New nForce Drivers

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• heh i love both ati and nvidia. ati for graphics, nvidia for my mobo : Morgin
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  I agree with you in VIA, and I am still debating ATI... depending on how solid the CAT 3.4's are. : reVy79
  • I've had zero issues thus far with the CAT 3.4's : Toraz Chryx

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  I bet you a clean format and install will fix it :P : MarksmanX
  • he shouldn't have to do that : Old_Fart
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  I had to reinstall to get back to normal : krakhead420
  • As did I; under device manager, open the Nvidia IDE controller properties and choose Update Driver. Choos... : Dante

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• isnt it great how companys break their drivers for old games to make them work for newer games? : ansuble
• Yeah it's like that with the Audigy 2 too. I just disable EAX :P : MarksmanX
• just enable A3D, its implementation in HL is far superior to EAX. : Turd Ferguson
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  If you have a ASUS A7n8x use Realtek's drivers from their site. A shacker told me this about a month ago : indeego
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    credit to normality: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=7361317 : indeego
    • <3 I love you guys : manero
    • the Shuttle NF2 boards use the same chip. I mentioned this in another recent thread. : Dante
• Oh hey! me too, but it worked for the first 5 minutes and I had EAX disabled (because it's gay) ? :( : desecr8

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  I posted how to fix this. : Normality
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    reallY? I'd totally appreciate a link! : veggie
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      http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=7361317 : indeego
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        Theres no link for XP drivers on that. Hopefully this will fix it so I won't have crackling in tonight's... : bashildy@speakeasy.net
        • ^^ never mind. : bashildy@speakeasy.net
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        thanks. installing now. BTW, why does this work? who is realtek? : veggie
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          Audio controller: Realtek ALC650, likely (as in a7n8x). The Nforce drivers don't cover 3rd party audio i : indeego
          • the shuttle NF2 boards (the FN41 and FN45) which are in the small form factor cases both use the ALC650 a... : Dante

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  I'm using a Maxtor 200 on my Epox 8RDA without a prob. : Halen
  • Sexy - I like goodperformance on drives (most important part of the PC) I hope these help even more. : desecr8

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• easiest way i found was to go to ide controller under device manager, update drivers, pick select from li... : Morgin
• My drive letters didn't change and BF1942 wouldn't work until I went back to my original drivers. GG Nvi... : Halen

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• Aw crap. Wrong post. : waffledwaffle

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  Not exactly sure, but perhaps the re-enumeration of Hardware devices is confusing the game. (I.e. the ga : indeego
  • there's something that tells me that I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO FUCKING DO THAT : proclone1
• Remove Nforce drivers and install old one's or TRY to get just the IDE driver and install it. : UTSD3DSUCKS

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• oh god... you're right... what fucking tools : proclone1

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  as in: you've tried the new driver and can tell the difference? : sharkII
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    I am about to transfer my SCSI stuff to the big EIDE drive. I'll tell you in a few minutes :P : MarksmanX
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      Well transferwise it did compaired to the old one. : MarksmanX
      • Improved hard drive performance? Cool. Glad to see they weren't just bullshitting. :) It's seemed kinda s... : node
• apparently it doesn't love me, it craps out at the setup wizard...shiat. : Matto357
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  My computer has been "sluggish" hopefully this fixes that... and my EAX sounded really weird and "swishy"... : tommysgun
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    uhhhh NForce has built in video man.... : sharkII
    • some of them do : Turd Ferguson
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    it's installing the geforce driver because some nforce 1/2 models have integrated video cards, it just de... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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      Oh... I have a GF3 so that makes sense... : tommysgun
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        it actually doesn't matter what card you have. Remember the TNT/GeForce drivers are all unified. It just ... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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          Because likely the older drivers are WHQL certified, and to maintain the certification they have to leave : indeego
          • Ya I can see they want to release 100% WHQL quality nforce drivers and having non WHQL display would ruin... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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  Welp, I got 1 MB more in transfer rates with the new drivers...based on SiSoft Sandra. : Matto357
  • The pinnacle of benchmarks, that is. ;) : indeego
• So are any news sites bitching now saying that nVidia rigged IDE benchmarks as well as graphics benchmark... : reVy79

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• Yes you can use them on any nForce board : fluke

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• Check that the first option under "Surround settings" (or similar) is checked. That did it for me. : timm
• Yeah, it looks like the default surround is now nothing - the Plain environmental effect seems to work ni... : onyxraven

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  universal drivers so same logo, doesn't mean anything : SERIOUSly the SAMe
  • ok cool.. phew :) for awhile i thought i had the wrong drivers installed or somesuch :o : VERTEBRAINS

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• Thats a good question... somebody please answer before i fuck up winblows... : tommysgun
• I always uninstall reboot and reinstall. : Turd Ferguson
• in keeping with the Nvidia video card driver tradition, I'd say no. : sharkII
• You shouldn't need to if it doesn't ask you to. : ovrlrd

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• http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=1305955 : Matto357