Thursday, September 25th 2008
NVIDIA GeForce Driver Version 178.13 Released
NVIDIA released today GeForce driver release 178.13, the latest official WHQL driver with support 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. This release is available for both Windows XP 32-bit/64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit/64-bit. For more information, please read the full story.
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- 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 NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel D5400XS motherboards.
- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9 and OpenGL.
- Supports CUDA.
- 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.
33 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce Driver Version 178.13 Released
Works great for my laptop's ati chip. Hopefully the nvidia one is just as good.
:toast:
And will rivatuner 2.11 be able to use this version? Maybe riva 2.11 will allow me to OC my lil o'l 8500gt more. I maxed out riva 2.10 on the core and shader settings :)
Also, for those who are interested, the nVIDIA System Tools (aka nTune) has been updated to 6.02: www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.02.html
edit: nearly 50MB of this driver package is the PhysX software. I'm hoping (hint, hint) that in the future, some kind soul will strip PhysX out of this installer and host the resulting ~37MB file so that I don't have to download something that I don't need.
Go to the Power User Tab, Scroll down to RivaTuner\overclocking\Global\ and click on the + sign to expand the menu.
Go down to MaxClockLimit and double click it. Enter a hex number. Try aa and see if that gives you what you are after.
First of all, they artifact badly in some games; here's a screenshot from UT2004 to prove it (look at the Shock Rifle model in the lower right corner of the screen). I'm not overclocking and everything is set to highest in the driver control panel and the game, so the drivers shouldn't be doing any IQ optimizations - but it looks like they're optimizing too heavily:
(had to resize it from 1600x1200 because ImageShack won't let me upload anything over 1.5MB :()
Secondly, I've had 2 BSODs in the 2 days I've had them installed. I can live with IQ issues, but BSODs... nope. So I think I'm going to go back to the 175.19s, they seemed much more stable.
I've had no problems on my 8 series cards, and i wish you luck with yours.
surveys.nvidia.com/index.jsp?pi=7498eac864dc1950c8f09e040b4a437a
its for vista, but i havent seen an XP one.