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Drinkyoghurt

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but i have to warn you..this is a beta. there have been some problems with it so use at own risk.


Release highlights:


=Adds support for GeForce 7900 GS, GeForce 7300 GT, Quadro FX 4500 X2, Quadro FX 5500, Quadro FX 3500, Quadro FX 1500, and Quadro FX 560.

=Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel. Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel website for more information.

=New NVIDIA PureVideo features and enhancements.
-PureVideo technology and system requirements.
-Adds noise reduction post processing
-Adds image sharpening post processing
-Improved Inverse telecine algorithm
-Improved de-interlacing algorithm
-Improved compatibility with third party MPEG-2 decoders

=Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support


This card comes with the new Nvidia Control Panel, love it or hate it, it's a nice try.


Issues Resolved in Version 91.28
The following are changes made and issues resolved since driver version 84.43:

• NVIDIA Ex Support
This is a performance optimization for nForce 590 motherboards. This
optimization can be enabled through a BIOS setting on the nForce 590
motherboard. The GPU Ex setting should only be enabled with Optimized
NVIDIA Ex ForceWare Release 90 drivers.
Single GPU Issues Resolved

• GeForce 7600 GT/GS, GeForce 7900 GT: With LCD and HDTV
enabled under Clone mode and the HDTV set to any mode other than
480i, the HDTV mode switches to 480i upon reboot.

• Windows XP: Corruption occurs when running the TimburryBuglooker demo.

• GeForce 6800, Windows XP Media Center Edition: While Windows
Media Player 10 is playing a video file, MCE shows a blank screen
when launched.

• GeForce 6800: Shadow corruption occurs in the game Lineage II.
SLI Technology Issues Resolved

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, SLI: Stuttering occurs in NHL2006 with SLI
AA enabled.

Windows XP, GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: F.E.A.R. may not run on the

AMD FX-60 with Asus A8MSLI32.
To work around this issue, adjust the hypertransport settings in the BIOS as
follows:

• K8 to NB frequency: 5x

• NB to NB LinkWidth: 16/16

• SB to NB frequency: 5x

• SB to NB LinkWidth: 16/16

• GeForce 6800, SLI: The audio is corrupt during the intro videos in Flat
Out when SLI is enabled.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Double image of the scene appears
when running Star Wars Republic Commando.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Corruption occurs along the SLI
split line when playing Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: With antialiazing enabled from the
NVIDIA panel, car textures are corrupted in Need for Speed Most
Wanted, and ghosting occurs in FIFA 2006.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Gameplay and menu performance
drops when running Kohan 2: Kings of War in SLI mode with 4x
antialiasing enabled.



Open Issues in Version 91.28

• The GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB works in single card mode with Apple
30 inch HD Cinema panel. However, an issue has been discovered
when running the GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB card in SLI mode with
an Apple 30 inch HD Cinema display. This is due to an interaction
between the GPU, the application, and the ability to scale to nonnative
panel resolutions of the Apple display.
All GeForce 6 series GPUs will work with Apple 23 and 20 inch HD
Cinema displays in single GPU mode.
NVIDIA recommends using the GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB with the Apple
30 inch HD Cinema Display line only in non-SLI modes.

• Single display modes such as TV only, DFP/LCD only or CRT only
provide the best performance and quality from Windows Media
Center Edition.
Dual display modes such Dualview and nView Clone and Span modes are
not recommended.

• When using the trial version of WinDVD 6 from InterVideo.com, you
may experience TV or DVD playback problems in Windows Media
Center if you change resolutions during video playback. This is most
often seen when switching from windowed to full screen mode.
This problem does not occur with the latest full OEM versions of WinDVD or
with other Windows Media Center qualified DVD decoders.

• If you perform a clean driver installation (no previous NVIDIA
drivers installed), you must reboot your computer. If you do not reboot, the predefined application profiles will not be activated and
you may experience application stability problems.



NVIDIA Issues—Single GPU

• NVIDIA Control Panel: The digital display cannot be set to its native
resolution when the analog display is set as the primary display
under nView Clone or Spanning modes.

• NVIDIA Control Panel: There is no Clone, Span, or Dualview mode
option when CRT, DVI dongle, and HDTV are connected at the same
time.

