NVIDIA 258.69 Beta is out!

NVIDIA 258.69 Beta is out for grabs!

Just found these on the nvidia site;

ForceWare 258.69 Win 7 | Vista 64-bit Beta
ForceWare 258.69 Win 7 | Vista 32-bit Beta

Nothing for Windows XP yet...

Supports the following;

Code:

GeForce 400 series:
GTX 480, GTX 465, GTX 470
 
GeForce 300 series:
315, GT 320, 310, GT 340, GT 330
 
GeForce 200 series:
GT 230, 210, GTX 260, 205, GTX 295, GT 220, GT 240, GTS 240, GTX 280, GTS 250, GTX 275, GTX 285, G210
 
GeForce 100 series:
GT 140, GT 130, G 100, GT 120
 
GeForce 9 series:
9300 GE, 9600 GSO, 9500 GS, 9300 GS, 9600 GS, 9800 GT, 9800 GX2, 9200, 9600 GT, 9800 GTX/GTX+, 9300, 9400, 9400 GT, 9500 GT, 9100
 
GeForce 8 series:
8800 GS, 8300, 8300 GS, 8100 / nForce 720a, 8200 / nForce 730a, 8200, 8600 GTS, 8800 GTS 512, 8400 GS, 8600 GS, 8600 GT, 8800 GTS, 8800 GTX, 8400, 8800 Ultra, 8400 SE, 8500 GT, 8800 GT
 
GeForce 7 series:
7100 / NVIDIA nForce 620i, 7650 GS, 7800 GS, 7950 GT, 7800 GTX, 7600 LE, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7350 LE, 7500 LE, 7900 GS, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7900 GTX, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 610i, 7300 GT, 7600 GT, 7600 GS, 7900 GT/GTO, 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7950 GX2, 7100 GS, 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7300 GS, 7800 SLI, 7300 LE, 7550 LE
 
GeForce 6 series:
6600 GT, 6500, 6100, 6800 Ultra, 6610 XL, 6100 nForce 420, 6200 A-LE, 6700 XL, 6200SE TurboCache, 6200 LE, 6800 GT, 6800 XE, 6200, 6150, 6800 LE, 6800, 6150SE nForce 430, 6100 nForce 405, 6150LE / Quadro NVS 210S, 6100 nForce 400, 6250, 6200 TurboCache, 6600 VE, 6800 GS/XT, 6600, 6800 GS, 6600 LE, 6800 XT, 6150 LE
 
ION series:
ION, ION LE

 

New in Release 258.69

Adds support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology. Learn more about this technology including the hardware and software requirements here.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.

 

Do you not want to edit the title so that we know it's "out for grabs?"

 

Sure, I can do that.

I have posted links in the thread but if that's the norm I guess I'll follow suit .

Some intitial testing;



Wow.. the text in the image scaled badly... might have to fix it.[edit]fixed

It says the minimum fps was 7.6 but I was watching the whole way through and it was actually 32 fps, the 7.6 must have occurred just before it stopped.

I was not getting any nasty hitching or stuttering and I had all my background programs running (Rivatuner, Logitech LCD display, fraps, etc) and Aero was also running in Win 7 64.

 

great news. installing ASAP, will report how they are for the 200 series.

 

At last. Hopefully now we can finally see what the 480's can do in surround. Not interested in 3d was crap when I had had it so I can only imagine it will be three times worse with three screens.

 

Does it fix control pannel issues?

EDIT:
NVCP games still disappearing :bang:

 

What do you do, step by step to cause this to happen from a fresh driver install?

 

I was only goofing around, but go ahead. Makes it exciting.

 

Awesome, downloading. *Hopes for no profile saving problems*

 

No more random fps drops with my 275 - and after clean install - no problems with profiles.

 

rofl!

I have edited some profiles and they have not disappeared... yet

If you need to get them back you can use the 'Geforce_SLI_Profile_Tool.exe'.

1. Create an empty text file called 'NVIDIA Profiles.txt'

2. Run the Geforce_SLI_Profile_Tool.exe

3. Select 'Import SLI Profiles' and browse to your empty file

4. Open the Nvidia control panel and check that they have been restored.

Worked for me anyway...

 

this 1 does't crash playing 2x youtube vids for example with flash player 10.
anyway testing now

edit: posibly still crashing with flash player 10.

 

For example I choose NFS shift profile and I change SLI rendering mode ,apply then close NVCP,open it up again and some game profiles are gone.

 

my profiles never dissapear either with any of 257+ drivers. win 7 64bit., but i use driver cleaner.net.

alos use the sli tool to change compatibility flags for unreal 3 engine games.

thsese seem to have fixed the l4d 2 framerate fluctuations and weird mouse skip.

havent tested other games yet.

 

Can someone plz post the list of changes/fixes?

 

lol you lazy people.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/258.69/258.69_Win7_WinVista_Desktop_Release_Notes.pdf


read the damn release notes :bang:

 

The link to the release notes was broken when I initially posted this, looks like they're available now .

 

poll needed?

 

I´m not at home to test it..hope he can fix some texture bug on singularity.