[ARSPR]

I've got a 8800 GTX + Vista 32 bit and I only use drivers from nVidia WEB. And the latest available driver is 169.44.

quick question why would you want to use no gsl ?

It's just a test. Remember that old GPUs don't support glsl (SM 3.0 required) and that the current OFFICIAL build is still 3.6.9 which doesn't support it either.

My posts here are just general info. Personally, I don't worry much about it

[ARSPR]

nvidia has released 174.74 beta drivers for ALL cards, Vista and XP, 32 & 64-bit.

In guru3d forums someone posted that this driver solved "texture corruption with old games".

I'm outside home till monday so could anyone give them a try and check if:
+ GLSL rendering (ie XT builds with normal mapping support enabled) renders fine.

AND

+ old rendering, (official 3.6.9. build, newest 20080321 SVN trunk build or -no_glsl within Taylor's XT builds), is fixed again. So chess-board pattern artifacts or white & black lines instead of textures are gone.

(Please remember that mediavp 3.6.8zeta models and textures are more prone to these troubles than mediavp 3.6.10beta ones).

[Zacam]

I've been running the 171.17 WHQL drivers for XP since the day of release. They only work on 8xxx series cards, however.

Hopefully these drivers are the same thing but more broad spectrum. I think the broad spectrum part is what is hurting the drivers though. The should have 2 classes of unified drivers: Everything below the 8xxx series in one and 8xxx Above in another.

Hopefully these don't have the same performance impacts of the other 17x.xx drivers on older cards. I will try them on my 7600 GTS and find out.

**Edit: Have confirmed under basic 3.6.9, Stable Trunk and XT (with and withot -no_glsl) that there are no graphical corruptions under 3.6.8Z and 3.6.10B mediavp's.

[ARSPR]

I've just tested with 174.74 and I reconfirm that the graphical corruptions seem fixed.

[chief1983]

Yay, I should get my new rig put together this week and hope to be able to show off all the new features at a LAN party this weekend, with a bunch of comp sci's around.  Maybe I can generate some interest among them too

So it sounds like I should be able to find a fairly stable setup using an 8800 GTS 512 using the 17x.xx drivers now.