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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 24, 2005
- Total Downloads: 1,730,338
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A newer version of nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) is available.
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- Average user rating: stars out of 58 votes
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From nVidia :nVidia ForceWare release 81.98 graphics driver is WHQL certified. The release features TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI. It also adds support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI. Another new feature is PureVideo high definition MPEG-2 de-interlacing support.
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User reviews of nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 58 votes
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28 out of 42 people found this review helpful
Version: nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
"Great for your NVidia card, unless you have a GeForce 2 or earlier."
Pros: They're free.
Helps improve the performance of your NVidia graphics card over the Microsoft drivers from Windows Update.
Cons: No support for NVidia GeForce 2, or earlier. The last NVidia driver package to support these cards were 72.13. Go find them over at guru3d.com.
Large download for a driver.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
Pros: This new driver offers the v-sync improvement for SLI to improve graphics rendering.
Also, it has mixed vendor support when running SLI so you can run 2 different brands of video cards if SLI, but it has to the same GPU (ex,7800gtx and 7800gtx, no 7800gt and 7800gtx)
Cons: Not that much improvements for single card users. Usually just SLI support, but remember to keep your drivers updated!
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
"Like all their updates, not good for older cards"
Pros: Nothing
Cons: I have a mx440gx card, downloaded the latest 81.98 drivers from nividia, then tried playing unreal tournament gotv the original version. The program ran slugglish, removed the drivers, and added drivers back in the 60. numbers, as the 70. ones was just as bad. Maybe good if you have a new fast card.
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3 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
"What good is this driver ? Good"
Pros: This driver is a good one. My old version caused problems with Guild Wars but this one worked fine. Probably would have some bug fixes.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: nVidia ForceWare Graphics Driver (Windows 2000/XP) 81.98 (12/21/2005)
"this got me out of a right mess"
Pros: i admit to being a bit numb when it comes to pc`s but my missus bless her threw out my software you know the type you keep in the boxes the hardware came in so as not to loose them! well this worked great for me when i had to format my pc
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