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Message 7126 - Posted: 3 Mar 2009 | 8:23:19 UTC

For those who are testing windows 7. A native NVIDIA display-driver for w7 is released. Seems to work well with GPUGRID.

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Message 7151 - Posted: 4 Mar 2009 | 4:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 7126.

Just installed tonight...

It seems to be working for me as well.

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Message 7237 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009 | 16:49:42 UTC

Yeah I had been using Windows Vista drivers and installed them by setting the installers to Vista Compatibility, but I decided to try the native Windows 7 driver. Seems to be working fine. The estimate for time left seems to be better now. I have yet to see a workunit finish so we'll see if the times are any different for similar credit count.
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Message 7240 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009 | 18:26:31 UTC

Just try for 2 minutes!
It's WDDM and can't be use with RivaTuner for O/C!!
I try 182.08.

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Message 7243 - Posted: 6 Mar 2009 | 19:53:38 UTC - in response to Message 7240.
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humm, your right, and the fan control don't work either. However, the performance increase is just to great for me, I am sticking with them.

surly, you should never install drivers in compatibility mode, that can lead to problems. In previous drivers, the vista driver install detected win7 as Win7 and installed a few different dlls.

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Message 7249 - Posted: 7 Mar 2009 | 6:13:30 UTC - in response to Message 7243.

@Tank_Master Hmm I didn't notice any problems, but thanks for mentioning it:P Well I just wanted a Windows 7 graphics driver that supported CUDA and I seemed to be able to run GPUGrid just fine with the Vista drivers. However, from now on I'll stick with the Windows 7 drivers because CUDA-supported ones have become available.

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Message 7251 - Posted: 7 Mar 2009 | 9:41:10 UTC - in response to Message 7249.

The driver is in use by me since the release. I have had no problems. The difference between this release and the previous used Vista is that changes in the control panel for the AA- or AF-settings take effect in games.

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