Thanks to FurryNeko for the heads up.

As Steve mentioned earlier Nvidia have now released updated beta drivers for Windows Vista February CTP build 5308.

No word on whether this version includes a control panel or even the new updated Nvidia control panel.

Download: Windows Vista Beta Drivers x86 - 87.15
Download: Windows Vista Beta Drivers x64 - 87.15





There are 26 additional comments
Advertisement
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Blackice on 24 Feb 2006 - 16:54
those links just don't work under IE7

EDIT: lol, it works under Firefox, though. Grab PortableFirefox and download them!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by FurryNeko on 24 Feb 2006 - 17:02
Rapidshare Mirrors
http://rapidshare.de/files/14035380/87.15_...ta_x86.zip.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/14035666/87.15_...ta_x64.zip.html
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by IGx89 on 24 Feb 2006 - 17:13
For Geforce FX 5xxx, Geforce 6xxx, Geforce 7xxx, and Quadros.

Looking at the files in the ZIP archive, the control panel isn't included; it's just the barebone driver.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by war on 24 Feb 2006 - 17:35
"The NVIDIA graphics control panel is not included in this driver release"

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_87.15.html
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Litespeed on 24 Feb 2006 - 19:25
Do they support 1680x1050?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Phemo on 24 Feb 2006 - 21:12
I get 1680x1050 on my system no problems using these drivers ... but then I also had 1680x1050 even with the standard 5308 drivers. My card is a 7800 GTX.
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by Litespeed on 26 Feb 2006 - 02:53
Sweet..... I haven't installed 5308 yet, so my experience is limited to 5270 which didn't support that res.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by SVFUSiON on 24 Feb 2006 - 19:32
crashed vista.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by mgorbach on 24 Feb 2006 - 19:36
im getting ****ty performance with these w/7800gtx AMD 4000+ using all vista effects.
should my system be enough?
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by HoochieMamma on 01 Mar 2006 - 11:56
OMG! Vista does not use the Unreal 3 engine to render it's UI! Your system will blow away the requirements for Vista. There's another problem causing bad performance, like a bad driver.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by thenay on 24 Feb 2006 - 19:39
Tiny driver, the one for XP is 22mb+, this one is under 4mb!
This for sure doesn't contain a control panel, the size would have to be higher
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Blackice on 24 Feb 2006 - 19:57
we've established that there is no control panel, thank you

Yes, the drivers are tiny, and performance with them is bad (from reports across the 'net). They also don't support mobile cards (they leave it up to OEMs, who have no idea what's going on, and who have to get the things from nvidia anyway!. All in all, I'd say this was a massive letdown. Oh, how I wish my notebook had an ATi card (they can get mobility drivers out fine, for some reason).
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by scyphe on 24 Feb 2006 - 22:02
I'm about the install the x64 drivers but they surely can't be any worse than the 86.xx that came with 5308 (not just laggy, the whole system froze for 5-10ms once every second.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by GeeZuZz on 24 Feb 2006 - 22:15
Thanks Nvidia, for another crap driver, which does STILL have the stupid multimonitor bugs, and STILL does not support 1680x1050. Its amazing how a "leading" graphic card manufactor manage to make such low quality crap, and they are not even interested in fixing all the bugs (ive told them about it).

Btw, i'm not talking only about the Vista driver - this also applies for win xp.
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by Blackice on 24 Feb 2006 - 22:43
They also don't support portable ("Go" cards. NVidia list them all as being "Vista ready", but don't give any drivers. Funny how ATi manage to give all the drivers, and don't even tell you to go away if you have an OEM card...
Quote this comment #10.2 Posted by Phemo on 25 Feb 2006 - 01:55
With this driver, and even the standard driver, my 7800 GTX runs 5308 in 1680x1050 without having to do any fancy stuff ...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by gabalicious on 25 Feb 2006 - 00:44
The microsoft drivers are by far much better. i lost the alt tab feature with this driver. im going back to the msoft one
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by xUnix on 25 Feb 2006 - 02:12
No "Go" drivers indeed os at least ones that can take Glass advantage... Amazing

Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by SVFUSiON on 25 Feb 2006 - 03:38
ATi has good drivers, but I favor nvidia more,and this is bS
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by saturnslullaby on 25 Feb 2006 - 07:25
can anyone get Vista to work with nVIDIA RAID? i can get into setup but i can't get Vista to see the drives, i have RAID lvl 0 setup... i've tried the drivers that would work with XP but they don't seem to work with Vista and i can't seem to locate ones that will...?
Quote this comment #14.1 Posted by paulhaskew on 25 Feb 2006 - 18:42
XP drivers will NOT work with Vista
Quote this comment #14.2 Posted by threedaysdwn on 26 Feb 2006 - 05:04
oops, misread.
Quote this comment #14.3 Posted by Jedimark on 26 Feb 2006 - 12:13
The XP Drivers do work with Vista (Install them in Compatibility mode) but you don't have Glass.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by surgtech on 25 Feb 2006 - 19:36
I installed these drivers on my 5200 go that is on my laptop yesterday..i did a manual install and selected have disk, and on a whim picked the desktop 5200 selection, and it installed and copied drivers....and so far so good, everything seems to be fine, it may not support mobile features of the chip, but i use my laptop like a desktop anyhow.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by Kalphegor on 26 Feb 2006 - 14:51
gf4mx?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by lfLASHl on 27 Feb 2006 - 21:30
gfm4 YEA BABY they rule!!!!!!
[1]

Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!

Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.


Scroll to the Top
....
My Preferences
....
Communicating with server
Loading
Please Wait...
....
Loading
 X 
....