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NVIDIA Forceware version 162.22 Beta (Windows Vista) | |
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| Time: 15:06 EST/20:06 GMT | News Source: Nvidia | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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There is a new Windows Vista Beta driver release available to download from NVIDIA, v162.22. This is a new driver which will support GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series graphics boards; it does not support GeForce Go mobile GPUs. Please continue to check with your notebook manufacturer for a new driver for GeForce Go GPUs. GeForce FX users should continue to use the v96.85 driver. New Features
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| #1 By 20 (66.68.61.203) at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 03:58:15 PM |
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How 'bout this for new features:
- Works ??? I still don't have a recent (i.e. post 100.85ish) working Vista driver for my dual/SLI GeForce 7600's that a.) supports SLI and b.) supports DVI-out. All I get is single analog out which is great, let me tell you. Glad I paid all this money for TWO of these cards to have turd drivers. Thanks nVidia. It's not like you had 5 YEARS to prepare for this |
| #2 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 07:21:37 PM |
| #1, YIKES! What Main Board? Thanks, L |
| #3 By 2459 (69.22.113.215) at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 09:03:24 PM |
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Could it be portions of an older driver interfering with the newer driver?
Go to the System Information link located at the bottom left of the NVIDIA Control Panel, select the Components tab and see if there are differing file versions for the main driver components. If so you can try uninstalling the drivers and then running XDC ( http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=91371 ) from Safe Mode to remove all remnants. Then install the latest drivers. This post was edited by n4cer on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 21:04. |
| #4 By 7754 (75.72.156.204) at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:28:12 PM |
| lketchum, n4cer... are you guys using nVidia cards with Vista? What's your take on the current status of the drivers? I've been avoiding the nVidia cards because of the whole driver issue (which I experienced with a mobile nVidia GPU during the betas/RCs, FWIW). I'm looking for the ideal DX10 card that balances power consumption (should not require the 6-pin connector), noise level, performance, and stability. The 8600 GT and 2600 XT appear to be the best candidates, but the 2600's don't seem to be available anywhere (yet), and I'm avoiding the 8600 because of the drivers. Maybe that's not necessary anymore? |
| #5 By 61 (72.64.142.48) at Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:19:27 PM |
| nVidia drivers are far improved from where they were a few months ago. Nowhere near up to snuff to the XP drivers, but what can you expect going from a driver that has been maturing for 7 years compared to a driver that has had less than 1 year to do the same. |
| #7 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:43:05 AM |
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#4, bluvg/n4cer
We do get to test/build a lot of rigs, and here's what I use, where and why: Base System Builds and Work PC's for staff are dual DVI using Nvidia 8600 GT - this is he sweet spot and we use them to drive dual 19" DVI LCD's per system. With the latest WHQL drivers, this set up and Vista 32 bit is every bit as good as XP - despite running at very high resolutions per screen. We run Windows Vista Ultimate. My office workstation uses an ATI FireGL V7350 with 1 GB GDDR, and it is butter smooth with Vista - n4cer is correct, ATI's drivers are a bit more evolved, but not by much and not in all cases. I do a great deal of green/blue screen editing on this station [Serious Magic (sucks that Adobe bought them!)] so the card helps as I can control it as much as I need to. My home office WS uses 7600 GT's as do all other home systems, less laptops which use discrete ATI Mob vid cards. All systems run Vista Ultimate. For media systems [custom cases and even into specialized cabinets], we use Nvidia and a fanless heat sink - previously 7600 GT's but now 8600 GT's For gaming rigs we use 8800 GTS mostly - we have had great success with them. There are so few gamers we sell to that can afford SLI right out the gate, so we don't do many such rigs. The laptops we build use Nvidia - again, discrete video at 256 MB - we do use FX, and NVS based GPUs. These have proven to be excellent. I would definately go for the 8600 GT. I like and use PNY's bundle [boxed retail - as we do for all rigs we build (no monkey models and no BS push back on RMA's etc....)]. These have proven to be excellent cards and we love them for WMC systems we build up on Vista Ultimate driving pro series 65" Panasonic true-color/black plasma displays. The image is stunning. We don't use baked in ports, but go for dedicated ports we add via modules that support HDCP for HD video. Surprisingly, the 8600 GT looks better than more costly 8800's and much better than any ATI card so far. Last bit. Your main board is absolutely vital - of all those we tested for Vista, go for the Vista Certified ASUS P5B variants - they have some lower end models and some great higher end versions. We standardized on this board for all mid and full tower systems we build. [again, boxed retail - NO/NO monkey models]. Finally, we love gamers and HD media enthusiasts. Gamers are the stuff - I personally feel that they built and drive what the PC is, or should be. Even casual gamers, who also are into writing and playing music [most posting here do some of that], also push digital HD media, video etc... but they all are some kind of gamer - even if it is just to see if they can support gamers - like I do, because I suck at games [bad]. That said, I just have not seen the issues a lot of people have reported in recent months ref Nvidia drivers and Vista. Early on, yes, but not in the last few months. I assess things have moved along well. This post was edited by lketchum on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 00:49. |
| #8 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, July 12, 2007 06:41:24 AM |
| Just to add my two cents - I am running a 8800GTX with the latest WHQL drivers on the Vista Ultimate 32bit. The setup has been running great. I play some games when I have get the chance and haven't had any mjor problems since the last couple driver releases. As it is the drivers are not as mature as XP but that is to be expected. The same was true when XP came out. I remember gamers screaming they would never upgrade to XP (sound familiar??). I can pretty much gaurantee that none of those people are still running 98 though. |
| #9 By 9156 (192.55.140.2) at Friday, July 13, 2007 09:19:37 AM |
| Crapware again - unloaded drivers, loaded new drivers and restarted, after entering my password -boom diagnal lines. Do they even test these drivers?, people have been complaining about the diagnal lines with 7900GT since Jan...a couple drivers work...most dont (On Vista 64Bit) The 7900GT Kicks Butt in XP... too bad I still cant use my 4GB of RAM and striped hard drives running Vista even 6 months after its been released. Maybe someday Nvidia will release drivers that work with Vista. |
