ForceWare for Vista Version: 101.41

MousePotato · Mar 3, 2007, 01:57 AM

hot off the press...

ForceWare Release 100
Version: 101.41
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Vista Beta Driver

http://www.nvidia.com/object/vista_d...ws_030207.html

mkk · Mar 3, 2007, 02:16 AM

Nice. Though I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever see advanced display timing controls for Vista.

OmegaRED · Mar 3, 2007, 03:43 AM

Has Nvidia forgotten about Xp drivers? Seems like all they make is Vista drivers now.

mkk · Mar 3, 2007, 04:05 AM

One could guess so, with the last really good driver for XP being 92.91 from six months back. Vista is everything to the press and there's only so many driver programmers at hand.

clicker666 · Mar 3, 2007, 06:31 AM

Performance seems better, but I got a CTD in Oblivion after about an hour of playing. Granted, I did have everything cranked. I'll try some other games, and Oblivion again later to see how things are working.

merlinxi · Mar 3, 2007, 07:19 AM

okay did this enable duel GPU support for the 7950Gx2? I am at work so I can't test them. I hate working saturdays.

Erroneus · Mar 3, 2007, 08:35 AM

It does enable dual gpu support for the 7950gx2

merlinxi · Mar 3, 2007, 10:29 AM

Well whoeer has the card tell me if there FPS improves!

clicker666 · Mar 3, 2007, 01:15 PM

I also crashed after close to an hour of FEAR. Just for giggles I flipped over to my XP partition and loaded up Oblivion. Been playing for well over two hours. I'm guessing I either have to spend less time playing games or hang on for a bit more. Tis a shame, really.

studbagel9 · Mar 3, 2007, 02:00 PM

I'll load these sometime soon and give some impressions for lower end people. I'm not home right now though.

v4npro · Mar 3, 2007, 02:28 PM

This is a response for a nvidia support person.

Quote:

Thank you for contacting us here at NVIDIA Customer Care.

With reference to your query with respect to availability of multi GPU option with GeForce 7950GX2 with the latest Windows Vista drivers, we would to inform that the drivers do support the multi-GPU option.

Sooo, I'm going to get vista next week and try it out. :P

REGENERATION · Mar 3, 2007, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkk

One could guess so, with the last really good driver for XP being 92.91 from six months back. Vista is everything to the press and there's only so many driver programmers at hand.

Actually, the latest official ForceWare driver (93.71) for XP came at the beginning of November ‘06 (almost five months ago). But the hell with them, my primary system uses ATI anyway. Nvidia is probably trying to avoid G80 lawsuits and to kiss the press ass due to the horrible performance in Vista. Maybe someone should remind them that the majority uses XP, and not Vista.

Lelisevis · Mar 3, 2007, 05:04 PM

Sigh and I thought all of us tech heads embraced the future

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Prince_Link · Mar 4, 2007, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by REGENERATION

Actually, the latest official ForceWare driver (93.71) for XP came at the beginning of November ‘06 (almost five months ago). But the hell with them, my primary system uses ATI anyway. Nvidia is probably trying to avoid G80 lawsuits and to kiss the press ass due to the horrible performance in Vista. Maybe someone should remind them that the majority uses XP, and not Vista.

actually Regeneration, note that he said LAST GOOD! driver.... 93.71 is crap.

Dragunov · Mar 4, 2007, 12:46 PM

Well, Nvidia build at the road

Evertime the performance gets better on this machine with every new release, so I'm sure Nvidia is gonna bring more nice driversets in the future

**Vikingod** · Mar 4, 2007, 01:16 PM

Installed these yesterday, and I have to say, they are much better than the previous version. Performance is still no where near XP, but it shows some promise.

XxPESAxX · Mar 12, 2007, 04:27 PM

Hmm, before i installed these when i went into system infomation (From nvidia control panal) it would say that my card had 512mb of memory, and also had a 512mb block of my system memory totaling 1gig.

Now that both my cards are active they both say they have no memory, and 512mb each of system...

All my games so far have been starting to lag a bit when i multi task and my ram at 80-90% when only in games o.O.

Im running a 7950gx2...I was not able to use driver cleaner to install these drivers as im waiting for my funds to update on my card ^^, not sure if that may have casued some of these issues. But still?

Anyone else with a 7950x2 or sli i guess having this same issue?

Im pretty sure the shared system ram is something to do with superfetch? Anyone know if this can be turned off? Or at least turned down to not use so much ram till i get another 2gig :P.

t0pD4wG · Mar 12, 2007, 04:44 PM

I use the 8800gts and I have noticed game tend to lag out more especially bf2. Frames fluctuate from 50 to 100. These seem to be a step inthe wrong direction for me.

***Zardon*** · Mar 13, 2007, 03:15 AM

id stick with 100.65 for now guys, this set is well known to have a plethora of issues.