NVIDIA ForceWare Beta 174.20 Released

Jimmy 2004 · Mar 1, 2008

The 174.20 beta of NVIDIA's ForceWare display driver has found its way onto the internet, although it is only available for the 32-bit version of Windows XP at the moment. It supports just about all GeForce 6, 7 and 8 series cards, along with the new 9600 GT, but there are no release notes so you'll have to find out any changes for yourself. The driver can be downloaded here.

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SK-1 · Mar 1, 2008

Do I need the new drivers if I have a 8800gts 512? I am still directed to the last official release when I enter my info at the driver page at the Nvidia site.

Tatty_Two · Mar 1, 2008

SK-1 said:
Do I need the new drivers if I have a 8800gts 512? I am still directed to the last official release when I enter my info at the driver page at the Nvidia site.

What driver set you on?

SK-1 · Mar 2, 2008

Tatty_One said:
What driver set you on?

169.21

NashXda · Mar 2, 2008

^That shud be just fine..The newer drivers are for 9600GT IMO

JRMBelgium · Mar 2, 2008

Here are some User-Reviews that might be usefull:

Downloaded and installed without issue on my rig. Don't have any useful benchmark info to compare from last driver set I used (171.23) as I mainly play City of Heroes these days...Crysis IQ looked good and gameplay was smooth. I believe my F.E.A.R. benchmark score went up by a few FPS. Only change in control panel I noticed was in the game profiles section, "show only programs found on this computer" was selected by default. Sadly, the bug with Star Wars: Republic Commando (where the game crashes if bumpmapping is set to anything other than low) remains.

Installed these drivers and tested in Unreal Tournament III i was happy to see that i can now enable AA in this game, and i looks so good and plays smooth!

Looks like they finally fixed the texture problems that all the 169.xx series had with Call Of Duty 1 (opengl) where the wooden doors texture was corrupted on my 6800 GT, these work great in Cod 1 no fancy looking textures and good FPS.

Cod 4 seems to also get decent frame rates with these and no fancy textures either, but had 2 crashes when I was changing GFX settings, no crashes during normal game play so far.

Ran these with COD4, and everything went smooth. Got roughly a 4-5 FR increase over the 171.xxs. I didn't get any freezes in-game, either.

Keepers for me.

This drivers worked great! for me. All games run smooth.

Hmmm, installed these with no problem but COD4 crashed and then I got the BSOD which I haven't seen in a really long time, lol

I rebooted and tried again - same thing.

Rapidshare Download Mirror:

http://rapidshare.com/files/95940605/174.20xp32int.zip

vega22 · Mar 2, 2008

get it from 3dguru too

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Videocards---NVIDIA-ForceWare-(32-bit)_c10.html

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update

this driver bsod in cod4 for me almost instantly.

back to 171.23

Tatty_Two · Mar 2, 2008

SK-1 said:
169.21

There is a 169.28 Beta on the site, I am using them and have been for 2 weeks and they give me a fraction more performance in 3D Mark 2006.

JRMBelgium · Mar 2, 2008

marsey99 said:
this driver bsod in cod4 for me almost instantly.

Same here.

I get bsods in COD4, America's Army and Medal of Honor Airborn.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS DRIVER, VERY UNSTABLE! Also, temperature is 2°C higher ( Idle ) then on 169.28!

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NVIDIA ForceWare Beta 174.20 Released

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