Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[Brink]

Thank you Mr GRiM. The first post has been updated for the new NVIDIA 185.85 WHQL driver version released.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

lol. I just said a new driver would be coming soon. and it gets released the NEXT Day. lol haha that is great.

I'm currently on the Vista 182.50 as the Win 7 185 driver was not working right for me in Win 7.

After a few of you try the new Win 7 WHQL driver will you let me know how it performs for you. and if good I think I'll give it a try.

 

[Mark]

lol. I just said a new driver would be coming soon. and it gets released the NEXT Day. lol haha that is great.

I'm currently on the Vista 182.50 as the Win 7 185 driver was not working right for me in Win 7.

After a few of you try the new Win 7 WHQL driver will you let me know how it performs for you. and if good I think I'll give it a try.

I would definitely recommend it, I had an increase of .1 on my WEI and now it's at 6.5 for both and I have not noticed any bugs, plus it's the first non Beta driver for Windows 7, just try it and if you still like the driver you have now then just do a roll back.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

yup.. Thanks. I just downloaded. will try in a minute.

I just tried playing a few games. and after about 30 mins I got NV titled crashes that went to BSOD's. so I'm happy there is now a WHQL driver. I'll give it a try and hopefully things work better.

Thanks!

 

[XGUNTHERC]

Update.. the new Nvidia 185.85 WHQL Driver has brought back my problems..

If you did not have any problems with the last Win 7 Driver. this new Signed driver will probably work perfect for you. So don't take my post as a reason to not use the WHQL. but some people are having problems with the Win 7 drivers and there GFX. and I am one of them.

on the last NV Win 7 driver 185.50 right clicking on desktop took about 3 seconds and my 260's were not Downclocking to 2D. I changed and went to the latest Vista 64 182.50 drivers and all those problems went away.

Now with the new WHQL Win 7 Driver my Cards are not going to 2D Mode. eVGA Precision is reading my Memory at 1188 instead of stock 999. and NO overclock will change the readings. So I'm not sure if it's reading it wrong. or it's not working. And now when I right click on my desktop to hit refresh, or enter the NV Control panel. It takes more like 5 seconds for it to come. So it got worse.

Back to the Vista 64 182.50 driver for me for now! ;(

 

[skunksmash]

Update.. the new Nvidia 185.85 WHQL Driver has brought back my problems..

If you did not have any problems with the last Win 7 Driver. this new Signed driver will probably work perfect for you. So don't take my post as a reason to not use the WHQL. but some people are having problems with the Win 7 drivers and there GFX. and I am one of them.

on the last NV Win 7 driver 185.50 right clicking on desktop took about 3 seconds and my 260's were not Downclocking to 2D. I changed and went to the latest Vista 64 182.50 drivers and all those problems went away.

Now with the new WHQL Win 7 Driver my Cards are not going to 2D Mode. eVGA Precision is reading my Memory at 1188 instead of stock 999. and NO overclock will change the readings. So I'm not sure if it's reading it wrong. or it's not working. And now when I right click on my desktop to hit refresh, or enter the NV Control panel. It takes more like 5 seconds for it to come. So it got worse.

Back to the Vista 64 182.50 driver for me for now! ;(

sorry to hear that Gunther....... i get the same with the BETA 185.86 on W7, it will not throttle...

but on vista the same drivers will throttle :sarc:, so its starting to annoy me now i cant locate the actual cause, i thought it was the drivers themselves ....some throttle, some dont, but i have varying results with the same driver..??

who knows.......you thought it would of been a simple fix.



SK

 

[Sven]

Just to confuse everybody, I also tried both Win7 and Vista 185 WHQL. Win 7 gave no throttle down in 2D mode, and had a long responsetime in contex-menu.
Vista 185 WHQL do throttle down in 2D, but _still_ has long responstime in contex-menu.
Win 7 driver(s) not throttling down, can it be, that it try to HWacc. the aerostyle, and there fore the graphic card thinks it is in a 3D acc. situation?

 

[RST101]

Installed 185.85s over 181s and re ran wei and lost 1 point. They also would not run undercover. Gone back to 181s re ran wei and gained 2points wtf.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

Well. We can all expect this.. Everything is not just going to be perfect for everyone. There both still BETA's. even though it's NV WHQL.. it's still on a beta windows. We will have problems and they will slowly work them selves out.

