New Beta on NVs site 181.22

sorry, dont have time to post links, but wanted you all to know about these drivers.

You can find the XP & Vista 32/64 bit drivers at www.guru3d.com.

Anybody try these out?

I've been using em since yesterday, no benches but they're stable enough for WAR and COD4, as well as Crysis.

can anyone say whether these work with fallout3?

Download GeForce Forceware 181.22 for Windows Vista 64-bit



This is a beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs. The release complements the Mirror’s Edge release, with PhysX support.

This driver is recommended for the optimal GPU PhysX experience in EA’s hot PC title Mirror’s Edge.
GPU PhysX is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory. This driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0010.
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.

First set I have tried in ages which actually have working Fan Control in the Nvidia Control Panel. Digital Vibrance works fine and haven't had any issues at all. Only playing WoW, Crysis and Sins at the moment.

These are definitely keepers for me.

Image quality is better to the eye (mine anyway) than the previous 18X drivers I have used, as I stated earlier the fan control is now working in the control panel and these are the VERY first set of drivers since I have owned my 8800GTS 512's that actually load the device settings when you start windows. i.e. the fan speed settings.

It crashes my PC right after Windows boots to desktop, the mouse stops responding and the screen just hangs there.

9800GTX+, Windows XP 32bits

starfury6 said:

First set I have tried in ages which actually have working Fan Control in the Nvidia Control Panel. Digital Vibrance works fine and haven't had any issues at all. Only playing WoW, Crysis and Sins at the moment.

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Did you notice any improvements in WoW? Running sli 260s i was actually dipping into the low teens at 25x16 when running a hyjal over the weekend. I actually heard the cards weep a little when 20 people started AOE'ing.

Well I didnt notice any immediate differences in frame rate. But being WoW it does tend to swing quite a bit anyway. Say from 40's in shat to over 100 out in Hellfire penn.

Oh thank jeebus.

These are actually fairly stable for me so far. The 180.48 were horrific for stability on my system.

Definitely recommended.

They are WHQL now, no longer beta.
Not sure if anything changed tho.

big difference for me. i was using an old driver though. 177.41. took my far cry 2 and warhead fps way up.

Just wondering, what provides the option for fan control in nvidia drivers? Because my x64 install has fan control which works great along with the profile under the 'devices' tab i think it is. However on my x86 install which i use for Bluray playback I have no devices tab and no fan control. Both using 181.22. The latter on the WHQL version. Both have the 15.63(or whatever the latest nforce is) mdb drivers.