GeForce 185.63 leaked

blackroseMD1 · 02 Apr 2009

Thanks SoLoR. These gave me a nice little performance boost in 7.

kpo6969 · 02 Apr 2009

182.50 WHQL for Vista is out also if anyone is interested.

swarfega · 03 Apr 2009

nothing for win7 yet

Mrki · 03 Apr 2009

185.66 beta is out for 32and64 vista

Mark · 03 Apr 2009

Will have to give that one a go, it has some nice extras like Ambient Occlusion.

GeForce Release 185 BETA 185.66 April 3, 2009 Release Highlights:
New in Release 185.66:
·Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
·Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
·Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
·Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
oUp to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
oUp to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
oUp to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
oUp to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
oUp to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
oUp to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
·Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
·Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

torrentg · 03 Apr 2009

Again, for this 185.66, my downstairs pc card was not listed. I felt all left out, so I edited the .inf with the hardware i.d. of my card, following the format for the other cards that are listed.

So under [NVIDIA.Mfg.NTx86.6.0] section, I added this line:
%NVIDIA_DEV.0222.01% = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0222

and under [Strings] section I added this line:
NVIDIA_DEV.0222.01 = "NVIDIA AWESOME!"

Lol, now my 6200A-LE shows up in the device manager as NVIDIA AWESOME.

After placing those two lines (the 0222 stands for my card), I used the setup.exe and installed as normal. No compatibility or anything.

So if your card is older and will not accept this beta driver, copy what I did.

haqq · 09 Apr 2009

i had real bad luck with 181 series drivers on windows 7 ultimate x64. had to restore the whole thing.

ilsonoro · 12 Jun 2009

Where can I find the driver please? TNX

poin2 · 12 Jun 2009

ilsonoro said:

Where can I find the driver please? TNX

You can currently get 185.85 directly from NVidia at the following if you don't like what's installed with 7 or might come via Windows Update:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

ilsonoro · 12 Jun 2009

poin2 said:

You can currently get 185.85 directly from NVidia at the following if you don't like what's installed with 7 or might come via Windows Update:

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

ooops just noticed it´s the one I had installed... tnx!