NVIDIA ForceWare 174.53 WHQL Released - Quad SLI Support Enabled

malware · Mar 25, 2008

NVIDIA today released ForceWare 174.53 WHQL driver package, which adds support for GeForce 9600GT and GeForce 9800 GX2, as well as added Windows Vista 32/64-bit support for Quad SLI. This release also brings new PureVideo HD features for GeForce 9800 GX2:

Dynamic Contrast Enhancement
Dynamic Blue, Green & Skin Tone Enhancements
Dual-Stream Decode Acceleration

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newtekie1 · Mar 25, 2008

I'm already using 174.70.

VulkanBros · Mar 25, 2008

Thats whats bugging me about Nvidia...releaseing new drivers - but they don´t support "old" cards like my 8800GTX...that sucks.......

Fanboy or not - ATI have the best driver releases.....IMO

newtekie1 · Mar 25, 2008

174.70 supports pretty much every card out. And there are alredy modded INF files for 174.53 to make it work with all cards.

Saakki · Mar 25, 2008

heres a Quad SLI Review With Dual 9800 GX2 by Guru3D

http://guru3d.com/article/Videocards/515/

jbunch07 · Mar 25, 2008

Saakki said:
heres a Quad SLI Review With Dual 9800 GX2 by Guru3D

http://guru3d.com/article/Videocards/515/

shame...still didnt max out crysis....:shadedshu

edit but then again...i havent seen a setup that can

MilkyWay · Mar 25, 2008

unofficial beta drivers of this had been out for ages all i can say is nvidia are slow

DarkMatter · Mar 25, 2008

MilkyWay said:
unofficial beta drivers of this had been out for ages all i can say is nvidia are slow

Then it's at Microsoft where they're slow...

OnBoard · Mar 25, 2008

I too would like to see 8 series drivers. And yes these might work with older cards as well, but official new drivers are what I'm after:

ForceWare Release 169 WHQL
Version: 169.25
Release Date: December 20, 2007

3 months is a bit too long, considering I got a new driver every month with ATI :/
(edit: true I didn't update the drivers every month, only when they were faster or provided with somethig new/bug fixes

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TheGuruStud · Mar 25, 2008

OnBoard said:
I too would like to see 8 series drivers. And yes these might work with older cards as well, but official new drivers are what I'm after:

ForceWare Release 169 WHQL
Version: 169.25
Release Date: December 20, 2007

3 months is a bit too long, considering I got a new driver every month with ATI :/
(edit: true I didn't update the drivers every month, only when they were faster or provided with somethig new/bug fixes )

WHQL means jack. Nvidia releases tons (like 2 per week) of "beta" drivers. The only thing to worry about is stability with some of the real beta ones, but reading a few reviews of what ppl say is enough to decide to use it or not.

The 169s are pretty good, and 174.16 is good for me (8800GT). I always use X-treme G drivers. They almost always pick the best new drivers to mod and release. You can get them <a href="http://www.tweakforce.com/">here</a>

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