MIG-31

• WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT and 9400 GT GPUs.
• Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04).
• Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
• Adds support for 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
• Supports CUDA™.
• Supports NVIDIA GeForce 3D Stereo Technology.
• Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
• Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.13 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
  • Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
  • Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
  • Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
  • Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
  • Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
  • 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
  • 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
• Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
• Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Release Notes - 178.13
Control Panel User's Guide


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Download: 32 Bit / 64 Bit

Source: Nvidia

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PH3N0M

I installed these and to my disappointment, they're very buggy. Needless to say, I reinstalled the 175.19 drivers. I fired up COD4 and the display driver stopped responding twice and cause my whole system to freeze. One thing I can say for ATI, when I was using an ATI X1950Pro in my other syste, I NEVER had issues with drivers like I have with the NVidia. It's pathetic.

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CDsDontBurn

i wonder if the "code10" issue is going to be persistent with the 7900GT cards like is with the 175.19 & 175.16 drivers.

103MB, wow!

oh, and they are up for winXP and winXP x64 as well.

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Vehicon

Man, i LOVE these drivers. Better FPS in COD4 and in COH! Best 64bit drivers i have used in a long time.

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MIG-31

Id like to say these are good drivers.these work well with most games i have.

After installing these drivers Half-Life 2 / COD United Offensive and a few other games via steam crashes and stops working.Never have before installing this driver on Vista Home Premium 64 bit on a 9600GT card.

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WardenWolf

Blackscreen graphical lockups after installing these drivers. Tried to revert to 175.19, problems continued. BEWARE: These drivers may break your system and force a Windows reinstall to correct!

CDsDontBurn

perhaps this is a D3D problem with the card?

if problems arose only after installing newer drivers and reverting to the previous set still didn't reolve the problem, then it's probably due to reminiscant drivers of the 178.13s. try using drivercleaner.net to remove any reminiscant drivers before formatting your machine.

if issues continue and you have reformatted your machine already, then it's likely going to be a hardware issue at that point as a reformat would have resolved any software related problems.

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MIG-31

As it stands to date.They are the only games i have played via steam.When i get some time i will be trying out some of the older games i have to see if they have the same problem.

Crysis & this includes warhead (DVD) and Quake 3 Arena (Via Steam) are ok.

SOF 2 also crashes,But thats been the same since i switched to 64bit OS regardless to what driver i use.

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CDsDontBurn

then maybe it's a steam issue with these newer drivers then?

seems odd that this started to happen to you only after these drivers were installed.

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