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Nvidia ForceWare 180.48 WHQL
Posted by Regeneration on November 19th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Nvidia Corporation has released a new official ForceWare driver. This driver supports GeForce 6,7,8,9,200 series and available to Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, MCE, Vista and their 64-bit versions as well. This driver also includes Microsoft's WHQL certification, SLI support on X58, GPU PhysX acceleration and some performance improvements.

• Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX+, and GeForce 9800 GTX.
• Enables NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Now you can easily switch between multi-monitor desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming mode.
• Enables NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects.
• Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
• Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
• Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
• Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
• Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
• Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
• Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
• Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
• Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
• Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
• Supports CUDA.
• Supports Folding@Home distributing computing application.
• Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes.

You can download this file at our downloads section.

14 Comments
lets see how they differ from the betas



Sloow . Nice IQ , very noticable in Fallout 3 . But i was expecting This plus some nie fps gain , well probable for high end cards ...

Last edited by nCaine; November 19th, 2008 at 11:32 PM..
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Will test later, need to investigate quad-sli + physx functionality....must...have....more....power.

Last edited by Syncroneyes; November 20th, 2008 at 12:42 PM..
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Well not that sloow as it looked at first. Dint have too muth time to test.
And as you probable know , I dont benchmark .

But it have real good IQ.
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at least it fixes blue screen of death when exiting COD:WAW
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"This driver supports GeForce 6,7,8,9,200 series"

I am SLIing 2 7900GS's and its saying "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware."

I am running windows XP 32bit, MB, RAM are SLI compatiable.

I know I am downloading the right driver from the download section. Is this Driver not compatible with the 7 series?

Last edited by Pheelix; November 21st, 2008 at 12:17 PM..
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Originally Posted by Pheelix View Post
"his driver supports GeForce 6,7,8,9,200 series"

I am SLIing 2 7900GS's and its saying "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware."

I am running windows XP 32bit, MB, RAM are SLI compatiable.

I know I am downloading the right driver from the download section. Is this Driver not compatible with the 7 series?

The Nvidia commercial machine is running in the background.
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Originally Posted by Pheelix View Post
"his driver supports GeForce 6,7,8,9,200 series"

I am SLIing 2 7900GS's and its saying "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware."

I am running windows XP 32bit, MB, RAM are SLI compatiable.

I know I am downloading the right driver from the download section. Is this Driver not compatible with the 7 series?

Just use modded .inf
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Tried them, did not like them, rolled back to the 178 series.
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So, this driver isn't for the laptop Go series? I have an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, but can't seem to find the latest drivers for that... I want a 13% performance increase in Bioshock!
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Originally Posted by sir_tobek View Post
So, this driver isn't for the laptop Go series? I have an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, but can't seem to find the latest drivers for that... I want a 13% performance increase in Bioshock!

Just use modded .inf
or
Driver modded to work with laptops.

Link below:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...?showforum=120



By the way a new beta already poped out this time is 180.70
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The most importan bug is not fixed: No have video mirror overlay, goto to 90´s.
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Supports Folding@Home distributing computing application.
THIS is what I've been waiting for! F@H GPU2 takes 100% CPU on XP, this is supposed to drop it to 10%!!! Hope it works will post results in a few days when I get to it!

PPD Babay!
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Using 180.60 cuda xp beta driver now , so far i like it better that the whql one .
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Originally Posted by nCaine View Post
Using 180.60 cuda xp beta driver now , so far i like it better that the whql one .
YES, I just tested both. 180.48 LOWERS PPD and does NOT lower CPU in GPU2!!!!

180.60 Does LOWER CPU to below 4% on my system! from 100%

Skip 180.48 Folders.

I know have to mod an INF file to get back my PPD and lower CPU load.
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