[Review] ForceWare 174.16 WHQL
9600GT’s debut shocks us. At first we think the card is only a weaken G92, but after the test we are wrong. The card is good in mid-to high range. But we also start to think, maybe the driver also driver also improve a lot.
Words has it that NVIDIA improved 9600GT’s data/texture compression algorithm, optimized the graphic memory usage when it equip with small memory. We think the improvement is mainly at the Driver side, because the G94 is only a G92 shrink, architecture is the same.
GeForce 8800 GS 384M by Galaxy
So in this review you came see our comparison between two drivers, 169.32 WHQL and 174.16 WHQL. We use 8800GS 384MB to run this review because other G92 we own are all 512MB or higher, and we did not have a 8800GT 256MB.
The driver: 174.16 WHQL
174.16 WHQL have been released in Feb. 21st. In NVIDIA’s driver page, they listed these new features:
*Supports GeForce 9600GT
Added new PureVideo HD features for GeForce 9600 GT:
- Dynamic Contrast Enhancement
- Dynamic Blue, Green & Skin Tone Enhancements
- Per-display controls for the video settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel
- Dual-Stream Decode Acceleration*
- Microsoft Vista Aero display mode compatibility for Blu-ray & HD DVD playback
Driver Download
ForceWare 174.16 WHQL for XP (32bit，36.4MB)
ForceWare 174.16 WHQL for Vista (32bit，34.2MB)　
With our modded inf file, you can install 174.16 WHQL with your 8800GS.
174.16 32bit Mod for XP(NV_disp.inf)
174.16 32bit Mod for Vista (NV_disp.inf)
February 29th, 2008 at 5:53 am
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