NVIDIA v177.83 Drivers & UT3 PhysX Pack

[Evil Avatar]

Along with the GeForce v177.83 drivers, NVIDIA has released the GeForce Power Pack (http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp) (2781.50MB) including demos, a full game and three new PhysX enabled levels for Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 (Full Version Required).
Owners of a NVIDIA GeForce 8 series or later graphics card with a full version of Unreal Tournament 3 have the unique opportunity to tear up additional levels of Unreal Tournament 3 through some exclusive NVIDIA PhysX technology features. The PhysX Mod offers three new levels of environmental destruction including destructible walls, floors, walkways, rooftops and new weapons. New levels include: Heat Ray, Lighthouse & Tornado

The UT3 PhysX Mod Pack requires a full version of Unreal Tournament 3 - It is not a stand-alone title. Make sure to enable "Hardware Physics" under Video Settings in the UT3 settings.Lets just hope these drivers don't cut your performance in half like their last release.

[Pnikosis]

Sweet... The PhysX support shouldn't affect on graphics performance though?

[Atorak]

I downloaded the drivers and some of the demos yesterday, but the installer was a pain in the ass until I used IE 7.0. I haven't played any of them yet, but I'll be sure to check them out later.

Oddly enough, it took me about 10 minutes to find it all, since it wasn't listed on the main NVidia page, nor were the new drivers in the "Driver" section of the website.

[Syl]

I got these when they were released yesterday morning. I played around with the PhsyX demos. It's a bit too much for my 8800GT to handle UT3 on a PhysX map with everything enabled. (With Physx, roughly 20-30FPS. Without PhysX, roughly 4-5 FPS. So I guess it IS an improvement).

On the incredible upside, these drivers are amazing absolutely everywhere else. I've tried quite a few games since i got them. (Stalker, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4, Civ IV) and there's a noticeable performance improvement in all of them. Pretty awesome for a stock driver release.

If you're getting the demos - Don't worry about Warmonger or the Nuein thingy. They're both shit.

[Atorak]

Sweet... The PhysX support shouldn't affect on graphics performance though?
No, as a matter of fact, any game that has PhysX support will see a noticeable bump in performance, as well as an increase in physics effects.

The new drivers might have improvements for other games, but I haven't seen the release notes to confirm.

[Steve_Erhardt]

nabbed these and tested them out last night... work like a charm on the UT maps... there is a bit of overhead, but at least now I can run the PhysX maps and not send my machine into fits.

[LiquidRain]

I was fairly impressed by the fluid physics demo.

[Emabulator]

nabbed these and tested them out last night... work like a charm on the UT maps... there is a bit of overhead, but at least now I can run the PhysX maps and not send my machine into fits.Same here, runs the UT maps very well for me too. I'm using a GTX 260, AMD X2 6400+, X-Fi, 2GB ram.

Edit: One thing about driver updates.... Having to run many of the games you have installed to reset the video options can be a chore. ;)

[Scull]

Guess I'll have to check these out sometime soon. Soon being after PAX as I'm swamped until then :(

[Phanto]

Too bad I don't play UT3 ( I didn't like it at all)
I will have to try something else, but nevertheless, neat!

[ubiquityxx]

Is anyone able to get GRAW 2 Aegia Island or PhysX support to work under these new drivers?

In video settings it's not recognizing the new gpu physX support.

[jpublic]

So does this work on the 8800's as well, or just the 200 series?

Edit: Apparently so. Slick. Should be fun in CoX.

[Evil Avatar]

Same here, runs the UT maps very well for me too. I'm using a GTX 260, AMD X2 6400+, X-Fi, 2GB ram.

Edit: One thing about driver updates.... Having to run many of the games you have installed to reset the video options can be a chore. ;)

Good thing to see you posting again!

[Emabulator]

Good thing to see you posting again!Hiya bud. :D

I've been around a good bit lately. Upgraded my PC and got a 360 which got my gaming juices flowing again. ;)

[saulob]

So, what's the full game inside ?

[saulob]

Ok, just found out, it's

Warmonger (never heard of it)

http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/Warmonger_v2.1.exe

444mb...

Let me try :)

[thomasc]

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/937643.asp

Doesn't look like it's the best game. But it'll be awesome to see that the phyx stuff working...

[Shoal07]

Anyone having issues with steam after installing these drivers? All my "dynamic" text (menus, friends names, anything ina pop up box) is just gone.

Vista x64 & 8800GTS 512

[Shoal07]

http://root-online.homeserver.com/album/other/trouble%201.jpg