Xeak

My friend reccomended me to NGO, although, to be honest, I have no clue what it is. My first question is stated in the title, are any of the recent, stable, drivers compatable with a GeForce FX 5900XT? Secondly, I play CS:S, Half-Life 2, and a few source mods, would this allow me to have a decent and steady framerate? And, would this possibly ramp up the odds for a serious malfunction?

Regards,
Ragnarök.

kYdizzle

use the latest NGO drivers (93.81), they work great with my PCI 5500 card, they are from the same generation (FX series), so they should work about the same...
i play all those games and they are stable around 60 fps for my card, but my processor may be helping.
it should not cause any errors.

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squall_leonhart

don't bother, the classic cp + coolbits in 93.81 causes tons of issues on everything below the 7900 series

kYdizzle

really? i got my 5500 pci card and it works flawlessly with the 93.81 drivers. but i guess i can be a rare case

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squall_leonhart

well on everything bar the new cards (excluding the 7800's)

the classic cp causes the system to semi lockup at startup when the tray icon loads, and the CP itself causes the system to lockup, then blink.

blindartist

Naw, im running a 6600 gt and the latest drivers rock, they've improved over all performance noticably and every game runs completly stable and problem free(and im running pretty new games like r6 vegas, graw etc) they work just fine man.

squall_leonhart

do you have coolbits installed? because its only once thats installed, that you get problems

blindartist

Yep, no issues with it at all, coolbits is just some registry entries allowing you to access more options, i dont see why that would cause problems. Only issue ive had with these driverrs is if you oc through the driver settings(through your display properties) the clock freq's dont like to stay(but this could be just on my system cuz i havent read of anyone else having this problem), so i just use rivatuner and it works problem free. They run alot nice then the 77.77's i was using, i dunno.

squall_leonhart

wierd...

Delerious

I have a 6600 GT as well in another machine and have cool bits activated as Blindartist says it just the OC clock freq's that dont seem to stick between reboots here as well.

I have a friend with a FX 5200 Ultra who does not (bar none sticking freq's) either, he dont play ultra modem games with it, he plays MMPOG's on that machine and uses the NGO drivers as the IQ is better than stock drivers.

Coolbits and any of the settings that unlocks on either of the cards does not seem to cause anything like what Squall reports to have seen, odd indeed.