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Message 966429 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 17:07:37 UTC

Anyone tested these out? I did a forum search but couldn't fine much that was useful. The 195.62 ( I think that's the one ) was dreadful and just killed GPU performance. I fell back to 191.07 to get my performance back.

Is this latest version worth upgrading to or should I just stick with 191.07 for now?

Running a 8800 GTX
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Message 966468 - Posted: 28 Jan 2010, 19:48:26 UTC - in response to Message 966429.  

Stick to 19107 or 19038 they perform much better than the new driver.
Trust me over the last few weeks I have tried them all on the Rig on a Bench,
on win XP and Vista 32 and 64bit> Cuda crunching is much slower.

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Message 967278 - Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 12:03:15 UTC

I've noticed this also, downgraded from 196.21 to 191.07, got a 7% speed increase :)
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Message 967338 - Posted: 31 Jan 2010, 18:51:50 UTC

Thanks guys! If it aint broke, don't fix it. It always works for me.
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