I would like to see them fix the fixed aspect ratio bug. (where older games without resolution settings get stretched out, even when fixed aspect ratio is selected in the nvidia control panel)
I had 2 monitors of different resolutions. They both works fine with 182.50 drivers.
Update to the latest one (beta for Vista x64) and it went all wrong.
When SLI is enabled, the driver changed the primary display to the other monitor but using the same resolution of the orignal primary monitor (it seems); also the screen went completely black, just the mouse cursor showing.
In the end, I had to boot in safe mode and rollback to the older driver.
Nice one NVidia, breaking something that worked before (again?).
"Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software"
Shouldn't that read: "has support in the driver for simple overclocking and monitoring, but due to a logic malfunction you cannot access it. You must download a 90 megabyte package to control 2 sliders and see a temperature readout"
what are you guys whining about? I'm running win7 already and playing all my games without problems. Things are looking VERY good for the windows 7 release.
I believe DX11 Compute Shaders will include profiles to support older GPUs, namely CS4.0 for DX10 GPUs, CS4.1 for DX10.1 GPUs, and CS5.0 for DX11 GPUs. I'm not sure of the limitations of the older profiles compared to DX11 GPUs which would presumably be designed with the full Compute Shader spec in mind.
nV's Vista drivers work just fine in Win 7 beta Build7000. The 'real' Win 7 nV drivers incorporate just Win7-specific improvements .... Remember Win 7 is really Vista+ or Vista "SP3". Nothing much new here except with Win 7 that M$ has honed the efficiency of the Win7 (er, Vista) OS core and added useful bells and whistles. This core efficiency will never be offered to Vista users and any other feature upgrades to Vista will be entirely at M$$'s whim... would not want to cannibalise sales of Win 7 with competitive updates to Vista, that would never do...!! Remember Dx10 never being offered as a Win XP upgrade? Well, M$$ is up to variants on that old trick again with Win 7 vs Vista. Do not be fooled by all the marketing hype.
Finally, someone else who thinks so!!! I hope these people realize when they do something lame like that it completely invalidates everything else they say.
I hate when people don't realize that competition and consumer choice improve products, and that these things tend to happen at a greatly retarded rate when there's a monopoly deprofitizing competition.
Nobody ever said MS didn't deserve to make a bundle did they? There's a difference between taking everything you could ever need and taking so much that there's nothing left for anyone else. Hmm. Maybe if MS had some competition then the company a lot of people like would be driven to make their products even better.
They were absolutely horrible! I definitely don't want to have to go through the same pains again with Win7. Already pretty happy with the test of Win7 so planning on converting XP over when the release arrives.
[quote]They were absolutely horrible! I definitely don't want to have to go through the same pains again with Win7.[/quote]
Neither does MS. they are putting 7 out so quick to get rid of the bad PR from the vista debacle. I wouldn't be surprised if once they had everything ready they sat on it for a few months to allow hardware manufacturers a chance to finish polishing the initial drivers so the out the gate performance is great and everyone will think "this is so much better than vista!" and tell their friends and everyone will upgrade just to get rid of "that awful vista" thus boosting the Win7 market share out the door and increase the speed of it's adoption.
The vista debacle was largely an issue with 3rd party drivers. Yes there were bugs, but there were bugs with Apple's Leopard and, for that matter, XP, which many site wouldn't recommend for well over a year.
The reality is that many of the problems were fixed by summer of 2007.
Where MS got screwed was by very effective (and largely misleading) apple Ads and the media that reported that there were huge problems long after they were all fixed.
I'm looking forward to 7, but there's nothing wrong with Vista (it's certainly better than XP for all but those clinging to very old H/W (my old Athlon 64 3000 could easily run Vista).
I'm sure there will be less problems with Windows 7, but that's like saying there were less problems with Windows 98 or XP SP2 (originally intended to be a new Windows release)....those were all largely revisions of the earlier OS (respectively, Win 95 and XP RTM/SP1)
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theslug - Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - link
I would like to see them fix the fixed aspect ratio bug. (where older games without resolution settings get stretched out, even when fixed aspect ratio is selected in the nvidia control panel)tester3000 - Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - link
New driver just make me excited LOL :Pr28666 - Monday, May 4, 2009 - link
I had 2 monitors of different resolutions. They both works fine with 182.50 drivers.Update to the latest one (beta for Vista x64) and it went all wrong.
When SLI is enabled, the driver changed the primary display to the other monitor but using the same resolution of the orignal primary monitor (it seems); also the screen went completely black, just the mouse cursor showing.
In the end, I had to boot in safe mode and rollback to the older driver.
