Anyone ever notice how Nvidia releases drivers constantly while ATI seems to release a set every so often. I don’t know which of the sides is better i mean is ATI just more stable, or is nvidia trying to scrape every bit of performance they can and are continually improving (or is it just a bunch of bugs).
Either way they seem to be on a roll with driver releases today brings along ForceWare 158.18, and since me and my girlfriend currently run nvidia and vista i guess it’s time for an upgrade, though the last upgrade fixed my crashing issues, maybe this one will bump my performance in command and conquer 3 a bit. Heres the run down….
- WHQL Certified Driver
- NVIDIA has a problem when trying to enable NVIDIA SLI using the international driver kit. If you are having problems enabling this feature, please download the U.S. English driver kit.
- Adds support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, and GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS GPUs.
- Increased performance in 3D applications.
- PureVideo™ HD support.
- Add support for forcing Vertical Sync in DirectX applications.
- Updated NVIDIA Control Panel with improved user interface (Please see the Release Notes for more details).
- Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
- This driver supports the following 3D features:
- Single GPU support
- DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
- DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
- OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
- NVIDIA SLI support
- DirectX 9 support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
- OpenGL support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
- DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver
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- Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues
Whats suprising i find though is that they didn’t include DX SLI support for the 8800′s again… Aren’t these supposed to be the big bad boy cards? So why no SLI support you can’t tell me the insane speed freak demand isn’t asking for it.
Source: Activewin
