Wednesday, October 15th 2008

NVIDIA GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL Driver Available

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New GeForce release 178.24 WHQL driver is up for grabs at NVIDIA. This release is for all GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs. The newly-released GeForce 9-series motherboard GPUs are also supported. The 178.24 driver also includes several application compatibility fixes and some performance improvements in various game titles (read below).

DOWNLOAD: GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL

Release Highlights:
  • WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
  • Adds support for 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 v178.24 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.
Source: NVIDIA
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36 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL Driver Available

#2
BOSE
That is odd.
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#4
malware
francis511"file not found" error ?
What do you mean? Links work for me?
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#7
pagalms
No problems for me
P.s 178.26 available for Quadro cards :)
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#8
johnspack
Here For Good!
I get file not found for the xp64 driver, I was able to get the vista64 driver.....
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#9
BOSE
Yup, file is still not found. Nvidia forgot to upload it to its site...lol ... 8series card, Win XP. But it works for Vista 64bit.
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#12
johnspack
Here For Good!
Yeah, because it's the international version, a little bigger.
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#14
alexp999
Staff
Wow, this was quick. Any reasons for the update from 178.13?
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#15
CrAsHnBuRnXp
I just downloaded their new driver the other day and now they have another one? Since when does nVIDIA release driver updates twice in one month? They usually have a trend of once every 6-8 months.
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#16
pagalms
There was a period when Nvidia released new driver versions every 2 - 3 days. 175 if i'm right ;)
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#17
alexp999
Staff
pagalmsThere was a period when Nvidia released new driver versions every 2 - 3 days. 175 if i'm right ;)
Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right :D

And it always seemed to me you were lucky to get a driver update out of nvidia every other month, now two in the space of a few weeks :wtf:
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#18
kid41212003
I think the Release Highlights are the same as the previous version.
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#19
alexp999
Staff
kid41212003I think the Release Highlights are the same as the previous version.
Is the only thing they have changed, the add support for new 9 series cards?
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#20
pagalms
alexp999Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right :D

And it always seemed to me you were lucky to get a driver update out of nvidia every other month, now two in the space of a few weeks :wtf:
I'm just checking guru3d and nvidia sites for driver updates every day :D
I can get this done for GeForce cards, but not all (in case if someone cares about 0,02):
alexp999Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right :D
And so I, since Audi is my favorite :)
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#21
hat
Enthusiast
lol, file size is XXmb
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#22
DOM
pagalmsI'm just checking guru3d and nvidia sites for driver updates every day :D
I can get this done for GeForce cards, but not all (in case if someone cares about 0,02):

And so I, since Audi is my favorite :)
where did the .26 come from :confused: you changed it ?
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#24
pagalms
DOMwhere did the .26 come from :confused: you changed it ?
Nope. .26 is for Quadro cards and as we know, they are based on the same GPUs as GeForce cards (except some models). ;)
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#25
DOM
pagalmsNope. .26 is for Quadro cards and as we know, they are based on the same GPUs as GeForce cards (except some models). ;)
oh lol so you add them right ? are they any better then the geforce ones ?
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