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Windows 7 FAQ

By mobilenvidia • July 1, 2009 (2009-07-01) at 04:32:40 GMT

Might make for some interesting reading while we wait for October 22nd smile.gif
QUOTE
With Windows Vista finally behind us, it's time to turn our attention to the next Windows client release, Windows 7. (Microsoft had used other code-names, like "Vienna" and "Windows Seven," to describe this product in the past. Clearly, what's needed is a central location for accurate information about Windows 7, from a source you can trust. This is it.

The FAQ can be found here

NVIDIA® ION™ Graphics Processor Comes to Laptops

By mobilenvidia • June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30) at 04:43:11 GMT

Just got this in NVIDIA email:

Prior to Computex show in Taiwan earlier this month, NVIDIA and Lenovo advanced mobile computing by introducing the world's first NVIDIA® ION™-based laptop. Lenovo designed the IdeaPad S12 as a thin, lightweight, low-power laptop with a 12-inch screen and improved application. The Lenovo IdeaPad S12 has the graphics horsepower to support high definition media and many PC games which will not run on most low-cost small PCs. NVIDIA ION enables these capabilities with the industry's best graphics performance for low-power CPUs. With Lenovo IdeaPad S12 and NVIDIA ION, watch 1080p high definition video with smooth and quick playback, or hookup an external monitor via an HDMI connection and watch on the big screen.

More Info

Forceware 186.12 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30) at 03:47:13 GMT

Just spotted these over at Dell.
These are for the Alienware Laptop M17x
Dell calls them 'Performance Drivers', they do include the Performance Driver setup (pdsetup.exe) but this is included with quite a few drivers now, so nothing new.

Not often Dell has BETA drivers as these are.

Driver Information
  • Released By: NVIDIA
  • Driver Version: 186.12
  • Operating System: Windows Win7 64bit
  • Driver Date: 2009-06-04 (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Driver Size: 65.95MB (MD5: 576ed06785e978fc7bd4b6cbed4d98cc)
  • Release Notes/Change Log (PDF):
  • MS WHQL Certificate:
  • Setup Files Included:
  • Multilanguage Support:

Languages (12)
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Latin American Spanish
French
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Information Files (1 files supporting 45 models)
CODE
* nvdm.inf supports 45 models:
[DEV_0407&SUBSYS_019C1028] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
[DEV_0409&SUBSYS_01F11028] NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
[DEV_040D&SUBSYS_019B1028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M
[DEV_0425&SUBSYS_02751028] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
[DEV_0427&SUBSYS_020A1028] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
[DEV_0428&SUBSYS_020A1028] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
[DEV_0429&SUBSYS_01FE1028] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
[DEV_042B&SUBSYS_019C1028] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M
[DEV_042D&SUBSYS_019B1028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 360M
[DEV_0608&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
[DEV_0609&SUBSYS_019B1028] NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
[DEV_060A&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
[DEV_060B&SUBSYS_019C1028] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT
[DEV_060C&SUBSYS_019C1028] NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
[DEV_0617&SUBSYS_02A21028] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
[DEV_0618&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
[DEV_061C&SUBSYS_019B1028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M
[DEV_061D&SUBSYS_02EF1028] NVIDIA N10E-GLM
[DEV_061E&SUBSYS_02511028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M
[DEV_061F&SUBSYS_02EF1028] NVIDIA N10E-GLM3
[DEV_0628&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_062C&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_0631&SUBSYS_02A21028] NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
[DEV_063A&SUBSYS_02511028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M
[DEV_0648&SUBSYS_02C01028] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
[DEV_0649&SUBSYS_02501028] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
[DEV_065A&SUBSYS_02501028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M
[DEV_065C&SUBSYS_02501028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
[DEV_06E8&SUBSYS_02711028] NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
[DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_02DE1028] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
[DEV_06EB&SUBSYS_024F1028] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M
[DEV_06FB&SUBSYS_02341028] NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
[DEV_0860&SUBSYS_02711028] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_0862&SUBSYS_02A11028] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_0866&SUBSYS_02BA1028] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_0867&SUBSYS_02711028] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_0868&SUBSYS_02711028] NVIDIA nForce 760i SLI
[DEV_0870&SUBSYS_02711028] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
[DEV_0A34&SUBSYS_02A21028] NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
[DEV_0A3C&SUBSYS_040C1028] NVIDIA N10P-GLM
[DEV_0A69&SUBSYS_04181028] NVIDIA GeForce G105M
[DEV_0A6C&SUBSYS_040B1028] NVIDIA Quadro NVS 170M
[DEV_0CA8&SUBSYS_02A21028] NVIDIA N10E-GS
[DEV_0CA9&SUBSYS_02A21028] NVIDIA N10E-GE
[DEV_0CBC&SUBSYS_040C1028] NVIDIA N10P-GLM4


