Good news from nVidia re Vista drivers

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: Windows Vista

Some good news at last for GeForce owners. I've just received the following communication from nVidia regarding an upcoming release of drivers for Vista. This includes the long awaited SLi support for 6 and 7 series cards.

Full text of the notification is shown below.

We are writing to let you know that there will be a new Windows Vista Beta driver release
available to download from NVIDIA in the next few days. This is a new driver which will support
GeForce 6, 7 and 8 series graphics boards; it does not support GeForce Go mobile GPUs.
Please continue to check with your notebook manufacturer for a new driver for GeForce Go GPUs.
GeForce FX users should continue to use the v96.85 driver.

The Vista Quality Assurance homepage has up to the date information on when the driver
will be available to download, so please continue to check this website:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html.

Here is a summary of new features and bug fixes this new driver addresses:

New Features

-GeForce 7 series SLI support
-GeForce 6 series SLI support
-GeForce 7950 GX2 support (both GPUs are now operational)

Key Bug Fixes

-Improved OpenGL performance
-Improved NVIDIA SLI performance at high resolutions
-Brief corruption (flickering, boxes) on screen at Windows Vista login, CTR-ALT-DEL
(Task Manager), or other function that requires Vista User Account Control
-Playback issues when playing TV/DVD/video in Media Center with Aero enabled
-Outputting via TV-Out shows only a black and white display
-HDTV output does not keep HDTV resolution after restart
-Adjusting Video Color settings from the NVIDIA Control Panel are not getting applied.
-Change Flat Panel Scaling page does not correctly work in the NVIDIA Control Panel.
-Brightness, Contrast and Gamma values remain the same in Adjust Desktop Color
settings once closing and opening the NVIDIA Control Panel.
-Corruption on DVI monitor while going to hibernation from standby
-Call of Duty 2 has no performance gain when SLI is enabled
-Madden NFL 07 while playing the screen will freeze, but the game will continue to run
and you hear the in-game sounds.
-General application compatibility fixes

Products Supported
-GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS
-GeForce 7 series
-GeForce 6 series

When the driver is available, please view the driver Release Notes for a full list of bugs fixed,
known driver issues, products supported, and operating system and application limitations.
NVIDIA will continue to provide new drivers that will fix more known driver issues. 


11 Reply 25 Referrals
Island Dog
Reply #1 Thursday, March 1, 2007 6:52 AM
Thanks for the update Fuzzy.  Where do you sign up for e-mail notifications from them, I didn't see it on their site?



Erk.
Reply #2 Thursday, March 1, 2007 7:06 AM
-GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS


...That's good news to me, I've got one of those going in to my new machine ..which should be ready by mid next week.

Thanks for the info, Fuzzy.

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #3 Thursday, March 1, 2007 7:23 AM

Where do you sign up for e-mail notifications from them, I didn't see it on their site?

You can't sign up. What you have to do is give them 'customer feedback' - eventually they will put you on their mailing list   


Island Dog
Reply #4 Thursday, March 1, 2007 11:51 AM

Where do you sign up for e-mail notifications from them, I didn't see it on their site?

You can't sign up. What you have to do is give them 'customer feedback' - eventually they will put you on their mailing list   




Thanks!



Staxxy
Reply #5 Friday, March 2, 2007 1:31 AM
finally, thanks for the info

thomassen
Reply #6 Friday, March 2, 2007 9:22 AM
Please continue to check with your notebook manufacturer for a new driver for GeForce Go GPUs.
GeForce FX users should continue to use the v96.85 driver.

thomassen shakes angry fist at Packard for not providing any updates for his GeForce Go card!


But I suppose that's good for my new computer I just got running now. It's a XFX GeForce 6800 GT.

thomassen
Reply #7 Friday, March 2, 2007 9:24 AM
I noticed some flickering sometimes happend when the cursor hover over the close button on windows. Didn't see any of that with my old machine with ATI Radeon 9800.

Astyanax
Reply #8 Friday, March 2, 2007 12:15 PM
-Improved OpenGL performance

OHHHHHH!!!!!

HURRY UP NVIDIA!

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #9 Friday, March 2, 2007 8:59 PM

*BUMP*

Here we go http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_downloads.html#drivers


Fuzzy Logic
Reply #10 Friday, March 2, 2007 9:21 PM

OK, that's the good news. Bad news....

UT2004 doesn't improve on framerates in SLi - stuck around 80-85 for DM-Antalus (200+fps in XP)

Dreams lock at 100% CPU

Sigh...


Buttermaker
Reply #11 Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:21 PM
I had a GeForce 6600 and even after installing the new Vista drivers, I was still unable to play certain games, like Tiger Woods 2007. I ended up buying an ATI card which works wonders with Vista. I don't think I would go back to Nvidia

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