NVIDIA GPU driver 196.21 released

Robert Hallock 19 Jan, 2010 at 12:44pm ET Article published in Tech

NVIDIA has today announced the newest ForceWare version for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. This WHQL Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including Avatar Demo, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, City Bus Simulator, Dirt 2, Ferrari Virtual Race, GREED: Black Border, Mass Effect 2, Mortal Online, Ninja Blade, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Demo, Planet 51, RUSE, Serious Sam HD, and Wings of Prey.
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.09.1112.
Includes numerous bug fixes; refer to the release notes for a complete list.

Download

Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

Comments

19 Jan 2010 ~ 12:59pm Sledgehammer70 Glad to see a new update... Now that I am running Nvidia again, it is also nice to not have a system that crashes.
19 Jan 2010 ~ 1:39pm _k There is a CUDA update, 3.0.
19 Jan 2010 ~ 4:46pm NaturalViolence Actually that was introduced a few months ago in forceware 195.
19 Jan 2010 ~ 6:27pm _k Well I needed something to talk about thats what I picked.
19 Jan 2010 ~ 7:04pm mirage If you use Rivatuner (or a derivative like Precision) for overclocking, this driver breaks them.
19 Jan 2010 ~ 7:23pm _k What as in they will not work with the driver or the program crashes?
19 Jan 2010 ~ 7:34pm Serp You can't overclock anymore, specifically you can't change the shader clock speed.

From 182.08 to 196.21 my vantage score went up to 12139:D
19 Jan 2010 ~ 9:52pm Danial Precision works fine with these drivers, its only lacking the shader clock... and fwiw, overclocking shaders hasn't been very stable since 191 anyway.....
19 Jan 2010 ~ 10:36pm Serp Unless you have some updated version of precision other than v1.9.0 it's not working with 196.21
19 Jan 2010 ~ 10:58pm Sledgehammer70 its working for me...
20 Jan 2010 ~ 1:28am Leonardo

its working for me...

Are you overclocking shaders? That's a must for me. Shaders are the most important factor in GPU Folding@Home, MUCH more important than core clock speed. Memory speed is almost irrelevant. So Sledge, which video card tweaker are you using?
20 Jan 2010 ~ 9:15am mirage This driver disables overclocking with Rivatuner and Precision because of a bug in the driver according to Unwinder as I read at Rivatuner forum. I would expect a new Nvidia driver shortly after this, more likely another beta like 195.81.
16 Feb 2010 ~ 11:29pm Nicolas so we cant overclock any more ? :"( i just install new drivers.. and yeah.. i found that up..
16 Feb 2010 ~ 11:36pm Serp Rivatuner and EVGA Precision work, they have been updated for 196.21
16 Feb 2010 ~ 11:41pm Thrax Sort of irrelevant, as NVIDIA released fixed drivers 8 days later: http://tech.icrontic.com/news/nvidia-gpu-driver-196-34-released/
16 Feb 2010 ~ 11:42pm _k new beta drivers