For both Win XP / 2000 / Media, & VISTA ...for the 8800 range version
number 158.18 & 19
Dated April 17 th on the NVIDIA site .
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Note that the 158.18 Vista32 and Vista 64 drivers are now fully
unified again. They support 6xxxx thru 88xx. (Sub-6xxx will never ever
be supported in Vista.)
I expect the XP drivers will return to the unified form in the not too
distant future.
BTW, since ATi has not yet had to deal with publicly released drivers
for any Dx10 hardware, it should be a very interesting few months
after their super-long-delayed Dx10 hardware is released. Maybe the
state of their XP and Vista drivers for their Dx10 hardware is a key
reason for them not yet releasing that hardware ? Despite the
user-wailing, nVidia has beern soliciting and getting lots of great
<<real-user>> feedback on their drivers with regard to both Vista and
the new 88xx hardware. And wailing is a totally normal way of life for
"early-adopters" in any technology realm. If you really don't want to
have too much to wail about when you buy expensive graphics cards with
brand-new architectures ---- wait six months at least after release..
for mature drivers, much better prices and maybe a silicon-roll or two
to fix hardware-bugs discovered after initial shipments. So, please
remenber this advice when the R6xx and RV6xx cards finally hit the
shelves.
I personaly have not yet "invested" in any Dx10-related graphics
hardware and have no intention of doing so until probably the quarter
of 2007. Should be enough time for performance and price maturity of
the Dx10-capable ATi releases and probably the next roll of the 88xx
silicon, likely in 65nm (G90?). This design was started long before
the 88xx cards were released. Will have double-precision math amongst
other improvements to more properly address its intended dual-role as
a GPGPU.
John Lewis