Forceware 186.12 Win 7/Vista x64

QUOTE
Fixed Issues–Windows 7, 64-bit
Multiple-GPU Issues
• Dual Quadro FX 3700 (G92), 3ds Max 2009: Viewcube and Steeringwheels
show corruption in DirectX 10 mode. [514858]
Worked around a DirectX 10 MultisampleEnable setting limitation found in
GPUs prior to GT200.

Forceware 186.21 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 29, 2009 (2009-06-29) at 08:33:14 GMT

Just found these over at Fujitsu-Siemens.
Offcially for the Geforce GTX 240M

Driver Information
  • Released By: NVIDIA
  • Driver Version: 186.21
  • Operating System: Windows Win7 64bit
  • Driver Date: 2009-06-16 (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Driver Size: 66.23MB (MD5: ae715bc3f9769001c4b7421b9dbfd9b0)
  • Release Notes/Change Log (PDF):
  • MS WHQL Certificate:
  • Setup Files Included:
  • Multilanguage Support:

Languages (28)
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Iberian Portuguese
Portuguese Brazilian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
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Information Files (1 files supporting 9 models)
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* nvfu.inf supports 9 models:
[DEV_062C&SUBSYS_22D71019] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_0649&SUBSYS_30081509] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
[DEV_0652&SUBSYS_300C1509] NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
[DEV_065C&SUBSYS_11471734] NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
[DEV_06E8&SUBSYS_11461734] NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
[DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_22D51019] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
[DEV_0860] NVIDIA GeForce 9400
[DEV_086F&SUBSYS_CB7910DE] NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
[DEV_0A34&SUBSYS_118E1734] NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M


Windows 7 and Vista x64

QUOTE
Fixed Issues–Windows 7, 64-bit
Multiple-GPU Issues
• SLI, P658: Error in SLI Performance Mode text when global settings used.
[550596]
The user interface had not been able to determine if a value to be displayed was from
a global setting.

Synaptics Touchpad v13.0.4.0

By mobilenvidia • June 29, 2009 (2009-06-29) at 04:56:41 GMT

First a big thanks to our friends at Station-drivers and also to Galdere for pointing these out.

Latest and greatest Touchpad drivers from Synaptics, but still well over a month old.
Lots of changes since v12 (see driver post)

Synaptics v13.0.4.0

INF v4.010

By mobilenvidia • June 28, 2009 (2009-06-28) at 07:01:48 GMT

Windows XP finally get the new format treatment.
190.15 is the first to get this treatment.

Added and changed some GPU's that NVIDIA decided to change names.

Renamed Geforce GTX 180M to 280M
Renamed Geforce GTX 170M to 260M
Added Geforce GT 220M
Renamed Geforce 9600 S to 9500GS
Rebamed Geforce 9650 S to 9550GS

EVGA SLI Enhancement v13

By Dox • June 26, 2009 (2009-06-26) at 16:18:46 GMT

Unofficial patch from EVGA to enable sli in various games.
The patch is for driver 186.18. Works with XP, Vista and Win7.

CODE

Version 13 (06.26.09) - Based on NVIDIA 186.18 Driver
Changelist:

New SLI profiles from EVGA SLI Enhancement Patch:

* Enables SLI support for ArmA 2 game and demo

* Enables SLI support for Merchants of Brooklyn


New Profiles from NVIDIA in 186.18 driver:

* Enables SLI support for Dark Sectorr
* Enables SLI support for Trine
* Enables SLI support for Prototype
* Enables SLI support for Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures
* Enables SLI support for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
* Enables SLI support for Free Realms
* Enables SLI support for Wolfenstein
* Enables SLI support for Order of War
* Enables SLI support for Disciples 3
* Enables SLI support for Bigworld


Download - LV2G's Server.
More Info
Seen this over at WindowsteamBlog

QUOTE
Today we have some news to share around Windows 7 including answering what may be some of the “hottest” questions people have as we head toward General Availability (GA) on October 22nd.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Brad Brooks, Corporate VP for Windows Consumer Marketing, to talk about today’s announcements....

