NVIDIA Releases Beta ForceWare Release 91.28 Drivers

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:59 pm

Today NVIDIA released their new Release 90 graphics driver as a BETA on http://www.nzone.com

New features introduced in Rel 90 include:

· Brand New NVIDIA “Vista-inspired” Control Panel

o End users can switch between Classic and New Control Panel interfaces
o OEMs can pick which one to be default in their drivers
o NVIDIA.com drivers will default with New

· Improved PureVideo Quality and End User Controls

o New video algorithms

§ Adds noise reduction algorithm
§ Adds image sharpening algorithm
§ Improves Inverse telecine algorithm
§ Improves de-interlacing

o HQV Benchmark score over 110+
o End user can now control PureVideo settings

· More SLI Certified Applications and Better Usability

o More than 240 Certified NVIDIA SLI Applications
o New SLI Configuration pages

Look for a full WHQL driver very soon.

Grab the BETA driver here:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downl ... river.html

grunt · Post by **grunt** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:46 pm

sweet, on my way over.. thanks dude

Razorbacx · Post by **Razorbacx** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:06 pm

Got it dl'ed, but not installed. Would like to know if there are any bugs and how it is running first. Any input?

Thanks

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:37 pm

Holy crap this thing is slow.

Not to mention the file is huge (60MB).

Thing slows my computer to a crawl when I click the tray icon and takes three seconds just to load the menu.

Switching back to default mode doesn't seem to alleviate the problem.

I really hope they streamline this thing for future releases.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:55 pm

Kerii,

Thing slows my computer to a crawl when I click the tray icon and takes three seconds just to load the menu.

It does the same exact thing to my AMD AM2 5000+ system when I installed this driver... When I boot up the system i have a 5-10 second longer delay from when the desktop loads due to the driver. It is highly likely that NVIDIA will have another release 90 driver this coming week, so we will see if this driver fixes anything. Brian and I also found a number of bugs and dislikes in them and let them know about it some time ago so they might be included in the next beta driver.

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Mon May 29, 2006 2:34 am

That's good to hear.

I'm glad they at least finally fixed the Performance & Quality Settings so that they don't undo all your changes when you click Apply.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:48 am

I like it myself, even gained a few more MHz on my 7900GT's OC along with a few more points in 3D Mark 05 and 06.

zachig · Post by **zachig** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:24 am

Anyone installed/tested them already???

I'm willing to try them, but first I wanna hear some opinions/recommendations...

werty316 · Post by **werty316** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:59 am

v91.31 are out now and they seem fine so far althought the nagging SLi popup is annoying but I disabled it. The new control panel is alright too but I liek the old control panel which you can switch to.

zachig · Post by **zachig** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:16 am

Thanks for info, werty!!!

werty316 · Post by **werty316** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:56 am

np I am using the newest betas v91.31 and they work great with no problems so far. Also the new control is much better than ATi new control panel.

ACAMS · Post by **ACAMS** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:01 pm

werty316 wrote:v91.31 are out now and they seem fine so far althought the nagging SLi popup is annoying but I disabled it. The new control panel is alright too but I liek the old control panel which you can switch to.

Will somebody please tell me how to disable the nagging SLi popup, it really bothers me but only does it with 91.31_forceware drivers ( which happen to be the best driver for Battlefield 2 that I have used.

I have 1 PNY AGP 6800 GS video card on a gigabyte ga-7n400 pro 2 motherboard.

zachig · Post by **zachig** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:00 pm

To get rid of the ballon popup do this:

Open REGEDIT.

Goto "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced".

Add the DWORD value 'EnableBalloonTips' and give it a value of '0'

Please note that this will stop all balloon tips from popping up.

ACAMS · Post by **ACAMS** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:22 pm

Thanks for the tip as I hate pop-ups, but it did not fix my whole problem. I still hear the pop-up pop as windows starts up and even tho I unchecked "enable taskbar icon" it still pops up and sometimes even goes online to slizone to tell me about sli.
If anybody knows how to stop it I would really appreciate the information or I will have to use another driver as this really annoys me.

zachig · Post by **zachig** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:52 am

ACAMS wrote:Thanks for the tip as I hate pop-ups, but it did not fix my whole problem. I still hear the pop-up pop as windows starts up and even tho I unchecked "enable taskbar icon" it still pops up and sometimes even goes online to slizone to tell me about sli.
If anybody knows how to stop it I would really appreciate the information or I will have to use another driver as this really annoys me.

I thought it will disable it totally (including sounds...). Hmmm....if I'll think of something else that might help, I'll let you know...

ACAMS · Post by **ACAMS** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:17 am

To disable the pop-up open regedit.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/NVIDIA Corporation/NVTweak look for DWord NvCplEnableMultiGPUConfigurationPage and set it to 0. If it is not there then create it and it will set to 0 by default.

Pengwin · Post by **Pengwin** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:18 pm

i want Nvidi's nTune, too bad i have the RD-480 chip set :\

Post by **FZ1** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:44 pm

ACAMS wrote:To disable the pop-up open regedit.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/NVIDIA Corporation/NVTweak look for DWord NvCplEnableMultiGPUConfigurationPage and set it to 0. If it is not there then create it and it will set to 0 by default.

Easier way here:
http://tinyurl.com/h9bcw

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:50 pm

And even easier way, just get the new 91.33......it's been fixed.............

Post by **FZ1** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:58 am

Yeah but that's a beta driver.