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Nvidia's New Graphics Drivers "Supercharge" Windows 7 Beta

Posted 03/03/09 at 03:45:00 PM  by Paul Lilly

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The official release of Windows 7 might still be several months away, but that isn't stopping Nvidia from preparing for Vista's successor with new graphics drivers aimed at Windows 7 beta users. The new drivers are available now, and Nividia promises this is just the start of a regular driver release schedule. Remember that shortly after Vista debuted, Microsoft blamed buggy Nvidia drivers for giving the OS a bad rap.

"Since its release last month, the Windows 7 Beta has been eagerly tested by hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GeForce owners, who are excited about the many graphical improvements Microsoft has added into the upcoming operating system," said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce desktop business at NVIDIA.

Nvidia says it has been working closely with Microsoft so that its new drivers will take full advantage of the additional features and functionality Windows 7 brings to the table. Kicking off with v181.71, Nvidia's graphics drivers support the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) v1.1. The drivers also support SLI on DX9, 10, and OpenGL applications, PhysX, CUDA, and Direct3D, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.

Windows 7 Beta 32-bit
Windows 7 Beta 64-bit

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TAGS: operating system, Software, graphics, nvidia, gpu, hardware, Drivers, beta, windows 7
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avatar!!!!

Submitted by StaggeredSix on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 6:30am

 They are actually supporting the 6150 still? Finally! Non-Hacked drivers! Nvidia FTW.

 

 

Crack addict by night, IT Manager by day.

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avatarI will never anymore buy a

Submitted by dogface3247 on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 6:39am

I will never anymore buy a Nvidia graphic card ever, there card are know for the blue screen of death. Still no fix for this nv4_disp.dll.

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avatarShould support openGL

Submitted by Deanjo on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 3:23pm

Should support openGL fine.  Every openGL app I've thown at it works.

 

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avatarLooks like Nvidea and

Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 1:54pm

Looks like Nvidea and Redmond learned that a lot chan change in a decade between OSs. While i'm sure ALL of Vista's lauche problems were Nvidea and 3rd party drivers it was a major hang up. After all you can't expect your hardware to work the same for new and decade olld softwhere flawless...

 

Good to see the Big Companies learning that little lesson.

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avatarIs there full OpenGL

Submitted by Netram on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 1:45pm

Is there full OpenGL support? I've tried using other drivers but games like Quake Live just spaz out unless I'm using Prerelease - WDDM 1.1 (179.23).

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