Download: GeForce ForceWare 182.05 Beta Driver XP | Vista 32/64

shine.x64 · *Last edited by shine.x64; 02-10-2009 at 04:33.*

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GeForce Forceware 182.05 XP 64-bit

GeForce Forceware 182.05 XP 32-bit

GeForce Forceware 182.05 Vista 64-bit

GeForce Forceware 182.05 Vista 32-bit

Thanks to OP for the notice

ati666 · 02-10-2009, 04:17 | posts: 187 | User is Offline

does this one have ambient occlusion?

Warboy · 02-10-2009, 04:26 | posts: 319 | Location: Michigan, USA | User is Offline

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Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows XP 64-bit

Please fix topic name.

shine.x64 · 02-10-2009, 04:33 | posts: 3 | User is Offline

Fixed

Aioras · 02-10-2009, 04:35 | posts: 190 | Location: Spain | User is Online

Gorgeus, let´s try them

Bob00100 · 02-10-2009, 04:47 | posts: 130 | Location: VA | User is Offline

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# Recommended for the best experience in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
# Boosts performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of improvements measured with Release 182.05 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

* Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.
* Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
* Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.
* Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.
* Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.

looks like it just added support for FEAR2

tofuartist · 02-10-2009, 04:48 | posts: 39 | Location: Australia | User is Offline

Wewt, gain in L4D! Gone to test.

RamGuy · 02-10-2009, 04:50 | posts: 101 | Location: Norway | User is Offline

Let's hope these are stable, the 181.20 and 181.22 were a joke!

tofuartist · 02-10-2009, 04:59 | posts: 39 | Location: Australia | User is Offline

Had a quick run thru of L4D, first level. Did see a slight increase in FPS but not the 11% claimed

AlxFitz · 02-10-2009, 05:00 | posts: 307 | Location: Herts, UK | User is Offline

It does say upto 11%, I'll be interested if I can get a boost in Fallout 3 tho.

Bravo · 02-10-2009, 05:16 | posts: 860 | Location: Germany | User is Offline

Finally a new beta. I love beta's.

getsuga12 · 02-10-2009, 05:23 | posts: 2,957 | User is Offline

I hope these eliminate the stuttering I'm getting with Mirror's Edge that happens once in a while with physx on

swecarl · 02-10-2009, 05:25 | posts: 59 | Location: Sweden | User is Offline

Anyone got any numbers compared to 181.20 and 181.22 ? The 181.22 drivers just wasnt for me, the 181.20 gave more points in 3dmark´s and no weird graficerrors in World of warcraft.

Random Guy · 02-10-2009, 05:33 | posts: 26 | User is Offline

I would appreciate it if anyone can confirm whether or not the crashing in UT3 has been resolved by these drivers...

sava700 · 02-10-2009, 05:39 | posts: 3,491 | Location: ask me | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by RamGuy

Let's hope these are stable, the 181.20 and 181.22 were a joke!

the 181.20's and 22's ran fine..it was most likely your computer causing problems..you have to remember that they test these drivers before releasing on systems with only all latest Updates on the OS and other system drivers..the bare min to test with. In many cases its 3rd party software or just so many system changes that you're running into issues and then you blame the drivers instead.

On a fresh install of the OS and so on I've seen good results on both those too on various systems.

I'll do the same with these... start all over again on a test system and install them and I'm sure they will likely run fine.

Vichello · 02-10-2009, 05:40 | posts: 56 | Location: Belgium | User is Offline

Gonna test these tonight (compared with 181.22 WHQL's) in my system with the following games :
- GTA 4
- Fallout 3
- Mirror's Edge

Will report back

Thx !

GenClaymore · 02-10-2009, 05:44 | posts: 2,801 | Location: Michigan,usa | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by Random Guy

I would appreciate it if anyone can confirm whether or not the crashing in UT3 has been resolved by these drivers...

Set the screen rendering to 98% from within game if you can, The whole time I thought it was the drivers and or phisyx.

But it turned out to be that one in game option, which sould be change able from within the engine.ini in my docs in vista.

