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NVIDIA GeForce Release 180.42 Beta

Steven Parker   via Neowin Forums on 22 October 2008 - 10:29 · 15 comments & 8715 views

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Cheers again Mephistopheles, who has posted in our Breaking News section of the forums about today's release of some new NVIDIA GeForce drivers [for Windows XP & Vista] that offer yet more improvements over the last for certain GPU's, including SLI support for the 200 & 9-series.
  • Beta driver for GeForce 200-series, 9-series, and 8800-series desktop GPUs (refer to the products supported tab for more detail).
  • Recommended for the best experience on Far Cry 2:

    “Since we first began working on Far Cry 2 in early 2005, we have used GeForce GPU’s to develop the game and worked closely with NVIDIA’s excellent engineers. While Far Cry 2 represents an outstanding PC gaming experience for a wide range of systems, GeForce users can expect to enjoy the game quite literally ‘The Way It Was Meant To Be Played’.” - Louis-Pierre Pharand, Ubisoft, Far Cry 2 Producer

  • Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX+, and GeForce 9800 GTX.

Download: for Windows Vista x86 (72.8MB) | x64 (90.1MB)
Download: for Windows XP x86 (72.2MB) | x64 (84.0MB)

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(3 replies) #1 g0wg on 22 Oct 2008 - 11:15
X58 motherboards? where???
#1.1 Neobond on 22 Oct 2008 - 11:23
Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX+, and GeForce 9800 GTX

It says it right there!
#1.2 Skynetfuture on 22 Oct 2008 - 13:05
wow just updated to 180.10 three days ago

X58 motherboards? where???

yes nvidia announced a while ago that they will support X58 instead of making there own extreme chipset for core i7

at last we are free from nV buggy chipsets

i wander who much will it take now to hack the driver to support SLI in other intel chips

#1.3 P!P on 23 Oct 2008 - 04:48
Far Cry 2 actually won't run on 180.42 Vista x64 for me. Worked fine when I downgraded back to 178.
#2 ViperAFK on 22 Oct 2008 - 12:43
wewt getting far cry 2 today! can't wait. hope it plays well with my 9600gt.
#3 Amano on 22 Oct 2008 - 16:07
Thanks for the update.
#4 ShadowlineDesigns on 22 Oct 2008 - 16:22
It seems as if the page for the drivers has gone MIA. The link here is correct however as their actual drivers page goes to a 404 error aswell.
#5 Yinchie on 22 Oct 2008 - 19:51
Figured they would take it down because these drivers does not make you run Far Cry 2 better but it is the exact opposite.
Some of the things is that when you change your game resolution, you just get a black screen.

Their latest WHQL signed drivers does run Far Cry 2.
(1 reply) #6 IntelliMoo on 22 Oct 2008 - 21:25
"...NVIDIA’s excellent engineers." -- LMAO You know what I mean. Especially lately, too.
#6.1 +Kirkburn on 23 Oct 2008 - 02:40
IntelliMoo said,
"...NVIDIA�s excellent engineers." -- LMAO You know what I mean. Especially lately, too.

Care you to point to something?
(1 reply) #7 exotoxic on 23 Oct 2008 - 13:09
XP 32bit, 8800GTS = BSOD for me
#7.1 Achal on 25 Oct 2008 - 22:17
8600 gts here, upon reboot after installing these drivers my computer wont go past the windows xp screen, cant even get into safe mode , so i installed vista 64-bit
#8 SirEvan on 24 Oct 2008 - 20:10
run great for me
Vista Ultimate x64
Evga 260 SSC
#9 virtorio on 26 Oct 2008 - 12:09
Like the last couple of nVidia driver releases, I can't get my notebook to work with my external monitor (connected via HDMI) with these drivers.
#10 Ambroos on 27 Oct 2008 - 11:13
Where did 8600 support go?

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