GTX470 What have I done???

Former user wrote on 8/13/2012, 11:08 PM
Okay, managed to get a PNY Nvidia GTX470 to play with the hardware acceleration.

The install disk is driver ver 197.75, which I understand is too low for Vegas to use.

I used Windows driver update and things went all to heck. No video at all on computer. Booted to safe and uninstalled and computer came back up and found drivers but this time it was version 295.73. Booted to Vegas and it found the GPU accelerater. Cool

Go to render and the computer crashes HARD. And then just keeps rebooting. Won't finish after post.

Go back to SAFE and uninstall again. This time it seemed to clean everything out and I reinstall from the disk back to 197.75.

I see the current version online is 3xx something. Should I iinstall this? Running Win 7 32 bit, but will also be using on Win 7 64 bit.

Thanks for any help.

I just don't want to keep crashing it if the drivers are a problem.

Dave T2

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Former user wrote on 8/13/2012, 11:33 PM
Never mind. I took it out. Causing too many weird things and I need my computer to work right.

After another install, th Nvidia control panel would not work right.

I went back to my basic ATI card and will deal with acceleration when I really need it.

Thanks
Dave T2
john_dennis wrote on 8/14/2012, 12:20 AM
I'm running 301.42 with my GTS450. The driver from can be downloaded from nvidia here. The PNY site doesn't seem that helpful to me.
Tim20 wrote on 8/14/2012, 5:30 AM
With your ATI card installed try this:
1. Go to remove programs and uninstall anything nvidia
2. Download latest nvidia driver and install it
3. Turn off computer and replace the ATI card with the PNY
4. Reboot

If that works and you are happy with it you can then remove the ati drivers for a cleaner system. If the card doesn't work just simply turn off system and put the ati card back in.

Windows manages the drivers it needs but does a bad job of finding the latest driver for things like video cards.
Former user wrote on 8/14/2012, 7:54 AM
John,

Thanks, I found that after the other mishaps. It reset my bios and some other things, so I decided to maybe retry it later.

Dave T2
Former user wrote on 8/14/2012, 7:56 AM
Tim20,

Thanks. I wish I had followed that in the first place. The Windows update seem to be the catalyst for the problems and I couldn't recover. I do need to clean out all Nvidia and try it again, but right now I have some projects I need to finish. May get back to it next week.

Boy this card really runs hot. I might need to increase some airflow as well.

Dave T2
flyingski wrote on 8/14/2012, 10:46 AM
I just put a GTX 560 Ti in my system and started with the latest driver, had trouble and went to the older 295.73 driver. I'm running 301.42 at the moment and it seems to be OK. I generally don't change graphics drivers once I find something that works.
As to the card running hot, make sure you have plenty of room on the fan side of the card. I had to remove my audio card to gain enough space for the big fat video card to have adequate air flow.