Download Driver For nVidia ForceWare 163.67 beta

For its video cards, nVidia has released new beta drivers in the ForceWare series that work on Windows Vista, both 32- and 64-bit. The drivers have since arrived at version number 163.67 and have been provided by the developers with, among other things, the possibility to apply post-processing to movies encoded with h264, VC-1 or MPEG-2 HD. The complete list of changes looks like this:

What’s New in Release 163

• Added HD video post‐processing for H.264, VC‐1 and MPEG‐2 HD content on GeForce 8500 series products.

What’s New in Version 163.67:

• Improved performance of the graphics memory manager on GeForce 8 series GPUs running DirectX 9 applications in single‐GPU configurations.
  These improvements solve cases of reported performance slowdowns in some 3D applications with high graphics settings and resolutions.

Fixed Issues–Windows Vista 32-bit

Fixed Single GPU Issues

All GPUs
• Company of Heroes (DirectX 10) ‐ out‐of‐memoryʺ errors may occur at high resolutions and high antialiasing levels.

GeForce 8 Series GPUs

• GeForce 8600 GTS: The Microsoft DirectX SDK Blob demo–the screen turns blank when changing the multisample type while in full‐screen mode. [322023]

GeForce 7 Series GPUs

• GeForce 7300GT, GeForce 6150/6100: The display becomes corrupted after entering Hibenate mode from Standby mode (linked standbyhibernate). [339269]
• GeForce 7050PV/7025, GeForce 6600: Civilization4–the game menu doesn’t show the options. [330106]

Fixed SLI Mode Issues

• [SLI]: STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl–game performance with SLI mode enabled may be lower than under single‐GPU mode in some areas. [321749]
• [SLI]GeForce 8600: Age of Empires 3–blue‐screen crash or blank screen occurs after exiting the game. [322085]
• [SLI]GeForce 8600: 3DMark06–ʺGT2‐Firefly Forestʺ shows massive corruption at 1600×1200 resolution with 8xAA enabled. [321355]
• [SLI]GeForce 8500/8400/8300: 3DMark05–the benchmark crashes or results in an intermittent blank screen when run with Override AA set (from the NVIDIA Control Panel) and at resolutions higher than 1920×1200. [330368]
• [SLI]GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The desktop resolution resets to 800×600 after switching between SLI‐mode enable and SLI‐mode disable. [327233]

Fixed Issues–Windows Vista 64-bit

Fixed Single GPU Issues

• GeForce 7300GT, GeForce 6150/6100: The display becomes corrupted after entering Hibernate mode from Standby mode (linked standbyhibernate). [339269]

Fixed SLI Mode Issues

• [SLI]GeForce 8800 GTX: Screensaver crashes after resuming from preview. [340179]
• [SLI]GeForce 8500/8400/8300: The system automatically restarts when SLI is either enabled or disabled with UAC enabled. [332104]

[break]The following flavors are available:
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit