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Forceware 169.21 released,Download now!!

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Harvik780 Original post #1
Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Along with NVIDIA's new 8800 GTS 512 MB release NVIDIA also unveils a new ForceWare driver, revision build 169.21.

* Added support for GeForce 8800 GTS 512 GPU.
* Recommended driver for the latest DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
* Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please refer to the release documentation for more information on features, driver fixes, and known issues.

Download 32-Bit XP

Download 64-Bit XP

Download 32-Bit Vista

Download 64-Bit Vista
assasin
assasin #2
Dec 11, 2007 at 11:33 PM
thnx for the giving the links to the latest drivers.
dOm1naTOr
Dec 11, 2007 at 11:39 PM
thnx yaar
H
Dec 12, 2007 at 2:07 AM
Thanks guys.
BTW these drivers are WHQL certified.
dOm1naTOr
Dec 12, 2007 at 9:24 AM
How come a beta WHQl one?
H
Dec 12, 2007 at 11:31 AM
These have yet not been WHQL certified but they are WHQL candidate.Which means nvidia is waiting for microsoft to certify them as WHQL.
Third Eye
Dec 12, 2007 at 8:41 PM
Thanks for updating us.
phreak0ut
Dec 12, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Sorry if I sound stupid, are these driver compatible for 8600GT as well?
dOm1naTOr
dOm1naTOr #10
Dec 12, 2007 at 8:58 PM
@phreak0ut
all XP nvidia drivers are unified. Yup u can use this river for vista too.
hahahari
hahahari #11
Dec 12, 2007 at 9:00 PM
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Dec 13, 2007 at 3:20 PM
hi harvik will this forceware enable me to run win 98 compatible combat sims on my vista basic OEM laptop. i am a newbie please advice.i have nvidia geforce ge 6150 graphic card with 1 gb ram and 120 gb hdsk
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Harvik780 #13
Dec 13, 2007 at 3:29 PM
^^For that read the release notes of this driver for support.And run the combat Sims in windows 98 compatibility mode in vista.
deathvirus_me
Dec 16, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Drivers are not good .. AA doesn't work with any UE3.0 title , including UT3 .. and i lost loads of res. and refresh rates .. performance is hardly noticeably better than the 163.17's .... so rolled back ...
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Harvik780 #15
Dec 16, 2007 at 11:44 PM
I already posted how to get AA to work with these on Guru3d.
It works for me in all games using nhancer.
Currently nhancer supports all 169.xx driver versions so there is no reason it shouldn't work.

Do this-
Before installing the driver uninstall nhancer.
Delete the registry backups for nhancer in the following directory (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data)
Install the driver
Install nhancer it should work now but obviously u'll have to recreate the profiles.
deathvirus_me
Dec 17, 2007 at 2:45 AM
^^ Did that already ;) ... didn't work anyway :( .. maybe its just me , coz i surely do detailed installs :p ... anyway .. can't miss the res. :p ..