[Tom's]Nvidia Releases 181.71 Windows 7 Drivers

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FilluX

Discussion Starter · Mar 4, 2009

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Nvidia shows once again that it's on the ball with the Windows 7 beta, as the company just released new 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 beta drivers.

The drivers offer international support for Geforce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs, and for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs. As stated, the update comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, with both being WDDM compliant. Based off the 181 driver series, this weeks release is listed as version 181.71.

Release highlights are as follows:

* Installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs.
* Installs WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs.
* Supports Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.
* Supports Nvidia CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture.
* Supports Nvidia PhysX (this driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203 for all GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series GPUs).
* Supports Nvidia SLI on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.

32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_x86_181.71_beta.html

64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_x64_181.71_beta.html

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Juggalo23451

· #2 · Mar 4, 2009

http://www.overclock.net/software-ne...ndows-7-a.html

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killerhz

· #3 · Mar 4, 2009

Nice, can't wait till I go home. +1

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tweakboy

· #4 · Mar 4, 2009

This is old news,,, try 182.08 whql ,, gl,,

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FilluX

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 4, 2009

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Originally Posted by Juggalo23451

http://www.overclock.net/software-ne...ndows-7-a.html

Oh sorry.

Don't know how i could have missed that.

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Originally Posted by tweakboy

This is old news,,, try 182.08 whql ,, gl,,

They are for XP & Vista.

These are for win 7

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CattleRustler

· #6 · Mar 4, 2009

im running vista drivers on win 7 beta, havent seen any issues
I dont recall what version currently but they have to be whql 181.xx at least because I loaded them a few weeks ago tops

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KinZee

· #7 · Mar 4, 2009

Im running 182.05 in Win7. Absolutely zero problems. Installer even says "Nvidia Windows 7 Drivers" or something like that...

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Outcasst

· #8 · Mar 4, 2009

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Originally Posted by KinZee

Im running 182.05 in Win7. Absolutely zero problems. Installer even says "Nvidia Windows 7 Drivers" or something like that...

Yep. All drivers since 181's have said Windows 7 Drivers when you don't run them in Vista compatibility mode.

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tonyhague

· #9 · Mar 5, 2009

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Originally Posted by CattleRustler

im running vista drivers on win 7 beta, havent seen any issues

Try anything using opengl (wolf ET etc..)...you'll soon spot issues

the 7 drivers are much better than vista ones (x64) for me...
...I gained 6fps...about 10% in the x3 terran conflict demo benchmark

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CattleRustler

· #10 · Mar 5, 2009

thanks for the info

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LegendaryC

· #11 · Mar 5, 2009

The first Windows 7 driver was the best. The second one (That I know of.) made it so I have to use another program to set my refresh rate to 85Hz. When using Windows to change it it would just blur the screen.

And now with this driver NFSU artifacts before the menu even loads.

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