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nVidia ForceWare 56.55..

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:14 pm
by Grendel
..for 2K/XP WHQL leaked -- get it here. Looks good so far..

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:36 pm
by Jeff250
Application profiles rock.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:44 am
by MD-2389
Its about damn time nVidia got off their asses and made more drivers....

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:49 am
by Warlock
uggg

damn popups

*goes to Nvidias main site*

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:38 am
by Tyranny
Last time I got drivers from guru3d my registry got corrupted so....

I'll wait until Nvidia makes it official, it doesnt take THAT long.

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:44 am
by Warlock
agree

i allways d/l from the makers page cause i do not trust other pages like that

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:59 pm
by Top Wop
Does this work with the Dark Engine? (Thief 1 and 2, System Shock, ect).

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:08 am
by ReadyMan
dl'ed and applied.
these drivers rock!

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:49 am
by Krom
Dont see em on nvidias site yet, I'll wait for the official download.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:07 am
by Jeff250
They were found on Gainward's FTP. That's gotta be somewhat official, no? Image

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 11:58 am
by Grendel
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 Image) 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)..

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:50 pm
by Tyranny
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.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:24 pm
by Grendel
Don't know, sorry. Just repeating rumors Image IIRC, it was related to FX cards and slows the game down a lot.

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:10 pm
by Tyranny
Interesting, because I have an FX card too Image

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:16 pm
by Grendel
Well, part of the rumor came from this.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:59 am
by Tyranny
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 Image

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:13 am
by Grendel
Image

"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"

source

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:50 pm
by Jeff250
Actually 56.56 WHQL is now available off Guru3d Image, 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!

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:24 am
by Warlock
thats y i dont ever d/l ane thang from them, its allways beta this and beta that

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:09 pm
by DCrazy
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.