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NVIDIA ForceWare 196.34 with GPU Overclocking Bugfix
NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 196.21 WHQL With New SLI Profiles
How to Enable OpenCL Support on NVIDIA and AMD Platforms
NVIDIA ForceWare 195.62 WHQL
ForceWare 195.39: NVIDIA’s First Graphics Drivers with Public OpenCL Support
Drivers: NVIDIA Forceware 191.00 WHQL and PhysX 9.09.0914
NVIDIA Display Drivers 190.62 WHQL Available
[Quick Test] NVIDIA ForceWare 186.18 vs ForceWare 190.38
NVIDIA 190.38 WHQL Graphics Drivers Windows XP Vista and Seven Available
nHancer 2.5.1 Available For NVIDIA Graphics Cards
Huge NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Drivers Comparision Database – English Version!
The author of the article about NVIDIA ForceWare: All Graphics Drivers from 175.16 to 181.00 Compared (this world is crazy!) sent me additional information but this time in english:
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NVIDIA ForceWare 178.46 WHQL for Quadro
NVIDIA ForceWare OpenGL 3.0 Support for Windows and Linux
NVIDIA Releases ForceWare 180.42 BETA for Far Cry 2
NVIDIA has released a new set of graphics drivers for GeForce 200-series, 9-series and 8800-series desktop graphics cards for the video game Far Cry 2.
NVIDIA ForceWare 178.13 WHQL Graphics Drivers
NVIDIA has released tody the new version of ForceWare graphics drivers. This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT, and 9400 GT GPUs. PhysX acceleration is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04). From the release note, there are performance improvements with several 3D applications (Assassin’s Creed DX10, Bioshock DX10, Call of Duty 4 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars).
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NVIDIA ForceWare 177.98
A new set of ForceWare graphics drivers for all GeForce graphics cards is available. From this thread these drivers are WHQL but NVIDIA does not officially support them.
[Geeks3D-Test] NVIDIA ForceWare 177.83 vs 177.92 – OpenGL Side
Just a little performance test of the latest ForceWare 177.92 BETA versus the latest ForceWare 177.83 WHQL using oZone3D.Net OpenGL Benchmarks Suite and Lightsmark2008:
Release 177.83 | Release 177.92 | Difference | |
FurMark 1280×1024 | 4272 | 4272 | 0% |
Soft Shadows Branching OFF | 6054 | 5817 | -4% |
Soft Shadows Branching ON | 10198 | 9542 | -6.5% |
Surface Deformer | 7721 | 7716 | 0% |
FluidMark GeForce PhysX | 9626 | 9579 | -0.5% |
FluidMark Software PhysX | 1495 | 1503 | 0% |
Lightsmark2008 | 766.7 | 759.4 | 0% |
Well… many websites have claimed that release 177.92 brings a boost in performance. Maybe in Direct3D (I also ran Aquamark and 3DMark2006 under WinXP and I didn’t see differences) under Vista. But in OpenGL, there is no performance gain.
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NVIDIA ForceWare 177.92: GeForce GTX 280 OpenGL Extensions
Here is the list of OpenGL extensions supported by Forceware 177.92 WinXP 32 drivers for a GeForce GTX 280.
ForceWare 177.92 offer the same OpenGL extensions than Forceware 177.66. OpenGL 3.0 support is not included in these drivers.
Graphics card used: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 / 1Gb
– Drivers Version: Forceware 6.14.11.7789
– OpenGL Version: 2.1.2
– GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) Version: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
– OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GTX 280/PCI/SSE2
– Drivers Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
– ARB Texture Units: 16
– Vertex Shader Texture Units: 32
– Pixel Shader Texture Units: 32
– Geometry Shader Texture Units: 32
– Max Texture Size: 8192×8192
– Max Anisotropic Filtering Value: X16.0
– Max Point Sprite Size: 63.4
– Max Dynamic Lights: 8
– Max Viewport Size: 8192×8192
– Max Vertex Uniform Components: 4096
– Max Fragment Uniform Components: 2048
– Max Varying Float: 60
– Max Vertex Bindable Uniforms: 12
– Max Fragment Bindable Uniforms: 12
– Max Geometry Bindable Uniforms: 12
– Multiple Render Targets / Max draw buffers: 8
– MSAA: 2X
– MSAA: 4X
– MSAA: 8X
– MSAA: 16X
– MSAA: 32X
OpenGL Extensions: 162 extensions
The extensions exposed by the old ForceWare drivers are HERE.
You can use GPU Caps Viewer to retrieve the list of extensions of your graphics card.