NVIDIA First GPU Company to Ship Windows Vista Drivers

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:24 pm

NVIDIA First GPU Company to Ship Windows Vista Drivers

Following the NVIDIA press release at DigitalLife 2006 last week, where Microsoft announced the Windows Vista logo program, NVIDIA has posted the WHQL certified drivers for a broad range of our GPUs on our website in preparation of the upcoming release of Windows Vista. The full media alert follows.

NVIDIA THE FIRST GPU COMPANY TO SHIP WINDOWS VISTA WHQL DRIVERS – NOW AVAILABLE ON NVIDIA.COM Industry’s first available GPU Drivers for Vista, Certified by the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL), now available for public download

OCTOBER 18, 2006—NVIDIA, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that its first publicly available Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) graphics driver is currently ready and available for download for Windows Vista. NVIDIA offers these certified drivers for the industry’s broadest range of graphics processing units (GPUs), supporting over 100 different products.

Windows Vista WHQL certification will benefit users in a number of ways:

· Windows Vista Premium-ready GPUs for consumer (NVIDIA GeForce), professional (NVIDIA Quadro) and mobile (NVIDIA GeForce Go) deliver crisp photos and videos and incredible application and system performance on all PC platforms

· A full range of products, from low-cost mainstream solutions to the highest performing gaming and workstation GPUs, available to OEMs and system builders to build Windows Vista PCs

· Solutions for any consumer or business looking to “Get Ready” for Windows Vista, whether they plan to buy a brand new PC or upgrade their current PC

· Certification for NVIDIA GPUs built since November 2002. Many customers who have bought graphics cards with NVIDIA GPUs over the last four years are now certified to work with Windows Vista

NVIDIA Windows Vista WHQL certified driver is now available to download here:

· Windows Vista x86 drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.85.html

· Windows Vista x64 drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_96.85.html

The list of WHQL certified NVIDIA solutions for Windows Vista can be found at:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x ... orted.html

Windows Hardware Quality Labs certified solutions are essential in helping PC users plan for the move to Windows Vista. Certification identifies products that are easy to install and work well with Microsoft’s latest operating system. For more details and to see how to configure a new PC or upgrade a current PC for Windows Vista, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:45 pm

This might be a stupid question but will the x64 version of vista ship on the same disk as the x86 version? I know they were talking about putting all versions on one disk and just making the key determine which one you bought but what about x64 vs x86? is ther and x64 disk and an x86 disk or is it all in one?

Also really why do they have an x86 version of Vista? It seems like every computer you buy has an x64 capable processor. Or are Celerons still x86?

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:06 pm

HONkUS wrote:This might be a stupid question but will the x64 version of vista ship on the same disk as the x86 version? I know they were talking about putting all versions on one disk and just making the key determine which one you bought but what about x64 vs x86? is ther and x64 disk and an x86 disk or is it all in one?

Also really why do they have an x86 version of Vista? It seems like every computer you buy has an x64 capable processor. Or are Celerons still x86?

I know all version will be on one disk, but I doubt the two archs will be on one. Seeing the betas I have used have all versions on them and are about 3GB give or take per arch. So it won't fit.

Also why is there an x86, because there is no driver or app support for x64. And really no performance increase going from one arch to the other, other than the increase in memory support

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:10 pm

AFAIK Vista will come on a dual layer DVD with both 32bit and 64bit.

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:29 pm

I don't believe so because MS says only a DVD-Rom is required I would think they'd say Dual Layer

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:57 pm

DVD-Roms can read dual layer fine, its writing dual layer that needs firmware/drive updates

Dan

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:40 pm

duh. Wow talk about a newb comment

Baddad53 · Post by **Baddad53** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:53 pm

Okay Apoptosis...where's the Vista re-review with the new drivers

I know what you will be doing this weekend

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:13 pm

dicecca112 wrote:duh. Wow talk about a newb comment

I wrote that because why would MS need to write "DL DVD-ROM needed" if all DVD-ROM drives can read dual layer?

Dan

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:31 pm

yeah I know you would think I knew nothing about computers. God I can't believe I wrote that response to kenc's post. Um I am a mod so I could delete my comment, but then again, I'll leave it up as to what being up for 23hrs and having a 3 programs, 3 tests and a project due all in 3 days.

@DMB I wasn't calling you a newb I was calling myself a newb.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:18 pm

yeah I'll take a look at them this weekend with RC2, but i have to find a copy of it first.