NVIDIA GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL Driver Available

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New GeForce release 178.24 WHQL driver is up for grabs at NVIDIA. This release is for all GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs. The newly-released GeForce 9-series motherboard GPUs are also supported. The 178.24 driver also includes several application compatibility fixes and some performance improvements in various game titles (read below).

DOWNLOAD: GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL



Release Highlights:

• WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
• Adds support for GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT and 9400 GT GPUs.
• Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.09.04).
• Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
• Adds support for 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel D5400XS motherboards.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
  Supports CUDA.
• Supports NVIDIA GeForce 3D Stereo Technology.
• Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
• Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v178.24 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
  - Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
  - Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
  - Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
  - Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
  - Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  - 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
  - 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
  - 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  - 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
• Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.

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[francis511]

"file not found" error ?

 

[BOSE]

That is odd.

 

[A Cheese Danish]

I still get a "File Not Found" error.

 

[malware]

"file not found" error ?

What do you mean? Links work for me?

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Anyone else having problems?

 

[francis511]

The nvidia links I mean

 

[pagalms]

No problems for me
P.s 178.26 available for Quadro cards

 

[johnspack]

I get file not found for the xp64 driver, I was able to get the vista64 driver.....

 

[BOSE]

Yup, file is still not found. Nvidia forgot to upload it to its site...lol ... 8series card, Win XP. But it works for Vista 64bit.

 

[johnspack]

Good ole guru3d.. here's the xp64 one, and links for the other oses too!
http://downloads.guru3d.com/GeForce-Forceware-178.24-WHQL-XP-64-bit-download-2090.html

 

[BOSE]

And 32bit Xp as well.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/downloadget.php?id=2089&file=1&evp=abc06ceb8ca483829d16ecf7c72f5780

p.s.

The size of it is 120mb!

 

[johnspack]

Yeah, because it's the international version, a little bigger.

 

[kyle2020]

Yeah downloading it now under vista 64 bit. Thanks!

 

[alexp999]

Wow, this was quick. Any reasons for the update from 178.13?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I just downloaded their new driver the other day and now they have another one? Since when does nVIDIA release driver updates twice in one month? They usually have a trend of once every 6-8 months.

 

[pagalms]

There was a period when Nvidia released new driver versions every 2 - 3 days. 175 if i'm right

 

[alexp999]

There was a period when Nvidia released new driver versions every 2 - 3 days. 175 if i'm right

Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right

And it always seemed to me you were lucky to get a driver update out of nvidia every other month, now two in the space of a few weeks

 

[kid41212003]

I think the Release Highlights are the same as the previous version.

 

[alexp999]

I think the Release Highlights are the same as the previous version.

Is the only thing they have changed, the add support for new 9 series cards?

 

[pagalms]

Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right

And it always seemed to me you were lucky to get a driver update out of nvidia every other month, now two in the space of a few weeks

I'm just checking guru3d and nvidia sites for driver updates every day
I can get this done for GeForce cards, but not all (in case if someone cares about 0,02):

Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right

And so I, since Audi is my favorite

 

[hat]

lol, file size is XXmb

 

[DOM]

I'm just checking guru3d and nvidia sites for driver updates every day
I can get this done for GeForce cards, but not all (in case if someone cares about 0,02):

And so I, since Audi is my favorite

where did the .26 come from you changed it ?

 

[Viscarious]

http://img.techpowerup.org/081015/Untitled296.jpg

I downloaded the 9 series driver and it doesnt work.

Im on a laptop and I dont see any drivers for the 9 series mobile so....what the hell?

 

[pagalms]

where did the .26 come from you changed it ?

Nope. .26 is for Quadro cards and as we know, they are based on the same GPUs as GeForce cards (except some models).