New ForceWare Drivers Released

Any one knows, if the new drivers finaly fix the HDTV LCD problem? When installing any of their drivers past version 71.xx (have 6800 gt) I get a black screen while trying to install the new drivers and then my video card gets disabled and my computer dies, stuck in a locked black screen. I have to then go into safe mode and uninstall and go back to my old drivers. Have done clean installs, etc, nothing works.

Since many people have been wondering about Hi-Def hardware acceleration support (PureVideo), here's the nvidia page listing what's supported, and when: http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html

Note that if you have an AGP 68xx (NV40) chip you will never get either standard or hi-def H.264 or WMV-9 hardware decoding- it's broken in the chip itself (their spec's weren't final before the silicon went to fab).

Even on a PCI-E 6800GT or Ultra, you will not get H.264 or WMV-9 hardware decoding- they are also NV40 chips.

If you've got an AGP 66xx card (NV43), you're all set; same for PCI-E versions.

And all 76/78/79xx cards are fine, as are all Geforce Go (mobile) chips from the 66xx upward.

You do need to get the Purevideo decoder for MPEG-2 decoding, or an 'nvidia-friendly' decoder from Cyberlink (PowerDVD) or Intervideo (WinDVD), that supports DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration).

How would one do it to make H.264 media use hardware acceleration? This is really cool actually.

Anyone here with an A8N-SLI or other nForce 4 board with a dual core chip that have issues with the previoux 8x.xx drivers (like KOTOR1 not running or SMP in Quake 4 not working) - any chance these fix those?

dang when is the 64-bit version coming out???

Sweet, they added 6800 GS support just when I upgraded to it.