bosx2

Guys,

you saved my lan party of easter! Here the story:
I upraded my pc with a 7800gs a few weeks ago. Before I had a x800 and played C&C Generals for weeks without a glitch. So my main concern for the lan, was to win the C&C Generals tournee.
In the weeks before the lan, I tested C&C only once with my 7800gs but dont remember which driver I was using. So I thought I am ready for the lan. A few days before the lan, new beta drivers came out the 84.3x and the 84.4x. I installed them and thought newer drivers always better. Installed the latest beta driver, tested BF2 + 3dmark and everything was ok.

So I went to the lan and started C&C and voila, my pc went into standby right a few seconds after the intro! Then the pure horror began. I thought my pc was broken because I had constant standby modes in all kind of different games. I tried these driver:
all non modified:
84.43
84.30
84.26
84.25
84.21
84.20
84.19


none fixed!!! I thought I ruined my lan for the next 3 days. After 24 hours of reseting bios, drivers and all kind of different setting, I thought I might give the ngo 84.25 drivers a chance again.

Now sit back, I installed the drivers and C&C just run fine without a single problem! No standby modes again!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you! I already wanted to gave up and throw this freaking 7800gs away.


by the way, I won the tournament

ShadowHunter

maybe nvidia should see this post

Nvidia threatens NGOHQ over SLI Patch

Indian

Same story here. A lot of trouble trying to have my XFX 7800GS extreme edition to do what I expectd it to do. Could not runBF2, Aquamark3, 3dmark06 or whatever before downgrading it to 390@1200 MHz.

Upgraded from an ATI 9800XT and did everything in the right order. Removed my hardware in the " official" winXP way and even ran driver cleaner before I installed the drivers for my new card.

I was in conatct with XFX support and upgraded my PSU, fromatted my drive and installed everyting from scratch. Removed additional (audigy card e.g.) PCI cards.
Nothing!

When I was able to run e,g, the 3dmark06 benchie by underclocking my drivers I noticed that in the overview it didnot list my clock and memory speeds of my card.

When I installed the NGO optimized river based on 84.26 all troubles are gone!
The best score downgrading my card was 2910 and now 3225 overclocking even to 468@1350!!!!! Now it also shows my clcock and memory speeds on the project details page.

Can play BF2 for a whole day now with settings I always dreamed of (1600x1200 with half of the options high and 4x AA, high texture filtering).

I thought the secret was the latency tool but when I started it, it gave the timings that where advised (64 ms), so I didnot change anaything.

I always thought it had something to do with timings, but now I am not so sure.

What is your secret??? Not really important actually but you bet you saved my day!
In your favor for ever!

/Indian

Mac Daddy

Good stuff bosx2 and Indian sure this will make Rege smile as he does this to help others

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Regeneration

I'm very glad to hear that our work helped you guys. Hope you will stick around and have some fun!

stardreamer77

i also had a same problem here...
i can't OC my Leadtek 7800gs with many version of nvidia official or beta driver... even OC the 5mhz of GPU or MEM clock, when i run 3D mark 05, then will get the "Blank screen" , or play some game after 5~10 min.... but if no oc, everytings fine....

after i try NGO driver (84.25).. now the problem gone.... and can oc to 420/1300 without any "Blank screen" ....
and many thanks to NGO.....
by the way.... why nvidia driver can't oc ??

anyway.. thanks...

bosx2

at the evga.com forum there are even more people who had great success by using this driver and the 7800gs. good work!!!