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[SantaC]

Grab em while they are hot.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.76


Release highlights:

WHQL Certification

Add support for GeForce 6800 series support

Complete support for NVIDIA PCI-E GPUs

Consumer electronic display support for DVI-based digital displays, such as widescreen plasma screens (CEA/EIA-861B)

QuickZoom – ease eye strain and enable ergonomic computing with easy Windows magnification

Updated application profiles allow users to assign multiple profiles for each application

Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0b and OpenGL® 1.5 support

 

[BeOnEdge]

do these newer dx9 drivers still improve performance on cards like the geforce 4?

 

[DSN2K]

do these newer dx9 drivers still improve performance on cards like the geforce 4?

you will find it makes things worse most of the time. :\

 

[SantaC]

Significant issues resolved in driver version 61.76 are listed below:

• Windows XP: nView Desktop Manager causes Response Time
Logger to use 98% of CPU resources.

• GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: SimCity 4 shows smearing with
2xQ antialiasing enabled.

• Windows XP: DualView Performance mode doesnʹ work

• Windows XP, GeForce FX 5600: Enter key does not perform the
intended actions in the NVIDIA control panel.

• Quadro FX 1100, Windows XP: Mouse pointer is blurry when moved
to the right side of the LCD

• Windows XP, Quadro FX 3000, T221 Display: Windows MediaPlayer
becomes pink/green with two T221 monitors rotated.

• Windows XP: Double-clicked Outlook messages sometimes end up
underneath other windows.

• Quadro4 980XGL/Quadro FX1000, Windows 2000: Altair Engineering
HyperMesh6.0 has problems with model contour color and rubber
band operation.

• Quadro4/Quadro FX: Psychedelic colors fill “Halo: Combat Evolved”
when the game brightness is set very low.

• GeForce FX 5600: Far Cry has rendering corruption at high
resolutions.

• GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: “Error in module
nvcpl.dll” when cutting an MPEG-2 file from within Windows
Explorer.

• GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: Far Cry corruption

• GeForce 6800, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Corruption at
1280x1024 and 1600x1200 with Flight Simulator 2004 in-game menu.

• GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Background object lighting
wrong in Need for Speed Underground.

• GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Splinter Cell Pandora
Tomorrow: Rain splashes do not appear.

• Perimeter: Texture mode is wrapping instead of mirroring.

• NVTV, GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP Media Center Edition: No
full screen video mirroring when a WMV file is played in a Media
Center Edition application.

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• GeForce FX 5700, Personal Cinema, Windows XP: When using video
mirror with TV, switching between TV and DVD corrupts the video
mirror.

• Corruption with 3D stereo in Battlefield Vietnam 1.0.

• GeForce 6800: Far Cry performance is slower than expected.

• GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: Launching MPEG files from Play on
my TV option causes blue-screen crash.

• GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: In Metal of Honor - Breakthrough,
the volumetric smoke has low pixel precision.

• GeForce FX Go5100/5200, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash occurs
while playing a DVD in LCD/TV Clone mode and rotating the LCD to
90 or 180 degrees

• GeForce 5900: Crash occurs on shutdown of multithreaded
applications.

• GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater)
antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce
appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.

• GeForce 6800, Windows XP: Corruption after screen shot attempted
with antialiasing enabled in Far Cry.

• GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater)
antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce
appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.

 

[Smidget]

I don't know why I ever upgrade, but now Far Cry is all messed up *sigh*.

 

[ravingloon]

They released a new suite of NForce drivers a day or two ago (although the Nforcerhq forums don't really think much is new). When it comes to Nvidia, though, if it ain't broken, I ain't downloading. As much as ATi pisses me off with Catalyst, I'm a much bigger ATI fan than Nividia with driver upgrades.

 

[Mrbob]

do these newer dx9 drivers still improve performance on cards like the geforce 4?

If it does, it won't be much.

GF4 cards don't have the hardware to make use of efficient DX9 drivers like the 6800 series does.

 

[SantaC]

If it does, it won't be much.

GF4 cards don't have the hardware to make use of efficient DX9 drivers like the 6800 series does.

exacta mundo.