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 Neil Blaikie  Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 143 Credit: 6,652,341 RAC: 0 
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Nvidia has released version 186.18 of their driver. The drivers for your system can be downloaded here: Nvidia downloads From the info about the driver : Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA 
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Ivailo Bonev  Send message Joined: 26 Jun 00 Posts: 247 Credit: 35,864,461 RAC: 2 
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There isn't anything new from 185 series, just fixes for Win7 and improvements for specific games.... 
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Pilot  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 534 Credit: 5,475,482 RAC: 0 |
Windows 7 64 bit users beware. I am running RC in safe mode at the moment since system refuses to allow login after Nvida update for 9 series 64bit applied. When we finally figure it all out, all the rules will change and we can start all over again. ID: 909718 · |
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Pilot Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 534 Credit: 5,475,482 RAC: 0 |
Finally had to restore the system to an earlier point and things OK again. When we finally figure it all out, all the rules will change and we can start all over again. ID: 909726 · |
Andy Williams  Send message Joined: 11 May 01 Posts: 187 Credit: 112,464,820 RAC: 0 
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There isn't anything new from 185 series, just fixes for Win7 and improvements for specific games.... Not true. The 186.18 drivers are significantly different. They produce results faster and use more power. I know since they overloaded an uninterruptible power supply I had been using for months for two of my crunchers. I had to go to two separate UPSUs. -- Classic 82353 WU / 400979 h 
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Ivailo Bonev Send message Joined: 26 Jun 00 Posts: 247 Credit: 35,864,461 RAC: 2
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Did you read Release Notes of 185.85 and 186.18? There are no many differences especialy for CUDA part... 185.85_WinXP_GeForce_Release_Notes.pdf 186.18_WinXP_GeForce_Release_Notes.pdf Maybe it's different because of Win7, but in general, for S@H users I don't think that new version is significantly faster.
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mimo  Send message Joined: 7 Feb 03 Posts: 92 Credit: 14,957,404 RAC: 0 
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for normal users there are little difs, but developers seems much more as is written in release notes .....  
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[AF>france>pas-de-calais]symaski62 Send message Joined: 12 Aug 05 Posts: 258 Credit: 100,548 RAC: 0 
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confirme :D NVIDIA 185.85 version et CUDA 2.2 version prochaine CUDA 2.3 et 3.0 version  SETI@Home Informational message -9 result_overflow with a general handicap of 80% and it makes much d' efforts for the community and s' expimer, thank you d' to be understanding. ID: 909798 · |
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Sutaru Tsureku Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 7105 Credit: 147,663,825 RAC: 5 
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Not true. The 186.18 drivers are significantly different. They produce results faster and use more power. I know since they overloaded an uninterruptible power supply I had been using for months for two of my crunchers. I had to go to two separate UPSUs. Can't confirm this. My PC with 4 x GTX260 Core216 don't use more W power. Raistmer's latest CUDA_V11_app, CUDA_V2.2 .dll's and nVIDIA_driver_185.85 = only changed the nVIDIA_driver_186.18 [same wattage] The crunching speed isn't significant faster.. maybe only some sec. per WU. I made for some minutes the update.. and the first results looking like around similar as before. Future will show the true.. ;-) 
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