Op de website van nVidia zijn nieuwe videokaartdrivers voor Windows 2000 en XP te vinden. De drivers gaan onder de naam Forceware 61.77 door het leven en zijn niet WHQL-gecertificeerd. De laatste WHQL drivers zijn hier te vinden. Belangrijkste vernieuwingen in deze drivers zijn ondersteuning voor DirectX 9.0c, de GeForce 6800-serie, de complete lijn van PCI Express GPU's en OpenGL 1.5. De release notes zijn in dit pdf-bestand na te lezen en het volledige changelog ziet er als volgt uit:
Issues Resolved in Version 61.77:
- Added support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0c
- Windows XP: nView Desktop Manager causes Response Time Logger to use 98% of CPU resources.
- GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: SimCity 4 shows smearing with 2xQ antialiasing enabled.
- Windows XP: DualView Performance mode doesn't work
- Windows XP, GeForce FX 5600: Enter key does not perform the intended actions in the NVIDIA control panel.
- Quadro FX 1100, Windows XP: Mouse pointer is blurry when moved to the right side of the LCD
- Windows XP, Quadro FX 3000, T221 Display: Windows MediaPlayer becomes pink/green with two T221 monitors rotated.
- Windows XP: Double-clicked Outlook messages sometimes end up underneath other windows.
- Quadro4 980XGL/Quadro FX1000, Windows 2000: Altair Engineering HyperMesh6.0 has problems with model contour color and rubber band operation.
- Quadro4/Quadro FX: Psychedelic colors fill �Halo: Combat Evolved� when the game brightness is set very low.
- GeForce FX 5600: Far Cry has rendering corruption at high resolutions.
- GeForce4 Ti 4600, GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: �Error in module nvcpl.dll� when cutting an MPEG-2 file from within Windows Explorer.
- GeForce FX 5700 Ultra: Far Cry corruption
- GeForce 6800, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Corruption at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 with Flight Simulator 2004 in-game menu.
- GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Background object lighting wrong in Need for Speed Underground.
- GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow: Rain splashes do not appear.
- Perimeter: Texture mode is wrapping instead of mirroring.
- NVTV, GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP Media Center Edition: No full screen video mirroring when a WMV file is played in a Media Center Edition application.
- GeForce FX 5700, Personal Cinema, Windows XP: When using video mirror with TV, switching between TV and DVD corrupts the video mirror.
- Corruption with 3D stereo in Battlefield Vietnam 1.0.
- GeForce 6800: Far Cry performance is slower than expected.
- GeForce FX 5700, Windows XP: Launching MPEG files from "Play on my TV" option causes blue-screen crash.
- GeForce 5950 Ultra, Windows XP: In Metal of Honor - Breakthrough, the volumetric smoke has low pixel precision.
- GeForce FX Go5100/5200, Windows XP: Blue-screen crash occurs while playing a DVD in LCD/TV Clone mode and rotating the LCD to 90 or 180 degrees
- GeForce 5900: Crash occurs on shutdown of multithreaded applications.
- GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater) antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.
- GeForce 6800, Windows XP: Corruption after screen shot attempted with antialiasing enabled in Far Cry.
- GeForce FX, Windows ME/Windows XP: With 4x (or greater) antialiasing enabled, the Options menu text in the game Spellforce appears only when the mouse cursor hovers over it.