Nvidia's 6800GS AGP support - lame or is it just me?

[randlor]

I'm not too worried about the driver problem right now, as my card decided to die on me last night. I knew I shouldn't have got out of bed yesterday...
...turn it on, wouldn't boot. DISK FAILURE error message - ok, not the end of the world as I've seen this before with boot order problems. So, checked the BIOS - artifacts and screen corruption. On the 3rd attempt, I saw that all my boot order was gone, the AGP aperature was set to 8mb and the CPU settings were all back to factory default. Had to pop the jumper to reset the bios to get everything back. Made it into windows, the screen vsync'd twice, then crashed with the same graphical corruption. Popped my 9800 pro back in - and wouldn't you know it? Everything works perfectly again. Currently awaiting an RMA number from BFG!

With regards to the drivers, the 84.20's seem pretty good - again beta. I'd love to get on BFG's case about the drivers, but things don't work that way. I think Hercules released 3 drivers for their 9800pro - ATI - countless examples (took them a lot of attempts to get it right, well pretty much every time a piece of software/game was released their had to update their drivers lol). Anyway, my point is - hardware vendors build their cards to the reference spec (or close enough) so they can rely on the vendor (nvidia/ati) to support their product with their reference drivers. Makes sense from my perspective with regards to cost - and hey free support! Let someone else carry the can, why should you do it?

[alex666]

Finally, the newest WHQL approved drivers (84.21) support 6800 GS AGP.

[randlor]

Ah nuts, and my card is still away getting replaced. Typical /roll

Thanks for the heads up though, I'm sure my mighty 5200 will appreciate lol

edit - on their main page though, if you follow the download driver link - you still get the 81.98's. Guru3d have them here
So how does that work? Guru3d update their site before NVidia, or is there something funky with Firefox that is stopping me getting updates from CGI form submitted pages? (or whatever it is they use on NV)

Ah I give up

[alex666]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

Hee's the link.

marty

[~Morphed~]

damn just decided to buy one of these and didnt know theres lack of driver support. Looks likes its going to be a evga .


You know we can all complain about drivers but just like MB drivers sometimes you really should stick with what ever drivers the card or mb manufacture releases on THIER website. Not the chipset vendors website, that alone is a risk.

I know this because I finally got fed up with the 6600 and started driver experiments, got sick of that and reverted back to the latest XFX drivers and my aquamark score wint up around 7000 points total to 58000 abouts.

[alex666]

damn just decided to buy one of these and didnt know theres lack of driver support.

No, now there ARE whql-approved drivers. The card comes with older drivers, but the newest whql (or wqhl or whatever, bloody hell) nvidia drivers released just today support 6800Gs cards. The previous beta drivers which I'm using now have worked just fine. But probably this weekend, I'll install the newest ones which I downloaded at work today.

marty

[~Morphed~]

i dont know why buy a 6800 gs insted of a new or used 6800 gt . ?

[3dfxrain]

some people said it was a little faster but I believe the performance was about the same for the AGP version, I guess the price was lower