Random Guy · 02-10-2009, 05:55 | posts: 26 | User is Offline

Quote:

Originally Posted by GenClaymore

Set the screen rendering to 98% from within game if you can, The whole time I thought it was the drivers and or phisyx.

But it turned out to be that one in game option, which sould be change able from within the engine.ini in my docs in vista.

I would really like to avoid doing that to be honest. UT3 has been stable uptil 180.48, obviously Nvidia broke something from the 180.84 betas forward. Can someone please confirm if this issue is resolved with the new drivers?

Aioras · *Last edited by Aioras; 02-10-2009 at 06:14.*

A few benches for you guys:

3DMark Vantage 185.20 / 182.05
12665 / 12461

Crysis Warhead (Custom Config)

185.20
Min:32,74 Max:69,87 Avg:52,12
182.05
Min:33,51 Max:73,22 Avg:52,55

Farcry2

185.20
Min:48,03 Max:96,31 Avg:63,25
182.05
Min:49,61 Max:86,15 Avg:64,24

PD:Somehow I fell a bit better IQ now than the 185.20

By the way, there´s no ambient occlusion

SoLoR · 02-10-2009, 06:33 | posts: 96 | Location: Slovenia | User is Offline

also new physx included

escalibur · 02-10-2009, 06:42 | posts: 22 | Location: Finland | User is Offline

Quote:

Originally Posted by ati666

does this one have ambient occlusion?

Sad that there is no Ambient Occlusion. CoD 4 looks much better with it so I will stay in these 185...

Rochin · *Last edited by Rochin; 02-10-2009 at 07:07.*

Well all I have to say is that I have L4D maxed out @1680x1050 AA and AF at 16 and I am getting 80+ FPS. Went through the first level of No Mercy and had an average of 100. Not damn bad at all. I know I saw it go down to the 60s-70s before. I know this is a way big jump from my 8800gts 640 where it would go down into the low 30s. I will try and test fallout 3 later.(Kind of into FC2 and NWN2 Stoms at the moment)

Edit: UT3 seems to work fine.(yay, sigh)

Cybermancer · 02-10-2009, 07:19 | posts: 12,518 | Location: Cyberspace | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by SoLoR

also new physx included

Yup. This one:

NVIDIA PhysX System Software 9.09.0203 WHQL
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_9.09.0203_whql.html

Quote:

Supported OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)

Size: 39.2 MB

Release Highlights:
* Installer update only from 9.09.0121 to resolve some installation issues on non-English operating systems.
* Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory.
* Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in many games and demos, some of which are highlighted in PowerPack downloads on www.geforce.com.
* Resolves PhysX SDK runtime issues with multi-GPU configurations in Hybrid environments.
* Improves performance of some PhysX enabled games on GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 products.
* Resolves occasional system crashes when PhysX is enabled on some systems when running on EA’s Mirrors Edge.
* Runtime upgrade ONLY for AGEIA PhysX processors users. (New installations should install older PhysX system software such as version 8.09.04 – prior to installing this update).
* Includes the latest PhysX runtimes used in the latest game titles.
* Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on GeForce via CUDA 2.0 for SDK versions 2.7.3, 2.7.2, 2.7.5, 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 (requires graphics driver v177.81 or later).
* Includes all the latest PhysX SDK Runtimes.
* Supports control of your GPU PhysX configuration from the NVIDIA display driver control panel.

Mott · 02-10-2009, 07:33 | posts: 491 | Location: Canada | User is Offline

I hope DOX gets a hold of these so I can load em up on my laptop with all his optimizations!

Barton C++ · 02-10-2009, 08:14 | posts: 361 | User is Offline

Left4Dead, 2-3x CTD, 2x system freeze, 10min is max before crashes. installed 182.05 and re-installed it once also. new physx installed (tested with and w/o physx), stock gpu speeds. Multicore rendering disabled, rig 10h Prime95 blend tested few days ago. Gonna give it one more try (default sound settings)... l4d the only game i've tested.