NVIDIA Vista drivers for the 8800 series now WHQL certified!!
“It’s a Vista WHQL day in the graphics card world, apparently. Two quick newsbytes:
AMD has announced that it will have the drivers for its upcoming R600 graphics card WHQL certified before the chip even hard-launches at CeBIT. This means that the card will be ready for system builders and gamers alike to start using on the day of the launch, a pretty notable achievement. This is another feather in the cap of AMD, which has already had pretty robust support for ATI’s entire graphics line and technologies since Vista’s launch on January 31st.
NVIDIA is also joining the WHQL party, releasing its new 100.65 driver today. This is the first driver to take the 8800 series out of the ‘beta’ stage, and is a welcome move for system builders. Companies who participate in several of Microsoft’s marketing programs cannot ship products that aren’t WHQL certified in order to make sure that users get a decent Vista experience, so the 8800 has been off-limits.
The WHQL driver is good news, but there is no new word on the 6 and 7 series SLI debacle aside from “the next beta.” Hopefully we will see that appear in the next week or so, which would be in line with the current beta releases (once every fortnight, give or take).”
Will this finally enable me to play Armed Assault without frame drops to 1 FPS? I hope so because I have a Core2Duo E6600 and a XFX 8800GTS 640 MB and the game only recommends a Pentium 4 with 3,2 Ghz or something like that! So it’s ridiculous that my rig can’t play the game with decent frame rates! Well, more proper WHQL certified NVIDIA drivers will follow in the next month or two and until I start my Game Development study (which lasts about 4 years) I won’t be playing a lot of games anyway. I’m not that much a gamer as I used to be. In other news UFO: Aftermath is out but in my opinion the game already fits into the retro category of games so I won’t even bother posting it…
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Now let’s hear the consumers; Did the drivers really fix the problems? Or is this all just a publicity stunt trying to save Nvidia’s asses?
Er, omg?
just disable the “hair on blades of grass”-option.
they say it severely degrades performance…
Yeah but my rig exceeds the recommended system requirements for Crysis. Like hell I’m gonna downgrade ArmA’s graphics with a rig like this!!
You shouldn’t have to degrade anything!!! Nvidia fux0red really much up, with the launch of 8800, although almost every reviewer is thrilled beyond sense, a release of a new generation GPU without proper driver support is FUBAR
I won’t be buying a new GPU anytime soon, even though I could use as my current is a GF7600GS, will wait for the 2nd chips in the new generation. Hopefully the drivers will work just fine by then.
UFO: Aftermath is out? You don’t mean the UFO: Afterlight release do you? There’s a bit of a difference, you know…
thats good news. too bad most people wont touch vista till crysis comes out. 97.92 works great under xp right now. kudos to NVDA for takin a chance by releasing the G80 before vista’s launched.
kudos to nvidia? your a fucking idiot. They released a totally worthless piece of shit that cant even scrape it as a driver. It cant run anything. It cant even play a divx movie without causing the “driver to stop responding”.
So yeah good work nvidia, last time i buy a card from you cunts.
poor graphics card performance can often be related to your Graphics Card sharing the IRQ with some other device. go to Device Manager and check if the card is sharing IRQ with any other hardware. IRQ conflicts can seriously hamper gaming performance.
im running nvidea sli its asowme fast and frame ratesa never drops 512 mb
Whoa! You got a great computer. I need an upgrade
hey queef, you’re an idiot. if you cant even figure how to play a divx movie, then i truly feel sorry for you. maybe this ‘cutting edge’ technology is not meant for you. next time better wait a yr or two for the drivers to mature before you take the plunge.
Maybe you should take your cutting edge tech and cut your fucking wrists with it. I know how to play a divx movie, ive been on the internets for-evar. Why dont you do us all a favor and ‘take the plunge’ into a pit of dirty nvidia needles fucktard.
Now you Windows folks know how us Linux users feel!
For a long time, Nvidia has been dragging their balls around when a driver update or fixes are needed in Linux. (The S-Video still doesn’t work correctly! There’s always tearing on the screen when watching a videos! Something that doesn’t happen with the Windows driver!)
Its no surprise that its happening on the Windows side now!
Although, us open-source folks have decided to take matters into our own hands and have begun developing our own driver called “Nouveau”…Basically telling Nvidia to take their driver and shove it. (It’ll be worth the effort as we sever our dependency of Nvidia binary drivers).
Come to think of it, this isn’t about Windows or Linux…This is really about driver support and the response time of Nvidia. Its piss poor, regardless of OS.
The good thing about Nvidia cards is that they’re cool devices to develop drivers for. They’ll tell you when you’re doing something stupid.
Say if you call a function incorrectly, it’ll slap you on the back of the head and tell you that you can’t do that!…Its something ATI/AMD cards currently don’t do.
i am not an nVidia fan boy or anything, but you guys need to give nvidia a break, Developing Drivers for Vista (and that too, for a DX10 card) is no walk in the park, the code gets increasingly complex, Vista is out for 2 months? and people are already whining how game X doesn’t play well while game Y does. GF8800GTX is a DX10 card, new technology, whole new architecture. it takes time to polish the code, i just find it amusing everyone is favoring ATI considering they haven’t even launched a DX10 card yet (infact, R600 has been delayed) it’s a heck of a lot easier to make drivers for DX9 cards then for DX10 cards.