Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers Windows 7

[Airbot]

NVIDIA GeForce 186.03 WHQL Driv for Notebooks Released

NVIDIA has today updated its driver package for notebooks to WHQL version 186.03. This is a reference driver that supports GeForce 8M, 9M, 100M, and 200M-series notebook GPUs. Please read below for the full list of bugs fixed and performance improvements version 186.03 has to offer.

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[YupYup]

Odd i expected them to be the same version as the desktop drivers(186.10) as they were last time.

 

[YupYup]

Seems the notebook WHQL drivers are out, though version 186.03 not 186.10.http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...orce-186-03-whql-driv-notebooks-released.html

 

[dw96]

- Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Sounds nice...

 

[Brink]

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Thank you Aaron. First post has been updated for the new Notebook 186.03 WHQL drivers.

 

[Airbot]

You're welcome, and thanks for moving it.

 

[XGUNTHERC]

I am finally using the 186.03 and they are working great, and yes the right click Context menu has gone back to normal and is fast and I love it.

I'm also now running 7201 and got my Raid0 array up. finally.

 

[Clay]

Help me out here - using both the latest WHQL drivers and the latest betas, I get weird screen flickering issues while playing quite a few games. 3 of them are Sid Meier games (Civ4, Colonization, Railroads) and also Empire: Total War.

I don't get them with Team Fortress 2 or Left 4 Dead.

(all of these are Steam games)

Occasionally i'll get a weird diagonal pattern over the top of the screen, but most I get a black screen like I've alt-tabbed out.

Any idea what could cause these? The latest betas make it significantly worse...

 

[Brink]

Hello Clay,

If the newest drivers do not work well for you with these games, then it will be fine to go back to a older driver that did work fine until another new one comes out that may work better then.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Clay]

As it turns out, the card was just overheating

*cry*

Got that fixed w/ some help from RivaTuner...

 

[Brink]

Clay, I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for posting back with what was the cause.

 

[SoLoR]

190.15 beta out for quadro on laptopvideo2go, but with moded inf they are working on all nvidia cards.

 

[swarfega]

I wouldnt recommend people do that if theyre gamers. Quatro cards are for business or cgi graphics work and not designed for gaming and youd get very poor performance. Incidentally those cards cost like 3-4k each!

 

[Neilsouth]

190.15 beta out for quadro on laptopvideo2go, but with moded inf they are working on all nvidia cards.

GeForce ForceWare 190.15 Win 7 | Vista (64-bit)
GeForce ForceWare 190.15 Win 7 | Vista (32-bit)
GeForce ForceWare 190.15 XP (32-bit)

There's a new NVIDIA GeForce driver out on the loose and it's in fact the first series 190 driver ever. This is Forceware 190.15 The driver is available for Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit and for Windows XP a 32-bit flavor is available.
Very little is known about this driver but we need to stress that the original .inf file shows it was targeted at Quadro cards. We replaced the index with a modified .inf files (courtesy of laptopvideo2go) making the driver compatible with all current GeForce cards..
Interesting is that the Vista / Win 7 drivers also contact 3D Stereo drivers revision 190.15, look inside the archive to spot that yourself.
These drivers are to be considered very beta and thus treated as such.

No physx with these drivers !

Oh and Swarfega
Feedback

L4D,seems to run pretty good AA,and AS are working with this driver image qaulity is great

Great drivers. Performances are equal to 186.08 (best performances ever with these on my 8800 GTX), but more stable and colder GPU, IQ is great too. Keepers

Tested so far: prototype, Crysis/WH, GriD, Bioshock, DMC4, LostPlanet Colonies, UT3, World in Conflict, Mirror's Edge, CS Source.

Everything is stable and fast. (Windows 7 Ultimate build 7229 x64)

slow loading textures on prototype going back to 185.68. best for me

Great drivers for me.All games running fast and smooth

Edit;

WOHOO FIXED AA IN EMPIRE TOTAL WAR!!

AoC 30-60fps everything on high/ultra with forced AA at SLI32xQ in DirectX10 mode
The only IQ difference vs. 186.08 I could see comparing screenshots, is that spelldetails are sharper and not so washed out as with the 186.xx sets.

This is the best driver there is now!!

And my index score went from: driver 185.65 :6.0
driver 190.15 :7.4!!! in windows 7!.

My LCD tv sems sharper now! And games runs very smooth! 295GTX!

so far it runs great, but i noticed some big changes...

1. the driver does not show up in the uninstall panel of windows.
2. the change resolution panel changed too, but when i whant to change the res of the second monitor (hdtv) the nvidia app is not responding and i have to kill the panel

luckyli it worked the first time...
3. there is also no uninstall tab or whatever for physx, and it does not show up in the sys info of nvidia panel...but its installed i guess cause i can disable or enable it in the panel...lol

did something went wrong?? or am i the only one?!?!?

I don't see many complaints!

   Warning

These are 3rd party modified drivers and are not official NVIDIA drivers.

 

[SoLoR]

wauw WEI is actualy higher with 190.15! i got both graphic scores from 6.9 to 7.4 (http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/969/wei.png) now f gimp disks... and i have raid0 however in all honesty that i can score 7.4 from 8 on my computer is kinda sad as well... i should score like 5 tops...

 

[Mark]

Run some benchmarks and let us know how it goes.

 

[Neilsouth]

190.15 working good here , performance is fine and Insurgency beta has no corruption which did with previous beta's!

 

[RST101]

190.15 working really well here, wei has gone up from 6.8 to 7.0. I'm also getting better fps in prototype. Not tried them with any other games yet but so far all signs are really good.

 

[blackroseMD1]

190.15 is working great for me as well. I've finally been able to get my screen resolution up above 1024x768 in Prototype. Framerate is definitely better too. I've also noticed framerate increases in World In Conflict and Bioshock.

 

[Mark]

New Drivers released for Windows 7 186.18

X64 GeForce/ION Driver Release 186

X86 GeForce/ION Driver Release 186

This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

New in Release 186.18

• Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
• Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.

New in Release 185/186 drivers:

• 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.
• Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso.
• Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185/186 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
  • Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
  • Up to 22% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
  • Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  • Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
  • Up 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!

Existing Support:

• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology* on DirectX 9 and OpenGL, including SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
• Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0.
• Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.