Nvidia Releases Beta Videocard Drivers Intended to Improve Gameplay with GTA IV
Nvidia Releases Beta Videocard Drivers Intended to Improve Gameplay with GTA IV
Posted 12/08/2008 at 6:17am
| by Paul Lilly
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Nvidia's nZone website has posted download links to new beta videocard drivers, version 180.84, for both Vista and XP. Little information has been given about the new drivers, other than that they're intended to improve gameplay with Rockstar's new Grand Theft Auto IV videogame.
"Nvidia recommends that you update your system with the following GeForce v180.84 driver for the best experiences on Grand Theft Auto IV," nZone writes.
Users who have installed and played GTA IV on the PC have complained of varying issues, including missing textures and intermittent crashes. GTA IV's support page lists several troubleshooting steps, one of which recommends users download the newest drivers with a link to the nZone page containing the beta release. However, no specific bug fixes or performance issues have been identified with the new drivers, so it might be hard to tell what difference they're making.
As always, take proper precautions whenever experimenting with pre-release code. As Nvidia discloses regarding beta drivers, they "may include significant issues." When you're ready to take the leap:
GeForce 180.84 (Win XP)
GeForce 180.84 (Win XP 64-bit)
GeForce 180.84 (Vista)
GeForce 180.84 (Vista 64-bit)
Image Credit: Rockstar
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Keith E. Whisman
December 09, 2008 at 12:42pm
GTA4 seems to work fine on my pc. I need to reinstall Vista to the high settings. But it runs great in the highest settings in XP 32 with 180.84 driver. 1680x1050 60FPS.
4gigs ddr2 800, 3ghz C2D E8400, SB Xfi Extreme Gamer, 2x Geforce 8800GTS 640MB video cards in SLI, Asus 750SLI motherboard. Runs pretty good. But as I said if you want really great visuals you need Vista.
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