Hani Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Rambo Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piedpiper09 Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us Can this driver (64 bit) be used for Win7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggy Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Sweet! Thank you. Win 7 64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_x64_185.85_whql.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted May 7, 2009 Author Share Posted May 7, 2009 Can this driver (64 bit) be used for Win7? http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_x64_185.85_whql.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 thanks, looks like vista and Win7 are the same version numbe.. yay no more confusion lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted May 7, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 7, 2009 Sweet, updated on XP (Y) Radish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avi Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 They also updated the Quadro NVS Notebook drivers to be WHQL! :-) http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no...85.85_whql.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no...85.85_whql.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no...85.85_whql.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_nvs_no...85.85_whql.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
way2quik Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 sweet update. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashguy Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Cool, Thanks! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted May 7, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 7, 2009 Jeez Crysis just keeps getting more and more boosts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTN Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted May 8, 2009 Subscriber¹ Share Posted May 8, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGar Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D!rtySh@dy Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Thanks with my 8800 GTS 512 / Vista x64 Works very well ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViZioN Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Thanks for the headsup. Downloading now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iZoom Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I have had absolutely no isseus with the 185 drivers in vista and win7 64 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted May 10, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 10, 2009 Can't say I have had any issues in a long time with Nvidia drivers either and I'm on Vista x64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown_97784568745 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srugie Veteran Posted May 10, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 10, 2009 Thanks for the update! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iZoom Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted May 11, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 11, 2009 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iZoom Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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