New nForce Unified Drivers.

[Quige]

Hello,
Not seen it mentioned so just to let nForce mboard owners aware if not already that there are new unified drivers ...

Version: 3.13
Release Date: November 3, 2003

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_3.13

for the XP version.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp for others.

On a Checkpoint NG course so can't check them out myself until I get home.

WHQL certified kit for nForce, nForce2, and nForce3
First release of NVIDIA IDE driver for Windows XP and Windows 2000
General compatibility fixes
Audio Improvements:
Realtek ALC655 codec support added
Fix for BSOD on loading DLS files
Reduced susceptibility to audio glitches under heavy system load; additional fixes for 6 channel GetPosition glitches
ASIO support for recording at sample rates other than 48kHz; lower and more predictable latency
Fixes for NOLF. The 3D minimum and maximum distance and the roll off factor were not being taken into account for air absorption. Also modified reverb gain so that the max distance was taken into account
Fix for EAX reverbs; initialized EAX reverbs to off when querying for the EAX listener interface; updated EAX property handlers to ignore invalid parameters instead of range limiting -- this matches Creative EAX behavior

Windows XP Driver Versions

Audio driver 3.66 (WHQL)
Audio utilities 3.66
Ethernet driver 3.63 (WHQL)
GART driver 3.34 (WHQL)
Memory controller driver 3.38 (WHQL)
SMBus driver 3.38 (WHQL)
IDE In-the-box driver 3.58 (WHQL)
IDE 2.0 NVIDIA driver 3.66 (WHQL)
Display driver 52.16 (WHQL)
Installer 3.77

Windows 2000 Driver Versions

Audio driver 3.66 (WHQL)
Audio utilities 3.66
Ethernet driver 3.63
GART driver 3.34 (WHQL)
Memory controller driver 3.38 (WHQL)
SMBus driver 3.38 (WHQL)
IDE 2.0 NVIDIA driver 3.66 (WHQL)
Display driver 52.16 (WHQL)
Installer 3.77

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I got them on release, Fixed a shedload of probs with computers i built for mates. New SW IDE Driver that shock horror works

Took their dear sweet time releasing them mind.

 

[Testin da Cable]

ah, good! pleased no end, this may be the answer to a halo audio problem I've discovered

 

[throdgrain]

I have an NForce 2 board, but the bloody thing works fine, is it worth doing this ?

 

[Testin da Cable]

I personally find the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" stanza to be a good one. I have to upgrade, because there is a problem with my kit, but if you're having no issues at all I don't see why you should.
Having said that, I can argue the other way round as well hehe

 

[Clowneh!]

OI QUIDGE I LOST THE THREAD THAT FIXED MY SOUNDSTORM STUFF

 

[Panda On Smack]

Be careful if you remove nForce drivers because they can remove the Display settings in your regsitry as I find out last week or so

 

[Testin da Cable]

erk! thanks for the tip!

 

[Panda On Smack]

no probs

here is the link that solved the problem, scroll to the last few posts.

 

[Testin da Cable]

very nice

this is the key that needs to be backed up:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}] 
"Class"="Display"

 

[Quige]

Originally posted by Clowneh!
OI QUIDGE I LOST THE THREAD THAT FIXED MY SOUNDSTORM STUFF

If you're talking about the loss of the 'mixer' panel in Soundstorm I think the thing to do was to download the international version of the drivers rather than the smaller US version.

 

[Clowneh!]

Thanks man

 

[FatBusinessman]

Originally posted by Quige
Not seen it mentioned so just to let nForce mboard owners aware if not already that there are new unified drivers ...

You really ought to check your favourite website more often, laddie...

 

[Clowneh!]

It's obviously gonna be mentioned somewhere in the world

 

[Cdr]

Re: Re: New nForce Unified Drivers.

Originally posted by FatBusinessman
You really ought to check your favourite website more often, laddie...

I did check my fav website out and they were posted on Driverheaven 2 days ago

 

[Clowneh!]

I found out because I was bored out of my head and I pressed Windows Update

 

[Quige]

Re: Re: New nForce Unified Drivers.

Originally posted by FatBusinessman
You really ought to check your favourite website more often, laddie...

is it being updated regularly again, ... it seemed to have a lull for a while and I fell out of the habit of checking. If the news isn't updating every day, you just aren't going to check every day.

 

[(Shovel)]

I think "we're getting there" is a fair way of putting it

News is going up, and I've been working on getting the news coming direct to us, so as to be rather more prompt with news, and thereby making the newsies lives easier

If anyone has any news related ideas or hints, or if there are specific things that you would like to see on the news page that currently seem not to be, then please send me an email or pm and I'll give it a shot
shovel@tecnation.co.uk