New nVidia Drivers (181.20)

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Re: New nVidia Drivers (81.20)

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Yes I also havea Nvidia set of motherboard drivers so when I go to unistall the graphics drivers I have to make sure I keep the others!
But I will take all your advice deleting the video driver folder and also running crap cleaner re registry. nHancer, I dont like it....may be in the minority but it does bugger all for me, I use anti aliasing in FS9 not the card and it all runs fine :)
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Re: New nVidia Drivers (81.20)

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By the way chaps, (certainly for the Graphics card) The Nvidia folder on the C drive is just were it extracts the files to. It doesn't actually use anything in there after the install is complete ;-)
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Re: New nVidia Drivers (81.20)

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The Nvidia folder on the C drive is just were it extracts the files to. It doesn't actually use anything in there after the install is complete

Sorry Ben, I misunderstood Kevins' post, had not realised that he has a Nvidea motherboard! :doho:

Probably it is the way I tried to explain it but the folder I referred to (deleting) is the one you wrote about quoted above.

Deary me!! I'm getting to the age where the grey matter is not functioning as it should :worried: :lol:

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Your doing well mate... mine is in that state already! :lol:
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Re: New nVidia Drivers (81.20)

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:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: New nVidia Drivers (181.20)

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Sadly I'm still getting ctd's with graphics driver errors (recovery from) with this driver version using DX10 in Far Cry 2 - anyone else experiencing these? Far Cry 2 is up-to-date patch wise.

Edit - just been over to the Farcry 2 community site and lots of posts re ctd with DX10 - Ubisoft don't appear to want to talk about it so perhaps using DX9 is the only answer - shame really as DX10 has better performance and looks a lot better. DX10 problem appears to be memory leak!

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Re: New nVidia Drivers (181.20)

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ChrisHunt wrote:Sadly I'm still getting ctd's with graphics driver errors (recovery from) with this driver version using DX10 in Far Cry 2 - anyone else experiencing these? Far Cry 2 is up-to-date patch wise.
"still getting" suggests that you were already getting CTDs with the previous driver...just as a guess I would say that both drivers were written for DX9 :)

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Re: New nVidia Drivers (181.20)

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Hi Peter, no - in this instance it appears to be a game issue. RAM usage creeps up during gameplay and when it hits 60% off you go to the desktop. Appears to be consistent regardless of how much RAM you have. Hopefully Ubisoft will address it in a patch but in the meantime DX9 it is.

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