Nvidia heeft gisteren een nieuwe set ForceWare-bètadrivers beschikbaar gesteld voor Windows 2000 en XP. De drivers zijn verkrijgbaar in een uitvoering met alleen de Engels taal, of met 29 verschillende talen, waaronder de Nederlandse. De eerste is 38MB groot, de andere maar liefst 68MB. In deze release treffen we onder andere verbeterde ondersteuning voor Lost Planet, het door Capcom ontwikkelde DirectX 10-spel. Verder zijn er een groot aantal bugfixes doorgevoerd:
Fixed Single-GPU Issues
GeForce 8 Series GPUsGeForce 7 Series GPUs
- The NVIDIA Control Panel crashes when closing the nTune "NVPerformance Benchmark".
- GeForce 8800 GTX: NVIDIA Control Panel "Resize HDTV Desktop" (overscan compensation) sliders do not maintain their settings. This issue is fixed with an NVIDIA-provided workaround to enable overscan compensation and allow the Resize HDTV Desktop sliders to work properly. See NVIDIA Knowledgebase Article #2064 for instructions.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: 1680x1050 resolution is not available when using the Dell 3007WFP monitor.
- GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS: Flat-panel scaling doesn't work with widescreen monitors.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: After changing the HDTV component format, the display either turns blank or reverts to the previous format.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: "This task cannot be opened now ..." message appears when clicking the NVIDIA Control Panel "Run multiple display wizard" navigation link after clicking the "Adjust video color settings" navigation link.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion–animation is visible through the trees when HDR and NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing are enabled.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.–the crosshair is missing when antialiasing is enabled.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: Far Cry–blue-screen crash occurs after playing the game for awhile.
- GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 7900 GTX/7300 GS: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2– the game fails if you try to change settings right after the loading a mission.
- GeForce 8800 GTX: Lost Planet: Extreme Condition– the game crashes after the player destroys some objects in mission 01.
- GeForce 8600: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Setup multiple displays" page reverts back to the "Adjust image settings with preview" page after running 3DMark05.
- GeForce 8600: Rainbow Six Vegas–the game does not start when antialiasing is set to 8x, 8xQ, or 16x.
- GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8500 GT: Hot-key switching between the internet games Mir 2 and My causes the screen to go blank, requiring a hard reboot.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: "Could not create the Direct3D device" message appears when previewing a 3D screen saver in Dualview mode.
- GeForce 8600: On closing the NVIDIA Control Panel, the display configuration automatically switches from Clone mode to Singledisplay mode.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Resize HDTV Desktop" navigation link does not work consistently.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: With the resolution set to 1080i, the desktop cannot be changed from Dualview mode to Clone mode.
GeForce 6 Series GPUs
- Lock On: Modern Air Combat–graphics corruption occurs.
- NVIDIA Control Panel: Unable to run the NVIDIA Multiple Display wizard with any nView multi-display mode enabled.
- Interlaced HDTV formats cannot be set in the NVIDIA Control panel.
- The NVIDIA Control Panel: After selecting HD Component 480i/576P/720 format, the Color Quality slider in the Change Resolution page is grayed out.
- GeForce 7 Series: Video playback using PowerDVD shows a green line at the bottom of the screen.
- GeForce 7950 GX2: Video errors occur with HDTV output while processing 3D video.
- GeForce 7900 GTX 512M : The NVIDIA Control panel Run Multiple Display wizard link does not work.
- GeForce 7900 GT/GS 256 MB, NVIDIA Control Panel: The Adjust Video Color Settings test image remains on the primary display after dragging the NVIDIA Control Panel to the secondary display.
- GeForce 7800 GT 256MB: 3DMark03–slow performance and video corruption occurs when running 3DMark03.
- GeForce 7800 GTX, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005: The desktop goes blank while changing resolutions.
- GeForce 7800 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Modify full screen video options" feature is visible after enabling SLI mode.
- GeForce 7900 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Run Multiple Display wizard" can be opened while playing a video and no pop up "Task cannot be opened right now" warning message appears.
- GeForce 7900 GTX: Corruption and frame drops occur after enabling Hardware Acceleration in Cyberlink PowerDVD 7 while playing an HQV DVD.
- GeForce 7300 256MB: Error message appears on Windows Media Player 10 when changing the refresh rate of the secondary monitor.
GeForce FX Series GPUs
- GeForce 6800 GTX: The Restore Defaults link is not available on the NVIDIA Control Panel "Modify full-screen video options" page the first time the page is visited.
