And they are WHQL too. Anyway, they have a bug preventing the UT2004 demo to work correctly so the "official" release got delayed. nVidia is working hard to get out 56.56. Besides that, the 56.55 work really well for me (I just play D3 tho ) except that they further restrict the modes I can use w/ my LCD panel -- no more 960x720 for me, I had to go to 1280x1024 (average of 250 FPS in game tho)..
What bug was this? I decided to go ahead and install them and the UT2004 demo works fine. Although I noticed with some of the coolbits options enabled to force framerate increases all my games go white screen. They played fine before those options were allowable so I just turned them all off again.
Well, that still doesn't explain what bug they're refering to. Being that its only a demo it is bound to have some bugs but the thing runs like a champ. Better then some full version games I've seen lately.
oh well, if the official release is even an improvement on the leaked drivers, more power for us
"Just a heads up for everybody that a little birdy tells me that Nvidia will be releasing the Official ForceWare 55 graphics drivers on or about's the 1st March 2004 after Nvidia found a bug with the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo! unless someone wants to Leak the ForceWare 56.56 drivers then let me Know? Hehe"
Actually 56.56 WHQL is now available off Guru3d , but these aren't supposed to fix the Unreal bug. I'm not going to bother upgrading, not that I play Unreal anyways.
The only thing strange about these drivers is that they have seemingly replaced 4xS antialiasing with 6xS on the options menu. I tried it out, but it had unequal blurring of text in some games (every other pixel over seemed to be blurred more), and I'm guessing it had everything to with the fact that it's using 6, a strange number. Fortunately I found 4xS in Rivatuner. After enabling it, it even shows up as 4xS in the control panel, just the slider for it is on "off" since there's no more 4xS listed there!
Downloaded beta Dets from Guru3d once, feckde up my system and had to remove them and reinstall the latest officials. I will never again install non-WHQL, non-release Dets.
) except that they further restrict the modes I can use w/ my LCD panel -- no more 960x720 for me, I had to go to 1280x1024 (average of 250 FPS in game tho)..
IIRC, it was related to FX cards and slows the game down a lot.
