180.48 WHQL drivers released

Some instability for me too (Q6600 & 8800GT)

First time I've seen a blue screen in months.

Clocked my system back down to a much safer level and will see how it goes.
 
Dan_D said:
It breaks RDP? How? I don't see how this could happen but if it does that then NVIDIA can keep this one. I won't touch it.
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As soon as you try to connect it immediately returns to the client window with no errors or warning.

It's also reported on several NVidia's own forum including this one.

I'm surprised nobody complained about this, I guess people are using VNC and alikes more than RDP?

I'm going back to 179.13 to get RDP back to work.
 
On a side note:

The new drivers also broke my triple monitor setup, two on the 8800GT and one using and old RageXL PCI.
 
AmongTheChosenX said:
what is there to miss?
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*EDIT REMOVED*, he used GTX260 with GTS320, made it sound like there was another card in this fucked up naming scheme from NV.

180.48 is just one more nail in NV coffin, they screwed up again. Nvidia needs to get their heads out of their collective asses and start delivering. I seriously DO NOT want to start buying and using ATi cards! Guess I'm gonna give up PC gaming and go to consoles if this fucked up year for video cards continues into next year.

I have strong feelings about ATi and nVidia is screwing up the very things thats kept me with them, a clear naming scheme (8800 and 9x00 same cards), reliable cards (GPU failures galore, 30%<+ of GTX280 fail or don't work out of box, is NV going to blame this one on the user too...7800GT) and quality drivers (the 169.xx drivers were great, but sketchy 17x.xx and piss poor 180.48). Performance boosts are no good if reliability suffers!

EDIT, Sorry for being so rude above, we all love the stress the holidays put on us (excuses).

I do stand by what I said, NV has shown a huge amount of disrespect to its customers not just this year, but it was leading up to it last year with the release of the midrange 8 series cards.
 
fallout 3 is definately far smoother using the 180's instead of the 178's.
 
Far Cry 2 sure runs alot smoother, that was my first initial impression. Too bad the game still sucks ass
 
Sorry for being so rude above, we all love the stress the holidays put on us (excuses).

I do stand by what I said, NV has shown a huge amount of disrespect to its customers not just this year, but it was leading up to it last year with the release of the midrange 8 series cards.
 
RangerXML said:
I do stand by what I said, NV has shown a huge amount of disrespect to its customers not just this year, but it was leading up to it last year with the release of the midrange 8 series cards.
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Of which you own two!? I don't get why you are so angry with Nvidia to be honest. My 8800gts and 9800gtx have served me great. If I needed more power than my gtx currently gives I'm sure the 260 would be serving me just as well.
 
RangerXML said:
Sorry for being so rude above, we all love the stress the holidays put on us (excuses).

I do stand by what I said, NV has shown a huge amount of disrespect to its customers not just this year, but it was leading up to it last year with the release of the midrange 8 series cards.
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i remember that too. when the 8600GT's were out, they were probably the WORST bang for buck ever.
 
Well I for one am still planning on staying with Nvidia for the foreseeable future.

The 8800 GTS 512's I own are easily the best cards I have to date and the new 180 drivers ar excellent adding multi screen SLI. Before these I had X1950XTX card and while fast I had no end of problems with its connection up to the Sony HD TV. No such issues with the Nvidia cards and newer drivers keep adding more speed and better features.

They just need to sort the silly names and pricing out a little. Roll on more 180 drivers.
 
So what's the verdict on these drivers? Are these the currently best ones out?

I have a 280 ssc coming and want to start it out right!:D
 
jester55 said:
So what's the verdict on these drivers? Are these the currently best ones out?

I have a 280 ssc coming and want to start it out right!:D
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Ditto..... Would like to know this as-well. I havent had an Nvidia card for atleast 2 years
 
I tried the 180.48 in Crysis Wars and it had a negative impact on my fps. I switched back to 178.24 and it is running smooth again. Several others have said the same thing when I asked them.
 
