185.85 WHQL available

[Mr.Bigtime]

in FALLOUT3 i can enable AO, and underwater it has interesting effects



well not very interesting or not disturbing me.

[GanjaStar]

Originally Posted by Cybermancer

The 179 series...

its actually the 182 series

Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

[UnrealGaming]

Originally Posted by GanjaStar

its actually the 182 series

True.

btw Riva Tuner is not working with these .

[YuKsS]

thanks, downloading now.. i got several BSODS in cod waw with 185.81

[357]

Originally Posted by UnrealGaming

True.

btw Riva Tuner is not working with these .

Are you having the same issue as I am where Rivatuner says "No supported drivers detected for this display adapter"?

[Cybermancer]

Originally Posted by GanjaStar

its actually the 182 series

Originally Posted by UnrealGaming

True.

Ja. Ja.

I admit that I wasn't looking into the actual release notes, but took the quote from the first post in this thread from gjaegy: http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...38&postcount=1

To summarize this, here are the "official release highlights" from Nvidia:

This is a WHQL-Certified driver supporting GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION.

New in Release 185 drivers:

* Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
* Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
* Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA for more details.
* Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso.
* Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
o Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
o Up to 22% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
o Up to 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
* Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0408.
* Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
* Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.
* Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Existing Support:

* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
* Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0.
* Supports NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Learn more here.
* Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here. Note: GPU PhysX is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
* Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

Source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvist...5.85_whql.html

[UnrealGaming]

Originally Posted by 357

Are you having the same issue as I am where Rivatuner says "No supported drivers detected for this display adapter"?

Yup.
Riva definitely needs a new revision.

[Gucci]

works more then great

Happy happy happy

[357]

Originally Posted by UnrealGaming

Yup.
Riva definitely needs a new revision.

Good to hear that it's not just me, then. Phew.

[sideband]

Originally Posted by UnrealGaming

Yup.
Riva definitely needs a new revision.

Nee , J fixed this problem

[357]

Originally Posted by sideband

Nee , J fixed this problem

How?

[YetYhunter]

Originally Posted by 357

Are you having the same issue as I am where Rivatuner says "No supported drivers detected for this display adapter"?

Yes,me too.
EDIT:
Context menu lag still not fixed!!

[Bentez]

does evga precision and nhancer work with these?

[Black_ice_Spain]

on windows 7 x64 evga precision does,


btw great drivers, first ones which dont crash at dx10, with my crashy system (kinda of hardware incompatibility when on dx10) , so keepers here

[UnrealGaming]

Originally Posted by Bentez2003

does evga precision and nhancer work with these?

Evga precision vista 32 works fine.

[GC_PaNzerFIN]

Very nice. Downloading

[digital demon]

I haven't had much luck with the 185.xx series, but I'll try these out anyway. Any Control Panel issues with these for anyone?

[Black_ice_Spain]

btw rivatuner is working on XP x86, you just have to restart it xP

[Bentez]

I've just installed these WHQL's and both evga precision and nhancer are working in Vista 64 - also evga voltage tuner is working again without needing the nvapi_18208 file from the old driver set

i like it when things work

[rimmer66]

Originally Posted by DiGiTaL HunTeR

I hope they've fixed anisotropic filtering, because thats just stupid i don't want a performance boost so i loose IQ and use ingame af which sometimes looks worse >> bilinear af...


edit: no info about broken or issue with AF in release notes really nice nvidia


im still gonna give them a go but im not very pleased about them...

Can you let us know as soon as possible - I still am using 182.50 - And I know what you mean about the filtering bug NVIDIA should be sued for this bloody sh*** - That is misleaing and cheating - they force filtering despite setting everythng full quality in CP - that is downright bloody cheating - shame on you NVIDIA you wankers ! All this crap about up to 42% increase, what a load of sh*te - they cram performance by affecting IQ, they MASK their crappyness, poorly optimized drivers and bloody R&D mistakes by sneaking this one on us, it makes me very upset I didn't pay good money for a graphic card only to have it crippled so I can get 42% boost in speed for f* sake I didn't ask for that !

[sudanmalkovich]

XP32

another driver that doesn't let me assign my 9800gt for dedicated physx card with 280SLI set up.

the only driver that allowed me to do this was 185.68
maybe Nvidia removed PhysX GPU acceleration with multi-GPU 'AND' sli mode for some reason.
upgraded from 9600gt to 9800gt for physx card recently and today nvidia has provided me some nice present

I was enjoying Mirror's edge with rock solid 60fps(1920 1200 very high, physx on, 8X AA, vsync on)... wonder why they removed it and WHY the driver recognized the total of 3 cards(SLI with another) for god's sake.

well... at least a voltage tuner is working, now I can do some wild goose chases again...

[basilis20]

Originally Posted by YetYhunter

Yes,me too.
EDIT:
Context menu lag still not fixed!!

Yeah rivatuner doesn't like these drivers.It doesn't recognize them at all so no fan profiles unfortunately.And i don't get it why the default nvidia drivers can't handle the fan.I remember it used to work back in October when i first bought GTX 280.After a while the fan stayed stuck in 40%.Thank God rivatuner exists.

[_OKAMI_]

Originally Posted by YetYhunter

Yes,me too.
EDIT:
Context menu lag still not fixed!!

Really?
I had that problem on 185.81 I though this gonna be better.
Lolz I rolled back to 174.74

[ReginaldAC]

Anyone know if these work with the older AGP cards? None of the 18x.xx series have recognized my card (BFG 7800 GS AGP) and the NVidia Control Panel has not loaded on them. Currently the last stable driver that I've been using is the old 178.24.

[YetYhunter]

Maybe modified drivers will be able to fix the context menu lag..... hopefully.
And we need a new version of rivatuner!