ForceWare 158.14 on the way

[Bilux]

looks like the Vista drivers is version 158.14
(not a download link):

http://202.99.120.116:82/gate/big5/publish.it168.com/2007/0416/20070416006001.shtml

[XxDeadlyxX]

Excellent. Here's hoping it supports DV.

[RanCorX2]

hurry, hurry, hurry, me wants them, drool.

[mobilenvidia]

This post means that the reality of 155 series drivers more believable.
Lets hope someone has these uploaded somewhere :)

[Xophile]

Try and download them from here:
** Link removed **

Was the link of the 2K/XP drivers

[RanCorX2]

Try and download them from here:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13625

those are the xp drivers!

[mobilenvidia]

Try and download them from here:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13625
Thats the XP version I just uploaded 5min ago :)
158.14 is supposedly the Vista version where there is no driver link yet.

[Xophile]

Darn it, my mistake! ;)

[RanCorX2]

Darn it, my mistake! ;)

no problem.

[Shocky]

So, are you real or fake? anyone tried the XP driver yet as I havent seen any feedback and if there fake were just wasting time with this thread.. lol

[grey_1]

hurry, hurry, hurry, me wants them, drool.
Yupyupyup!

[XxDeadlyxX]

So, are you real or fake? anyone tried the XP driver yet as I havent seen any feedback and if there fake were just wasting time with this thread.. lol

The XP driver itself is not 'fake'.. the driver version may be but the driver has improvements and fixes things since 101.02.

Consensus atm is that either Nvidia have chosen to radically increase the driver numbering for whatever reason, or that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to change the driver version and create confusion. We don't know at the moment.

[RanCorX2]

The XP driver itself is not 'fake'.. the driver version may be but the driver has improvements and fixes things since 101.02.

Consensus atm is that either Nvidia have chosen to radically increase the driver numbering for whatever reason, or that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to change the driver version and create confusion. We don't know at the moment.

guess they built a time machine, went forward 3 years, stole the drivers and came back to the present.

nvidia quote - "well ***** it, we weren't gonna get em done in time". :D

back on topic though, where are they?where are they?where are they?where are they?

[Greeno]

The 8600 cards are properly launched tomorrow aren't they?

[stefan9]

The 8600 cards are properly launched tomorrow aren't they?

Hopefull with new drivers for all 8 series cards under vista.

[RanCorX2]

Hopefull with new drivers for all 8 series cards under vista.

thats right the 17th is supposed to be the day when the mid range or lower end 8 series cards are released.

[Shocky]

Is it possible they just been siting on these drivers for months just to shove them in ATI's face when R600 does finally show up? lol

[XxDeadlyxX]

Is it possible they just been siting on these drivers for months just to shove them in ATI's face when R600 does finally show up? lol

haha that is a... distinct possibility :rolleyes:

[nekrosoft13]

hopefully we will see a new driver today or tomorrow.

[Princess_Frosty]

There appears to be SLI problems under Vista x64 with the 101.70 and 101.41 drivers which is really irritating because 32bit versions are fine. This could also be related to having 4Gb of RAM installed OR having the memory remapping feature turned on in the motherboard BIOS.

I'm going to be a bit pissed off if these drivers don't fianlly get SLI working in Vista 64bit.

[skoprowski]

haha that is a... distinct possibility :rolleyes:

I'd say it is..............wasn't there rumors that the GTX may actually have stream processors that weren't enabled yet in current drivers? Remember when Nvidia stated that a unified shader architecture was not the best way to go, then they released the 8800.... I would not be suprised if Nvidia is playing with ATI right now.

[8800gtsfan]

Is it possible they just been siting on these drivers for months just to shove them in ATI's face when R600 does finally show up? lol


I doubt it, Nvidia has been behind in their drivers - my feeling is "welcome to the game guys. Its about freakin' time!!"

[Ancient]

Why would NVIDIA sit on fully functional drivers and hold on to them until the R600 comes out? That claim makes no sense at all and sounds very conspiracy theory-ish.

[Princess_Frosty]

Because holding back somethng that might save performance on release date wont impact the card sales much, due to there not being faster cards available, then all of a sudden when the R600 is released they can enable it for a bonus and high end users might not switch over to the newer and faster R600's.

[Ancient]

If NVIDIA released the drivers "months" ago, people would have seen that there's no real reason to wait for the R600 instead of holding off making their purchase because NVIDIA's drivers weren't up to par.

From a marketing pov, holding onto drivers that work and purposefully crippling your product for months makes no sense at all. Despite what people like to believe in their conspirital heart-of-hearts, that's not how business functions.