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[justinkw1]

The 258.96 graphics drivers are now out of beta and are WHQL certified.

Official US mirrors:

• Desktop - Windows XP x86
• Desktop - Windows XP x64
• Desktop - Windows Vista / 7 x86
• Desktop - Windows Vista / 7 x64

Thanks to Oblox for finding the correct links to the notebook versions.

• Notebook - Windows XP x86
• Notebook - Windows XP x64
  
• Notebook - Windows Vista / 7 x86
• Notebook - Windows Vista / 7 x64

Update: Fixed download links for Windows Vista and Windows 7 notebook graphics drivers.

Edited by justinkw1, 19 July 2010 - 01:57 PM.

[Oblox]

Did you fully remove your old driver and re-install the new one?

[Oblox]

Floresscu, on 19 July 2010 - 09:13 AM, said:

Links for mobile drivers are dead.

They all work for me.

[BP13]

Oblox, on 19 July 2010 - 09:31 AM, said:

They all work for me.

When I go here: http://us.download.n...tional_whql.exe it says "File not found".

If it does work for you please upload it somewhere else.

Edited by BP13, 19 July 2010 - 09:35 AM.

[ricktendo64]

File not found. on the Win7 x86/64 notebook drivers

[RangerXML]

The beta drivers caused the powermizer not to work and caused crashes on several computers I tried them on, including my notebook. Gonna skip this release until they fix the glaring issues with these drivers. These are just the BETA with WHQL added.

[justinkw1]

Fixed the Windows Vista and Windows 7 notebook driver links -- NVIDIA had changed the file names to the downloads and that was why the links were broken.

[BP13]

Is there a modded .inf for the Notebook x86 one?

[RangerXML]

arjcba, on 19 July 2010 - 06:31 PM, said:

shame to hear that. nvidia is not getting the job done with these new driver set

On the Nvidia board a handful of people are complaining, doesn't seem to active though. On a side note, I went to get the latest 3D Vision drivers and they come with Geforce 258.91, something to look at.

*Correction*
They are misslabled, it is 258.96 in the driver back

And I found that while I was cleaning out the drivers, the PhysX drivers weren't uninstalling. I uninstalled them and hopefully it will work a bit better, I'll report back.

[Nvidia8600m]

This driver disable physx, while the beta version installed it on my 8600gs

[zipper]

Crap continues - my external VGA still doesn't show up - message is VGA disconnected when trying to force it to work.

[MDOGG]

Nvidia8600m, on 20 July 2010 - 08:28 AM, said:

This driver disable physx, while the beta version installed it on my 8600gs

Your 8600M GS shouldn't even support physx processing with newer drivers. The older drivers work with 16+ Cuda cores but the newer one's only work with 32+ Cuda cores.

[Nvidia8600m]

It seems that i have got it(physx) to work again with this driver.