Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

Marko279 · 01 Jan 2009

It is working on 5200. I went to bios and changed some features.AGP apperature size was 4mb changed to 128 mb, disable memory hole 15mb - 16mb, disable delyed transaction. When i restarted computer error code 43 was gone.

NormCameron · 03 Jan 2009

I don't know much about these, but for what it's worth:-

GeForce 185.20 beta drivers released

Now with ambient occlusion setting and PhysX 8.11.18

It has only been a few hours since XFastest have released the new GeForce 185.20 beta drivers, including a new release of Nvidia's PhysX engine 8.11.18.

Yet what's particularly noteworthy is that these new drivers contain an Ambient Occlusion setting that can be set to Low, Medium, High and Off.

Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7-ambientocclusionxo1.jpg

Ambient Occlusion adds realism to scenes by reducing the intensity of ambient light on surfaces blocked by surrounding objects. It enhances depth perception by providing a soft shadow effect for objects based on their placement in the scene. This feature is not supported for all applications.

Basically, Ambient Occlusion is used to create soft, ambient lighting shadows, emulating diffused lighting such as daylight or indoor ambient lighting. For a more articulate description, refer to the Wikipedia definition here.

Additionally, Hardware-Infos has a write-up comparing GeForce 185.20 beta to several popular drivers releases issued in the second half of 2008.

The drivers are available for Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows 7 build 7000 and can be found here :-

http://pic.xfastest.com/z/NVIDIA%20%C5X%B0%CA/185.20/XFastest%20185.20%20Vista32.exe

ForceWare 185.20 Vista (32-bit )

http://rapidshare.com/files/178760760/XFastest_20185.20_20Vista64.exe

Norm

Mark · 03 Jan 2009

You can also find these drivers on techPowerUp! and they are the original unmodified drivers:

Warning

While these are the original unmodified NVIDIA drivers, you will be downloading them from a 3rd party source and not directly from NVIDIA.

Brink · 08 Jan 2009

New NVIDIA driver 181.20 version released for the 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200 series. See first post for more details. :)

Shawn

Freelancer852 · 14 Jan 2009

Not sure how many of you have seen this, but I figured I'd post it in here. Nvidia recommends that you use the Nvidia Drivers that are available on Windows Update (WU). I've tried using both the WU drivers, and the latest drivers available and I find that the WU drivers give me the best performance...

mansrm81 · 14 Jan 2009

Freelancer852 said:

Not sure how many of you have seen this, but I figured I'd post it in here. Nvidia recommends that you use the Nvidia Drivers that are available on Windows Update (WU). I've tried using both the WU drivers, and the latest drivers available and I find that the WU drivers give me the best performance...

Yep seen it 2 days ago.

Neilsouth · 16 Jan 2009

Nvidia 181.22 beta

Fixed Issues–Windows Vista 32-bit

Multi-GPU Issues
• [SLI]: Fallout3–the game crashes in some game maps when played at high
resolutions (1440x900 or higher) and high settings. [500665]
• [SLI], S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Benchmark–added an SLI profile for the
application.[506981]
• GeForce GTX 295: Occasionally, only one GPU is recognized as supporting CUDA
and PhysX after the system is rebooted. [506018]

Fixed Issues–Windows Vista 64-bit

Multi-GPU Issues
• [SLI]: Fallout3–the game crashes in some game maps when played at high
resolutions (1440x900 or higher) and high settings. [500665]
• [SLI], S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Benchmark–added an SLI profile for the
application.[506981]

The following are features that are not currently supported or have limited support in this driver release:
• NVIDIA SLI Antialiasing
• NVIDIA Control Panel Display Category
• The Graph tab on the Adjust Desktop Color Settings page is not available.

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

XP X32
XP X64
Vista X32
Vista X64

Brink · 16 Jan 2009

Thank you Neilsouth for the update. The first post has been updated. :)

Shawn

Neilsouth · 16 Jan 2009

No problemo :)

Neilsouth · 16 Jan 2009

181.22 = DOOM 3 Now works , No flickering!. Nice drivers :)