Anyone using the new (safe) nV drivers?

[zero2dash]

So before the 196.75 fan driver pull fiasco, a few of you had reported higher PPD with those drivers. Has anyone tried the (fixed) 197.13's and have you seen a PPD boost? Just curious (still running on 195.62 on all of mine).

 

[lehmann]

they seem to run about the same.

 

[Cypher-]

I'm running them. Getting the same PPD as my old 191.07 drivers.

 

[T4rd]

Same as above. They seem to be working fine for me, though I'm still not able to fold with SLI enabled, but I dunno if that's really their fault or not. At least I can OC my shaders now coming from the the drivers before it.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

yeah im using them on my EVGA GTX 260 216 core.. while they do work they are still a pos especially if your gaming on your system.. i can no longer overclock my shaders to 1512mhz for folding.. i can no longer run the shaders above 1350 for gaming.. and for some odd reason even manually setting my fan to 75% my card seems to run 10C warmer then it did with the 196.21 drivers at 60% fan speeds.. while yes you do gain PPD clock for clock against the 196.21 drivers im actually losing about 600ppd because i cant go over 1458mhz on my shaders when folding.. right now folding im stuck at 600/1458/1100 and gaming 600/1250/1161.. on 196.21 i ran 600/1512/1121 folding and 621/1404/1181 gaming in crysis and 652/1458/1181 in all other games.. while the numbers dont seem like a huge difference.. in MWLL(full crysis mod) the 54mhz difference in shaders comes out to about a 10fps difference which is a huge deal with crysis..

im not sure if this is the same as everyone.. but so far nvidia's drivers have been insanely inconsistent with my GTX 260.. no 2 drivers perform any where near the same and lately seems the overclocking has gotten worse and worse with them..