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New Beta ForceWare for Vista Released v.100.64

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/14/2007 02:11 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 2789 views

Nivida released new ForceWare drivers for Vista.
Highlights of this release: Adds support for GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Beta driver for NVIDIA SLI? support for GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS GPUs This driver supports the following features:

o Single GPU support
DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs o NVIDIA SLI support
DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs OpenGL support for GeForce 8800 GPUs DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs and DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver If you would like to be notified of upcoming drivers for Windows Vista, please subscribe to the newsletter Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues Download 32 bit
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Nostromo
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#65972 Posted on: 02/14/2007 06:26 PM

Wow- my 3DMark06 with my Geforce 8800GTS dropped. I can't believe I spent a ton of money for a video card that runs games so crappy in Vista. This card ran great in XP.

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Domingo
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#65973 Posted on: 02/14/2007 06:47 PM

It's not the card...it's the drivers.
In the Nvidia forums, their own tech guys have been playing Vista down for months. Because they expected adoption rates to be so slow, they've really more or less ignored it. I can't recall the exact quote but it was something like "90+% of users are going to be on XP, what do you expect them to focus on."
The fact that no DX10 games are due for another few months doesn't help either.
I'd love to jump on the Vista train, but I just won't do it until some better drivers come out.

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Nostromo
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#65975 Posted on: 02/14/2007 06:58 PM

I hope you are right. It's just hard to believe they could make such a drastic improvement, but on the other hand, it is the drivers that tell the card what to do. The only reason I jumped on the Vista train because I'm an educator, I could buy it cheap.

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Domingo
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#65977 Posted on: 02/14/2007 08:10 PM

From what I've picked up on, Vista looks a lot like XP to end users, but behind the scenes is a strange new animal.
XP had so-so drivers at first (not this bad), but improved a TON in the first few months. Still, even at it's best XP ran slower than 98 for a lot of games indefinitely.
I ran the Vista RC's and eventually went back to XP when the 8800 came out. We had no drivers AT ALL until 2 weeks ago :P
I think we'll see things improving pretty soon, but it does appear that the Nvidia of today is definitely not the same one from 4-5 years ago.

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TSThomas
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#65979 Posted on: 02/14/2007 09:53 PM

Have some patience. There were similar issues when Windows 2000... first came out too. The Drivers will just about catch up in several weeks/months. This is the price you pay fort early adoption

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New Beta ForceWare for Vista Released v.100.64

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/14/2007 02:11 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 2789 views

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