year ago). Replaced nHancer with with Nvidia Inspector and set it up for FSX using NickN's instructions:. . . . .
I thought about doing that as well David, but I know in the past I had heard a lot of folks say that you should always uninstall the previous driver first and then install the new one. . .I guess to be sure no remnants of the old were present to possibly foul up the works. It doesn't appear that it caused any problems for you though. . .good show!:salute:

dswo
November 20th, 2010, 08:04
I thought about doing that as well David, but I know in the past I had heard a lot of folks say that you should always uninstall the previous driver first and then install the new one. . .I guess to be sure no remnants of the old were present to possibly foul up the works. It doesn't appear that it caused any problems for you though. . .good show!:salute:

Normally, I would have uninstalled the old drivers first, except that NickN says you don't have to with the most recent drivers (same page I mentioned earlier).

noddy
November 20th, 2010, 08:24
Yes the new drivers do give you the options to do a clean install, not tried though.

noddy
November 20th, 2010, 08:35
Not to worry