ForceWare 84.25 Win2000|XP

Windows 2000/XP - Official beta

NVIDIA just released a new ForceWare 80 driver. All new products are supported folks. The new driver fixes several issues with some games and of course support the all new GeForce 7600 and 7900 series of products.

This new version ForceWare 84.25 will contain specific performance enhances to Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

NVIDIA's developer relations team worked closely with Bethesda to optimize game performance, which also included making some driver changes to fix/enhance performance in certain areas.

Performance testing shows no two benchmark runs are identical in exterior scenes, due to Oblivion randomly placing grass and rocks, changing the amount of grass, and varying other aspects of the terrain.

Release Highlights:

• General compatibility fixes
• Adds support for GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7900 GT, and GeForce 7600 GT.
• New NVIDIA PureVideo features and enhancements. Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on PureVideo technology and system requirements.
  • Support for high definition H.264 hardware decode acceleration on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
  • Support for high definition MPEG-2 inverse telecine.
  • Support for high definition MPEG-2 spatial temporal de-interlacing.
• Adds mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI.
• TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI.
• Added support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI.
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support