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hmmm... yummy! let me try them out

am i crazy or did i just see an entire other post just like this with way more comments and totally it disappeared?
anyway the reason i am looking for it is someone asked about 3d mark scores, and although i don't live by its scores at all, they were asking if these drivers boosted performance in anyway? from my running it the answer is "yes, just a very, very little."

I thought the 5X.XX line were Forceware, not Detonator?

These aren't WHQL'ed for my gforce2 card but they do install

cool...downloading right now

nevermind...its WHQL for my video card

cool

I noticed they seem to have snuck in a popup blocker for Internet Explorer. Considering XP SP2 will include this it seems too little too late. It also has absolutely nothing to do with the graphics card and drivers. Or did I miss that link?

BTW it's been Forceware for a while now. Detonator went out with version 4, so Yes you did miss something... that

hopefully this won't BSOD me like the other newer nvidia drivers do....

I'm still using the 21.83's. Works best with my TNT2 M64... Yea I know I should upgrade, but what's the use when you're poor?

Old news. I downloaded these from eVga.com last week monday. Was supprised on how long this post took. They were on there main website not ftp.

My wallpaper looks like its in 16-bit mode yet its in 32-bit mode... hmmmm... I'm going back to 53.03 never had issues with that driver release.

*cough cough BUG*

Excuse me for being slow... but isn't Forceware the name of the drivers for NForce1/2/3 boards?

*edit*

Ah thats confusing.. all Nvidia software seems to be themed around the name 'Forceware' - grr.

what is the difference between these two:
56.64_winxp2k_english.exe 10997 KB
56.64_winxp2k_international_whql.exe 14907 KB
?
which shall i download?

nice job nvidia
downloading it now

downloading now... has anyone seen a decrease in performance at all?

does this apply to RIVA TNT 2 ?

Has anyone tested these drivers on a TNT2? Yeah, I know that it's an old card... but I'm stuck with it a bit longer

The reason I ask is because I have been getting very obvious and severe graphical glitches in programs when using the newer nVidia drivers with my TNT2 in Windows XP Pro SP1. I'm currently using 45.23 which give me no problems. I would like to use the newer drivers since they seem to perform just as good (if not better) but because of the glitches I keep switching back...

Anyone else with a TNT2 can you confirm these problems? Or is it just me? One of the biggest problem programs is Mozilla Firefox. Install the drivers and then try running it. It gets lots of redraw problems (in the interface, not the webpages it renders) and just a lot of general weirdness...

Just installed for my TNT2, yea since about the October drivers I have never been able to update my drivers since they would corrupt the MSN 'Status' list but these seem to be working fine

I hope UT2k4 will be awesome with these new drivers

Is the Return to Castle Wolfenstein crash fixed on the Ti4200?

work perfectally for me

geforceFX 5900 ultra

all games flawless sofar

Computer blue screened on boot, IRQl equal or less, so had to revert to old drivers. Dunno why really, shall wait for a new release I guess ~_~;;

These Drivers are Unified They will work on a VANTA From 6 years ago to a Geforce FX 5950!

That is nVidias Unified Compiler Architecture. Stop Asking if they work or not. nVidia's Unifited System will probably not change.

NVIDIA ForceWare Release 55 Introduces Game Profiles and Boosts Performance

For further information, contact:

Brian Burke
NVIDIA Corporation
(512) 401-4385
bburke@nvidia.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SANTA CLARA, CA—MARCH 15, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced the availability of the NVIDIA® ForceWare™ Release 55 graphics driver for add-in graphics cards based on NVIDIA GeForce™ graphics processing units (GPUs). This new release includes many new features, tools and enhancements, including customized application and game profile settings, and support for PCI Express. The Microsoft WHQL-certified NVIDIA ForceWare Release 55 driver is immediately available for download at www.nvidia.com/drivers.

QUOTE

“Forceware Release 55 delivers awesome new features which are only available on NVIDIA GPUs,” said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “Along with these new features, every customer using an NVIDIA-based graphics card manufactured in the last six years—all the way back to the NVIDIA TNT™—will get another free performance upgrade simply by installing this software.”

“NVIDIA’s latest driver set certainly brings with it a number of nice improvements that all NVIDIA owners will enjoy,” said Brandon Bell, editor in chief of hardware for Firingsquad.com (www.firingsquad.com). “When you add all this up with the performance improvements we saw in Unreal Tournament 2003, we definitely like NVIDIA’s latest graphics driver.”

“There is no doubt NVIDIA has the most feature rich drivers on the market when it comes to video cards,” said Brent Justice, 3D graphics editor of HardOCP (www.hardocp.com). “We are simply in love with the game profiles features. This is a gaming feature we have been wanting for a very long time.”

New features in the new ForceWare Release 55 graphics driver include:

• Application/game profiles—image quality and performance settings can be defined and saved for each application. Profiles launch automatically when the program is initiated. Adjustments can be made easily to any existing profile.
  
• Introduction of PCI Express—support for the latest PC bus enabled through NVIDIA UDA
  
• The latest NVIDIA nView® 3.5 software—a new nView multi-display wizard speeds the set up for multi-display modes. nView 3.5 also provides numerous enhancements for more efficiently using a single display including an enhanced display grid technology for organizing windows on your desktop and a pop-up blocker to stop unwanted windows.
  
• Easy output of video files to television—when selecting a video file for output, a simple right-click on the mouse pops up a menu to speed start up and simplify the selection of video output options.
  
• Mouse-over pop-up help for all graphics control panels—an integrated help function provides pop-up explanations of all graphics-related settings.
  
• Drop-down menu for NVIDIA settings—a new menu item on the right-click drop-down menu takes users directly to a control panel for NVIDIA graphics settings. </ul>Thanks to the NVIDIA unified driver architecture (UDA), NVIDIA ForceWare Release 55 delivers a free performance upgrade for NVIDIA GPUs, both past and present. With the new driver, GeForce™ FX 5900XT GPU performance in F1 Challenge ’99-’02 can increase as much as 120[i] percent. In Gunmetal, GeForce FX 5200 GPU performance increases up to 22[ii] percent and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra GPU performance in Neverwinter Nights goes up as much as 48[iii] percent faster.

By utilizing the Company’s unique UDA, NVIDIA ForceWare Release 55 supports all NVIDIA graphics solutions for PCI, AGP, and PCI Express bus architectures with a single driver version. The NVIDIA ForceWare Release 55 driver, complete with Microsoft WHQL certification, is immediately available for download at www.nvidia.com/drivers.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11793.html

downloading now..............for sum reason my 1 meg broadband seems to be like dial up!

i've had the analog display thing for a while now?

hmm, is there a way to turn off the new stuff in the right-click menu?

I HAVE GAINED 200 POINTS in 3DMark03!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From 2245 to 2423 (okay, 17

I swear, this is real.

Last edited by 43101 on 16 Mar 2004 - 02:54

OMG. Very ANNOYING bug:
Move the mouse to the right in your screen until you you cannot see it... When you move it back, it hangs for a second there. Happens every time I try to close a freaking window.

I had the analog display on my right click menu with 56.55 drivers.

any improvement for Ti4200 users?

Just like to say good work nvidia battle field 1942 dc runs great. All bug fixs seem to work. 2 thumbs.

Dude i downloaded both available drivers for xp but they all turn corrupt , is there any other link ofr this


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