Launched on August 11 of this year, during the QuakeCon 2005 gaming event, was NVIDIA's 7800GT part that came nearly two months after the 7800GTX 256MB inauguration. Although NVIDIA was quick to release the ForceWare 77.72 drivers for Microsoft Windows on June 22 to support the GTX, the Linux 1.0-7667 drivers released on the same day were quite problematic with this new architecture.
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