NEW Nvidia sli drivers

[Vengance]

Just recieved this email from NVIDIA.

Dear NVIDIA Customer,

On behalf of the NVIDIA Vista Quality Assurance team, we would like to thank you for your participation and assistance in improving our products.

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.

Shame i just took out my sli board and replaced it with a gigabyte DQ6

 

[[HoL]Cobra]

Nice 1
Been waiting for my GX2 to be supported, even if it is only a beta still.

Was thinking it would be end of March when this was released

Hmmm, just looked and it still says end of March, still, your mail does say the next few days, so i'll wait till early next week

 

[gt_junkie]

Me too! Had vista on for a day about 3 months ago but having a GX2 that performs like a 7950gt is not funny!!!

gt

 

[drunkenmaster]

i don't have high hopes this will enable overclocking cards in vista, but you can always pray. i mean it, you all damn well pray

 

[[HoL]Cobra]

Not to fussed about overclocking my card tbh.
It runs everything at 60fps I throw at it, so no need
Would just be nice to have the 2 again grrrrrr, as BF2 and 2142 in Vista suck at the moment
Still, I still have XP on, so no great loss, just that I prefer using Vista now lol.

But I do believe ntune, will allow o/cing

I know just how you feel junkie lol

 

[Scoobie Dave]

i don't have high hopes this will enable overclocking cards in vista, but you can always pray. i mean it, you all damn well pray

Overclocking wont be available in any new Nvidia drivers for Vista.

Instead it will be controlled by a separate program from Nvidia, don't know when that's gonna be released though.

 

[[HoL]Cobra]

Well, installed these new drivers.
Device manager now only shows 1 card installed, not sure if it means both or not?!?

DX Diagnosis says it has 1 gig of memory on the card, so hoping this is it, even if it is only a beta.

Edit
gt_junkie, will you install them to, and let me know if same thing happens with yours, regards device manager only showing the 1 card.
That is, if you have vista installed :|

 

[[HoL]Cobra]

Never mind.

Had a look in the options, and had to enable sli there.

Everything seems ok now.

2 cards at last, might stick to the vista boot now

 

[gt_junkie]

Never mind.

Had a look in the options, and had to enable sli there.

Everything seems ok now.

2 cards at last, might stick to the vista boot now

Sorry i didn't get back Cobra! Been a hectic weekend so far!

Glad you got it sorted!

I'm on XP at the mo - too lazy to get it installed! Should do really as i work in a school and get all the software for free! God bless work@home rights!

gt

 

[[HoL]Cobra]

No worries.

Dont rush and install it just yet, it's still not perfect.
Changing maps in BF2 I get sound and screen corruption, and I have to use their BF2 profile, but the game does work.

So they still have some work to do, and not worth it just yet.

 

[gt_junkie]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up!

Will wait a little longer then!

gt