NVIDIA GeForce Release 178.24 WHQL Driver Available

malware · Oct 15, 2008

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 · Oct 15, 2008

"file not found" error ?

BOSE · Oct 15, 2008

That is odd.

A Cheese Danish · Oct 15, 2008

I still get a "File Not Found" error.

malware · Oct 15, 2008

francis511 said:
"file not found" error ?

What do you mean? Links work for me?

A Cheese Danish · Oct 15, 2008

Anyone else having problems?

francis511 · Oct 15, 2008

The nvidia links I mean

pagalms · Oct 15, 2008

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

johnspack · Oct 15, 2008

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

BOSE · Oct 15, 2008

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 · Oct 15, 2008

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 · Oct 15, 2008

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 · Oct 15, 2008

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

kyle2020 · Oct 15, 2008

Yeah downloading it now under vista 64 bit. Thanks!

alexp999 · Oct 15, 2008

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

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 15, 2008

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 · Oct 15, 2008

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

alexp999 · Oct 15, 2008

pagalms said:
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 :wtf:

kid41212003 · Oct 15, 2008

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

alexp999 · Oct 15, 2008

kid41212003 said:
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 · Oct 15, 2008

alexp999 said:
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):

alexp999 said:
Nice sig, I'd go for the one on the right

And so I, since Audi is my favorite

hat · Oct 15, 2008

lol, file size is XXmb

DOM · Oct 15, 2008

pagalms said:
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 :confused:

you changed it ?

Viscarious · Oct 15, 2008

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

I downloaded the 9 series driver and it doesnt work. :confused:

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

pagalms · Oct 15, 2008

DOM said:
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).

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