BFG 8800GT OC problems

[GibsonEX]

Hey guys,

i have a little performance problem with above mention card. I ran 169.09 drivers i believe that came with the card on cd and it worked like a charm. However today i decided to complicate things needlessly and downloaded 169.25 drivers and riva tuner to tweak it a little bit and that's where sh*t hit the fan. Riva tuner wouldn't detect card clocks and stuff after reboot and wouldn't give me OC sliders so i decided to uninstall that thing and test performance. I dont know why and for what reason but my 3dmark score went from 11800 down to freaking 7500, vista score from 5.9 to 5.7, i tried to test a game and from upper 50's to low 60's it dropped down to 35-45. I'm puzzled by this because i didn't change any settings with Riva Tuner and i uninstalled 169.25 drivers and went back to old 169.09. Still same... Does anybody have any clue what could be happening, because i don't

 

[-=Antimatter=-]

You should always use the latest drivers unless you're having a specific issue with a game...it's common sense in my opinion. Make sure that you run Driver Cleaner to remove the old drivers completely, and uninstall rivatuner and re-install it with the new drivers to be safe.