• There may be intermittent application compatibility issues with dual
core CPUs.
If you experience this issue, you can work around it by toggling off multithread
optimizations using the following instructions:
1 Launch regedit and determine the current primary display card by
looking in
HKey_Local_Machine\Hardware\DeviceMap\Video
and note the GUID (global unique identifier assigned by Windows),
which is the long string in brackets { } at the end of the entry
º\device\video0º.
2 Look in
HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\
{GUID}\0000
where {GUID} is the number derived from the previous step.
3 Open the º0000º directory and create a new DWORD called
OGL_ThreadControl and give it a value of 2.
This will disable multithreading in the driver for all OpenGL applications.
4 If you want to disable driver multithreading for all Direct3D applications–
In the same º0000º directory, create a new DWORD called
WTD_EXECMODEL and give it a value of 0.

• All GPUs: When adding Custom Resolutions, the user is not allowed
to select the ºmonitor scalingº option.

• Windows XP: The system crashes after enabling NVKeystone with
antialiasing enabled.

• Video color-space range for DVI-only* outputs is erroneously set to
standard mode (16-235) instead of extended mode (0-255).
A new detection feature to apply Standard CSC mode to TV outputs
(including NTSC, PAL, 480i, and 576i), included DVI-only outputs by
mistake.
Note: The driver correctly applies extended mode to analog outputs, and
standard mode to TV outputs (including NTSC, PAL, 480i, and 576i).
A future driver release will correct this and apply the extended-mode color
space to DVI-only outputs.
You can work around this issue by forcing either standard or extended mode
as follows:
1 Launch regedit and determine the current primary display card by
looking in
HKey_Local_Machine\Hardware\DeviceMap\Video
and note the GUID (global unique identifier assigned by Windows),
which is the long string in brackets { } at the end of the entry
º\device\video0º.
2 Look in
HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\
{GUID}\0000
where {GUID} is the number derived from the previous step.
3 Open the º0000º directory and create a new DWORD called
VMRCCCSStatus and give it a value of
0x3 - to force use of the standard YUV range of 16-235
0x1 - to force use of the extended YUV range of 0-255

* “DVI-only” means only one display is connected, and it is to the DVI output.



GeForce 7 Series

• GeForce 7900 GTX: WMV content is corrupted when played in
overlay mode.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Dell 3007WFP: Playback of WMV/Quicktime
content is corrupted at 2560x1600 resolution in full-screen mode.
• GeForce 7800 GS AGP, Windows XP: Character polygon drops when
running the Final Fantasy XI benchmark.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash occurs when
playing Eve Online at 2560x1600 resolution.

• GeForce 7800 GTX: Changing the color setting through an application
profile does not work.

• GeForce 7800 GTX: Text in the game Fable flickers on and off, and
sometimes stops rendering, on a Dell flat panel display.

GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, Windows XP Media Center Edition: Video
skips intermittently when playing HD network transport streaming
clips.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: When changing to a resolution
higher than 1024x768 in Need for Speed Underground 2 on a
1920x1200 widescreen flat panel, the application attempts to select the
next resolution it has above 1024x768, which is 1280x960 and not
supported by most flat panels.
A known workaround is to manually add the mode 1280x960 from NVIDIA's
Custom Timings control panel and then continue to select the resolution
needed.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP: The desktop becomes shaky when
changing the resolution to 1920x1080 on a Viewsonic VP231wb.
• GeForce 7800 GTX Windows XP MCE 2005: Some artifacts appear
when de-interlacing is enabled on 1920x1080i video clips.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005:
Changing the video acceleration while using Windows Media Player
10 to play ºPBS - Omaha Zoo RR.mpgº crashes the application.



GeForce 6 Series


• GeForce 6800: With antialiasing enabled, DirectX 9 Blobs does not
render after the system has returned from a 3D screensaver.

• GeForce 6800 XT, Windows XP Media Center Edition: Hot key
display switching does not turn on some displays.

• GeForce 6800: A small square of bad pixels appears in the lower right
corner of the window when changing to 1600x1200 4xAA and 8xAF in
Age of Empires 3 and Colin McRae 2005 with highest quality settings
enabled.

• GeForce 6600, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Update
Rollup2: The system restarts while playing a video using MCE.

• GeForce 6600: There is corruption in the water in the Painkiller
benchmark.

