ED#85 : Getting NVIDIA ForceWare 174 To Work With GeForce 8 Cards

Dashken · 12th Mar 2008, 02:34 AM

The Windows Vista driver development for the GeForce 8 cards seems to be stopping with the ForceWare Release 169, the most recent of which is the ForceWare 169.44 driver. NVIDIA has restricted the use of Release 174 ForceWare driver only to the new GeForce 9 series cards. The recently-released GeForce 9600 GT is the only example of the new card series.

If you try to install ForceWare 174 using a GeForce 8 series card, it won't allow you to do so, stating that no compatible graphics card were found. However, it is very simple to hack the driver to allow its installation with a GeForce 8 or older graphics card. Let us show you how to do it and what you can expect to gain from it.

Here's a quote from the editorial :-

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"At this moment, we cannot be certain if the DirectX 10 problem is merely limited to our testbed but a far more widespread problem. But coupled with the fact that this driver sucks as far as GeForce 8 cards go, there's no real reason for you to hack it to run with your GeForce 8 series graphics card."

Link : ED#85 : Getting NVIDIA ForceWare 174 To Work With GeForce 8 Cards

TotalChaos · 7th Apr 2008, 08:58 AM

Im having good luck with 169.61 with Vista X64 and 174.70 beta worked fine for me for the most part

Adrian Wong · 8th Apr 2008, 07:03 PM

I have not tried 174.70 beta yet. Did NVIDIA include support for the GeForce 8 cards? I guess they would eventually allow it for the G92 cards at least.

CALLOFDUTY05 · 11th Apr 2008, 04:48 PM

I didn't have any problem getting 174.20 to work with my GTS 512.

TotalChaos · 13th Apr 2008, 11:27 PM

To be honest i dont remember, i use laptovideotogo to find all the most recent betas and they always offer modified .inf's . In this case I believe it was the original .inf

I have moved on to 174.82 beta's for Vista X64

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13th Apr 2008, 11:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
TotalChaos Newbie Join Date: 7 Apr 2008 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 7 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	To be honest i dont remember, i use laptovideotogo to find all the most recent betas and they always offer modified .inf's . In this case I believe it was the original .inf I have moved on to 174.82 beta's for Vista X64 Last edited by TotalChaos : 13th Apr 2008 at 11:28 PM. Reason: more info

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