Geforce 8 drivers now support TurboCache

IN A MANNER untypical of Graphzilla, the company released a new set of official drivers not two weeks after the first batch arrived. The new drivers add official support for GeForce 8800 Ultra, but also to bring ton of fixes for various operating systems - bearing a revision number 158.22 for Windows XP, or 158.18 for Windows Vista operating systems.

And we're glad to report that Far Cry's screen-corruption with two 8800GTX boards is finally fixed. Control Panel crashes after running Ntune's Performance Benchmark were also fixed.

If you own Geforce 8 series product, these drivers are not to be missed. But if you own an older GeForce card, you're out of luck.

We have received several complaints that GeForce 7 for Windows XP was last time supported over six months ago, with ForceWare 93.71. If you own Windows Vista, your GeForce 6/7 board is supported with this revision of drivers.

To us, it seems Nvidia has confused its own drivers policy, which is not something we were used to. The firm has usually released a unified srt of drivers to cover all of their products - but this policy is now history.

Anyhow, we would advise you to read the Release notes of this driver as it contains quite an impressive list of fixes and we saw that TurboCache is now supported an GeForce 8 cards, which means the terrain is ready for arrival of low-end boards such as GeForce 8300 and 8400. µ

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Release notes
32-bit Windows XP for GeForce 8
64-bit Windows XP and Server 2003 for GeForce 8
32-bit Windows Vista for GeForce 6/7/8
64-bit Windows Vista for GeForce 6/7/8