Windows 7 - Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

**Brink** · 11-19-2008

Latest Nvidia ForceWare Drivers

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BETA NIVIDIA DRIVERS

Information

Version: 295.51
Release Date for Desktops and Notebooks: January 31st 2012
In Device Manager: 8.17.12.9053

New in 295.51

NVIDIA SLI

Adds SLI profiles for :
- 7554
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- Oil Rush
- Red Faction: Armageddon

3D Vision

Adds support for 3D Vision windowed mode on DLP HDTVs and on Optimized for GeForce passive 3D monitors
Adds or updates 3D Vision profiles for:
- The Adventures of Tintin – rated Good
- Afterfall: Insanity – rated Fair
- Black Prophecy – rated Not Recommended
- Chaos Online – rated Fair
- Da Vinci Online – rated Fair
- DotA 2 – rating upgraded to Fair
- Dungeon and Dragons: Daggerdale – rated Fair
- Ferrari Project – rated Not Recommended
- The First Templar – rated Fair
- Fractal – rated Excellent
- FreeStyle 2 – rated Good
- The Haunted Halls Reach – rated Excellent
- King Arthur II – rated Not Recommended
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – rated Fair
- Kong Fu Ying Xiong – rated Fair
- Love Beat – rated Good
- Marvel Super Hero Squad Online – rated Good
- Microsoft Flight – rated Fair
- Perpetuum – rated Fair
- Post Apocalyptic Mayhem – rated Fair
- Prototype 2 – rated Fair
- Q.U.B.E. – rated Excellent
- Quan Qiu Shi Ming – rated Excellent
- rFactor 2 (mod mode) – rated Good
- Saints Row: The Third – Rated Not Recommended
- Shadow Company: Left for Dead – rated Not Recommended
- Special Force – Rated Good
- Tera – rated Good
- Top Gun: Hard Lock – rated Not Recommended
- Tropico 4 – rated Good
- Worms Blast – rated Good

NVIDIA PhysX

Updates PhysX System Software to 9.11.1111

HD Audio

Updates HD Audio to version 1.3.12.0

Key Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixes instances where the GeForce GTX 590 fan unnecessarily increased to 100%.
Fixes instances of driver timeouts while simultaneously watching multiple videos.
Adds edit/delete option for custom resolutions.

Other Details

Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP.
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 and AMD motherboards.

Desktop Release Notes (v295.51)

Notebook Release Notes (v295.51)

New Control Panel User's Guide

WHQL NIVIDIA DRIVERS

Information

Version: 285.62
Release Date for Desktops and Notebooks: October 24th 2011
In Device Manager: 8.17.12.8562

New in Release 285.62

This is the recommended driver for Battlefield 3. It contains several performance and compatibility enhancements for the final release of the game. Check here to see if your PC is ready for Battlefield 3.
This is also the recommended and enhanced driver for Batman: Arkham City and RAGE.
Check here to see if your PC is ready for Batman: Arkham City
Contains a fix for the driver timeouts reported with the R285 beta drivers.

Desktop Release Notes (v285.62)

Notebook Release Notes (v285.62)

Control Panel User's Guide

Note

Don't forget to update your WEI Windows Experience Index - Update or Refresh Score after updating the driver.

**Bare Foot Kid** · 11-19-2008

Hello Brink.

I just tried to update to the same 178.24 driver that I'm currently running on my Vista and it seems it won't allow it....

...Any ideas?

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Later

Ted

**Mark** · 11-19-2008

I don't know but maybe that particular driver was meant for windows 7 for Beta testing and that's why it came up in Windows update, just a thought.

**skunksmash** · 11-19-2008

Hi all......

for anyone interested in the Beta offerings, i just installed the 180.44 Nvidia driver, running smooth as silk on Windows 7!!

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SK

**Bare Foot Kid** · 11-19-2008

Hello Mr Grim.

No I didn't get it from WU; I even had the Ethernet cable unplugged from the machine during the attempt. I tried to update to the same driver I had saved to one of my partitions. That's probably the reason it failed; how would I do it then?

Thanks for the help!

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Later

Ted

**Mark** · 11-19-2008

You might be better off trying to just click on the execute file for the driver but fist go into properties and change it compatibility mode for Vista.

That's what did the first time I installed it before I got one from the Windows Update and it seemed to install without any problems.

The driver you have now is the same one i am using at the moment and that was the one I got from the windows update and I couldn't find that particular driver on the Nvidia website.

**Bare Foot Kid** · 11-19-2008

Hello.

@Mr Grim; I just tried that and got the same result; oh well, if it ain't broke don't fix it!
Knowing the way I fix things sometime it'll cease to work at all....

Thanks for trying to help though!

Later

Ted

**Brink** · 11-19-2008

Ted,

Have you tried the 180.43 beta driver version? That's the one I am using without problems.

**Bare Foot Kid** · 11-19-2008

Hello Brink....

No sir, I haven't. I'll have to try it later.

Thanks Shawn!

Later

Ted

**Brink** · 11-19-2008

New NVIDIA 180.48 driver version released 11-19-2008 for 8800, 9, and 200 series. See first post for details.