Nvidia has finally released another set of official beta drivers for Windows Vista. They are for Geforce 6, 7 and 8 and are available in both 32bit and 64bit flavours, with some more SLI support fixes. This is not a WHQL release, so Windows will prompt you about these drivers not being digitally signed. International downloads are available.
Release Highlights
- This driver fixes a problem when trying to enable NVIDIA SLI using the international versions of Windows Vista.
- Increased performance in 3D applications.
- PureVideo HD support.
- Add support for forcing Vertical Sync in DirectX applications.
- Updated NVIDIA Control Panel with improved user interface (Please see the Release Notes for more details).
- Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
- This driver supports the following 3D features:
- Single GPU support
- DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
- DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
- OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
- NVIDIA SLI support
- DirectX 9 support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
- OpenGL support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
- Single GPU support
- DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8 series GPUs will be available in a future driver