Nvidia Geforce 8 ForceWare 158.45 Beta (Vista)

Nvidia Geforce 8 ForceWare 158.45 Beta (Vista)

Tantawi on 31 May 2007 - 22:03 · 8 comments & 3487 views

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NVIDIA released another set of official beta drivers for Windows Vista. They are for GeForce 8 line of GPUs, and are available in both 32bit and 64bit flavors. This is not a WHQL release, so Windows will prompt you about these drivers not being digitally signed.

Release Highlights:

Improved performance for DirectX 10 version of Company of Heroes
Improved 3D performance for single GPU and NVIDIA SLI
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes
Please refer to the release notes for further information

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

Download 158.45 Beta for: Vista x86 | Vista x64 (Freeware)

View: Driver's Release Notes

Link: Home Page | Drivers Page

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(2 replies) #1 Tantawi on 31 May 2007 - 22:20

And as usual, a modified inf to allow installing these on all 6/7/8 series cards: http://www.tantawi.net/nvidia/158.45/nv_disp.inf (32bit)

#1.1 mls67 on 31 May 2007 - 22:58

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And as usual, a modified inf to allow installing these on all 6/7/8 series cards: http://www.tantawi.net/nvidia/158.45/nv_disp.inf (32bit)

is there an advantage to using these on a 7600 gt? or is it just to say that I have accomplished installing them? I mean the latest drivers for this card work pretty good, so if it ain't broke, I'll fix it if it's better

Thanks,

Mike

#1.2 Tantawi on 31 May 2007 - 23:41

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Thanks,

Mike

No it's not for the accomplishment

but sometimes NVIDIA makes many undocumented changes, and those changes sometimes affect older cards, but they don't bother to test it on them since they're beta anyway and just release them for the 8th series.

I'm using it now on my 7800 GS, and so far so good (like 158.18 and 158.43), so nothing really better here, I just like the idea of having the latest driver as long as it doesn't cause any problems

#2 :: Lyon :: on 01 Jun 2007 - 02:55

Can anyone confirm if this is a better driver? (I'm using 7600gt)
There's no point in using a latest driver if it degrades the performance and quality

#3 BoyRacer on 01 Jun 2007 - 06:34

Check out Guru3D thread on these drivers. Word is that these drivers are finally taking advantage of DX10.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=226640

#4 Amano on 01 Jun 2007 - 08:27

Thanks Tantawi. Waiting for WHQL

#5 Daedalus on 01 Jun 2007 - 10:59

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Improved performance for DirectX 10 version of Company of Heroes

I thought there wasn't going to be a DirectX 10 patch for Company of Heroes?

#6 kevpan815 on 05 Jun 2007 - 22:14

I Recently Got Rid Of My NVIDIA GeForce 6800, After They Stopped Issuing New Device Driver Updates For It, I Will Now Be A Loyal ATI Custumer, And Will Never Ever Buy Another NVIDIA Video Card Again, Just FYI.

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