• GeForce 6600, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: MCE
application goes blank while playing a video file.

• GeForce 6600, Windows XP Media Center Edition: Live TV teletext
flashes when viewed using PAL I.

• GeForce 6600, Windows XP Media Center Edition: While playing
MCE Live TV in Clone mode with full-screen video mirror, the
mirrored display is corrupted when resizing the application.

• GeForce 6200 256 MB: Windows Media Player 10 hangs when the
desktop is rotated.

• GeForce 6200 with TurboCache (16 MB), Windows XP: Everquest 2
crashes or hangs when run at 1600x1200.

• GeForce 6150/6100: Battlefield 2 has high frequency flicker of
horizontal bands scanning across the screen on bright backgrounds.

• GeForce 6150/6100, Windows XP Media Center Edition: Frame drops
occur when playing HD MPEG2 files in VMR7 mode.



GeForce FX Series

• GeForce FX 5950: Ultra Age of Mythology has screen flicker with
certain special effects.

• GeForce FX 5200: There is corruption in the Far Cry heads up
displays.


NVIDIA Issues—SLI

• nForce 590 SLI: Entering or removing text at the Lineage 2 login
screen results in a performance drop.

• NVIDIA Control Panel: SLI Antialiasing option is erroneously visible
at the 3D Settings->Manage 3D Settings page.
SLI AA settings are now available in the Antialiasing Settings control.
Selecting SLI AA will override the predefined SLI rendering mode for
applications with a profile.

NVIDIA Quadro FX Family

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2, SLI: After enabling SLI, the SLI menu
disappears from the classic NVIDIA control panel.

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400, SLI Workstation: There is no video when
running the Sleeper test.

• Windows XP Professional x64, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, SLI: The
system freezes after enabling SLI and Frame Sync.


GeForce 7 Series

• GeForce 7900 GTX, SLI: The NVIDIA Geoforms demo shows
flickering and corruption in bright areas with SLI enabled.

• GeForce 7900 GT/GS, SLI: The system hangs or a blue-screen crash
occurs after changing the SLI output display.

• GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB, SLI: Blue-screen crash occurs or black
screen appears when toggling the DOS window while playing M2P
files using Windows Media Player 10.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: There is graphics corruption when playing
IL2: Forgotten battles.

• GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, SLI: The display attached to GPU1/DVI2 is
not restored after disabling SLI.

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, GeForce 6 Series: Shadows do not render
correctly in Far Cry patch 1.33.

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, GeForce 6800/6800 Ultra/GT: When selecting
Detect Optimal Frequencies in the control panel, the desktop refresh
rate switches to 60Hz.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP Professional x64: Half-Life 2
Day of Defeat does not run.

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, SLI: Non-active displays may be activated
after disabling SLI or rebooting the system.

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, SLI: Display does not respond appropriately
when using Pan-and-scan under SLI mode.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: Attempts to enable SLI dynamically
occasionally fails, requiring a system reboot.

• GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP: The computer crashes
intermittently when changing the desktop resolution to 1920x1080 on
a Viewsonic VP231wb.


GeForce 6 Series

• GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: The system hangs when looping 3DMark05
1.1.

• GeForce 6800, SLI: Stuttered rendering occurs during test 3 in
3DMark05 at 1600x1200 4xAA with SLI enabled.

• GeForce 6800, SLI: SLI split line indicates no scaling is occurring for
Age of Empires when run in windowed mode.

• GeForce 6800, SLI: The character portrait in Dungeon Siege 2 is
corrupted.

• GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: There are intermittent application failures
when using nForce4 SLI/SLI X16 motherboards.

• GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: Apple 30 inch display does not run with 512
MB graphics boards in SLI mode. You must switch to single GPU
mode to work.

• GeForce 6600, SLI: The Select display output option is not available
for NVIDIA SLI without the SLI connector.
This is a known limitation of NVIDIA SLI when the SLI connector is not used.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Lock On: Modern Air Combat has
lower than expected performance at high resolutions with antialiasing
enabled.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: Corruption occurs in the game
Painkiller when setting the resolution to wide screen formats.

• GeForce 6600, SLI, Windows XP: The entire display blacks out briefly
when attempting to bring up the NVIDIA Control Panel.
 
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