Nvidia Releases 181.71 Windows 7 Drivers
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Nvidia shows once again that it's on the ball with the Windows 7 beta, as the company just released new 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 beta drivers.
The drivers offer international support for Geforce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs, and for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs. As stated, the update comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, with both being WDDM compliant. Based off the 181 driver series, this weeks release is listed as version 181.71.
Release highlights are as follows:
- Installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series DirectX 10 GPUs.
- Installs WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series DirectX 9 GPUs.
- Supports Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.
- Supports Nvidia CUDA - Compute Unified Device Architecture.
- Supports Nvidia PhysX (this driver package automatically installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203 for all GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series GPUs).
- Supports Nvidia SLI on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL applications.
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So has Nvidia. Yay for everybody.
ATI rocks!!!!!
Fanboyism is getting old. History has shown that Nvidia usually has better drivers. By the time ATI writes better drivers, Nvidia will have updated theirs as well. Just because you have and love ATI cards (and they are great cards), doesn't mean you should wish for Nvidia to fail. All that will do is kill competition and stagnate progress. Please keep opinions out of factual matters.
So has Nvidia. Yay for everybody.
O well, now I have legit 181 drivers.
Right, so why the hell is this news?
Toms is a great place, I get my tech news from here, but news posts like this make me wonder why I even bother. You don't see Toms licking on ATI's bum every time they update their Win7 drivers.
Because these are official Windows 7 drivers,not Vista drivers that "work" with Windows 7 aswell.
Assclown.
That still doesn't change the fact that Tom's caters to nvidia at every chance.....
Now we just need Windows 7 to be released
You call me an assclown, but the ATI drivers, released months ago, are also Win7 drivers.
WDDM1.1, all the good bits.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4870,1964.html
Say what?
Not sure that they need em. I used the vista drivers on win7 beta with my 4870 with no problems, while running crysis at max detail and fear2.