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Driver Information


  • Released By: NVIDIA
  • Driver Version: 185.66
  • Operating System: Windows Vista 32bit
  • Driver Date: 2009-04-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Driver Size: 53.03MB (MD5: dce6412ada5e657a3699dbc7b195ee32)
  • Release Notes/Change Log (PDF): False
  • MS WHQL Certificate: False
  • Setup Files Included: True
  • Multilanguage Support: True

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INF nv_disp.inf contains 53 devices
[DEV_042C] NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
[DEV_05E0] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
[DEV_05E1] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
[DEV_05E2] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
[DEV_05EB] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
[DEV_0600] NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
[DEV_0601] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
[DEV_0602] NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
[DEV_0604] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
[DEV_0605] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
[DEV_0606] NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
[DEV_060D] NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
[DEV_0610] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
[DEV_0611] NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
[DEV_0612] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+
[DEV_0613] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
[DEV_0614] NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
[DEV_0615] NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
[DEV_0622] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
[DEV_0623] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS
[DEV_0625] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
[DEV_0626] NVIDIA GeForce GT 130
[DEV_0627] NVIDIA GeForce GT 140
[DEV_05E3] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
[DEV_05E6] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
[DEV_062D] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
[DEV_062E] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
[DEV_065B] NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
[DEV_06E0] NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
[DEV_06E1] NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS
[DEV_0637] NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
[DEV_0640] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
[DEV_0641] NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
[DEV_0643] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
[DEV_0644] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS
[DEV_0645] NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS
[DEV_0646] NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
[DEV_0847] NVIDIA GeForce 9100
[DEV_0860] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_0861] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_0864] NVIDIA GeForce 9300
[DEV_0865] NVIDIA GeForce 9300
[DEV_0868] NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI
[DEV_0871] NVIDIA GeForce 9200
[DEV_06E6] NVIDIA GeForce G100
[DEV_06E7] NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE
[DEV_06E9] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
[DEV_084A] NVIDIA nForce 730a
[DEV_084C] NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI
[DEV_084D] NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI
[DEV_086A] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_086C] NVIDIA GeForce 9300 / nForce 730i
[DEV_086D] NVIDIA GeForce 9200

Vista x86

Vista x64

WinXP x86

WinXP x64

Release Highlights:

New in Release 185.66:

· Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.

· Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.

· Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

o Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War

o Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

o Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled

o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled

o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2

o Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror?s Edge with antialiasing enabled

· Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!

· Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

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Seem to be running fine on my GeForce Go 7700. Was surprised to see Ambient Occlusion is also present for my card, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's horrendously slow. Can't test any games at the moment.

Stopper by: do you know the hardware ID for your card? I can probably tell you what to add to the inf file to make it work. (I posted some instructions in the 185.65 thread for someone else, so maybe you can figure it out yourself from that)

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what's wrong with Nvidia in these days? End of the world coming close for them? :)

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Seem to be running fine on my GeForce Go 7700. Was surprised to see Ambient Occlusion is also present for my card, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's horrendously slow. Can't test any games at the moment.

Stopper by: do you know the hardware ID for your card? I can probably tell you what to add to the inf file to make it work. (I posted some instructions in the 185.65 thread for someone else, so maybe you can figure it out yourself from that)

Oh I would be soooo greatful if you could tell me what to do (right now it just says it won't install for me because the driver doesn't match my hardware or something). I just started messing around with the infs yesterday (never really touched them before) so I'm not quite sure what the ID is. Would it be under the manufacturer part of the inf? I know my 8800GTX isn't listed in this one so I guess what I'd have to do is get an older version drivers inf file (one where my card is supported but not sure which one) and take the number and insert it in? Or is it some other part of the inf that this number is under?

Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

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You don't even need a custom inf to install it in your system, decompress the file, do it as though you were doing the normal custom inf install using the original inf, but select the closes card to yours and click ok. This is the way I use to install drivers as WHQL on my old notebook, before NV released notebook drivers.

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hey 'stopper by' go into device manager/display adapters/right-click/properties/details tab/hardware ids.

What you got? example.. I had: %NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608&SUBSYS_05771588 and thx to 'ver greeneyes' I put "NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX" = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608 into new .inf.

So just try and change the appropriate info.

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I extracted the driver with 7 zip and added my card to inf and it works great only thing was had to manually restart after install. Gives a nice increase in performance though even faster load times. Hopefully it will get optimized.

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hey 'stopper by' go into device manager/display adapters/right-click/properties/details tab/hardware ids.

