Nvidia ForceWare 169.09 beta drivers recommended for Crysis

Nvidia announced today new ForceWare beta drivers that offer several game and application compatibility fixes, and are also the recommended drivers for running the long awaited Crysis (coming out this Friday). This new release is the third set of beta drivers in less than a month that tries to improve compatibility and performance for the latest generation of games, which includes BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, Team Fortress 2, World in Conflict, and TimeShift. This holiday season is just such a great time to upgrade and be a PC gamer...

[sak500]

Whats with the games having problems running on old drivers. How the fcuk do the test in on the hardware while testing it? They somehow magically get the future drivers? Every new game requires some sort of driver update or rollback. I miss the 3dfx days..

[power091999]

I know that back in the day developers built the game around the drivers already in place.

Then once you installed those drivers you could go into optimized settings for individual games.

That seems like its starting to change.

[gw4k]

Crysis is amazing to say the least. The graphics are very nice!

The game is a system killer though....especially under Vista.

I am running a quad core system, 2gs ram, and SLI 8800GTS 640 cards and I can running the game nicely at 1600x1050 with everything set on high. No AA though. Turn on AA and the game will CREEP!

If the drivers will help, I will certainly download them.

SO BRING THEM ON.

What are you all running and how does the game play?

[Charlie2688]

I have been reading that this new drivers give you a few extra fps for crysis but "some" people are reporting with screenshot comparisons that this extra fps might be from small loss of visual quality (apparently have mostly to do with the water and effects from afar)

some people especulating that this might be NVIDIA cheating to make the game run faster others simply say that are bugs due to being beta drivers

by the way i am running the game with a
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB SuperCloacked (GTX speed)
2x2GB Patriot Extreme Dual Channel DDR2 RAM 800

I can run the game on max at 1680x1050 on DX9 but there is a considerable loose of fps on DX10 so I have to balance between the high and ultra high settings aka DX 9.5 XD

[Golem]

I played the demo through on an OCed Q6600, OCed 8800GT, 2Gb Corsair Dominator ram and the game was smooth as silk at 1280x1024. I think I only had AA at x2 to keep the fps up. I ran it in xp though because that seems to give better results than under vista.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

yeah XP is performing better at this point

[gw4k]

Vista is a nice OS....but has not real place as a gaming platform. Not yet anyways.

Any game that is running under vista will run about 20% faster under xp.

I have thought about dual booting...

Recommendations?

Also, can you shoot down trees in the DX 9? I heard that was only for DX10.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

yes you can. Only in multiplayer there is difference between DX10 and DX9.

[gw4k]

I am thinking about popping in another 500g harddrive and do some dual booting. XP for gaming and vista for work.

Think that is a good idea folks?

[ShiftyLookingCow]

that should do work fine. I am doing something similar. Whenever I want XP, I press F11(during boot) and choose the hard drive I installed it in.

Performance of the retail game is better than the demo. I am playing at Very High 720p 4xAA with framerate always in the 20s. I felt giddy like a kid when I fired a rocket at a speeding reinforcement truck. Also helicopters are not hard as some reviewers say atleast not in the first 3 levels(playing at Hard difficulty). 3 rockets and they are down. Overall its a blast.

[sak500]

Have dual booting system with XP Pro as main and Vista ultimate for any future use. Games certainly run better on xp and also os footprint is 700mb in xp whereas i'm left with 700mb in vista on my rig:

E6600 2.4 @ 3.51
2 x 1gb dual channel DDr2 800
XFX 520m 7950GX2 Single SLI card(s) 2 x 512mb 600/1400

But damn demo runs between 10-30 fps on medium sttngs and @ 1440x900 default rez of ws 19".

[gw4k]

Can you tell me more about your set up? You can press F11 and switch between xp and vista? Does it have to boot?

Tell me more my good friend.

[sak500]

F11 is required if you install both operating systems separately. If you already have XP and then install vista on another drive or partition w/o overwriting the exisiting OS then during booting the option automatically comes that wether you want to boot to vista or earlier o/s. U can change the default settings in vista as which o/s to boot by default and also how much time on the counter.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

sorry I forgot to add "during boot", its not really a big thing, most motherboards give you the option to choose which hard drive you want to boot to.

For my setup. I put in one hard drive installed Vista, disconnected it and connected the other hard drive and installed XP64 onto it. This way they dont conflict with each other. Comp boots to Vista by default.