GeForce Release 185.85 WHQL


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This is a WHQL-Certified driver supporting GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION. This driver package installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series (DirectX 10) GPUs and WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series (DirectX 9) GPUs.

This driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD

New in Release 185 drivers:

* Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.

* Adds support for Ambient Occlusion ? the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.

* Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA for more details.

* Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso.

* Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 181 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

o Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

o Up to 22% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled

o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled

o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2

o Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI

o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror?s Edge with antialiasing enabled

* Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0408.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

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thanks, looks like vista and Win7 are the same version numbe.. yay no more confusion lol

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Hmmmmm.... Won't install fror me. The WHQL beta driver installed per MS download for my 9600M GS but when I try to install the Nvidia driver, I get an error message stating that a device does not exist for these drivers.

I'm running Win7 X64 on an HP Touchsmart iq816.

Not a big deal as everything is working good with the MS drivers but I always like the OEM as they are usually more recent.

Also tried right clicking and running as administrator as well as trying the 9600 GS drivers but no joy.

David

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Reverted abck to 182.50, a lot of resolutions seem to be missing, I run most games in 1440x900 and this is no longer available in these drivers, the games refuse to start saying unsupported resolution. (Fallout being the main one as I am still currently playing that) Plus the old bug right clicking the desktop to choose options causes explorer to stop working, as well as audio looping in source games ... What a Pile of Shiite

Currently awaiting nvidia's response.

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The 185 series has broken video playback for me in Media Player Classic. I can only play videos at low resolution now, I cannot enlarge it over like 200% or attempt to fullscreen, or the video gets messed up, leading to a player crash or system crash.

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Seems as though there is a small # of us who have relied on the 182.xx series of drivers for stability. The latest releases from April 02 onwards have all been glitchy/error-causing for me. No hardware/software changes for me in awhile, so I place the blame on the driver itself.

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Refuses to install on my notebook (7 RC), even though my card is in the list of supported cards. After a manual install, I proceed to get the same dithered image I got with the previous 185.81 beta.

I'll stick with 181.71 for now.

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I wonder what the common issues are amongst us with the errors in the latest drivers? I could see hardware conflict or software being the cause, but I doubt we all have

similar setups.

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Recent drivers from Nvidia are causing graphic corruption on the desktop after doing something. One time I simply turned Cleartype on and off. Right after that, anywhere that had text painted on glass was all visual noise.

(This is on Windows 7, on two graphic chips: a 7400 Go and a 8800 GT.)

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If the drivers are making it WHQL status, I wonder if these bugs are so uncommon that they were remarked as insignificant and ignored....I'd consider them to be substantial bugs.

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Win 7 x64 on my GTX 295 run fantastic.

BUT, my 8800GTX running XP, the display goes black. They messed something up with the monitor in this release. Back to 182 until they fix that.

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