For GeForce 4, FX, and 6 series cards, I've had good results with Forceware 93.71; however, the GeForce 7 series is new enough that it might benefit from a newer driver version. What's the compatibility landscape like in post-93.71 drivers? The last version to support these cards in Windows XP is 307.83 (2013), but this seems far too new.
What you are suggesting seems to be the experience I have had with GeForce7 cards and driver packages. Older packages like the Forceware93.71 you mentioned give poorer performance in some situations than the 307.83 you mentioned but in my experience Forceware175.19 from 2008 is one of the best 175.24 seems about the same but it does not support some of the high end AGP cards like 7950GT, also the newer package like 307.83 I have noticed causes graphical errors/corruption in certain games Oblivion in particular shadow filtering doesn't seem to work and tree canopy shadows make wild things happen along with some random corruption and some SIS AGP chipsets do not like the 307.83 drivers. 175.19 has given me no trouble with Geforce7 cards and 3Dmark01se scores about 1000 more marks with this package. Funny you made this thread I was just thinking about starting one.
6 - 12 months after game release usually does the Job
wrote:6 - 12 months after game release usually dies the Job
Well in that case I'll consider myself lucky in that this never happened to me 😁
wrote:wrote:wrote:6 - 12 months after game release usually dies the Job
Well in that case I'll consider myself lucky in that this never happened to me 😁
😊 That's what happens when you write on the phone...
Hehe, no harm done 😀
Anyway, I can't remember which driver or drivers I used for my 7600GS's (I have 2 which I both bought new, both with the very large passive cooler and both modded with an 8cm silent case fan), but I probably somewhat used the trick you mentioned.
And I always prefer stability over features and speed.
I like 92.91 and 186.18, I mostly use 92.91 with the Geforce 7900 GTX but perhaps 186.18 is faster in some newer games.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
