Vikingod

Download: Nvidia XP 32-bit / XP 64-bit
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Release Highlights:

Beta driver release.
Improved compatibility for Lost Planet.
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 support.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

Vikingod

Wow, a large lists of fixes, and even a 64bit set. This is great news.

BlueMak

Finaly after half a year or so they fixed the scaling for widescreen monitors!

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MIG-31

I can't get my desktop to set as the native 1440 x 900 without a display problem.My desktop wall paper and the taskbar streches wider on the right side.

Which means the clock and all other options are not visible.I can't close a page or app without shrinking the page.Also all text looks extremely fuzzy.

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BlueMak

I hope that is just a one time thing. I can't test the driver before I finish the game SW Republic Commando (doesn't work in the 100 series drivers), I hope they haven't included new and improved bugs with this release.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Necrosis

The Vista versions seem to be incognito from the normal site but...

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvi...162.15_uk.html
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvi...162.15_uk.html

Randomletters

This set doesnt ask to uninstall current drivers, Anyone know if its done automatically?

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BlueMak

I think you should first uninstall the previous set.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

BlueMak

And Nvidia lied. The scaling is NOT fixed. Good job Nvidia, lying in your release notes, excellent.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

mkk

No new problems with Vista here so far although nVidia pulled the Vista packages back for some reason. Perhaps the missing automatic pre-uninstall routine was the reason.

Vikingod

Here are some quick and dirty results from the FEAR benchmark. Pretty nice improvement overall I'm impressed with the drivers. (XP 64, up from the last official NV released drivers 93.xx)

Before After

Min: 25 27
Avg: 40 43
Max: 73 73

Below 25fps: 0% 0%
25-40fps: 67% 58%
40+fps: 33% 42%

OmegaRED

The majority of the fixes are for 8800 series so I'll pass for now.

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BlueMak

For those with a Widescreen monitor, does the Nvidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio work for you?

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Chaos

if I select Nvidia's scaling with fixed aspect ratio it just resets itself to use monitors built in scaling

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Vikingod

Are you talking about the XP or Vista drivers? There are nearly two pages of fixes for cards other than the 8800 series for the XP drivers. Other than that, I'm seeing some pretty nice performance improvements all around. I actually turned AA on the ETQW and it seems to run smoother than without it (seriously, I can't explain it), so now I have all the settings high, AFx8, AAx2, and all is very smooth.

Give them a shot, they are really the first drivers in a long time (80.xx series maybe) that I've seen some significant improvements.

GeForce 7 Series GPUs

• Lock On: Modern Air Combat–graphics corruption occurs. [251807]
• NVIDIA Control Panel: Unable to run the NVIDIA Multiple Display
wizard with any nView multi‐display mode enabled. [220979]
• Interlaced HDTV formats cannot be set in the NVIDIA Control panel.
[234045]
• The NVIDIA Control Panel: After selecting HD Component 480i /
576P/720 format, the Color Quality slider in the Change Resolution
page is grayed out. [219744]
• GeForce 7 Series: Video playback using PowerDVD shows a green
line at the bottom of the screen. [255204]
• GeForce 7950 GX2: Video errors occur with HDTV output while
processing 3D video. [324544/324541]
• GeForce 7900 GTX 512M : The NVIDIA Control panel Run Multiple
Display wizard link does not work. [263295]
• GeForce 7900 GT/GS 256 MB, NVIDIA Control Panel: The Adjust
Video Color Settings test image remains on the primary display after
dragging the NVIDIA Control Panel to the secondary display.
[236110]
• GeForce 7800 GT 256MB: 3DMark03–slow performance and video
corruption occurs when running 3DMark03. [215804]
• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: The
desktop goes blank while changing resolutions. [230674]
• GeForce 7800 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel “Modify full screen
video optionsʺ feature is visible after enabling SLI mode.[301330]
• GeForce 7900 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel ʺRun Multiple Display
wizardʺ can be opened while playing a video and no pop up ʺTask
cannot be opened right nowʺ warning message appears.[303529]
• GeForce 7900 GTX: Corruption and frame drops occur after enabling
Hardware Acceleration in Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 while playing an
HQV DVD.[305058]
• GeForce 7300 256MB: Error message appears on Windows Media
Player 10 when changing the refresh rate of the secondary monitor.
[243674 ]

GeForce 6 Series GPUs

• GeForce 6800 GTX: The Restore Defaults link is not available on the
NVIDIA Control Panel ʺModify full‐screen video optionsʺ page the
first time the page is visited.[301890]
• GeForce 6600 128MB: The Screen Resolution and Refresh rate page for
the secondary Dualview display shows the wrong display mode
information. [195196]
• GeForce 6600 256MB: After unplugging a Dualview display from the
DVI or component output, the nView multi‐display settings are still
available. [210104]
• GeForce 6600 128MB: Full‐screen video mirror is corrupted when
playing a DVRMS format file using Windows Media Player 10.
[234049]
• GeForce 6600, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update
Rollup2: The system restarts while playing a video using MCE.
[206545]
• GeForce 6600: There is corruption in the water in the Painkiller
benchmark. [187899]
• GeForce 6600 GT: After hot unplugging a DVI monitor, the monitor is
still recognized by the NVIDIA Control Panel. [260936]

GeForce FX Series GPUs

• GeForce FX 5700: Error message appears after enabling NVKeystone
with NVRotate enabled in 1600x1200 mode. [196563]

There are also a slew of SLI fixes too..

BlueMak

I wouldn't put too much faith in that list.
As I said earlier, according to the release notes the widescreen scaling issue is resolved too, and by resolved I mean it is still broken.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

MIG-31

These may be a fair amount of fixes but thats still limited to those who have problems in the past.And looks as though they are aimed more towards dvd playback.(for me anyway).

Seeing as i have a 7900GTX on a hpw19 (19") Widescreen monitor that has a max of 1440x900 @ 60hrz.every single driver in the past has had no problems at all finding that rez i require,either whql or betas.This was in the driver profile but this set acted more like 1440x600 which made the width go off screen.And as for the text etc was extremely fuzzy and blurred.The also seemed to be a apparent refresh problem also,i began to gain a headache after 30 minutes of viewing.(also never had this before).

This is the first time in quite some time a beta release has screwed my pc..I was forced to format and re-install windows last night.

In honesty im always willing to try new drivers out.But read me fixes means nothing.Every pc reacts differently.

And the wide screen scalling has never been as bad with this set compared to the previous sets.

EDIT This may be a coincedence but i now have fuxed up my back up drive.Ihave now lost all my system/Game updates.My favorite links has now ben lost.Photos along with a ton of music files too.

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thomasabarnes

Yeah, this set (Vista x64) gets bad reports from a good number of users (prabably us Vista users).

Also other forums think they may have been pulled (the x64 set) because nVidia stated that they had good hopes for improved performance in the game Lost Planet, but users reported that was not the case.

Anyway, here's a link for the Vista x64 162.15, if you were like me and didn't download them before nvidia pulled them. You can try them out.

[COLOR=#d2c9c8]http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/newspub/...p;id=1182938825[/COLOR]

Sorry about your problem Mig.

BTW, do you play filght sims, cause I do? hehe

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BWX

Holy crap- I think I will pass on these..

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Ferret_Style

The Vista ones work well for 32 bit. Been running them for 1 week now with no problems.

The Xp also seem pretty solid to me as i am also running them on the same rig.

No crash issues here after a complete unistall and drive cleaner of old ones.

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Necrosis

Looks like all versions have been pulled. Wonder when they'll release "fixed" versions?