Windows 7: Windows 7 Nvidia Display driver

TripOG · 09 Jan 2009

yeah he is running build 7000, im going to try installing these drivers and see what happens i find it hard to believe my ooooooooooooooooooold agp vid card can support it but his newer card cant

Bellerophon · 09 Jan 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by joel406

Its ready for download at Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies.

What are you waiting for?

GO!

Nice one, what a shame Nvidia can't get their own software to work. I have their System Update software which is supposed to tell me when new drivers are available. Even doing a manual check it doesn't come up with the drivers, you have to go to their site.

Nice find and thanks for the info...now downloading.

Conservative OC · 10 Jan 2009

I ran Windows Update and the WDDM 1.1 driver below showed up. Should I try this or the new 181.20 with a 280GTX?

NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)
This driver was provided by NVIDIA for support of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1) Released 12/31/2008.

johngalt · 10 Jan 2009

Just to give you an idea - I have dual 260s - and I was pretty impressed with the 181.00 drivers.

Plus, the WDDM has one missing *main* feature - you cannot select which card to run SLI on as the main card. The 180.xx series and above you can.

Not very important, of course, for those not using SLI - but for those using it - it is important - especially in a dual monitor setup....

doubleblack · 10 Jan 2009

WDM 1.1's are designed specifically for Windows 7 though, so keep that in mind as well...

Mindflayer · 10 Jan 2009

I installed the latest nVidia drivers and enabled SLI. I can not play World of Warcraft now as the login screen causes a hard hang. When I use the default drivers, I get about 30 seconds of play then a hang.

Ideas?

Mark · 10 Jan 2009

Do you have the latest DirectX updates and you can also try the latest nvidia drivers from their website.

Mindflayer · 10 Jan 2009

Yup on all of the updates.

johngalt · 11 Jan 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by doubleblack

WDM 1.1's are designed specifically for Windows 7 though, so keep that in mind as well...

I just installed the 181.25 drivers - and the installation screen said "Windows 7 (64bit) driver installation...."

I *do* get a better WEI with WDDM drivers, but I get a better frame rate in GTA:IV with the 181 driver - so I think you can guess which one wins

Quote: Originally Posted by Mindflayer

I installed the latest nVidia drivers and enabled SLI. I can not play World of Warcraft now as the login screen causes a hard hang. When I use the default drivers, I get about 30 seconds of play then a hang.

Ideas?

Quote: Originally Posted by Mr GRiM

Do you have the latest DirectX updates and you can also try the latest nvidia drivers from their website.

Quote: Originally Posted by Mindflayer

Yup on all of the updates.

Have you tried reinstalling WOW from scratch?

Mindflayer · 11 Jan 2009

WoW did happen to be installed from scratch, but that has no impact. It was not just WoW, either - I found all games went blank or hung.

Darn shame.

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