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GeForce Forceware 260.93 Win 7 | Vista

What's up with these drivers. nVidia released the WHQL then one day later there are new drivers already. BTW these drivers don't show up on nvidias site.. You can only get them from www.guru3d.com

There is no XP driver,, get used to it,, alto 66 percent of computers still use XP ,, Microsoft is slowly gonna extinct that OS and force everyone to Vista and W7 . For example IE9 will not run in XP its only for vista and W7 . Also security essentials the virus malware app is for vista and 7 .

Also your limited to DX9 with XP. For those ticked theres no XP driver, backup your stuff and format and install a recent OS not a OS from 2001 that looks the same as 1995 Windows95. Same start menu and taskbar and interface. Windows 2000 was pretty solid but ya even though majority still use XP microsoft is slowly gonna extinct it. Thanks gg and gl and gb
 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-260.89-whql-driver.html

GeForce/ION Driver Release 260
Version: 260.89 WHQL
Release Date: 2010.10.18
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit
Language: English (U.S.)
File Size: 128 MB

This is a WHQL release from the Release 260 family of drivers. This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs.

New in Release 260.89

New GPU Support

•Adds support for the newly released GeForce GT 430 GPU.
Performance

•Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. v258.96 WHQL drivers. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured on Windows 7. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
GeForce GTX 480:

◦Up to 10% in StarCraft II (2560x1600 4xAA/16xAF Ultra)
◦Up to 14% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 16% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 2560x1600 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 6% in Aliens vs. Predator (SLI – 1920x1200 noAA – Tessellation on)
GeForce GTX 460:

◦Up to 19% in StarCraft II (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Ultra)
◦Up to 15% in Battlefield Bad Company 2 (SLI – 2560x1600 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 12% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (2560x1600 noAA)
◦Up to 9% in Aliens vs. Predator (1680x1050 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
◦Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1680x1050 noAA – Tessellation on)
◦Up to 11% in Dirt 2 (SLI – 2560x1600 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 12% in Crysis:Warhead (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF Gamer)
◦Up to 13% in Far Cry 2 (2560x1600 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 12% in H.A.W.X (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF SSAO Very High)
◦Up to 5% in Just Cause 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
◦Up to 22% in Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (1920x1200 noAA)
◦Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Extreme Preset)
Blu-ray 3D

•Adds support for playing back Blu-ray 3D discs when connecting your GPU to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV. Playback requires compatible software application from CyberLink, ArcSoft, Roxio, or Corel. For more information, NVIDIA Blu-ray 3D website.
HD Audio

•Adds lossless DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD audio bitstreaming support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce GTX 460 GPUs*.
•Adds high definition 24-bit, 96 and 192 KHz multi-channel audio sampling rate support for compatible Blu-ray movies with GeForce GTX 400 Series ,GT 240, GT 220 and 210 GPUs*.
•Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0.
*Note: A Blu-ray movie player update may be required to enable these new features; check with your movie players software manufacturers for more details.These features are only supported on Windows 7.

Installation

•New driver installer with enhanced user interface and new Express and Custom installation options.
◦Express – fast and easy one-click installation
◦Custom – customized installation
■Option to perform a clean installation (completely removes older drivers from your system prior to installing the new driver).
■Option to choose which driver components (ie. PhysX or 3D Vision) to install.
◦Improved installation time for multi-GPU PCs.
NVIDIA Surround

•Updated NVIDIA Surround setup wizard
◦After first setup, wizard allows users to jump to any setup step.
◦Improved display connection diagrams and tooltips.
◦Improved UI for setup and arrangement of displays.
◦Improved bezel correction setup experience.
◦Adds help page to highlight which in-game resolution to select (e.g. how to pick bezel corrected resolutions)
◦Option to dedicate an extra GPU to PhysX or to drive an additional display.
◦Allows for portrait or landscape setup directly from the setup wizard.
•Updated 3D Vision Surround and NVIDIA Surround game support list. Please visit the 3D Vision Surround web page for a full list of supported games.
NVIDIA 3D Vision

