NVIDIA releases Forceware 100.54 for Vista

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 30th January 2007
Comments (10) Stumble
NVIDIA has released its first Vista driver that supports GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS. w00t, etc.

NVIDIA has released its first Vista driver that supports GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS. w00t, etc.

Following on from AMD's driver announcement earlier, NVIDIA has also released drivers for Windows Vista. However, unlike the ATI drivers, NVIDIA's aren't WHQL certified at this time.

These drivers are the first Vista drivers to support NVIDIA's GeForce 8800-series video cards that were released back in November. In addition, they also support all GeForce 6 and 7-series.

Here's a run down of the release highlights:
  • First Beta driver for GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS GPUs;
  • This driver supports the following features:
    • Single GPU support
      • DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs;
      • DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
      • OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
  • DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available on January 31, 2007 in a new driver from NVIDIA;
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  • Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues.

You can grab the 32-bit version here, and the 64-bit version can be downloaded here.

Discuss in the forums.
Quote BioSniper 30th January 2007, 16:50
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DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available on January 31, 2007 in a new driver from NVIDIA

Tim, does that imply that users of the 8800 series cards will not be able to play DX9 games in Vista until Nvidia release the newer driver?
Not that it affects me but I'm sure someone else will ask if I don't :)
Quote teamtd11 30th January 2007, 17:00
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DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available on January 31, 2007 in a new driver from NVIDIA


i think it means that there is no sli support for 8800 in vista yet. everything else should work fine
Quote Tim S 30th January 2007, 17:09
I think it's only SLI support that's not working with 8800 series cards.
Quote riggs 30th January 2007, 17:41
What about us laptop users? Where's the GeForce Go driver, damn it?!

j/k
Quote BioSniper 30th January 2007, 17:58
oops yeah. Sorry. I should read it fully first :p
Sounds like its SLI under DX9 that isn't working.
Quote Tim S 30th January 2007, 18:02
SLI under DX10 is not working either (not that it matters atm, because there are no DX10 titles out there)
Quote chimaera 30th January 2007, 18:18
cool - now all I need is the nForce 680i driver and I'm set :)
Quote samkiller42 30th January 2007, 23:20
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Originally Posted by riggs
What about us laptop users? Where's the GeForce Go driver, damn it?!

j/k

I found some drivers a little while ago that work well, guru3d was the site i found them, try looking on there.

Sam
Quote Cheap Mod Wannabe 31st January 2007, 03:24
Now after update Windows Media and VLC are not showing video. Hmmm...
Quote Gail 5th February 2007, 07:43
Hey RIGGS...
Saw on Lifehacker and Gizmodo a site that offers a collection of Vista-compatible drivers. The site is at http://radarsync.com/vista/ - have you tried that?
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