Nvidia GeForce Forceware 163.69 Beta

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Nvidia has released Vista & XP drivers for the Geforce 6, 7 & 8 series. This is not a WHQL release, is in beta form and available in 32bit and 64bit flavours. International versions are available only for Vista, English versions are up for XP. ForceWare ensures the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers continuous performance and feature updates over the life of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.

Release Notes:

Supports GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI™ technology on Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 applications.
Improved compatibility for The Way It’s Meant To Be Played™ game titles: BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, and World in Conflict.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
Vista-specific: Added HD video post-processing for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 HD content on the GeForce 8500 and 8600 series GPUs.
XP-specific: Added PureVideo™ HD decode acceleration for GeForce 8600, 8500 and 8400 series GPUs.

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

Download 163.69 Beta for Windows Vista: 32bit | 64bit

Download 163.69 Beta for: Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition | Windows XP x64, Server 2003 x64

Link: Home Page | Driver Page | Beta Driver Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Tantawi)

#1 display name on 17 Sep 2007 - 19:52

Well they didn't wreck anything at least.

#2 Zip on 17 Sep 2007 - 19:57

too many beta releases and not enough whql stuff for my liking.

#3 dw2003 on 17 Sep 2007 - 20:35

Improved compatibility for Crysis eh?... intriguing

#4 Amano on 17 Sep 2007 - 21:34

Nice, thanks guys!

#5 +Raa on 18 Sep 2007 - 01:03

Awesomebeans, that's mine!

(1 reply) #6 Citrusleak on 18 Sep 2007 - 02:06

Installed it. Can't tell any differences.

#6.1 kazuyette on 18 Sep 2007 - 10:20

Quote - (Citrusleak said @ #6)

Installed them with a GF7900GT and saw a noticeable difference with Bioshock (I can run in 1024 with full effects enabled, thnig that was not possible with the previous ones ). I'll test them against Vanguard and EQ2 and Quake wars too

#7 sjgore on 18 Sep 2007 - 17:44

The Vista version of 163.69 is WHQL!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_163.69.html

#8 Saito on 19 Sep 2007 - 07:25

will run this one this weekend.. currently have the newest beta drivers (well the once before this one) will see if it will improve my 3dmark score or not~~

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