New official ForceWare drivers

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Windows 2000/XP - NVIDIA Beta release

For Windows 2000/XP, this is an official Beta NVIDIA release as found on their FTP servers.

This following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 67.03:

* SLI cards: Half Life 2 performance drops on canals demo with SLI

enabled

* GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: No performance difference with the game

Lock On Modern Air Combat when SLI mode is enabled.

* GeForce 6800: Incorrect fog for underwater objects in Half Life 2.

* SLI cards: Shadows flicker with Source engine games like Half-Life 2

and Counterr-Strike when SLI mode is enabled.

* Windows XP Media Center Edition, GeForce 6600: Graphical

distortion appears intermittently when cycling through the Media

Center menus.

* Windows XP Media Center Edition, GeForce 6600: From HDTV

component-out, changing the resolution from 1080i or 720p to 480p

results in 480i being set instead.

* GeForce 6600 GT: NVIDIA Color Correction does not work when

playing video using VMR.

* GeForce 6800 LE, PCI-Express: With an HDTV as the secondary

display in Clone mode, the TV loses sync when changing the

resolution to 1080i with Keep Native HDTV resolution selected.

* Windows Media Center Edition, GeForce PCX 5300: When using

HDTV over DVI, 1080i mode does not sync correctly in native and

underscan modes.

* GeForce2, GeForce4 MX, Windows XP: City of Heroes crashes to the

desktop intermittently.

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