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163.44 BETA released on August 20, 2007

Windows XP x86
Windows XP/2k3 x64
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit

Highlights XP:

• Beta driver release.
• This driver supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 support.
• Improved compatibility for Bioshock.
• Added PureVideo™ HD decode acceleration for GeForce 8600, 8500 and 8400 series GPUs.
• Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

Highlights Vista:[list][*]Beta driver release.[*]This driver supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.[*]Improved compatibility for Bioshock.[*]Added HD video post-processing for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD content on GeForce 8500 series products.[*]Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

Release Notes

Initial install indicates that nVidia has fixed the scaling issue for widescreen lcds [1440x900]

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Zardon

I thought I saw a thread on these before?

Anyway, great drivers, been using them for a week. Took Nvidia a while to get on track but they are certainly shaping up extremely well now.

MIG-31

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You may well of seen the Vista drivers Before.These was submitted on the day the bioshock demo was released.The XP drivers was overlooked at the time.

But as far as the Vista (32Bit) drivers go are pretty good..Only Minor snag for me is that games seem slightly darker than normal.

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Zardon

if you load the nvidia control panel, go into DISPLAY/adjust desktop colour settings, and increase the brightness to compensate ...

OmegaRED

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Pretty sure these are causing me crashes with the World in Conflict demo on Xp. When I play the demo on Vista with other drivers it doesn't have this problem. I checked around and quite a few people have these drivers and are getting the lockups (sound keeps playing but screen freezes).

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BlueMak

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Nvidia scaling with fixed aspect ratio still does NOT work under XP.
Using the drivers for a couple of days now, tried it several times, same result, the control panel does not keep the setting after you click apply. It reverts to other choice on its own.

I am not the only one saying the above.

(1920x1200)


Apart from that, looks stable and fast.

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MIG-31

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I know.. That was done after the first 5 minutes.I meant the default color settings appear slightly darker than the previous drivers.

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Chaos

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The one thing I noticed under XP was that the AA settings were removed from the taskbar functionality, you could still adjust AF settings from there but not AA

slickric21

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You tried this yet Bluemak - worked for me on all latest few drivers (except for custom res's I added myself eg 1400x1050)
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BlueMak

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Yes man, many many times. Doesn't work. What perhaps makes a difference is that I have a widescreen monitor...
The most annoying thing is that it used to work up till the second driver release for 8800 cards back in December/January. AFter that they fucked it up. AND yes, I have tried it with two different PCs, same result.
I am not the only one still having problems with this...
BTW, under Vista it still works, under XP, not.

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

Zardon

We should post that front page, after all every issue I read with vista is the fault of the OS, so perhaps we should be blaming XP ?

BlueMak

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I don't blame XP for the above. I blame Nvidia.

However, if you want I have something that XP is responsible for and Vista works fine. If you haven't already, check this thread:
ICS problems

Long story short, under XP no worky, under Vista worky and from the looks of it, by design!

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

crlorentzen

Odd, my 16x10 widescreen display does work properly with this release, as apposed to the last few that were like about 1 inch to wide for some reason. Perhaps your problem is the "fixed-aspect ratio" scaling. I am using my display's "built-in scaling" same way I used it in the other drivers that didn't work right between 94.24 and this release.

And just so you know, my monitor is widescreen, it is a Westinghouse LCM-19w4 16:10 widescreen native resolution of 1440x900 screen.

Perhaps you need to uninstall, then use Driver Cleaner/Guru3ds Driver Sweeper (Hope I got that right) to make sure the drivers are completely gone, all registry and file remnants.

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BlueMak

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No, if you are not trying to do the same thing, and instead you use the "display's built in scaling" then you are not doing the same thing. If you try to use the nvidia correct aspect scaling, and then it works, without using your display's build in scaler, then there is a difference that means there is something wrong with my config. But since you clearly stated you use your display to scale the images, then it is simply not the same thng we are talking about.


I have tried uninstall and various versions of drivers of the last 2-3 months. Same thing every time. Only with early 90s forceware it works correctly.

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"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,
You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis

slickric21

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Yeah I too have a 1680x1050 Samsung 215tw.
Once I've applied the above regfix I am able to apply any of the display adapter scaling options eg "centred timings" - and they stay applied, so hence work.
So I play R6Vegas and Dirt @ 1600x900 - with black bars around the edges to fill up the rest of the screen.
Also I tested 1280x1024 in BF2 does the same.

The only Resolution which won't centre correctly is 1400x1050, this always stretches to fill up the screen. (this is because I guess it a custom resolution i added myself).

This has been the same with all since 158.22 on WinXp 32 for me.

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