forceare 174.74 BETA XP Issues

[CHAOS_KILLA]

Hey, I am having issues with forceware 174.74 on XP, half life 2 doesnt work at all, and i get the BSOD when I try to load it, and when it goes in standby i get just a black glitchy screen and i tried shuting down the computer it just restarted on me instead, crysis works really well though, wierd!, this aint a huge problem but I just installed XP Pro and Im getting more bugs than Vista, more wierdness!, if any solutions much appreciated!

[newconroer]

Well 175.63 Beta is out.

Wise thumb says: If you don't have any particular reason for using BETA drivers, stick to WHQL and currently XP WHQL is 169.21 for your GPU.

Although, 174.74 isn't technically BETA as it's a WHQL, it's just not WHQL for you, you see?

[CHAOS_KILLA]

i see your point, hmmmm i might try out the new one cause the 169 versions dont have that frame rendering, and i use that for crysis and it helps alot, thumbs up, thanx for the help!

[InnocentCriminal]

You need to add a W into your title.

:)

[CHAOS_KILLA]

yeah my bad!

[InnocentCriminal]

^^

We need new nVIDIA drivers (for XP) at work.

[CHAOS_KILLA]

true true, does nvidia even do anything with there forceware drivers meaning as in performance cause i cant notice anything, seems like ATI care more contentrated on that area.

[CHAOS_KILLA]

i tried forceware 169.21 but still the same thing happened, saying that somethings wrong with my nvidia forceware or something, any suggestions.

[newconroer]

Which is the problem, a false reading? Or crashing in HL2? or???

Did you make sure to uninstall the driver>reboot into safe mode>run driver cleaner>reboot into safe mode>install new drivers>reboot into normal mode?


Sometimes that process is needed.

[smig]

the problem is using Beta drivers ;)
I stoped doing it long ago. I will only if I have issues with the WHQL ones. I'm not a nVidia betatester :p