NVIDIA Releases 296.10 GeForce Driver, Introduces Windows 8 Driver Support
by Andrew Cunningham on March 13, 2012 10:00 PM ESTNVIDIA has just posted the WHQL-certified GeForce driver 296.10 for Windows 7 and Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops, and has also released a 296.17 driver specifically for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The new driver package replaces the weeks-old 295.73 driver package, and both it and the Windows 8 driver support all GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 series cards and IGPs - the desktop versions include support for the DirectX9 6 and 7 series chips, and the laptop versions include support for mobile Quadro products.
A few months usually pass between NVIDIA driver releases, so the list of new stuff is pretty light relative to what we normally get: boosted SLI performance in Blacklight: Retribution, Dirt 3, Dishonored, Dungeon Defenders, F1 2011, and rFactor 2, and 3D vision support for Dear Esther and Deep Black: Reloaded. The Windows 8 driver adds WDDM 1.2 support for that OS. That's it.
You can download all of the drivers from NVIDIA's GeForce driver site, which is linked below.
Source: NVIDIA
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eddman - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - link
It also includes the latest version of physX, 9.12.0213, with updated SDKs for Batman Arkham City, Alice 2, etc., although one can simply download and install it separately.Toadster - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - link
and yes, TF2 is still being played! (albeit on one of my two video cards currently)Longscope - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - link
Maybe this will fix the timing errors on the 560 series cards using win7 64I can't even get to the logon screen for win7 with any driver newer than June's. I'll have to test it later.
Origin32 - Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - link
SLI support in Dungeon Defenders o.0. What are people running, 7600 SLI???Jjoshua2 - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
Just what I was thinking. It probably is a wee bit demanding with max AA on a 30" lcd.readyrover - Thursday, March 15, 2012 - link
I did the automatic upgrade on my Fermi Ti 560 and immediately afterwards my antivirus and Windows Defender were disabled, none of the new installed programs would uninstall and I could no longer log onto gmail or google HTTP due to a "bad certificate" error. I was able to use system restore and all is well now. But I didn't know if there were any reported problems with the new updates. Skyrim worked just fine with either driver, so no loss there. I may have had a combo of problems, but after going back to the older drivers I didn't receive the certificate error either...strange.