Forceware 186.18 Win7/Vista and XP x32/x64 dated 06/10/2009

[mobilenvidia]

Official NVIDIA WHQL Quadro release (probaby to get attention away from 190.15)
Latest driver out (date wise)

Driver Information
Released By: NVIDIA
Driver Version: 186.18
Operating System: Windows Win7 64bit
Driver Date: 2009-06-10 (YYYY-MM-DD)
Driver Size: 79.96MB (MD5: 5d00c7bc34ad0202db4e1c84553511f7)
Release Notes/Change Log (PDF): http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/webpictures/false.gif
MS WHQL Certificate: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/webpictures/true.gif
Setup Files Included: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/webpictures/true.gif
Multilanguage Support: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/webpictures/true.gif

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Information Files (1 files supporting 39 models)* nv_disp.inf supports 39 models:
[DEV_004E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
[DEV_009D] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
[DEV_00CD] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
[DEV_00CE] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
[DEV_00F8] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400/4400
[DEV_014A] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
[DEV_014D] NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
[DEV_014E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
[DEV_0165] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
[DEV_01DE] NVIDIA Quadro FX 350
[DEV_0245] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 210S / NVIDIA GeForce 6150LE
[DEV_029C] NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
[DEV_029D] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500
[DEV_029E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500
[DEV_029F] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2
[DEV_039E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 560
[DEV_0197] NVIDIA Tesla C870
[DEV_019D] NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
[DEV_019E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
[DEV_040A] NVIDIA Quadro FX 370
[DEV_040E] NVIDIA Quadro FX 570
[DEV_040F] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
[DEV_042F] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290
[DEV_05E7] NVIDIA Tesla C1060
[DEV_05F9] NVIDIA Quadro CX
[DEV_05FD] NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
[DEV_05FE] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
[DEV_05FF] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
[DEV_0619] NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2
[DEV_061A] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700
[DEV_061B] NVIDIA Quadro VX 200
[DEV_0638] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
[DEV_0658] NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
[DEV_0659] NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
[DEV_06F8] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420
[DEV_06F9] NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP
[DEV_06FA] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450
[DEV_06FD] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
[DEV_087A] NVIDIA Quadro FX 470

Win7 x32 (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24308)

Win7 x64 (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24309)

WinXP x32 (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24306)

WinXP x64 (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24307)

[mobilenvidia]

Modded INFs for Win7/Vista are up for those that don't have one of the limited Quadro supported in oriignal INF.

Will get round to XP INFs shortly.

[Uberpwnage]

Strange, at the time of this post, these are officially available from Nvidia for Windows 7 x64 for Geforce cards, but not any other OS. Windows 7 x86 and all versions of Vista/XP still have 185.85 as the last official WHQL release.

Windows 7 x64 official link: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/186.18/186.18_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql.ex e

[saturnotaku]

Strange, at the time of this post, these are officially available from Nvidia for Windows 7 x64 for Geforce cards, but not any other OS. Windows 7 x86 and all versions of Vista/XP still have 185.85 as the last official WHQL release.

Windows 7 x64 official link: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/186.18/186.18_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql.ex e

Check the file name again. ;)

[Uberpwnage]

Check the file name again. ;)

Yeah, the "win7_winvista_64bit" is what makes it strange. Right now, the only way to download 186.18 from Nvidia with official support for Geforce cards, is from the Windows 7 x64 page. The drivers for Vista and Windows 7 are identical, but it is not listed for Vista on Nvidia's site. Obviously anyone who wants the Vista driver can simply use the Windows 7 link.

[AdamK47]

Mirrors Edge SLI shadow corruption?
Empire Total War troop graphic corruption?
Gears of War total corruption?
Fixed?

[nekrosoft13]

Official NVIDIA WHQL Quadro release (probaby to get attention away from 190.15)
Latest driver out (date wise)


have you compared them to 190s?

[shilk]

Mirror's Edge in SLi is running sooo smooth now — definitely noticed a FPS boost. It still has the minor flicker, but at least the annoying green tint is gone.

190's were absolute crap for me, but I'm keeping these for sure. :)

Edit: Nevermind. As soon as I started playing it after I wrote the above comment, the green flicker was back. WTF?!

[mobilenvidia]

I got the drivers via NV's driver beta/whql page, Quadro, then select OS and I choose UK to get the international version.

All 4 versions were available this way, there was only 186.08 beta under 'Geforce'.

UPDATE
I see these are also available now for Geforce's on NV's site.

[nekrosoft13]

so far so good, no issues.

[saturnotaku]

Mirror's Edge in SLi is running sooo smooth now — definitely noticed a FPS boost. It still has the minor flicker, but at least the annoying green tint is gone.

190's were absolute crap for me, but I'm keeping these for sure. :)

Edit: Nevermind. As soon as I started playing it after I wrote the above comment, the green flicker was back. WTF?!

Does it go away if you change that SLI setting in nHancer?

[Skinner]

nm

[AdamK47]

Everytime I boot into Windows with these the refresh rate changes from 60hz to 24hz for some unknown and very very very very very very very stupid reason.

[ATi]

Whats the best driver for a gtx 295? so many new drivers!

nekrosoft still no new "NeKro Certified driver"?

[betterdan]

Digital Vibrance not working with these drivers on a 7800 GTX 512 and Win 7 x64

[Yaboze]

Crashed in WoW with these, first time I ever crashed in W7. WoW just minimized and there was a yield icon by the Action Center saying Nvidia driver stopped responding.

Event Log said NVlddmkm.sys stopped responding and successfully restarted. Again, never had this error before with WoW, even in Vista. I was using 185.85's before.

I was able to alt-tab back into WoW, but the mouse wouldn't work at that point, I could move with the keys but not click any icons or bags, but I could click the menu, so I logged off and back on and it was OK.

Weird.

[Misfire]

Crashed in WoW with these, first time I ever crashed in W7. WoW just minimized and there was a yield icon by the Action Center saying Nvidia driver stopped responding.

Event Log said NVlddmkm.sys stopped responding and successfully restarted. Again, never had this error before with WoW, even in Vista. I was using 185.85's before.

I was able to alt-tab back into WoW, but the mouse wouldn't work at that point, I could move with the keys but not click any icons or bags, but I could click the menu, so I logged off and back on and it was OK.

Weird.

Could be a sign of video card failure.

Happened to me :(

[aceflier]

Sigh, yet another driver that has resize hdtv sli bug resizing to 1810x instead of 1920x. Back to good old 182.50 the last driver that worked in this regard.

[Reliquary]

These caused severe flickering when loading the campaign map in Empire: Total War. Back to 182.50 and it was gone.

[BelligerentBill]

PowerDVD 9.0.1719 crashes for me with Nvidia PureVideo enabled. Took me awhile to finger out but once I disabled PureVideo it worked fine.

Can anyone else confirm this problem with PowerDVD 9? I need to know if I need to dig deeper for the cause or not, thanks.

[JaylumX]

These drivers have broken my Arcsoft SimHD plugin in 1080 mode. I get a thick green line ontop of the screen and it disappears when i use the other two lower res modes.

[Blacklash]

I actually like these. nVidia CP doesn't take forever to open with SLi now.

[78stonewobble]

Around half the performance of the 181.71 drivers in Empire total war. Was a really quick check though and the only game.