New nVidia drivers out! (182.50)

[JGD]

So today they released new drivers! Gonna try em later to see if they fix anything (probably not ).

Anyway, here's the link: Vista 64bit - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvi...0_whql_uk.html

Post in the thread if you have any success regarding your technical problems.

[Stoferr]

I will try this as soon as possible. I really hope they got some SLI support included

[Bawha]

/edit / update

Been running with these drivers now since they got out (on a 8800gts 512mb). So fare no problems and a slight improvement overall.

[jmbuehler]

No SLI support for this driver. Much more interestingly, the 185.65 Beta driver was released today. The 185 series is developed by a seperate porgramming team, and allows for driver level Ambient Occlusion. But although the early 185.20 did allow for SLI with Empire, this version sadly does not.
So anyone wanting to go SLI still has to use 181.22 as this seems to be the only stable driver offering this support. Very annoying indeed. CA really must have pissed Nvidia off at some point...

[Maizel]

No SLI support for this driver. Much more interestingly, the 185.65 Beta driver was released today. The 185 series is developed by a seperate porgramming team, and allows for driver level Ambient Occlusion. But although the early 185.20 did allow for SLI with Empire, this version sadly does not.
So anyone wanting to go SLI still has to use 181.22 as this seems to be the only stable driver offering this support. Very annoying indeed. CA really must have pissed Nvidia off at some point...

Anyone tried said beta driver yet?

[Stoferr]

Unfortunly SLI doesn't seems to work properly with this driver neither.

I got two 8800GT and a Q6600 @ 2.80 GHz

[Wondaboy]

By Sli I take it you mean dual card setups...not dual GPUs on the one card like my GTX295.

[jmbuehler]

By Sli I take it you mean dual card setups...not dual GPUs on the one card like my GTX295.

On the driver side it makes no difference, wether your GPUs communicate with each other via an SLI bridge between two PCBs, or an internal connector like those of the GTX295. If SLI doesn't work, only one of your GPUs will be working.

So except for 181.22 and 185.20 there is no SLI for Empire, not even with a GTX295.

[Whiskeyblind]

Installed new beta drivers 185.65 on 9800gx2 an have seen an improvements over all.

[Leo4444]

Had a +5000 battle and ran better than last drivers. One of my sea battles froze though.

[Brusilov]

I tried the 182.50 drivers in my system (2 GTX280s in SLI) and the game simply locks up on the campaign map.

[Rommel]

It fixed all my problemz

[Brusilov]

It fixed all my problemz

What are your system specs?

[Moogel]

These new drivers had no effect on campaign map's turning black bug.

[Maizel]

Thanks, for the reply, But i was kind of getting at the performance on single GPU systems.

[Bendit]

Definately running better on my 9600GT.

[yankeepyrate]

This did the trick for me, now I can actually play through a battle with no CTD/BSOD!