New nVidia drivers for Windows Vista

Nvidia have today finally released new drivers for Windows Vista 32-bit (I think there may be 64 bit ones available too, haven’t checked). They are version 158.18.
They have now broken the old unified driver tradition and split them into separate releases for Geforce 6, 7 and 8 series, and then a unified driver for all older cards. Hopefully this will resolve the 8800 series performance problems in Vista. I’m not lucky enough to know, not having an 8800 series card :)

nVidia release notes:

# Adds support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, and GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS GPUs.
# Increased performance in 3D applications.
# PureVideo™ HD support.
# Add support for forcing Vertical Sync in DirectX applications.
# Updated NVIDIA Control Panel with improved user interface (Please see the Release Notes for more details).
# Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
# This driver supports the following 3D features:

* Single GPU support
o DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
o DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
o OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
* NVIDIA SLI support
o DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
o OpenGL support for GeForce 8800 GPUs

# DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver
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# Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issue

Download ‘em here.

Enjoy!

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