New WHQL certified ForceWare 100.65 for GeForce 8800-series and Windows Vista
NVIDIA today released its WHQL certified ForceWare 100 drivers for Windows Vista. The new ForceWare version 100.65 is the first WHQL certified driver compatible with NVIDIA GeForce 8800-series based graphics cards. Windows Vista beta drivers were available to GeForce 8800-series users previously.
The new drivers support Microsoft’s DirectX 10 API on single-GeForce 8800-series configurations only. Users with a pair of GeForce 8800-series graphics cards in SLI will have to wait for SLI DirectX 10 support. Nevertheless, DirectX 9 and OpenGL applications will be able to take advantage of SLI technology on GeForce 8800 GPUs.
GeForce 6 and 7-series SLI users are once again, left out in the dark with only Single GPU support. NVIDIA promises DirectX 9 and OpenGL SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7-series GPUs in a future ForceWare releases though.
WHQL certification aside, the new ForceWare 100.65 do not feature many new fixes, aside from control panel and overlay fixes. Interestingly enough, the ForceWare 100.65 release has a few HDMI output issues, though NVIDIA claims “full-featured HDMI support.”
NVIDIA highlights (PDF) the current HDMI issues as follow:
- There are some known image quality issues.
- Noise and pixel corruption occur under Clone or Dualview modes.
- Only stereo audio is supported; 5.1 surround is not supported.
Nevertheless, NVIDIA promises a future driver will fix the above-mentioned issues.
NVIDIA ForceWare release 100.65 drivers are available for Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
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