Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[GeneO]

285.62 has issues with video playback (on many mpeg I just get a black screen in windows media player 12). This issue is know by Nvidia and they are working on it. I rolled back to 280.26

 

[Cata]

New GeForce 285.79 Driver BETA

 

[GeneO]

Release notes say it fixes the WMP black screen I mentioned above.

 

[Brink]

New GeForce 285.79 Driver BETA

Thank you Cata. First post updated.

 

[Cata]

New GeForce 285.79 Driver BETA

Thank you Cata. First post updated.

You're welcome Shawn.

 

[Zahl]

These seem to install the previous physx package even though they list the new one Once you install the drivers uninstall physx only and install this NVIDIA DRIVERS 9.11.1107

 

[Gary]

I can't get the Nvidia tray icon will not stay after a reboot. It disappears from the systray and the check mark to show it is gone in the Nvidia CP. This has been going on for the last few driver updates. I know most people try to remove this but I wonder why it does not show? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Brink]

Hello Gary,

If it's not here in the NIVIDIA Control Panel to check....

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...then you might check in the Notification Area Icons settings to make sure that it's not set to be hidden there.

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If still not, test to see if you may be able to run the exe file below to turn on the tray icon.

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Display\nvtray.exe
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If you still cannot get it back, then you might see if completely uninstalling/reinstalling the NIVIDIA driver may help.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[A Guy]

I believe he's saying he checks it, but on reboot it is unchecked again. Most searches bring up people wanting to remove the tray icon. A Guy

Edit:

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Display\nvtray.exe

Perhaps it can be added to startup? Do you show the nvvsvc.exe running in task manager? And the NVIDIA Display Driver Service running in services.msc?

 

[darkfriday]

These seem to install the previous physx package even though they list the new one Once you install the drivers uninstall physx only and install this NVIDIA DRIVERS 9.11.1107

TY

 

[darkfriday]

New GeForce 285.79 Driver BETA

TY

 

[Cata]

GeForce 290.36 Driver BETA
Release Date November 28, 2011

 

[Brink]

Thank you Catalin. First post updated.

 

[Cata]

Thank you Catalin. First post updated.

You're welcome Shawn.

 

[Everlong]

GeForce 290.36 Driver BETA
Release Date November 28, 2011

I gave these a try to see if they helped a couple of graphic bugs in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Didn't fix the bugs, and performance in Battlefield 3 was terrible. Went back to the WHQL drivers.

 

[Airbot]

GeForce 290.53 Beta drivers posted.

290.53 BETA is out - NVIDIA Forums


The regular download links on main download pages will most likely become live soon.


Release notes:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/290.53/290.53-Win7-WinVista-Desktop-Release-Notes.pdf

   Information

Changes and Fixed Issues in Version 290.53

The following sections list the important changes and the most common issues resolved
since version 290.36. This list is only a subset of the total number of changes made in this
driver version. The NVIDIA bug number is provided for reference.

[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After adding a game to the Manage 3D Settings profiles when
it was not already detected by the driver, instead of the game name appearing in the
profiles list, the path to the game appears. [908150]

[GeForce 9800 GTX]: 1080p resolution is not listed in the HD, SD section of the
NVIDIA Control Panel Change Resolution page. [848805]

The display driver may send incorrect display timings to the monitor when the refresh
rate is set to 60Hz, resulting in poor image quality. [908729/909942]

[GeForce 500 series] [The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : There is flickering/corruption in
the game when CSAA is enabled. [897301]

[GeForce GTX 5 series][The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : The game experiences poor
performance when using ultra‐quality shadowing mode. [898733]

[Battlefield 3]: There are triangle artifacts in the game. [877789]

[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] : Added Ambient Occlusion to the application profile.
[901908]

[3DVision] [The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim] Added Skyrim Crosshairs to the NVIDIA
Control Panel‐>Set Up Stereoscopic 3D‐>Change 3D Laser Sight page. [914623]

 

[Airbot]

Beta 290.53 are available on the main download page now.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron. First post updated.

 

[smarteyeball]

Worth a try just for this:

The display driver may send incorrect display timings to the monitor when the refresh
rate is set to 60Hz, resulting in poor image quality. [908729/909942]

I didn't get poor IQ with whatever version introduced this bug, but it did disable the 'Game Mode' on my TV via HDMI due to incorrect timings. Took me a little while to notice something was off

EDIT:

Crap. No change. Anything over 50hz and it disables game mode

EDIT x2:

Tried another input - game mode is back, but so too is the damn screen tearing. Odd. Bugger game mode then.

 

[MrNeeds]

Worth a try just for this:

The display driver may send incorrect display timings to the monitor when the refresh
rate is set to 60Hz, resulting in poor image quality. [908729/909942]

I didn't get poor IQ with whatever version introduced this bug, but it did disable the 'Game Mode' on my TV via HDMI due to incorrect timings. Took me a little while to notice something was off

EDIT:

Crap. No change. Anything over 50hz and it disables game mode

EDIT x2:

Tried another input - game mode is back, but so too is the damn screen tearing. Odd. Bugger game mode then.

Mine was stuck at 59Hz with poor image quality, everything's sorted now