So here we are boys and girls, the latest forceware drivers to sneak out of Nvidias build labs. The files are dated 06/16/2004 and will work with all ranges of Nvidia cards. We haven't had time to test these fully and bare in mind they are not WHQL so please be careful about using them on production systems. Enjoy.
Download: Nvidia Forceware 61.80 Beta (10.9meg)
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I'm getting my X800XT wen it's avaliable in the UK
Welcome to a couple of years ago...
Last edited by 4418 on 04 Jul 2004 - 19:14
how can you even compare fx5200 to 9800
think for a second
Which is why I'm gonna' move from "Nvidia GeForce 2 Pro" to "ATi Radeon X800 Pro or XT".
Anyways, I've never used beta drivers and I never will.
P.S.
Why is this title "Exclusive"..? are these drivers special, because we get beta ForceWare drivers on this forum every couple of weeks (same with Catalyst).
Thank You for making a fool out of yourself.
Actually, welcome to right now.
I had a Radeon 9700 Pro. I had more problems with that card than any other piece of computer equipment I've ever owned. It was great, well, it was fast, when it wanted to be. But experiencing what was then fast gameplay for 4-5 minutes before the driver crashed was not exactly enjoyable.
It also sucked more power and produced more heat than any card I've ever owned... and I have 5900U now.
My poor friend who bought the card from me can't wait to switch back to nvidia when he can get a 6800 card. He's had countless problems as well and is very frustrated that they STILL haven't fixed BF1942.
this driver sucks. i'm freezing in far cry. "The nv4_disp driver has stopped working normally"
Last edited by 25881 on 04 Jul 2004 - 20:32
Guru3D
(recompressed to 6mb for dial-up users (i guess lol))
boo
Depends if you want a beta version of it or not. I've not had any problems with it however.
You could install install XP SP2 RC2, as that has it built in I believe.
Last edited by 40635 on 05 Jul 2004 - 01:46
Turns out point sprites are an important feature needed in the Silent Hill game engines, and I have never seen a beta driver succesfully complete the point sprites test.
would story writers please bear in mind that "bare in mind" should be "bear in mind"? or "bear with us"? every time i see a writer for neowin saying "bare" instead of "bear", i crack up. sorry guys, but nobody's stripping here.
I did everything I was supposed to, only to have it automatically install an old 52.16 version (from Windows folders?) instead of the new 61.80. I checked the readme to discover that my GeForce FX 5200 is nowhere to be found in the supported adapters list! WTF?!
I went back to 61.71 and that works fine as always...
msi dot=works and works well
dot cp extensions remained available after my installation of nvidia 61.72 drivers.
and, since it's only 0.8 higher then the driver im using now, i am not going to try these. Unless someone tells me they'll give me ut2004 fps>=fps_current*1.3. And i believe them.
<hint>
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