Right now I don't have any driver installed for GFX. lol. I need to install before I do anything though.

I guess I'll be going back to the Vista x64 driver.
and skunk, there isn't a 185.86 is there? I thought it was 185.85

maybe I'll try the Vista 185.85 instead of the Win 7 one.

 

[murphy25]

i just went to download my drivers trouble is i cant find my card its a 7800gt and thats not listed a gs and gtx are but not gt anybody know which one i should download???
heres what it says in nvidia controls-

 

[RST101]

Just get that one murph cos its the same one for all really.

 

[murphy25]

ok thanks for that,i dont know whether i will yet as it seems fine with 181.72,is there any improvement that would warrant me using the latest one.

 

[RST101]

I got minus one with the 185.85 over the 181s. My 9600gt gets 5.9 but got 5.8 when I re ran wei. Needless to say I have gone back to 181s. Yeah all the geforce series use the same driver so it is up to you. You could always try it and if you get worse performance roll back. Good luck mate.

 

[skunksmash]

and skunk, there isn't a 185.86 is there? I thought it was 185.85

oops......



SK

 

[XGUNTHERC]

I am also having the no 2D Mode, and long contex menu in the Vista 185.85, as well. so not just the Win 7 driver, but the Vista 185.85 as well.

I'll be going back to the Vista 64 182.50 for now.

 

[Sven]

I do have "Low 3D speed" and "Full 3D speed" now on Windows 7 WHQL driver for my GTX260. "Low 3D is 400Mhz core and 300Mhz memory, while "Full 3D speed" is 576 Mhz core and 1000Mhz memory.
I don't know why it suttenly work ??

 

[Mark]

I do have "Low 3D speed" and "Full 3D speed" now on Windows 7 WHQL driver for my GTX260. "Low 3D is 400Mhz core and 300Mhz memory, while "Full 3D speed" is 576 Mhz core and 1000Mhz memory.
I don't know why it suttenly work ??

I have no problems with the new drivers either, maybe it has something to do with SLI, I know that's what Xguntherc has.

 

[Mark]

I just found out mine doesn't seem to lower the speed when it's Overclocked and even stranger is that my Overclock is higher then what I set it to.



Just wanted to add that above statement was incorrect as I found after I rebooted that it did downclock in 2D even when Overclocked.

 

[murphy25]

well a bit of feedback from me,i did install the latest 185.85 and had no drop in my wei (stayed the same) and i have noticed an improvement while playing games.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

Yup mr GRim. my shaders and my RAM were showing 1500 and 1400 and weird things like that. Something is totally wrong.

the new Nvidia driver COMPLETELY screwed my Win 7 install and I think I'm about to give up and start over with a fresh install. I'm having so many problems right now. FFF'n Nvidia.

Basically I was using Nvidia Vista 64 182.50 and all was good.. Other than a few crashes in games. but that could be an unstable overclock. Then I tried the New 185.85 Win 7 WHQL hoping the context menu right click would not be delayed. and hoping 2D mode would work. I tried Win 7 .85 and I had no luck. So I figured I'd go back to the Vista x64 drivers that were working so well. But I tried the Vista x64 185.85 drivers as well first. They had the same pause in right clicking. and it was like 5 seconds now. so it was getting worse, not better. So I uninstalled. Went back to 182.50 Vista's. and when I tried to install it said this folder already exists, would you like to replace.. but I had uninstalled after every retry.. So I said yes, then another came. I said yes to all. The install completed and I booted into 3 popup Error's saying Nvidia this, Nvidia I hate you THAT.. and nvsytray.dll has failed. and nvcp.dll has stopped working. (that is the Control Panel) so I did a driver sweeper. I ran regedit and deleted the Nvidia Control Panel file. as I've had a NV CP problem in the past. and I've now tried to install, and uninstall and I can't get a Nvidia driver to install. I keep getting the same error during the installs as I do on startup. something is all wacked. I'm going to try and install an actual WINDOWS 7 driver now. and see if it works. if it does I'll just live with the slow context menu whatever.

(I'm pretty angry, as now my Win7 and vista are screwed up damnit)