New Nvidia Drivers

Gamingphreek · Feb 14, 2007

32bit

64bit

Fixes a lot- so anyone with time for Benchmarking would be great!

NEWER WHQL: VISTA 64 bit/ 32 bit.

100.65 32 bit Vista

100.65 64 bit Vista

In my experience these are merely official WHQL Final versions of the drivers that were posted earlier. Although it is possible that they could be something else.

-Kevin

Lord Banshee · Feb 14, 2007

3dmark06
WinXP = 4332
Vista = 4208

Not bad 0-5% difference isn't bad. But this is only 3dmark.

All i got, still have had time to play any games on vista yet.

thilanliyan · Feb 14, 2007

Still a beta. When did they say they were releasing WHQL drivers?? End of Feb.??
Just noticed, so it's actually a unified driver now for Vista right? No separate 8800 driver?

ebeattie · Feb 14, 2007

Lets hope the WHQL drivers are that shiznit... please? Ill give NV a dollar if they do!

AdamK47 · Feb 14, 2007

Originally posted by: ebeattie
Lets hope the WHQL drivers are that shiznit... please? Ill give NV a dollar if they do!

You already gave nVidia the dollar when you bought the card. They have to supply us with WHQL drivers.

nycxandy · Feb 14, 2007

I'm still waiting for flat planel scaling.

nullpointerus · Feb 14, 2007

Originally posted by: thilan29
Just noticed, so it's actually a unified driver now for Vista right? No separate 8800 driver?

Yes, same with the 100.59 beta driver that was out on Feb. 5th.

Originally posted by: nycxandy
I'm still waiting for flat planel scaling.

Same here... :frown:

Update:

The flat panel scaling option is actually here. The video color settings even appear to work -- that is, without dialing the gamma way down and turning everything purple whenever the computer boots or wakes from standby.

:thumbsup:

The bad news is that the nVidia drivers web page is down for maintenance. Even worse, the maintenance page says that it will be back up by December 30th at 6:00 p.m. PST. I'm hoping this is a typo. /understatement

Update 2:

Flat panel scaling is present in the nVidia control panel app, but the settings aren't saved and don't do anything yet -- how frustrating!

Lord Banshee · Feb 15, 2007

You guys with flat panel scaling issues, does your monitor have this feature in the options? I know mine does and i am unsure if all monitors have this feature or not.

ebeattie · Feb 15, 2007

Ok, just hooked up my CRT Trinitron after I RMAed my Sceptre 22". I games on Call of Duty2 again WTF. My cards performance felt like SH!T. Must not have noticed it too much when I was gaming on the Sceptre cause THAT wasnt to good.

Im not feeling too many warm and fuzzy feelings for Nvidia ATM, and I hope that changes RIGHT F'N quick. I shouldnt be seeing jerkiness at any level with as much horsepower as this card has.

Im going to try and reload windows... been a while since I have done that and Ive installed some new hardware and never refreshed my Windows. Hopefully that will help. Some good drivers is what we need though, not jut for Vista, but for XP! Id like to think that a powerhouse like nvidia could be able to engineer a friggen badass driver.

Or, maybe the 8800GTX was optimized for Vista and that OS. Wont know for awhile until I get Ultimate, so off I go into reformat land.

EDIT: It may have been some net lag I was experiencing, but It just didnt feel right. Ill check sigle player to make sure.

AVP · Feb 15, 2007

These seem to be the G80 series drivers, are they ok for a 6600gt?

happy medium · Feb 15, 2007

Anyone try the new driver with the 320 mb 8800 gts? I wonder if they fixed the aa/af problem?

Gamingphreek · Feb 15, 2007

Originally posted by: AVP
These seem to be the G80 series drivers, are they ok for a 6600gt?

You can use them with Geforce 6 and 7 series cards, but it is advisable that you stick to their dedicated drivers as these are more refined towards the 8 series.

To answer the question, yes you can use them if you so choose.

-Kevin

Gamingphreek · Feb 16, 2007

Bump- Newer Drivers Released

almach1 · Feb 16, 2007

if you go to nvidia's website 8800 drivers are still beta not whql.
FROM NVIDIAS site
ForceWare Release 100
Version: 100.64
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Beta Driver

what the message poster put up was a link to drivers labled:

nVIDIA ForceWare X 100.65 for Windows Vista 32bit

Operating System: Windows Vista 32bit
Driver Version: 100.65
Driver Date: 2007-02-10 (YYYY-MM-DD)
Driver Size: 30.2MB
Driver Released by: ??
MS WHQL Certificate:yes
Setup Files Included:yes
International Files: yes

Gamingphreek · Feb 16, 2007

Originally posted by: almach1
if you go to nvidia's website 8800 drivers are still beta not whql.
FROM NVIDIAS site
ForceWare Release 100
Version: 100.64
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Beta Driver

what the message poster put up was a link to drivers labled:

nVIDIA ForceWare X 100.65 for Windows Vista 32bit

Operating System: Windows Vista 32bit
Driver Version: 100.65
Driver Date: 2007-02-10 (YYYY-MM-DD)
Driver Size: 30.2MB
Driver Released by: ??
MS WHQL Certificate:yes
Setup Files Included:yes
International Files: yes

Yes...hence they are NEW drivers

-Kevin

almach1 · Feb 16, 2007

i may be a noob, but somehow i don't trust some drivers that were hosted by one single person that "they just cam across"

Gamingphreek · Feb 16, 2007

Originally posted by: almach1
i may be a noob, but somehow i don't trust some drivers that were hosted by one single person that "they just cam across"

It's laptop video to go. It is a very respected driver site. If you don't trust me, Guru3d and TweaksRUs has the same thing linked up as well.

-Kevin

almach1 · Feb 16, 2007

thanks for the referrals to other sites. not trying to put down anybody. I did some googling and countn't find it anywhere else. i went ahead and downloaded from guru3d.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1582

Gamingphreek · Feb 16, 2007

I apologize if I come off rude, but stop crapping my thread. The links I post there are very credible and I don't appreciate you second guessing it.

Guru3D got the file from here, compressed it and hosted it on their own. It is on the front page of www.TweaksRUs.com. NVNews has also linked to it according to TweaksRUs. I don't know what more you want from me.

-Kevin

almach1 · Feb 16, 2007

don't have a cow. i did say i was noob so you win. sheesh.

Aikouka · Feb 18, 2007

Amusingly enough, if you head to Guru3D... nVidia requested that they removed the 100.65 WHQL drivers and Guru3D did so.

Thankfully GP posted the other link to them in this thread so I was able to get it! :thumbsup:

Shooks · Feb 19, 2007

Thank you so much for the link to these drivers ( the 100.65's). Oblivion ran like crap on my setup (2 7800GTX's) but with these the performance is back up to XP levels...well almost, but thank you so much man!

miniMUNCH · Feb 20, 2007

100.65 drivers are now up on nVIDIA's site... released today.

SPARTAN VI · Feb 20, 2007

I'll have to give the 100.65 a try. My Oblivion performance has been crap with 100.64, like minimunch.

Anyone know what's the appropriate method for driver installation in Vista? Does DCPro work with Vista?

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