Oolite Bulletins

Have you got a NVIDIA Geforce GPU with Windows Vista/7/8?

If so, then you can get a program from NVIDIA that easily downloads new drivers, and gets optimisations for your installed games. Its called the Geforce Experience and is in beta.

Get it from here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/geforce-experience

We've got 200+ machines at work all with nvidia cards, however, most still run XP. Also for us, newer isn't always betterm

DaddyHoggy wrote:

We've got 200+ machines at work all with nvidia cards, however, most still run XP. Also for us, newer isn't always betterm

Apparently XP support is planned but not yet available in the beta.

JazHaz wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

We've got 200+ machines at work all with nvidia cards, however, most still run XP. Also for us, newer isn't always betterm

Apparently XP support is planned but not yet available in the beta.

Cool, but I refer you to point 2, newer isn't always better (for us - we have some very temperamental bespoke Gov't/Military Simulators)

Yeah, I think its aimed at home users not shady government organisations.

BTW do you have a white cat?

I'm curious - are you using this, JH? If so, does it set (or recommend) 'Threaded Optimisation' on or off for Oolite?

El Viejo wrote:

I'm curious - are you using this, JH? If so, does it set (or recommend) 'Threaded Optimisation' on or off for Oolite?

Well it doesn't have a setting for Oolite. Only a limited number of games at the moment.

Edit: See the list of games here.

Edit2: I have Threaded Optimisation turned off.

Ah, I misunderstood - I read through the blurb, and got the impression that you ran a game, then it optimised the settings.
If it's only the AAA games that they already cater for, then I don't need it. Yeah, TO needs to be off for Oolite.

Thanks for the tip - seems to work fine although I have only one game installed (at the moment) that it recognised (Skyrim). I'm sure it will be handy when I install new games.

Wolfwood wrote:

Thanks for the tip - seems to work fine although I have only one game installed (at the moment) that it recognised (Skyrim). I'm sure it will be handy when I install new games.

My sympathies.

Tricky wrote:

Wolfwood wrote:

Thanks for the tip - seems to work fine although I have only one game installed (at the moment) that it recognised (Skyrim). I'm sure it will be handy when I install new games.

My sympathies.

Nah, the rest of the supported games (from the list on their website) hold no interest to me whatsoever. So, no sympathies needed.

Far Cry 3 is one that I will get eventually, when the price drops enough. The rest, no.

I believe the games list will be expanded as the program moves out of beta.

Wolfwood wrote:

Tricky wrote:

Wolfwood wrote:

Thanks for the tip - seems to work fine although I have only one game installed (at the moment) that it recognised (Skyrim). I'm sure it will be handy when I install new games.

My sympathies.

Nah, the rest of the supported games (from the list on their website) hold no interest to me whatsoever. So, no sympathies needed.

Far Cry 3 is one that I will get eventually, when the price drops enough. The rest, no.

I meant my sympathies about having Skyrim. Was a joke.

Tricky wrote:

I meant my sympathies about having Skyrim. Was a joke.

Kinda figured that you were joking from the smiley, but I wasn't sure what the butt of the joke was...

But, yes, Skyrim is a time-eater... :/

It's a GeForce only tool. Support for other nVidia chips (I have Quadro on my laptop) is under consideration according to the forum. It will suggest driver upgrades for the Quadro though.