Forceware 81.85 now official WHQL certified!

[imported_ST]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.85.html

Release Highlights:

WHQL Certified driver.
Adds support for GeForce 6600 VE, GeForce 6150, and GeForce 6100.
Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI.
TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI.
Added support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI.
Performance enhancements for dual-core CPUs.
PureVideo high definition MPEG-2 de-interlacing support.
Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV.
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes.

 

[secretanchitman]

yessssssssssssss, HD de-interlacing support!

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
yessssssssssssss, HD de-interlacing support!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Downloading now.

Edit: Also would be cool to see some numbers for the dual-core performance enhancements (I don't have one, but my next CPU will probably be a dual-core)

 

[imported_ST]

Fyi - HD deinterlacing is only supported for 6600 and higher GPU's per the release notes =(

 

[rahzel]

any different than the beta 81.85 which was just released a day or 2 before the official?

 

[linkgoron]

What's the 6600VE?

 

[imported_ST]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
yessssssssssssss, HD de-interlacing support!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Downloading now.

Edit: Also would be cool to see some numbers for the dual-core performance enhancements (I don't have one, but my next CPU will probably be a dual-core)

i will say that most applications / games improved ~5-10% from forceware 78 to 81.84 from my testing on a dual core.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Do they support triple buffering?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Do they support triple buffering?

That was enabled a few releases ago. I'm running the 77.77's right now and they support Triple Buffering

 

[xtknight]

That driver is awesome.

For Flat Panel Display (and maybe other) users, it gives DIRECT adjustments. It adjusts the brightness/contrast/size control on your monitor remotely. Simply amazing. I just tried this and now I have an awesome gray scale on my LCD.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xtknight
That driver is awesome.

For Flat Panel Display (and maybe other) users, it gives DIRECT adjustments. It adjusts the brightness/contrast/size control on your monitor remotely. Simply amazing. I just tried this and now I have an awesome gray scale on my LCD.

Really? :Q That's kinda cool...

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Really? :Q That's kinda cool...

Yup...awesome. It does, at least on my Samsung SyncMaster 710T display. Samsung MagicTune software crashes on this PC.

NVIDIA Direct Access

 

[moonboy403]

so how does it perform?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Hmm...did you have to do any registry tweaks to enable that? I'm not seeing that at all.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Really? :Q That's kinda cool...

Yup...awesome. It does, at least on my Samsung SyncMaster 710T display. Samsung MagicTune software crashes on this PC.

NVIDIA Direct Access

Wow, thats an awesome feature. nVidia is impressing me with their drivers. Although they've been slow to fix some issues, they have fixed them and continue to add features.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Hmm...did you have to do any registry tweaks to enable that? I'm not seeing that at all.

What monitor do you have? Although Coolbits is installed in that screenshot, I did not have to install it to get the direct access options.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Hmm...did you have to do any registry tweaks to enable that? I'm not seeing that at all.

What monitor do you have? Although Coolbits is installed in that screenshot, I did not have to install it to get the direct access options.

Dell 2005FPW

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Hmm...did you have to do any registry tweaks to enable that? I'm not seeing that at all.

What monitor do you have? Although Coolbits is installed in that screenshot, I did not have to install it to get the direct access options.

Dell 2005FPW

It probably only supports Samsung MagicTune and LG forteManager interfaces. Unfortunately the Dells don't have anything similar.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Really? :Q That's kinda cool...

Yup...awesome. It does, at least on my Samsung SyncMaster 710T display. Samsung MagicTune software crashes on this PC.

NVIDIA Direct Access

Wow, thats an awesome feature. nVidia is impressing me with their drivers. Although they've been slow to fix some issues, they have fixed them and continue to add features.

The direct access feature on my Dell P991 CRT doesn't work properly (81.84's), and instead resizes the monitor very badly, and I have to reset it using the manual controls on the monitor.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Hmm...did you have to do any registry tweaks to enable that? I'm not seeing that at all.

What monitor do you have? Although Coolbits is installed in that screenshot, I did not have to install it to get the direct access options.

Dell 2005FPW

It probably only supports Samsung MagicTune and LG forteManager interfaces. Unfortunately the Dells don't have anything similar.

I guess you're right, since I haven't heard of any Dell utility to change that stuff in software. Oh well, it sounded cool anyway.

Anyways, I think I'm going to see if the newer HD deinterlacing support is any better..

 

[CP5670]

I already have a control panel (Naviset) that came with my monitor to do that but I have to reinstall it every time I change the video card driver, which is a little annoying, so this might be useful if only for that reason.

Are all the bugs from the other 80 series drivers fixed?

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Anyways, I think I'm going to see if the newer HD deinterlacing support is any better..

I don't know what they mean by 'HD' MPEG-2. What does HD have to do with it? Interlaced transport streams (480i, 1080i)? Do they just mean better quality?

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: rahzel
any different than the beta 81.85 which was just released a day or 2 before the official?

My guess is no.

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: xtknight
That driver is awesome.

For Flat Panel Display (and maybe other) users, it gives DIRECT adjustments. It adjusts the brightness/contrast/size control on your monitor remotely. Simply amazing. I just tried this and now I have an awesome gray scale on my LCD.

I only get that if I'm plugged into analog, for some reason.

Full listing of release notes for issues fixed for this version, btw:

Single GPU Issues Resolved
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: Soft shadows in FEAR are not rendered correctly.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: The system crashes after a minute or so of playing Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: The Apple 30" panel display splits into four grids at 800x600, 1024x768, and 1600x900 resolutions.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: Application performance drops when Gamma Antialiasing is enabled.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: With SLI mode enabled, the mouse cursor image occasionally sticks as the window resize graphic instead of being restored to the pointer graphic.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX SLI: Resuming from system Hibernate results in a corrupt or distorted desktop.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: F.E.A.R demo - The system hangs when entering room with volumetric lighting.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX: Random pixels appear during gameplay in F.E.A.R.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX / GeForce 6800 Ultra/ GeForce 6600: There is intermittent glowing corruption around the edges of the screen in FarCry patch 1.33 when HDR is enabled. This has been partially fixed in driver version 81.85. An upcoming patch for Far Cry fixes the issue completely.
[*]GeForce 6 Series: With the latest FarCry patch, the application profile breaks the HDR functionality. This has been partially fixed in driver version 81.85. An upcomng patch for Far Cry fixes the issue completely.
[*]GeForce 6 Series: Tiger Woods 2006 crashes.
[*]GeForce 6800 / 6800Ultra: Corrupt pixel-blocks and slow frame rendering/long pauses occur in Colin McRae Rally 2005.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: The system hangs when running 3D applications on a x16 PCI-E system. This issue is resolved with an update to the nForce4 430/410 motherboard BIOS. Contact your motherboard manufacturer for the update.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: Fable hangs during gameplay.
[*]GeForce 6800: De-interlacing problems occur with Friends Finale DVD.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: Prince of Persia: Warrior runs slowly and does not render shadows.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: Prince of Persia: Warrior quits to the desktop.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow fails to render shadows.
[*]GeForce 6800 Ultra: Flight Simulator 2004 has scenery corruption when 3D clouds are not set at 100%.
[*]GeForce 6600, DVI-HDTV: The Underscan option is grayed out on HDVT DVI outputs after setting an HDTV resolution
[*]GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: Far Cry has severely corrupt textures on the Research map.
SLI Related Issues Resolved
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, SLI: Poor Tiger Woods 2006 performance with SLI enabled.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX SLI: Opening the inventory screen in Everquest 2 causes SLI performance to drop to single card level.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, SLI: The display attached to GPU1/DVI2 is not restored after disabling SLI.
[*]GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: There is video corruption with Bad Act Of War and F.E.A.R.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, GeForce 6800, SLI: The system hangs when running EverQuest 2 at 1600x1200 with SLI 16x antialiasing enabled.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, GeForce 6800, SLI: There is flickering and stuttering in Battlefield 2 with antialiasing disabled.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, GeForce 6800, SLI: Display output cannot be switched to HDTV-Out or TV-Out.
[*]GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, GeForce 6600, SLI: The system hangs when running 3D applications on a Dual x16 SLI system. This issue is resolved with an update to the nForce4 430/410 motherboard BIOS. Contact your motherboard manufacturer for the update.
[*]GeForce 7 Series / 6 Series, SLI: Switching from SLI to DualView mode or DualView mode to SLI may cause the display to lose sync.
[*]GeForce 6800, SLI: The player shadows in Madden 2006 flicker when SLI is enabled.
[*]3DMark05 and Far Cry experience poor performance on a dual x16 SLI system compared to a Dual x8 SLI system.
[*]GeForce SLI GPUs: Enabled VSync for Direct3D applications.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Anyways, I think I'm going to see if the newer HD deinterlacing support is any better..

I don't know what they mean by 'HD' MPEG-2. What does HD have to do with it? Interlaced transport streams (480i, 1080i)? Do they just mean better quality?

I'm not sure exactly, but before when I played 1080i transport streams the motion didn't seem to be as smooth as when I watched it on my HDTV tuner (which has its own hardware decoder). In any case, now both 720p and 1080i seem a lot smoother, playback is perfect as far as I can tell. I'm not sure why 720p is any different, but I'm glad that it's improved in any case.