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It annoys me that Nvidia have been claiming they are ‘Vista Ready’ when their driver releases have obviously been stop gap releases. My two latest experiences with nvidia’s drivers were both fraught with problems.

Nvidia nForce driver

On the 23/02/2007 nvidia’s nForce driver suite; nForce RAID Class Controller, nForce4 Serial ATA Controller and nForce RAID Device, was available to Windows Vista users via Windows update. One would assume than, if the driver had been cleared by Microsoft to be offered via Windows update that the driver was in fact ready. My experiences suggest otherwise. After installing the nForce driver via Windows Update and rebooting I found myself unable to boot back into Windows Vista. Luckily, Windows provided some salvation with the ‘Last Known Good Configuration’ option which presumably rolled back to drivers that were working before Windows was unable to load.

As it stands nVidia doesn’t have a complete nForce driver equivalent to its WindowsXP counterpart. It looks like I will have to wait for the next release of ForceWare drivers and hope they give me more love than this release did.

Nvidia ForceWare 100.65 driver released

What was previously a beta driver; the 100.65 release, has now been officially released and the 64 bit ForceWare driver can be found here. Whilst I did get this driver loaded and working eventually, it rebooted my system twice forcing me to use the ‘Last Known Good Configuration’ option when booting Windows Vista.

What’s more, nvidia graphics drivers now appear much more aggressive when installing.

In a previous article I lamented on the Windows Vista Nvidia Control Panel Woes I was having. With nvidia’s latest Forceware 97.46 release, this is no longer the case.

Both a 32 bit and 64 bit version of the 97.46 ForceWare driver are available.

I haven’t had time to perform any conclusive testing as to the performance of the 97.46 release so I’m not going to go quoting numbers. But I do think from a subjective viewpoint that the new driver release feels faster in Battlefield 2 and Supreme Commander.

For more information on this release, you can find the release notes here.

It looks like Nvidia is picking up the pace a bit with its commitment to Windows Vista driver compliance and performance. Often switching to a new platform (such as Windows Vista) means poorer performance whilst the drivers are still targeting compatibility releases. Only after driver the majority of driver compatibility issues have been stamped out does performance become the main driving focus. After all, would you rather your card be supported, albeit in a reduced capacity, or not at alll?

Nvidia had the following to say:

“We are working diligently to make sure we achieve and maintain the level of driver quality and reliability that NVIDIA is known for. Over the coming weeks NVIDIA and our partners, along with the industry, will continue to update Windows Vista drivers to ensure maximum performance on 3D applications and add feature support.“

Nvidia also posted an

One thing which has always annoyed me about Windows is its inability to pick up and recognise nvidia raid sets (created by the nvidia raid bios utility). Windows XP and much earlier versions of Windows Vista I beta tested (CTP’s 50 and below) required that you have a 3rd party driver provided by the motherboard manufacturer. Having this nvidia raid driver (usually called nvraid) hanging around on a floppy drive was always inconvenient. I had long removed floppy drives from my computers years ago because I just didn’t need them. With Windows XP I would slip stream the nvidia raid drivers into a Windows XP installation using nlite so that I wouldn’t have to muck around with the normal F6 business during windows startup.

Skip forward to the present day of Windows Vista release January 30th. Windows finally just recognises my nvraid array. Such a little thing yet such a big win in convenience.

Most drivers have proven to be ok in 64 bit Windows Vista so far. Windows Vista (at least the 64 bit incantation) still lacks the driver maturity of Windows XP, but this is something that will come with time now the official launch was witnessed on January 30th.

My main gripe has been with Nvidia. Of all companines, I would have thought Nvidia would be ahead of the game when it comes to Vista driver support. Sure, they have had beta drivers throughout the Vista CTP relases and RTM release but I would have expected their graphics driver to be much more mature than it is come launch date.

The current Vista 64 bit driver; ForceWare Release 100 - Version 100.59 continues to throw up a version mismatch error when trying to launch the control panel. It worked once when I firt installed the driver, to never be seen again.