OFFICIAL nVidia Forceware 60 Drivers (WHQL/SM 3.0 support) available NOW!

[bpt8056]

Windows 2000/XP WHQL Drivers (English)

Windows 2000/XP WHQL Drivers (International)

Windows 9X Drivers (English)

Windows 9X Drivers (International)

ForceWare 60 Graphics Driver Release Notes

Significant issues resolved in driver version 61.76 are listed below:

? Windows XP: nView Desktop Manager causes Response Time Logger to use 98% of CPU resources.

? GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: SimCity 4 shows smearing with 2xQ antialiasing enabled.

? Windows XP: DualView Performance mode doesn't work

? Windows XP, GeForce FX 5600: Enter key does not perform the intended actions in the NVIDIA control panel.

? Quadro FX 1100, Windows XP: Mouse pointer is blurry when moved to the right side of the LCD

? Windows XP, Quadro FX 3000, T221 Display: Windows MediaPlayer becomes pink/green with two T221 monitors rotated.

? Windows XP: Double-clicked Outlook messages sometimes end up underneath other windows.

? Quadro4 980XGL/Quadro FX1000, Windows 2000: Altair Engineering HyperMesh6.0 has problems with model contour color and rubber band operation.

? Quadro4/Quadro FX: Psychedelic colors fill ?Halo: Combat Evolved? when the game brightness is set very low.

? GeForce FX 5600: Far Cry has rendering corruption at high resolutions.

? GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: ?Error in module nvcpl.dll? when cutting an MPEG-2 file from within Windows Explorer.

? GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: Far Cry corruption

? GeForce 6800, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Corruption at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 with Flight Simulator 2004 in-game menu.

? GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Background object lighting wrong in Need for Speed Underground.

? GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow: Rain splashes do not appear.

? Perimeter: Texture mode is wrapping instead of mirroring.

? NVTV, GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP Media Center Edition: No full screen video mirroring when a WMV file is played in a Media Center Edition application.

? GeForce FX 5700, Personal Cinema, Windows XP: When using video mirror with TV, switching between TV and DVD corrupts the video mirror.

? Corruption with 3D stereo in Battlefield Vietnam 1.0.

? GeForce 6800: Far Cry performance is slower than expected.

? GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: Launching MPEG files from Play on my TV option causes blue-screen crash.

? GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: In Metal of Honor - Breakthrough, the volumetric smoke has low pixel precision.

? GeForce FX Go5100/5200, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash occurs while playing a DVD in LCD/TV Clone mode and rotating the LCD to 90 or 180 degrees.

? GeForce 5900: Crash occurs on shutdown of multithreaded applications.

? GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater) antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.

? GeForce 6800, Windows XP: Corruption after screen shot attempted with antialiasing enabled in Far Cry.

? GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater) antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.

 

[JBT]

Now if only did Far cry have the SM3.0 patch out.

 

[bpt8056]

It should come out this week, I hope. IIRC, Crytek did mention they could have released it last week, but ran into some unforseen problems that should only delay them a few days. Can't remember where I read it though.

 

[vshah]

dammit, they removed the psychadelic colors

 

[CRXican]

booo, I'm at work

 

[DoobieOnline]

Might want to add 61.76 to your title so there won't be any reposts (like the one I just did).

 

[CRXican]

do I have to uninstal all of the old drivers before I install these?

 

[rbV5]

(WHQL/SM 3.0 support) available NOW!

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0b and OpenGL® 1.5 support

Link

 

[Regs]

And SM 3.0 is Direct X 9.0c if the OP didnt notice.

 

[aggressor]

Quick, someone do some benchmarks

 

[rbV5]

Trifecta!

 

[rbV5]

Turkey!

 

[rbV5]

Seem OK so far. I'll put a link to my benchmarks when I'm finished

 

[Insomniak]

Hmmm. Desktop is not quite as sharp as with the 61.36 WHQL (still good though), but games seem a bit smoother. Gonna keep em.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: rbV5

(WHQL/SM 3.0 support) available NOW!

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0b and OpenGL® 1.5 support

Link

Of course they arent going to officially support 9.0c until its out of beta...

I bet SM3.0 works if you install 9.0c beta just like it did in earlier drivers.

 

[bpt8056]

Originally posted by: Regs
And SM 3.0 is Direct X 9.0c if the OP didnt notice.

If you didn't notice, the title says "SM 3.0 support". It's there, just not enabled but there is a way to turn it on.

BTW, the 61.77 drivers has SM 3.0 "enabled" and nVidia probably won't release it until MS releases DX 9.0c.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: rbV5

(WHQL/SM 3.0 support) available NOW!

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0b and OpenGL® 1.5 support

Link

Of course they arent going to officially support 9.0c until its out of beta...

I bet SM3.0 works if you install 9.0c beta just like it did in earlier drivers.

OIC

 

[Shinei]

Installed them over the 56.72's I was using before... Had a lag problem whenever I right-clicked on something, went away with the new drivers (thankfully, it was driving me up the goddamn wall). Haven't had a chance to test it in games yet, but I have high hopes if it got rid of that damned lag (might stop the hiccuping problem I have in games).

Official rating: Thumbs up!

 

[DefRef]

I just unzipped the exe and ran the setup.exe within to install over the 56.72s. Not into the whole "mine's bigger!" beanchmarking thing, but I can say positively that they've fixed that damn Far Cry bug where if your shadows are higher than Medium, it's drop the acid and listen to Phish time again. Now have everything cranked full on and am sailing at 1024 rez.

Plus, I'm all set for when I get a 6800GT!

 

[Pete]

? GeForce 6800: Far Cry performance is slower than expected.

LOL? What's this supposed to mean, exactly? Is this a reference to the 1.2 patch, or a driver-specific improvement?

 

[BFG10K]

Driver. The patch is on top of that.

 

[DefRef]

Whoops! While shadows now work, the IQ of some of the "sheen" shaders has gone to hell - very pixelated on the floor of whatever that blue "ice cube" room is that everyone uses to check the floor. (Regulator?)

 

[nemesismk2]

Has anyone tried Desert Rats v Afrika Korps because I get very bad landscape texture corruption with these drivers?

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: rbV5

(WHQL/SM 3.0 support) available NOW!

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0b and OpenGL® 1.5 support

Link

Of course they arent going to officially support 9.0c until its out of beta...

I bet SM3.0 works if you install 9.0c beta just like it did in earlier drivers.

Thats exactly right. You need to edit the ini file prior to installing and they do inded support SM3.0