Nvidia 163.71 XP WHQL Available...

Seketh · *Last edited by Seketh; 09-28-2007 at 18:34.*

We have a new NVIDIA WHQL (Microsoft tested and approved) certified driver available for you guys. It's the all new build 163.71 for pretty much any NVIDIA GeForce graphics card starting at series 6.

Beta driver for GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
Improved compatibility and performance for NVIDIA SLI™ technology on Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 applications.
Improved compatibility for The Way It’s Meant To Be Played™ game titles: BioShock, Crysis, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Hellgate: London, PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, and World in Conflict.
Added NVIDIA SLI profile for Team Fortress 2.
Added PureVideo™ HD decode acceleration for GeForce 8600, 8500 and 8400 series GPUs.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

Download:

Synks · 09-28-2007, 19:09 | posts: 277 | Location: Slovenija

Any Change log ??

Downloading...

Darth_Sidious · 09-28-2007, 19:10 | posts: 393 | Location: TheShadowRealm

lol, i just decided to install the beta today -_-

Avefenix · 09-28-2007, 19:14 | posts: 369

I was thinking in install beta lol but i was patience

Yay!!

DooGie · 09-28-2007, 19:45 | posts: 500 | Location: Stockport UK

Probably no difference at all between the beta and this whql.
I'll do a clean install of them and test them out, then sit back and wait for the next beta. Hopefully in around a week

sutyi · 09-28-2007, 21:10 | posts: 105 | Location: Budaörs, Hungary.

GT Legends / GTR2 / Race 07 / M3 Challenge are smooth as silk, and Company of Heroes: Opposing Force is a bit quicker with these, at least for me.

On the other hand the CP still won't work.

Back to the classic as used to be.

DooGie · 09-28-2007, 21:55 | posts: 500 | Location: Stockport UK

Guess the cp is only working with the 8xxx series or so it seems. It's fine here.

spike21 · 09-28-2007, 23:15 | posts: 184 | Location: USA

Need Vista 32..

moab600 · 09-28-2007, 23:42 | posts: 3,271 | Location: Germany

Any changes going from 94.24 or 163.71 beta to the WHQL? frankemente i noticed that this driver is BAD for my 7600GT, most games take hit at performance, so now i use DNA 94.24 the best driver per date for 7600GT.

vO!d · 09-29-2007, 00:05 | posts: 73 | Location: HNX

Quote:

Originally Posted by DooGie

Guess the cp is only working with the 8xxx series or so it seems. It's fine here.

Thats not right. Im using a GeForce 6800GT and everything is just fine here. The CP is working too.

Gom · 09-29-2007, 00:07 | posts: 21

my system seems stable now thanx to this driver

ill continue testing

edit: continued testing with fullversion of quakewars...
now the game keeps crashing again after few minutes play

i dont know what to do again..

shadow70 · 09-29-2007, 00:58 | posts: 393 | Location: Down under (AUSTRALIA)

thought they would have compress them as they are all around 67mb

sava700 · 09-29-2007, 01:29 | posts: 4,835 | Location: In a game world

I think the main thing here is changes from beta to WHQL besides a few bytes to say that in the change log..

TheGr81 · 09-29-2007, 01:49 | posts: 979 | Location: Cincinnati, Oh

No Vista versions?

didymus · 09-29-2007, 05:14 | posts: 11

no vista? wtf?!?!!?

Nicksterr · 09-29-2007, 07:10 | posts: 595 | Location: Hoover, AL

Quote:

Originally Posted by didymus

no vista? wtf?!?!!?

What do you expect? Vista has more bugs than XP ever did. Not only was it rushed to retail, but many of the features it was supposed to have were never implemented - the features that would actually make a huge improvement over XP, like the file indexing system. Instead, it was half-assed released with dx10 and a stupid new GUI.

Companies are doing their best to work with new hardware and MS's ****ty Vista to get stuff to work. You should take the of advice of the many people who have opted not to consider Vista until SP1. It's just not ready yet. Hell, critical XP patches are still being released!

Sorry if I come accross hostile...but man, you have no idea of the stupidity of your comment.

Hilbert Hagedoorn · 09-29-2007, 07:38 | posts: 16,990 | Location: Guru3D testlab

Update, Vista is still in beta.

cool1 · 09-29-2007, 07:52 | posts: 277 | Location: India

any one tried it on 7950gx2

JMerrick · 09-29-2007, 08:02 | posts: 134 | Location: Australia

I refuse to use these latest versions, now nvidia want me to download another frequently updated 40mb package ntune to overclock/see temperature - ridiculous! I'll stick with 93.71 until I am absolutely forced to upgrade (ie. a game I really want to play will not run on them).

randomizer · 09-29-2007, 08:18 | posts: 808 | Location: Australia,melbourne

Why complain? they trying to fix problems frequently

timbo1138 · 09-29-2007, 08:23 | posts: 14 | Location: Australia

I don't suppose there's any chance the aspect ratio scaling is working again? I'm sick of seeing my old games stretched on my widescreen monitor.

deathvirus · 09-29-2007, 10:36 | posts: 4,499 | Location: Kolkata, India

Works smoothly .. MoHA seems a bit smoother. .. slight performance gain in WiC ... no probs faced yet ..

RanCor TDO · 09-29-2007, 11:10 | posts: 344 | Location: Rosyth, Scotland

clicking on the final 'I agree' link to download the file starts downloading 163.69 for vista 32

applejack · 09-29-2007, 11:59 | posts: 324 | Location: Israel

I cannot seem to find VISTA 32bit 163.71 WHQL on the Nvidia official site.
it only show 163.69 as whql! 163.71 still shows as a beta driver

guru3d lists an international 163.71 WHQL for vista 32,
where did they get it from ?? and where is an english version ??

BarryB · 09-29-2007, 13:21 | posts: 563

Quote:

Originally Posted by [-Neon-]

[*]Beta driver for GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.

Why it say BETA driver?