Nice one NVidia, breaking something that worked before (again?).
nubie - Friday, May 1, 2009 - link
"Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software"Shouldn't that read: "has support in the driver for simple overclocking and monitoring, but due to a logic malfunction you cannot access it. You must download a 90 megabyte package to control 2 sliders and see a temperature readout"
Sedonadisable people, sedonadisable.
coreyb - Friday, May 1, 2009 - link
what are you guys whining about? I'm running win7 already and playing all my games without problems. Things are looking VERY good for the windows 7 release.Griswold - Saturday, May 2, 2009 - link
Read it, numbnuts?VaultDweller - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - link
This driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX ComputeWait, what? Isn't that a feature for DirectX 11 cards?
ieskorp - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - link
DX11 is included with Windows 7ltcommanderdata - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - link
I believe DX11 Compute Shaders will include profiles to support older GPUs, namely CS4.0 for DX10 GPUs, CS4.1 for DX10.1 GPUs, and CS5.0 for DX11 GPUs. I'm not sure of the limitations of the older profiles compared to DX11 GPUs which would presumably be designed with the full Compute Shader spec in mind.Ogdin - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - link
Hopefully they have some stable working drivers by launch time.There vista support for the first 6 months was just terrible.Griswold - Saturday, May 2, 2009 - link
What nvidia did (or not did..) back in 2007 was what drove me away from nvidia completely and I have no intention to go back anytime soon.And it wasnt just the ridiculous video drivers. The icing on the cake was the non-functional chipset drivers for indeed 6 months.
kilkennycat - Friday, May 1, 2009 - link
nV's Vista drivers work just fine in Win 7 beta Build7000. The 'real' Win 7 nV drivers incorporate just Win7-specific improvements .... Remember Win 7 is really Vista+ or Vista "SP3". Nothing much new here except with Win 7 that M$ has honed the efficiency of the Win7 (er, Vista) OS core and added useful bells and whistles. This core efficiency will never be offered to Vista users and any other feature upgrades to Vista will be entirely at M$$'s whim... would not want to cannibalise sales of Win 7 with competitive updates to Vista, that would never do...!! Remember Dx10 never being offered as a Win XP upgrade? Well, M$$ is up to variants on that old trick again with Win 7 vs Vista. Do not be fooled by all the marketing hype.weevil - Saturday, May 2, 2009 - link
I hate when people use the dollar sign when referring to MS... As if a company making money is a bad thing. Hugo Chavez want YOU...theslug - Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - link
Finally, someone else who thinks so!!! I hope these people realize when they do something lame like that it completely invalidates everything else they say.mindless1 - Sunday, May 3, 2009 - link
I hate when people don't realize that competition and consumer choice improve products, and that these things tend to happen at a greatly retarded rate when there's a monopoly deprofitizing competition.Nobody ever said MS didn't deserve to make a bundle did they? There's a difference between taking everything you could ever need and taking so much that there's nothing left for anyone else. Hmm. Maybe if MS had some competition then the company a lot of people like would be driven to make their products even better.
The0ne - Thursday, April 30, 2009 - link
They were absolutely horrible! I definitely don't want to have to go through the same pains again with Win7. Already pretty happy with the test of Win7 so planning on converting XP over when the release arrives.ThePooBurner - Friday, May 1, 2009 - link
[quote]They were absolutely horrible! I definitely don't want to have to go through the same pains again with Win7.[/quote]Neither does MS. they are putting 7 out so quick to get rid of the bad PR from the vista debacle. I wouldn't be surprised if once they had everything ready they sat on it for a few months to allow hardware manufacturers a chance to finish polishing the initial drivers so the out the gate performance is great and everyone will think "this is so much better than vista!" and tell their friends and everyone will upgrade just to get rid of "that awful vista" thus boosting the Win7 market share out the door and increase the speed of it's adoption.
nilepez - Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - link
The vista debacle was largely an issue with 3rd party drivers. Yes there were bugs, but there were bugs with Apple's Leopard and, for that matter, XP, which many site wouldn't recommend for well over a year.The reality is that many of the problems were fixed by summer of 2007.
Where MS got screwed was by very effective (and largely misleading) apple Ads and the media that reported that there were huge problems long after they were all fixed.
I'm looking forward to 7, but there's nothing wrong with Vista (it's certainly better than XP for all but those clinging to very old H/W (my old Athlon 64 3000 could easily run Vista).
I'm sure there will be less problems with Windows 7, but that's like saying there were less problems with Windows 98 or XP SP2 (originally intended to be a new Windows release)....those were all largely revisions of the earlier OS (respectively, Win 95 and XP RTM/SP1)