What you got? example.. I had: %NVIDIA_G92.DEV_0608.1% = nv_G9x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608&SUBSYS_05771588 and thx to 'ver greeneyes' I put "NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX" = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0608 into new .inf.

So just try and change the appropriate info.

I actually have four lines, all start like this:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191&

Where they differ is the last couple of lines. So question is, which one should I pick? On a side note, I don't have any driver installed at the moment so it might look different if I install one (maybe there will only be one line).

Also, if I find the right line, where do I put it in the inf file (under manufacturer)? Thanks for the reply!

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powermizer doesn't work!! powermizer switcher says "settings not found" !!

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You don't even need a custom inf to install it in your system, decompress the file, do it as though you were doing the normal custom inf install using the original inf, but select the closes card to yours and click ok. This is the way I use to install drivers as WHQL on my old notebook, before NV released notebook drivers.

If you're talking about the have disk method of installing the drivers (manually) yeah it works (they install) but the control panel doesn't install with it. I need the control panel that's why I need the get the inf right.

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ok, big problems, any help is welcome:

I modded the inf and removed previos driver with driversweeper , tried the have disk method and game me an error saying "Acces denied"

my problem is : I'm an administrator UAC is off everything is put tu not deny it, so...what do I do ?

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hey guys ... this driver has ambient occlusion support and also it now supports CUDA's concurrent memory copy & Execute in 64 bit ... i have an nvidia 8600 GT and i modded the above drivers by changing the device id it seems to work fine ... some three new openGL extensions are added now my extensions are 178 previously it was 175 for 182.50 ... . gona test some games now ...

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i tried adding in my card to the inf, and it still wouldnt install

added:

%NVIDIA_DEV.0298.01% = Section001, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0298

and

NVIDIA_DEV.0298.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

just like all the other cards are listed

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I actually have four lines, all start like this:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191&

Where they differ is the last couple of lines. So question is, which one should I pick? On a side note, I don't have any driver installed at the moment so it might look different if I install one (maybe there will only be one line).

Also, if I find the right line, where do I put it in the inf file (under manufacturer)? Thanks for the reply!

K well you could try putting in:

"NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX" = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191

Just put it near the other similar looking lines.

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Actually for your card it may just be:

"NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX" = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191

without the '8800M' cause I think thats how it appears in other .inf files whereas mine says 9800M.

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The name doesn't matter, it just determines how the card will appear in device manager and the display properties.

You could name it "super happy fun time XXX" and it wouldn't care :)

As for the many Hardware IDs, any variant will do - it goes from most specific to least specific. There's some even less specific ones in Compatible IDs, and you can find the one your current driver used in 'Matching device Id'.

Incidentally, the full Device Instance ID can be found in 'Device Instance Path', but you'd have to strip off everything after the second backslash to use it.

For now, please use Section003, as this appears to be what most cards use. I think Section006 is for hybrid and integrated cards. This may change in the future, and modded infs will probably add some more. (these names correspond to sections in the inf - if you scroll down you'll see a [section003] section, and a [section006] section.. in older drivers you'd find a [nv_G9x] section and so on)

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For now, please use Section003, as this appears to be what most cards use.

my card has Section001 and it wouldnt install

I changed it to Section003 and it will now install

kinda weird, but hey, I'm down with it lol

thanks

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Sad story; these also do not work with CS:S.

I WANT CSS NAOOWWWWW

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It works on my go 7700 after editing 2 lines in the inf.

In the old inf:

%NVIDIA_G73.DEV_0397.1% = mobile_nv_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0397

and

NVIDIA_G73.DEV_0397.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700"

Become in the new one:

%NVIDIA_DEV.0397.01% = Section003, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0397

and

NVIDIA_DEV.0397.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700"

Install works fine.

Control panel works fine, with new options for colours (but without french translation there)

Powermizer works but only for GPU, not for memory

O/C works

3D mark 06 score is not better than previous, and vista seems slower

So I prefered to return to 182.50, and the reinstallation needed an amazing double reboot that I never seen before (but no bugs or BSOD).

@+

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Hi,

Im new to this forum, i have a dell m1530 laptop with a 256MB NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 Graphics Card.

is this the correct forceware for my card or am i in the wrong place?

Thanks for advice in advance.

MG

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I prefer you the last Dox 182.46 from here for u mysticgenius

Link: Dox Optimised 182.46

It is a stable release for almost anyone.

You should try this or an other WHQL if u got problems with this.

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