NVIDIA Releases GeForce 185.68 BETA Drivers

[js01]

They just want you to buy the 8 series but with a new name called the 100 series so they are still supporting them but with a different name I guess.

 

[alexp999]

Please dont forget that the Latest WHQL support the 8 series. It could be that NVIDIA better spend their time improving the latest cards and getting the driver working well, then add 8 series support back in for the WHQL.

 

[crazy pyro]

It's gonna be the same driver for GT100 and upto GTS250 cards and the 9XXX ones so what difference does keeping support for the 8XXX cards make?

 

[FryingWeesel]

acctualy from what i can see, it supports any g92 or newer card, and bta, the links u posted DONT WORK

http://laptopvideo2go.com/

thats the best place to download the drivers from in my experiance.

 

[RadeonProVega]

Well its all good, the 185.50 is doing just fine on my end with my 8400gs. I guess they have to move on sometime i guess lol.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

This is so sad that they only have support for 100 and 200 series now... what a mistake. The 8 series is still quite new...

Guys it's a BETA and a very early one. A moded 185.68 is allready being uploaded a Guru3D. They are not dropping support for 8 series cards, they will be in the next WHQL so stop crying.

 

[FryingWeesel]

8400gs, what a POS........

 

[Studabaker]

8400gs, what a POS........

The entire 8 series was POS except for the 8800.

 

[newtekie1]

Please dont forget that the Latest WHQL support the 8 series. It could be that NVIDIA better spend their time improving the latest cards and getting the driver working well, then add 8 series support back in for the WHQL.

It has happened in the past. When the 8 series first came out, all the beta drivers for them completely lacked support for the 7 series and below. Support was added back in later, and of course modded inf's added support back into the drivers that didn't officially support them either. This is not an official drop of support.

The entire 8 series was POS except for the 8800.

The 8600GT/S packed a pretty good punch for the time and price.

 

[Studabaker]

The 8600GT/S packed a pretty good punch for the time and price.

Nah I had the 8600GT for a year and a half til just a few weeks back and I think it was a turd of a card. Wish I would have saved up for an 8800, I'd still be using it.

 

[newtekie1]

Nah I had the 8600GT for a year and a half til just a few weeks back and I think it was a turd of a card. Wish I would have saved up for an 8800, I'd still be using it.

By todays standards, it is a rather weak card. However, when they came out more than 6 months before the 8800GT, they were very good cards. And they were very nicely priced compared to the G80 based alternatives at the time.

 

[phanbuey]

These drivers are pretty awesome!

 

[Hayder_Master]

3 drivers in one week

 

[caleb]

Haha drop support for 8x thats kinda funny to see a company choke on itself.
IMHO they made too much in the GFX market in a pretty short period of time.

I dont really get the point of buying a new GFX if youre on 8800gts 512 or similar.
Everything works more than fine on 1440x900 for me in current multiplayer games.

 

[ShadowFold]

Haha drop support for 8x thats kinda funny to see a company choke on itself.
IMHO they made too much in the GFX market in a pretty short period of time.

I dont really get the point of buying a new GFX if youre on 8800gts 512 or similar.
Everything works more than fine on 1440x900 for me in current multiplayer games.

An 8800GTS would choke at 1920x1080. At lower resolutions of course it's still good but for high res gamers such as my self a GTX 260 or HD 4850 is a must.

 

[dsdsdk]

2½ years isnt "quite new" when talking about gfx market. And they havent dropped support for 8 serie, just go with whql which work just fine.

 

[caleb]

Yeah I never actually got that part where ppl buy a >21inch screen and then play a game sitting 2 meters away from it to be able to grasp the whole action without running around the screen with your head and eyes.

A little offtopic.

 

[ShadowFold]

Yeah I never actually got that part where ppl buy a >21inch screen and then play a game sitting 2 meters away from it to be able to grasp the whole action without running around the screen with your head and eyes.

A little offtopic.

My screen is 21.5" I got it because 1920x1080 at that screen size looks AMAZING. Especially with 8x AA and everything on maximum

 

[caleb]

Do you play those games or just run them so you can see how nicely they look like in a high res ?

 

[ShadowFold]

Do you play those games or just run them so you can see how nicely they look like in a high res ?

I play Left 4 Dead and Oblivion all the time and I just got done beating Crysis Warhead again.

 

[Raptor_i]

i got this error while installing

although the installation completed .... then i go to test the " crysis WH 22% increase in performance" and i got 0 FPS increase in performance.

those are results of crysis WH benchmark:

182.08 driver

185.68 driver

so i just decided to go back to 182.46 which installed without any error.

 

[KainXS]

512mb is enough for crysis at 1920X1200 with no aa

 

[FryingWeesel]

i got this error while installing

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=24714&stc=1&d=1239277187

although the installation completed .... then i go to test the " crysis WH 22% increase in performance" and i got 0 FPS increase in performance.

those are results of crysis WH benchmark:

182.08 driver

185.68 driver

so i just decided to go back to 182.46 which installed without any error.

the error dosnt mean anything, the drivers work fine, i get thaterror when i upgrade without first uninstalling and cleaning the old drivers off, never causes any problems

 

[a_ump]

Yea as was said, G80 is 2.5yrs gonig on 3 yrs old. Still good cards, and the 8600GT(S) weren't bad since they were mainstream at release and matched the performance of previous highend cards, well once they were overclocked. Everyone jus thought they sucked cause 8800GTS/GTX/Ultra just blew people away performance wise, where as the 8600GT/S performance had already been seen on X1950PRO/XT(X) and 7950GT. They'll add support for 8 series back in for sure. I am still waiting for my question to be answered. Do these drivers benefit my 7 series any?

 

[3870x2]

acctualy from what i can see, it supports any g92 or newer card, and bta, the links u posted DONT WORK

http://laptopvideo2go.com/

thats the best place to download the drivers from in my experiance.

BTA? alex posted this one....
and they worked for me.

Also I got an error saying it had to close windows installer for some reason. It still said it completed successfully, and games run fine. I got a 500% increase in my COH FPS though. ( for some reason COH always ran like 400 fps on other peoples 9800GX2, but never mine until now)