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   #16. Posted at 05:33 PM on Oct 28th 2008 Edit   Reply
LOWFLYER777
I DL the .24 drivers and OMG nothing but BSOD's from these things. I run 2 88GT's and had to backtrack to the .13 drivers for stability. Good grief, before going back, I went to the 180 Beta and saw at least a 50% drop in FPS in Crysis before it wouldn't even load my desktop anymore. Garbage, WTF is wrong with NVIDIA.....
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   #15. Posted at 11:35 AM on Oct 17th 2008, Edited at 11:36 AM on Oct 17th 2008 Edit   Reply
Murso24
i just got this driver from 178.14. .14 was a terrible driver. on the 8800GTX, Vista 32-bit, and a 680i chipset. the driver was awful. i noticed slowdown in everything i did, and in games it just didnt draw too well.

upgrading to the 178.24 performance is back where it should've been. and my games look fine. i noticed a large problem with all the games fromt he older driver (178.14), Crysis, Mass Effect etc. much better. finally a driver that works. i wish they would test the drivers before releasing them. even if (178.14) was a beta. it was awful.
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   #13. Posted at 08:38 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
jensend
Does anyone know whether newer drivers give any benefit to owners of pre-8xxx cards? I've stuck with 93-series drivers for my 7600 because a) it ain't broke b) I've heard that newer drivers are often not as well optimized for older series of cards and c) I don't game enough to bother doing scores of benchmarks to find out.
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#13, I'd look in the release notes. They say what they fix and fo...  :  swaaye  (#14)  «

   #1. Posted at 12:23 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
Neutronbeam
FYI -- XP does not seem to be available as of 1:22 p.m. EST 10-15-08 -- maybe it's just me, but I can't get it to download.
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#1, As of 4PM CST, the XP 32-bit link is still dead. (404 file n...  :  Zymergy  (#7)  «
#1, 6:15 EST File not found. Fix this s***!  :  PRIME1  (#10)  «
#10, http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-nForce-Driver-20.08-WH...  :  mbowen89  (#11)  «
#1, 8:30 PM EST seems to be finally working now.  :  PRIME1  (#12)  «

   #4. Posted at 01:03 PM on Oct 15th 2008, Edited at 01:04 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
indeego
Nforce tools update was released, I think:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/nVIDIA_nForce_System_Tools/119...
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#4, That's a leak, not a release. Nvidia's most recent official ...  :  Forge  (#8)  «
#8, tweakguides.com lists 6.03 as the new version and this na...  :  2x4  (#9)  «

   #6. Posted at 02:30 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
Spotpuff
The 3 week old drivers give me shader problems in war3 on my 8800 GTS. No clue why. :T
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   #5. Posted at 01:17 PM on Oct 15th 2008, Edited at 01:52 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
northreign
Still getting the protected video error with these drivers on Vista 32bit. Sent an error report to nvidia.

Edit: Finally tried the newish windows update one which turns out to be 178.13 and it does not have the problem as had with the nvidia supplied ones. Nice.
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   #3. Posted at 12:23 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
Neutronbeam
Could just be me, but XP is NOT downloading at all.
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   #2. Posted at 12:23 PM on Oct 15th 2008 Edit   Reply
Meadows
Cyril, GeForce 178.15 was an unofficial beta. Time to bring the headline in sync with the story. ;)
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