Graphzilla prods out 163.11 Forceware driver

NVIDIA BOFFINS at the Green Team's Satan Clara HQ have pushed out a new release of the ForceWare driver for GeForce 8-series GPUs on Windows Vista, now standing at release 163.11.

The Vista driver has been lagging behind the XP driver, even after the latter was ignominiously pulled from the nZone website. It's easy to see why - the 'fixed issues' section of the release notes states that Company of Heroes performance test now doesn't have image corruption and Supreme Commander now no longer crashes when played at the highest settings - both graphics workouts that webiste hardware testers are likely to do, and consequently likely to walk away with the opinion that Graphzilla hardware is b0rked. Which wouldn't be altogether incorrect.

Despite these fixes, it's not all rosy - there's no support for SLI anti-aliasing, QuadSLI is still hung out to dry, and HDMI support is basic at best. That's not to mention the SLI issues, which Nvidia is yet to resolve - STALKER runs faster with a single-GPU than in SLI in some places, and SLI scaling is noticeably less pronounced in Vista than under XP, especially in Half-Life and Battlefield 2142.

But nonetheless, anyone running one of Graphzilla's latest alongside the Volista's finest should go and grab the driver and beg for a little more performance. Hopefully, the team will get Vista sorted out soon enough. After all, it's only been nine months since the OS went gold, fellas. You can't expect things to be up and running in just nine months, eh? µ