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GeForce 6, 7, 8 cards finally getting new drivers next week

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Lol just in time for ATI's new announced cards (new Betas are good for me, esp now all CRT settings back in Vista).


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"If you own a GeForce 6, 7, or 8 graphics card and went hunting for new ForceWare drivers recently, you may have been disappointed to find that Nvidia last updated its Windows drivers for those cards in December 2007. Since then, the graphics firm seems to have been focusing on its new GeForce 9 series cards, which have seen regular driver updates throughout the past few weeks.

Well, TG Daily has learned straight from the horse's mouth that Nvidia hasn't decided to abandon GeForce 6, 7, and 8 owners after all. Prompted by a request from a reader, the site got in touch with Nvidia and was told that new drivers for those older cards are currently going through Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs certification process. According to Nvidia Product Manager Chris Daniel, a public release is scheduled for next week.

Several new features have made their way into recent GeForce 9 ForceWare drivers, including new control panel options to let users manage custom resolutions, adjust television color settings, and set screen sizes and positions. Nvidia said the latest GeForce 9 ForceWare release also brought performance improvements in "many" DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL apps as well as support for 3D Stereo technology. Considering some GeForce 9 cards have almost identical GPUs to previous GeForce 8 models, at least some of the aforementioned enhancements could apply to the older cards. "



http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/14669
 
Oh look nVidia trying to retain their market share in light of ATI's forthcoming next generation GPUs. Who would've guessed :rolleyes:

OT: Really DO hope the 4870 rumours are true.
 
its about goddamn time, no drivers for graphics cards for 5 months is shocking.
and the fact that the last update messed up the settings in nvidia control panel for brightness/contrast/gamma for no reason when doing a clean install means its back to ati for me.
 
I'd be more interested in getting the physx drivers personally as 174.74 run flawlessly for me - and I'm waiting on them so I can give city of heros one last bash before I retire it forever - in all its glory including hardware particles :D
 
R700's must be very close/due then, as they did this just before ATi's 2900's came out, they started slinging drivers out like confettie then after not doing any for 6 months, to try and stop 8 series owners ditching them through no driver support and getting those, as they knew thats what all 8 series owners were just waiting on, so wouldn't surprise me if they did it again, probably find as the R700 gets even closer, they'll be slinging the 6/7/8 series drivers out again in droves to try and stop people going for those.:)
 
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R700's must be very close/due then, as they did this just before ATi's 2900's came out, they started slinging drivers out like confettie then after not doing any for 6 months, to try and stop 8 series owners ditching them through no driver support and getting those, as they knew thats what all 8 series owners were just waiting on, so wouldn't surprise me if they did it again, probably find as the R700 gets even closer, they'll be slinging the 6/7/8 series drivers out again in droves to try and stop people going for those. :)
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Indeed, pretty much what I was thinking too.
 
We just need to hope that R700's are killer cards, as that will keep Nvidia doing the drivers then, as they'll know as soon as they stop, chances are their card owners would ditch em for them, where as back when the 2900's came out they did stop again, as they knew they had the better cards still, so no one would downgrade if they did abandon driver support, so they did. :p
 
LoadsaMoney said:
R700's must be very close/due then, as they did this just before ATi's 2900's came out, they started slinging drivers out like confettie then after not doing any for 6 months, to try and stop 8 series owners ditching them through no driver support and getting those, as they knew thats what all 8 series owners were just waiting on, so wouldn't surprise me if they did it again, probably find as the R700 gets even closer, they'll be slinging the 6/7/8 series drivers out again in droves to try and stop people going for those.:)
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Good point!.

I hope it's not the case tbh. The wave of drivers around the release of R600 was mind boggling.

I welcome the new WHQL drivers though as I'm using modded 174.93's. It's been a long enough wait but at least they haven't totally forgotten about us :p.
 
Their timing is laughable really, nVidia's driver release schedule is **** poor.

It all goes to show that the consumer loses out when either company falls too far behind for a given period. It will be interesting to see how ATI's driver support holds up if they remove nVidia from the top of the pile when both have their new tech for sale.
 
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Be a ****** if it was those 174.74's, as those are only WHQL for the 9's, still beta for the rest. :p

Oh just thought, they have to do some drivers, they got to do the PhysX ones don't they, its a driver set they couldn't get out of. :D
 
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Only drivers that 6/7/8 series owners have had, have all been leaked 9 series only drivers, which have all had to have been modded, and been nothing to do with Nvidia, all they've done is 2x single sets of beta's (the 174.74's), and the 175.12's which are Vista only, very poor showing that, 2x sets of beta's in 5 months, and one being Vista only, lets hope R700 is a decent card. :)
 
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