100.59 vid drivers

[David Priessman]

I have, supposedly, loaded the 100.59 driver on Vista Home Premium. I have
restarted, checked Task Manager for the proper processes to be running, and
they're not! Not one of the NV....s are running. Is there a protection
program running that prohibits unsigned drivers from running'? If so, can it
be bypassed? This driver's supposed to enable SLI for my 2 GF6800 gs
cards....I'm frustrated.

 

[Troy McClure]

100.59 is only for 8800 cards... unless you know something i dont?

 

[HDFatBoy2003]

Acutally 100.59 is for a wide range of cards, but only supports SLi for the
8800 series.

 

[Troy McClure]

on the nvidia site, the only time the 100.59 BETA drivers become available
is when you choose an 8800 card.

 

[Kurt Herman]

I'm running 100.59 on my 6600GT and Vista Home Premium just fine.

Kurt

 

[_Mark_]

100.59 running fine with 7900GT.

on the nvidia site, the only time the 100.59 BETA drivers become available
is when you choose an 8800 card.

 

[Troy McClure]

they might be working, but they are not designed for your card, so why use
them?
simply go to the nvidia site and you will see that the 100.x BETA drivers
are FOR THE 8800 cards

 

[Kurt Herman]

Sigh....

If you scroll down the Forceware 97.46 download page you will see this
little bit of text....
.........
NVIDIA has released the following WHQL certified drivers for use with
Windows Vista RTM that will enable you to test the basic features and
capabilities of the new operating system.

Updated January 31, 2007: NVIDIA has a newer Beta driver for GeForce 6 and 7
series GPUs that is available to download. Please visit this website if you
want to download the new driver.
.......

The "Updated January 31, 2007:" text is a link which takes you to the beta
driver page, where miracle of miracles, there is the 100.59 driver, with the
following text....

Release Highlights:

Beta driver for NVIDIA SLIT support for GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS GPUs
This driver supports the following features:
Single GPU support
DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
NVIDIA SLI support
DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
OpenGL support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs and
DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a
future driver
If you would like to be notified of upcoming drivers for Windows Vista,
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Please read the release notes for more information on product support,
feature limitations, and known compatibility issues

Looks to me like it supports the 6xxx series on up.

Like I said, this is the driver I'm using and it works great. I just tried
it out on a couple of my older Open GL games (Wolfenstien and QuakeIII) and
they seem to be running faster then they did in XP. (Don't know why, but
there it is... )

Kurt

 

[Justin]

That's how I understood it as well. Thanks for the breakdown Kurt.

 

[David Priessman]

First, the driver does support the cards, Vista in the cards' properties say
that the driver is installed, but at boot, they don't load....boot files
call for all the appropriate file to run, but in task mamager, none are
loaded. I know SLI isn't supported yet, but the drivers should load.