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Nvidia Geforce 8800 Forceware 158.42 Beta (Vista)

Nvidia has finally released another set of official beta drivers for Windows Vista. They are for GeForce 8800 GTS, GeForce 8800 GTX, and GeForce 8800 Ultra, and are available in both 32bit and 64bit flavors, with some more SLI support fixes. This is not a WHQL release, so Windows will prompt you about these drivers not being digitally signed. International downloads are available.

Release Highlights:

  • Please note this driver only supports the GeForce 8800 series GPUs
  • Improved 3D performance for single GPU and NVIDIA SLI
  • Add support for NVIDIA SLI on DirectX 10
  • Numerous game and application compatibility fixes
  • Updated NVIDIA Control Panel with improved user interface.
  • Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
  • This driver supports the following 3D features:
    • Single GPU support
      • DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
      • DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
      • OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
    • NVIDIA SLI support
      • DirectX 9 support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
      • DirectX 10 support for 8800 series GPUs
      • OpenGL support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
  • DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8 series GPUs will be available in a future driver
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

Download 158.42 Beta for: Vista x86 | Vista x64 (Freeware)
Link: Home Page | Driver Page
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