Thursday, January 22nd 2009
NVIDIA Releases Forceware 181.22 WHQL GeForce Driver Suite
NVIDIA made its latest GeForce driver suite official, version 181.22 WHQL. The driver comes nearly a week after its introduction as a beta. It reportedly brings in PhysX optimizations specific to Mirror's Edge. Attempting not to be merely a vehicle for PhysX system software version 9.09.0010, the driver promises certain fixes specific to Windows XP that include an SLI profile for STALKER: Clear Sky and Windows Vista-specific fixes that include an SLI profile for STALKER: Clear Sky benchmark, along with some stability issues being addressed for Fallout 3 and the GeForce GTX 295 accelerator, where only one of the two GPUs on the card was being recognized as CUDA/PhysX-supportive in some cases. Head over to NVIDIA's driver page for the downloads.
DOWNLOAD NVIDIA Forceware 181.22 WHQL for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit
DOWNLOAD NVIDIA Forceware 181.22 WHQL for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit
10 Comments on NVIDIA Releases Forceware 181.22 WHQL GeForce Driver Suite
7950GX2 had appalling drivers, and the 9800GX2 was very bold and promising.
but they have learned form their 2 previous tries, and this card is a monster.
In any case stability in Fallout is something that I REALLY need. FFS that game will go at 60+ fps and suddenly slow down to a crawl, just to recover a little bit later (same area, same perpective).
Also after an undefined period of time playing it crashes. Happens the same with Oblivion after 180.xx's, so I wonder if it's something related to the Gamebryo engine... I don't know you, but 2 fps is quite an improvement for a driver that is not meant to improve performance. Specially at the settings I'd play and being the 9600 the card at use, 2 fps is a lot for me, because the 9600GT would be playing most games at 30-40 fps. 2 fps would be something around 5% increment in that case, not bad if you ask me. That being said, I don't expect any improvement. I'll try them tomorrow.
I don't play with the 7950 GX2 much now, so I don't know how it will perform, but I expect that the bug fixes and improvements will apply to that card too.