ForceWare 169.02 released

helmutcheese · 29 Oct 2007 at 16:56

Made especially for the newly-released GeForce 8800 GT, the ForceWare 169.02 is here to stay and bring WHQL certification to all those who will buy the G92 baby. This driver supports the GeForce 6, 7 and 8 series cards (plus the FX series for the Windows XP versions) and it doesn't seem to have any major improvements over the 169.01.

May have fixed the glitches in .01 I hope.

http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=16582&catid=3

scooby555t · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:07

downloading now

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:26

Woop.

LoadsaMoney · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:38

Jesus more drivers :eek:

, theres no stopping Nvidia now. :cool:

Cheers for the heads up.

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:44

Just thought I'd clarify this is a WHQL CANDIDATE and is still BETA dispite that website claiming it is full fat WHQL.

sulli · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:48

anybody tried this yet? any improvment over
169.01?

JohnnyG · 29 Oct 2007 at 17:59

Tom|Nbk said:
Just thought I'd clarify this is a WHQL CANDIDATE and is still BETA dispite that website claiming it is full fat WHQL.

I was just going to ask that after reading the website

Dru · 29 Oct 2007 at 18:31

Well it's improved my crysis performance by 5-6 fps but of course that doesn't mean anything has changed.

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 18:45

Crys performance is exactly the same, verified with Benchmark.

VaderDSL · 29 Oct 2007 at 18:46

I must have had really old drivers or corrupt drivers (more likely) Crysis was running awfully for me, updated them to these and smooth as you like (1280X1025 2xAA + medium) on a 3.6Ghz C2D and 8800GTS

masterk · 29 Oct 2007 at 18:58

Does anyone get "NV" errors in the event logs with these or the 0.1's?

Cheers

Talrinys · 29 Oct 2007 at 19:06

Rivatuner works with these?

helmutcheese · 29 Oct 2007 at 19:08

Only 2.06 and for now its a test build, not released.

Talrinys · 29 Oct 2007 at 19:20

Oh well, i'll settle for that, thanks

Couldn't care less about stability for these weeks

Talrinys · 29 Oct 2007 at 19:34

Can't get 2.06 to work with them either?

helmutcheese · 29 Oct 2007 at 19:37

Sorry I aint installed yet as .01 were so bad and HZ limits etc for me, but I assume RT2.06 will work if I tried as the .01 aint offically supported but do work and its always the same unless Nvidia again change settings.

(Defragging HDD cant do much for now).

sunderland · 29 Oct 2007 at 20:55

2.06 works here ok with them

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Oct 2007 at 20:57

Hold on why arent these on the nivida site? They aint even under the 8800GT section

Talrinys · 29 Oct 2007 at 20:58

Probably will be tommorow, or later

Tom|Nbk · 29 Oct 2007 at 20:59

Now up on NVIDIA

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_169.02.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_169.02.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.02.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_169.02.html