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NVIDIA Forceware 175.12 BETA for Windows Vista | |
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| Time: 02:24 EST/07:24 GMT | News Source: Nvidia | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Release Highlights:
* Note: Users will require updated software from third-party movie players to experience the new Dual-Stream decode acceleration and Aero support for Blu-ray and HD DVD playback features.
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| #1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 4/29/2008 10:38:04 AM |
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Just installed the ones for Vista 64; no issues so far and the new drivers seem to be faster than the previous, certified, ones. I have not played any games yet. This post was edited by Fritzly on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 10:39. |
| #2 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 4/29/2008 11:27:47 AM |
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Personally I think its Vista's fault that Nvidia's drivers have been terribad. Obviously we should blame the OS rather than the Hardware manufacturer like we have for years and many previous versions of the operating system.
On a serious note... its about damn time Nvidia creates some decent drivers. Perhaps the craziness going on with Creative Labs has them a bit scared. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 4/29/2008 11:44:13 AM |
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@2, Agreed! It's far worse on the discrete laptop GPU side of things - drivers so unstable that we have resorted to slipping .INF files in manually in order to build stable high-end laptops. They have induced a lot of misery and while I can appreciate how hard it is to write good drivers, I agree that we can expect more from market leaders like nvidia.
I assess Intel's roadmap regarding multi-core converged CPU/GPU designs have them more worried than any other factor. Intel will be dropping some serious bombs in H2 09 that will change a great many things for all of us. More power than we can imagine and in form factors so small and thermally efficient, that nvida and AMD need to be rowing hard if they are to remain healthy. |
| #4 By 72426 (69.109.8.160) at 4/30/2008 4:58:48 AM |
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#2 - #3 - agree...
Ya poor NVidia, they had to write the drivers from scratch ya know and had no idea what Microsoft would change. Ok, they did have to write them from scratch, but had specifications in hand over 3 years before Vista shipped, and even though they were keen to market the 7xxx series as Vista ready, they never even dropped beta drivers to people until late in the beta process. Let's see, new drivers from scratch, new ways things are handled, new OS level multi-tasking and RAM GPU virtualization, and applications will need entirely new optimizations for virtually every game that currently has XP based optimizations in driver code. - So ya, 4 months of testing should have been plenty. Major driver revisions take longer with more testing. (Why were they this stupid?) Maybe they wanted Vista to look sad? They could have used the beta users and all that time to profile, re-engineer the drivers, learn how to optimize the drivers for a multi-tasking GPU OS like Vista, how to optimize games being played based on the new features of the WDDM that can and should speed up even older games (as Oblivion optimizations have shown a 20% boost on Vista with good drivers over XP performance). It is sad that microsoft didn't kick both ATI and Nvidia in the ding ding for having suck drivers at Vista's release, when both companies had more than enough time. Oh, and for the claimed 'Changing specs' that NVidia talks about, they were the ones that whined to MS to get them to be more forgiving on the specs for WDDM 1.0, making it easier for NVidia cards without the unified shader architectures. However, it is nice to see some consistency of drivers from ATI and NVidia for a while now (although the ATI AGP screwup of late last year was just stupid). People now can demonstrate Vista outperforming XP not only in single GPU/Application settings, but show off some of the WDDM features, like using higher quality textures than their VRAM is capable of with no FPS loss, or multi-tasking 3D applications with little to no FPS loss, while running them on the Aero desktop via the shared texture composer that only Vista has, which keeps non-full screen 3D applications running full speed along side Aero and other 3D applications at the same time. PS We won't even see the benefits or speed of DirectX10 until they make a game from scratch designed around the DX10 architecture. All these DX9 games with DX10 ports for higher pixel textures and some 'effects' just don't cut it. When we finally see a game on the store shelves that say DX10 ONLY, will people see how much better DX10 can be in terms of performance and providing a richer game experience. (Look at the DX10 engine demos over the past couple of years, if the engine is fully DX10, the game is faster and looks 20x better than the same game built on a DX9 engine.) Ok, off my rant, just one of them mornings I think. :) This post was edited by anthonyspt on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 04:59. |
| #5 By 88850 (221.128.202.12) at 4/30/2008 6:14:29 AM |
| Wish they add full video decode acceleration pipelines to their cards for VC-1 and WMV. ATi has an advantage there. |
| #6 By 21705 (142.213.176.140) at 4/30/2008 11:05:36 AM |
| Another beta? Last official still last December? It's been a while... |
| #7 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 4/30/2008 11:33:41 AM |
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To the cognoscenti,
I thought you couldn't use non-certified drivers with Vista 64. So... why can you use these beta drivers? |
| #8 By 23275 (68.186.182.236) at 5/1/2008 12:28:45 PM |
| because they are code signed digitally, but not yet WHQL - so the unique red warning dialog appears, but it will allow one to install it. |
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