NVIDIA Forceware 169.12 Beta Video Card Drivers Leaked

[Apoptosis]

NVIDIA Forceware 169.12 Beta Video Card Drivers have leaked out on the web and you can download them today if you want to try them out. No changes for Crysis between the 169.09 drivers and the 169.12, so don't get too worked up.

NVIDIA issues a new beta driver, this is ForceWare build 169.12 for Vista 32- and 64-bit.

Release Notes and Info:

* Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs.
* Fixes a resume from Sleep/Hibernate issue with GeForce 8800 GT.
* Recommended driver for Crysis (no Crysis changes from Release 169.09).
* Users without English US operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Download the drivers:

ForceWare 169.12 Vista (64-bit)
ForceWare 169.12 Vista (32-bit)

[kenc51]

So they only reason to update is for 8800 GT users with Sleep/Hibernate issues????

I think I'll pass.................I miss the monthly WHQL certfified drivers from ATI.

[dotslasher]

So many new drivers recently.

I'm using the 169.09 and they perform great in the recent games such as crysis and gears of war.
So i'll pass.

[Zertz]

I got them monday night on nVidia's website

[Apoptosis]

do you have access to their FTP site? These are still not on the public beta site: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/betadriv ... lang=en-us

[Zertz]

I just followed one of your older link for beta drivers and when I chose 8800GT, 169.12 were the ones available


They are online and public now anyways

[smokin_mitch]

although im not using a 8800gt, but rather a 8800gtx im using this driver (169.12) and call me crazy but my pc wakes up from sleep (vista 64) alot quicker than before (169.09)


with the older drivers sometimes my pc would not resume from sleep properly (no display, I would have to press reset button on pc case and then it would resume) but with the new beta driver 169.12 it has been resuming from sleep no problems thus far (touch wood)

[Apoptosis]

Just wanted to let everyone know that 169.12 drivers actually decrease DX10 performance in World in Conflict and Crysis when run on high or very high settings versus older 169.05 drivers.

With the XFX GeForce 8800GT I noticed a 4-5FPS drop on Crysis and a 10+ FPS drop on World in Conflict... All other games like Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Stalker and so on seem fine.