- GeForce 6600 128MB: The Screen Resolution and Refresh rate page for the secondary Dualview display shows the wrong display mode information.
- GeForce 6600 256MB: After unplugging a Dualview display from the DVI or component output, the nView multi-display settings are still available.
- GeForce 6600 128MB: Full-screen video mirror is corrupted when playing a DVRMS format file using Windows Media Player 10.
- 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 GT: After hot unplugging a DVI monitor, the monitor is still recognized by the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Fixed SLI-Mode Issues
- GeForce FX 5700: Error message appears after enabling NVKeystone with NVRotate enabled in 1600x1200 mode.
GeForce 8 Series GPUs
- [SLI]: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter–the desktop becomes corrupted after exiting the game when the SLI split line is enabled.
GeForce 7 Series GPUs
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: SLIAA doesn't turn off after switching back to "application controlled" under the NVIDIA Control Panel->Manage 3D Settings page->Antialiasing-Mode setting.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Blue-screen crash occurs when enaling SLI mode with a second monitor connected to the slave GPU.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: After enabling SLI mode, the SLI animation on the NVIDIA Control Panel Set SLI Configuration page disappears.
- [SLI] GeForce 8800 GTX: Titan Quest–with V-Sync disabled, there are horizontal black lines during the intro video.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Splinter Cell:Double Agent–SLI mode does not work when the game is run through the front end launcher.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Dungeon Siege 2–there is a block of corruption around the mouse cursor.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion–visual indicators do not display the correct information when SLI AA is enabled.
- [SLI], GeForce 8800/8600: Act of War–the cursor flickers when playing the game in multi-GPU AFR modes.
- [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The NVIDIA Control Panel crashes after resuming from 3D screen saver preview in Dualview mode.
GeForce 6 Series GPUs
- [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2 512MB Quad NVIDIA SLI: Civilization 4–white area of corruption with flickering appears while zooming out.
- [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2, Quad NVIDIA SLI: Counter-Strike–with SLI mode enabled, a blue-screen crash occurs when changing the rendering mode from Direct 3D to OpenGL.
- [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2, Quad NVIDIA SLI: Chronicles of Riddick–- VSync tear occurs when SLIAA8x is enabled.
- [SLI], GeForce 7950/7900 GT 256MB: Spellforce 2– flickering corruption appears in the frame with SLI mode enabled.
- [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2 Quad NVIDIA SLI: Sid Meier's Pirates–video overlays are corrupt when SLI SFR mode is used.
- [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2, GeForce 6800/6600: X3 Demo–Flickering occurs while running the X3 demo as a benchmark.
- [SLI], GeForce 7900 GTX: The image on the NVIDIA Control Panel "Set SLI Configuration" page disappears after clicking the "Monitor Temperature Level" main navigation tree item.
- [SLI], GeForce 7800 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel crashes if you enable SLI mode after invoking the screen saver several times.
- [SLI], GeForce 7300 GT: With SLI mode enabled, the command prompt is corrupted and flickering when the DOS box is view in fullscreen mode.
Fixed Issues–Windows XP 64-bit
- [SLI], GeForce 6800: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Adjust Video color settings" page is corrupted when SLI is disabled.
Fixed Single-GPU IssuesFixed SLI-Mode Issues
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: With the resolution set to 1080i, the desktop cannot be changed from Dualview mode to Clone mode.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: There is corruption on the NVIDIA Control Panel 'Change flat panel scaling' page after changing the display from DFP to CRT.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: 400: The NVIDIA Control Panel Apply and Cancel buttons are present on the "Resize HDTV Desktop" page when no settings have been changed.
- GeForce 8500/8400/8300: "Could not create the Direct3D device" message appears when previewing a 3D screen saver in Dualview mode.
- GeForce 7950 GX2, Windows XP x64: The displays lose sync when hot plugging a display and then enabling Clone mode.
- GeForce 7900 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel "Run Multiple Display wizard" can be opened while playing a video and no pop up "Task cannot be opened right now" warning message appears.
- GeForce 6100/6150, Windows XP x64: The nView Display Settings page in the Classic NVIDIA Control Panel disappears.
- GeForce 6100/6150: The NVIDIA Control Panel Apply and Cancel buttons don’t appear after changing the HD format twice.
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- [SLI], GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI, Windows XP x64: Half-Life 2 Day of Defeat does not run.