NEW! Nvidia Drivers

[NonStopableForce]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SANTA CLARA, CA—MARCH 11, 2005— NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced the immediate availability of its new Windows Hardware Qualification Labs (WHQL)-certified NVIDIA ForceWare Release 70 graphics driver. This new driver features:

On top of the application profiles, NVIDIA ForceWare Release 70 delivers a free performance upgrade for NVIDIA GPUs, both past and present. Performance gains over the previous NVIDIA ForceWare driver, 66.93, include:

Performance boosts in Splinter Cell of over 66% from previous driver in SLI mode¹
Performance boosts in Half Life 2 of over 11% from previous driver in SLI mode and 13% in single GPU mode² Performance boosts in Far Cry of over 13% from previous driver in SLI mode and 6% in single GPU mode³

I am very happy about this sence i have the Geforce 6600GT and Nvidia seems to be on the down side of FPS on HL2/CSS.

The New Drivers are called "Version: 71.84" and they are 17.9 MB

You can get the New Drivers here ->http://www.nvidia.com/drivers

-NonStopableForce

 

[J_Tweedy]

nice..

 

[giant384]

yahoo!!!!

 

[Asuka]

SWEET! Dling now>!

 

[NonStopableForce]

Yup, increased my fps. : P, another tip that increased my fps to by like 10-15 was i defraged.

-NonStopableForce

 

[Mikademius]

I'll download when I get home... Maybe maya will stop crashing too...

 

[Sieg]

All right ^_^.
I have a 6800GT btw.
Don't laugh,which one am I suppose to download?

 

[Play4Fun]

All right ^_^.
I have a 6800GT btw.
Don't laugh,which one am I suppose to download?

Graphics Driver > GeForce and TNT2 > Windows XP/2000 (Unless u have 98 ) > U.S. English

 

[B-MAn]

ah thanx for the heads up

 

[Hazar]

*cough* ati is better!!!!! *runs*

 

[Fat Tony!]

uh oh everytime I install drivers things go wrong , perhaps ill just leave it

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

*cough* ati is better!!!!! *runs*

Kill him! Take his knees out first so he can't run away! :sniper:

 

[Asus]

I'm afraid to dl these. For me, the last few new Nviida drivers have only caused issues with certain games while the old ones didn't.

I dunno, I'll probably give in.

 

[dart321]

Kill him! Take his knees out first so he can't run away! :sniper:

The head! Aim for the head! Quickly, someone bring the boiling oil!

On topic: Way to go Nvidia.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Think maybe these drivers will make the game run on an overclocked vid card with more stability? I read somewhere that that causes game crashes someitmes, and I experienced them (which went away when I put it back to factory).

I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know of some good overclock-burning programs?

 

[DarkStar]

Finally.

They havn't released a new set of official drivers since before HL2 was released.

 

[jonbob]

finally! they fixed those bloody white spots on de_aztec.

 

[giant384]

what white spots

 

[Hazar]

/me kills all nvidia people

H O L Y S H I T /utannouncer

 

[Darkknighttt]

every nvidia driver gave me issues, and apparently so has this one now!!!!!!!!****ING SHIT **** ****!!!!!TOURETTES SYNDROME ATTACK!!!!!!!*knocks himself on the head 7.5 times!!****!****!****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rocketman9mm]

every nvidia driver gave me issues, and apparently so has this one now!!!!!!!!****ING SHIT **** ****!!!!!TOURETTES SYNDROME ATTACK!!!!!!!*knocks himself on the head 7.5 times!!****!****!****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what kind of issues do you have? I've never had any real issues with the drivers. I installed and ran cs:s on these new drivers and everything is hunky dorey. not sure what benefit I got from it over the previous drivers but. might as well stick with the updated ones. they claim to be faster.

 

[jonbob]

what white spots

the grass was all speckly, has been like this since the 6-series came out. Is fixed now. Good thing really because it was driving me nuts.

Funny how all my other DirectX games were unaffected though...

 

[B-MAn]

these drivers are perfect....i have no random crashs, no white spots on aztec or overheating i love my 6800 ultra now

/hugs buring hot 6800 ultra with stock heat sink

 

[PunisherUSA]

well.... i did notice a noticeable increase in fps, but I have one problem which only started AFTER I installed these drivers.

When I play CS: S, my screen will freeze at random. Sometimes 3 times in a minute, sometimes I go without a freeze for 5 minutes. I thought it might be overheating, but I have a 6800GT OC from BFG, stock heatsink, but I have never had any problems before this driver update.

help?

 

[Ranga]

i downloaded them today (before i saw the post)...

will they make any difference to my aging geforce4?