NVIDIA Geforce Drivers 196.75 WHQL released!

[franzon]

WARNING: These drivers may damage your graphics card!!!

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/880850-nvidia-geforce-drivers-19675-whql-revoked-by-nvidia/

[marc2003]

completely off topic but that's the first i've heard about "episodes from liberty city" being confirmed on PC. woot! :D

[Inklin]

I hope this fixes the issue I have with flash sometimes. some full screen flash video's have been crashing this computer black screen/(sound playing at the time of the crash ends up as a continuous note)

GT220 Flash 10.1 B2 I have the latest Beta of flash now but haven't tried a full screen video since to see it is prompts a crash.

[torrentthief]

no new version for XP users :(

[Tekkerson]

Thanks for the update! This sure is helpful to me :)

Windows XP is getting as old as windows ME or Windows 2000. You should really think about upgrading ;)

[Salty Wagyu]

Enhanced SLI support for World of Warcraft

wat.

[Avi]

Wonderful changelog. Upgrading!

[+John Teacake MVC]

Will these work on the Macbook if im running Windows 7?

[Avi]

Windows XP:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_196.75_whql.html

Windows Server 2003 64-bit, Windows XP 64-bit:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_196.75_whql.html

[RadishTM Veteran]

Thanks Avi :)

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Off-topic: You need to fix your sig, Radish?. :p

[:B: Rex]

i'm still on XP and use older drivers (180.48) for Nvidia's nview function which controls my multi monitor setup.

nview lets me have different wallpapers for each monitor without having to use an external program like Ultramon.

i do not use newer drivers since it looks like Nvidia stopped support for multi monitors

my question is how does Nvidia handle multiple monitors with Windows 7?

does Windows 7 support multi monitors better than XP?

i use 3 monitors and do not want to install extra software to handle my wallpaper/ diff resolutions

[ViZioN]

Thanks for the headsup! Nice changelog, I wonder if the improvements to L4D will give me any improvement in TF2.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Off-topic: You need to fix your sig, Radish?. :p

Looks fine here? :unsure: :p

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Looks fine here? :unsure: :p

Not on my end:

[smashguy]

No Notebook?! :(

[SMELTN]

Woot, thanks for posting will grab these when I get home

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Thanks. Hoping it miraculously fixes BFBC2 performance, but since I see no mention, only SLi support for it, so yeah, not holding my breath.

[SakuraKira]

If you play World of Warcraft, or other Blizzard games, DO NOT INSTALL THIS VERSION.

http://forums.battle...378481&sid=5000

We're getting reports where users are getting intermittent low FPS after installing these drivers. It seems that it is related to the fan control included in these drivers not working correctly and is causing the video card to overheat on 3D applications. This will affect Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft and StarCraft 2 Beta. Please uninstall the drivers and revert back to the older ones.

Windows XP: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_196.21_whql.html

Windows XP 64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_196.21_whql.html

Windows Vista/7 32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_196.21_whql.html

Windows Vista/7 64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_196.21_whql.html

More information can be found on threads such as these:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=161525

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=161503

[tsupersonic]

This version sucks. Whenever I resume from standby, my GPU temperatures are idling at 53c + instead of the usual 37c. Never had this problem with the previous releases.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Fan control issues aren't a problem when you've got a custom cooler and a nearly silent fan running all the time. :p

I hope these drivers don't cause severe FPS slowdown in L4D2/TF2.

[tsupersonic]

No, it is controlling the fan speeds properly. In my system, I have never ever seen it go above or below the 40% auto speed, temps stay between 37c idle and 65c load. I opened up the case after a standby, and the fan is spinning properly, so I don't know if it's reading the temperature wrong after standby. Not using any custom cooler, it's the stock cooler.

[jnelsoninjax]

Any idea why I can not download this driver? Each link goes to a 404 not found, and even searching google and Nvidia site yield the same results!

[SugarCain]

wat.

It is what.

[Wanderermy]

They reverted to 196.21

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_196.21_whql.html