Is Nvidia cutting support for 7 series cards? I use a 7600GT as a secondary card for my third monitor, and I noticed that it's no longer listed under supported products. I tested it out, and it didn't work with the 180.48 drivers, so I'm switching back. I really hope that I'm not going to be stuck with old drivers until I upgrade it to an 8 or 9 series card...
 
Yeah, I was scratching my head for awhile when I installed the new drivers and found that they'd install for my 8800GT but not for my 8600GT. I figured having 2 cards in the same series would use the same driver, like nvidia has done forever. So I switched back to the 178 drivers and am enjoying my triple screen setup once more. I really hope future releases support entire product lines like they used to, I really don't feel like buying another 8800GT just to run extra monitors.
 
You can edit the drivers to support the other cards or go to laptopvidoe2go.com and get the .inf with most all nvidia cards in it (yes, they work with desktop cards)..
 
Just tried to play Assassin's Creed, and performance was abysmal on my GTX 260 with the 180.48's. I got better framrates using the 178.24's on an 8800GTS 320MB.

Anybody else seeing the same thing with Assassin's Creed? Low framrates and LOTS of hitching?
 
OC'ed Q6600 and OC'ed 8800GT here, haven't noticed any difference.... good or bad.

Thats usually what happens with me and driver updates, why is my experience always so boring..?
 
Unknown-One said:
Just tried to play Assassin's Creed, and performance was abysmal on my GTX 260 with the 180.48's. I got better framrates using the 178.24's on an 8800GTS 320MB.

Anybody else seeing the same thing with Assassin's Creed? Low framrates and LOTS of hitching?
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Wow so AC and L4D are affected by 180's. Did nVidia think to do ANY testing before releasing these drivers? I tried the betas and I remember the horrible hitching in L4D that made me run back to the 178's. And to my surprise, nothing was done between the betas and the WHQL release.

Calling this a WHQL release is a serious joke. They need to fire the engineers who let this get through.
 
ech3lon9 said:
As soon as you try to connect it immediately returns to the client window with no errors or warning.

It's also reported on several NVidia's own forum including this one.

I'm surprised nobody complained about this, I guess people are using VNC and alikes more than RDP?

I'm going back to 179.13 to get RDP back to work.
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Wait what? RDP works fine for me...
 
criccio said:
OC'ed Q6600 and OC'ed 8800GT here, haven't noticed any difference.... good or bad.

Thats usually what happens with me and driver updates, why is my experience always so boring..?
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You're probably not looking for a difference.

With that said, I also didn't notice one. :D
 
Thanks for all the posts. I was considering bumping up from the 178, looks like I can pass.
 
Mav451 said:
Wow so AC and L4D are affected by 180's. Did nVidia think to do ANY testing before releasing these drivers? I tried the betas and I remember the horrible hitching in L4D that made me run back to the 178's. And to my surprise, nothing was done between the betas and the WHQL release.

Calling this a WHQL release is a serious joke. They need to fire the engineers who let this get through.
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So that explains why L4D has been choking on me...
 
I don't understand how so many people have troubles installing drivers for video cards. Look at my sig - I have installed every new driver when they came out, including beta drivers, have never uninstalled the old ones, and the system works beautifully. My Crysis framerate has increased about 12% to 32fps with these latest drivers. These drivers are excellent.

The one thing that pisses me off about my card is that the fan speed never ever EVER goes above 61%. Even at 85 degrees. I have to manually set it to 100% every startup.
 
Alistair Roe said:
I don't understand how so many people have troubles installing drivers for video cards. Look at my sig - I have installed every new driver when they came out, including beta drivers, have never uninstalled the old ones, and the system works beautifully. My Crysis framerate has increased about 12% to 32fps with these latest drivers. These drivers are excellent.

The one thing that pisses me off about my card is that the fan speed never ever EVER goes above 61%. Even at 85 degrees. I have to manually set it to 100% every startup.
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this release seems to be hit or miss really. I got the miss.
 
Just an update for the RDP guys - I installed the 180.84 betas (not 180.48 whql!) on Vista 64, and RDP works fine here now.
 
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