NVIDIA G80 Vista driver at the end of the month

Jimmy 2004 · Jan 3, 2007, 03:26 PM

NVIDIA’s new DirectX10 cards should finally have the potential to take advantage of their new technology after an announcement by the company that it plans to release a Vista driver for the 8800 cards towards the end of January. Because these cards have so far been unable to run DirectX10 applications, their performance in this area has been a mystery, but hopefully this will begin the next generation of Windows based gaming. The G80 driver has suffered two month delays and this should hopefully satisfy those who purchased the cards wanting to be DirectX10 ready – although they will still have to wait for the games to be released before they can reap the benefits it has to offer.

Source: The Inquirer

WarEagleAU · Jan 3, 2007, 05:37 PM

Nice job Nvidia. Rush out a product and have two to three month delays with no working driver for Vista. the Knaves

Track · Jan 4, 2007, 07:51 AM

They dont want to release it before Vista comes out.

Jan 3, 2007, 03:26 PM	#1
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Jan 3, 2007, 05:37 PM	#2
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Jan 4, 2007, 07:51 AM	#3
Track Banned Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Israel Posts: 300 (0.12/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts System Specs	They dont want to release it before Vista comes out.

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