Forceware 174.12 - Desktop Resize & AVI's Fixed!

logifuse · **19th February 2008, 09:47 AM**

BETA (happy now Phil?

)

64 Bit

32 Bit

Looks good on my system (64 bit). AVI stutter/crash seems to be fixed & resize @ 50Hz is happening (as per the 173 beta from a few days back).

Justin

philzgr8 · **19th February 2008, 10:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by logifuse

BETA (happy now Phil?

)

64 Bit

32 Bit

Looks good on my system (64 bit). AVI stutter/crash seems to be fixed & resize @ 50Hz is happening (as per the 173 beta from a few days back).

Justin

Of course!

I'll still wait for a release version though. It's no big deal with 1080p @ 1:1

logifuse · **19th February 2008, 10:37 AM**

Attached screenshots of the Nvidia Control Panel.

dgaust · **19th February 2008, 10:54 AM**

Bout freakin' time.... now to find myself a passive nvidia card that doesn't take up two slots and will fit into my case.

logifuse · **19th February 2008, 11:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by dgaust

Bout freakin' time.... now to find myself a passive nvidia card that doesn't take up two slots and will fit into my case.

In the 8xxx range? I don't like your chances.

Didn't you have one of those slightly too high Gigabyte cards? Can't you cut the top off the heat sink? Half a cm won't make much difference.

Justin

dgaust · **19th February 2008, 11:08 AM**

I did, it caught fire.....

The heatsink was quite thick.... didn't have the hardware to cut it. Looking at some of the passive 8500's they look like they might be ok, but it's hard to tell from the net.

logifuse · **19th February 2008, 11:13 AM**

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Originally Posted by dgaust

The heatsink was quite thick.... didn't have the hardware to cut it. Looking at some of the passive 8500's they look like they might be ok, but it's hard to tell from the net.

Yeah, I was just looking at them too. Not a single photo that shows them from an angle where you can see how deep the heatsink is.

AbeFroman · **19th February 2008, 01:27 PM**

I've been running an Asus 8500GT 512M with passive heatsink in an Antec Fusion V2 for around 3 months with no issues. The PCI slot next to it is populated with a wireless card, and there's about an 8-10mm gap between it and the 8500GT heatsink. Motherboard is an Asus P5K-VM.

HTH.

Keen Bean · **19th February 2008, 01:49 PM**

Thanks for the info Abe, will check this one out.

Am happy to report that stuttering with overlays has gone for me too with this driver. Woohoo!!

Desktop now seems to be whatever gets configured in the control panel too. Don't ask, too hard to explain! I'm just happy.

Now, if only I could get explorer to stop crashing when... well... exploring.

logifuse · **19th February 2008, 01:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by AbeFroman

I've been running an Asus 8500GT 512M with passive heatsink in an Antec Fusion V2 for around 3 months with no issues. The PCI slot next to it is populated with a wireless card, and there's about an 8-10mm gap between it and the 8500GT heatsink. Motherboard is an Asus P5K-VM.

I saw that card & thought that it looked like a single slot heatsink.

Does it have SPDIF passthrough (i.e if you use DVI>HDMI, can the audio be passed through the DVI port)?

Question to anybody who wants to answer it: why aren't there more 8500GT actual HDMI cards? My reading of all the stats & blurbs suggests that Nvidia have positioned the 8500GT as their HTPC card, so surely more HDMI support would make sense? My MSI 8500GT has HDMI, but it's a 2 slot heatsink (it's a low profile card).

Justin