NVIDIA ForceWare 81.85 beta

[Steve]

Released yesterday was NVIDIA's 81.85 beta ForceWare driver. Features include the following:

# Compatibility fixes since 81.84 BETA driver. For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes.
# 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.
# Performance enhancements for dual-core CPUs.
# PureVideo high definition MPEG-2 de-interlacing support.
# Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV.
# Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support

Check it out over at nZone and if you try it, let us know what benefits (or bugs) you experience.

[kapowaz]

What is the situation vis-a-vis 'illegal' optimisations and image quality in the current Nvidia drivers (particularly on the 7800 series) now? This was a major blocker to me considering getting a 7800 card...

[Mastertje]

I thought the shimmering issue was solved a long time ago.

[dangel]

Yeah me too (at least i haven't seen it). I'm going to give these ones a go as i've heard people saying good things about them.

[MSIC]

I have a Hyper-Threaded P4. Does anyone know if these drivers would be better for me over the 70 series? Or does it only benefit the 'proper' dual CPUs ??
Any benchmarks?

[Smokey21]

I have a Hyper-Threaded P4. Does anyone know if these drivers would be better for me over the 70 series? Or does it only benefit the 'proper' dual CPUs ??
Any benchmarks?

I wouldn't take any notice of Dual cor optimizations, it's a load of rubbish, the drivers are better because there better, not because you have An X2, or Dual P4.