•With Release 260 drivers, the installation process for 3D Vision has changed. Please view this knowledgebase article for more information on the changes.
•Adds NVIDIA 3D Vision streaming support for Firefox 4 and Google Chrome web browsers.
•Adds support for Sony’s 3D Sweep Panorama picture format added to NVIDIA 3D Photo Viewer (Sony digital cameras that can capture 3D Sweep Panorama pictures include NEX-5/NEX-3, Alpha a560/a580 and Cyber-shot DSC-WX5/DSC-TX9/DSC-T99 models).
•Adds support for new 3D Vision Desktop LCD monitors: BenQ X2410 and NEC F23W2A
•Adds support for new 3D Vision projectors: Sanyo PDG-DWL2500 and ViewSonic PJD6251
•Added the following 3D Vision game profiles:
◦Arcania: Gothic 4
◦Fallout: New Vegas
◦FIFA 11
◦Formula 1 Racing
◦Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark
◦Guild Wars 2
◦Kane & Lynch 2 – Dog Days
◦Lead and Gold
◦Lego Harry Potter
◦Live For Speed
◦Lost Planet 2
◦Moonbase Alpha
◦Serious Sam HD – The Second Encounter
◦Shrek Forever After
◦Singularity
◦Vitua Tennis 2009
◦Virtua Tennis 3
•Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
◦Drakensang: The Dark Eye – updated in-game compatibility text
◦Mafia II – updated profile to properly for 3D Vision-Rating
◦StarCraft II – fixed profile to properly recognize the retail game executable name and match the 3D Vision rating of “Good”
◦Super Commander – fixed HUD elements
◦TRINE – new profiles fixes that allow the game to be rated “3D Vision-Ready” when used with the TRINE patch v1.08, available via Steam.
NVIDIA SLI

•Adds or enhances SLI profiles for the following PC games:
◦City of Heroes: Going Rogue
◦Alien Swarm
◦Dead Rising 2
◦Front Mission Evolved
◦Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days
◦LEGO: Harry Potter
Other Improvements

•Adds support for OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series GPUs.
•Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514.
•Improves compatibility for older PC games (DirectX 7 to DirectX 9) running on Windows 7 (examples: Gothic, Gothic II, Falcon 4.0: Allied Force, Links 2003, Independence War II - Edge of Chaos, and X2: Wolverine's Revenge).
•Adds drag and drop display arrangement support to the “Set up multiple displays” page.
•Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
•Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
Additional Information

•Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
•Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
•Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
•Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
•Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
•Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
 
Good post my friend. Soo far these drivers are stable, everything is ok no problems. Things were already fast soo I cant say its faster but I can say its stable playing all games.

I wonder what the changes are from the 260.89 drivers. But all is good.

BTW this doesnt install phsyx, but dont worry you already have physx installed. You can choose custom and remove the 3d glasses so that doesnt get installed, just install drivers and your set. thx
 
[EDIT: Sorry, this is in reference to the 260.89 WHQL's from NV's driver download page, NOT the 260.93 beta drivers my mistake!!!]

Lol god damn NV drivers.

Downloaded -> Express Install -> Screen goes blank, never comes back (waited about 5 minutes) -> Restart just fine -> NV control panel tells me it can't launch because version mismatch plz reinstall NV drivers 🙂

This is on a clean Windows 7 install mind you, no old ATI drivers lurking around to muck things up. Older release drivers for the 460 installed and worked just fine, barring the retarded "adaptive power mode" glitch which brought a couple of my games (SC2 for example) to a crawl when NV's drivers decided to drop to idle clocks in the middle of my game.

Just throwing that out there for all the "LOL NV's drivers are like a castle of crystal meth and hookers compared to AMD'S drivel" crowd.

Thanks for reading time to try again...

[Edit: Second time's the charm, made it past the "Screen flicker" this time without falling into limbo. Time to see whats what!]
 
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Oops is this not the 260 WHQL thread?!

[Oh crap sorry I thought this was the 260.89 WHQL thread. Misread the title and didn't find an actual WHQL driver thread... My prior post is in reference to the recently released 260.89 WHQL official drivers straight from NV's own driver download page sorry for any misunderstanding...]
 
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