So here’s the low-down on pricing for Windows 7. The estimated retail prices for upgrade packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

* Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99
* Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): $199.99
* Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): $219.99


And the estimated retail prices for full packaged retail product of Windows 7 in the U.S. are:

* Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99
* Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99
* Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99


This means that Windows 7 Home Premium full retail product is $40.00 less than Windows Vista Home Premium today.

For the whole article head on over here

Broadcom 943xx Driver v5.10.91.8

By mobilenvidia • June 26, 2009 (2009-06-26) at 05:27:43 GMT

Our good friends at Station-drivers found these.
Latest Broadcom WLAN drivers.

Broadcom v5.10.91.8

Forceware 185.86 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 25, 2009 (2009-06-25) at 08:47:41 GMT

Just found these over at Alienware.
Mobile set, lots of GPU's supported.

Driver Information
  • Released By: NVIDIA
  • Driver Version: 185.86
  • Operating System: Windows Vista 64bit
  • Driver Date: 2009-05-01 (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Driver Size: 62.53MB (MD5: f89846b16044806b7ccd3b8234e4f8a7)
  • Release Notes/Change Log (PDF):
  • MS WHQL Certificate:
  • Setup Files Included:
  • Multilanguage Support:

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German
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Spanish
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Finnish
French
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Hungarian
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Dutch
Norwegian
Polish
Iberian Portuguese
Portuguese Brazilian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

Information Files (1 files supporting 40 models)
CODE
* nvam.inf supports 40 models:
[DEV_0405&SUBSYS_16341043] NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
[DEV_0407&SUBSYS_3D7B17AA] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
[DEV_0408&SUBSYS_19021043] NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
[DEV_0409&SUBSYS_18321043] NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
[DEV_0425&SUBSYS_826C1043] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
[DEV_0427&SUBSYS_3D7A17AA] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
[DEV_0428&SUBSYS_82651043] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
[DEV_042E&SUBSYS_387217AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
[DEV_060A&SUBSYS_20271043] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
[DEV_060C&SUBSYS_16201043] NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
[DEV_0617&SUBSYS_20031043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
[DEV_0618&SUBSYS_20281043] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
[DEV_0628&SUBSYS_20121043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_062A&SUBSYS_20021043] NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
[DEV_062B&SUBSYS_20201043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
[DEV_062C&SUBSYS_20171043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_0648&SUBSYS_387917AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
[DEV_0649&SUBSYS_20061043] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
[DEV_064A&SUBSYS_20091043] NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
[DEV_064B&SUBSYS_3A2717AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
[DEV_064C&SUBSYS_20221043] NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
[DEV_0652&SUBSYS_20251043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
[DEV_0653&SUBSYS_1A421043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
[DEV_0654&SUBSYS_20391043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
[DEV_06E8&SUBSYS_20081043] NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
[DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_90031B0A] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
[DEV_06EC&SUBSYS_20261043] NVIDIA GeForce G 105M
[DEV_06F1&SUBSYS_20321043] NVIDIA GeForce G105M
[DEV_0862&SUBSYS_16C21043] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_0866&SUBSYS_20091854] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_086E&SUBSYS_40061B0A] NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
[DEV_086F&SUBSYS_20081854] NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
[DEV_0872&SUBSYS_1AA21043] NVIDIA GeForce G102M
[DEV_0873&SUBSYS_19B41043] NVIDIA GeForce G102M
[DEV_0876&SUBSYS_12021849] NVIDIA ION
[DEV_0A28&SUBSYS_20311043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
[DEV_0A34&SUBSYS_20401043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
[DEV_0A74&SUBSYS_20381043] NVIDIA GeForce G210M
[DEV_0CA9&SUBSYS_20331043] NVIDIA N10E-GE
[DEV_0CAD&SUBSYS_20351043] NVIDIA N10E-ES


Vista x32

Vista x64

QUOTE
Fixed Issues–Windows 7, 32-bit (None)
There were no issues to report for this version.
Fixed Issues–Windows 7, 64-bit (None)
There were no issues to report for this version.


NVIDIA Audio drivers also included with these

RealTek Audio Codec R2.27

By mobilenvidia • June 23, 2009 (2009-06-23) at 08:36:12 GMT

RealTek have released another update to their audio codec, seems to be fortnightly these last few months.

RealTek R2.27

Atheros WLAN v2.0.0.73 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 23, 2009 (2009-06-23) at 08:25:28 GMT

Found this driver in Windows 7 Build 7232.
I only downloaded x64 version so only that version is uploaded here.
Some with build 7232 32bit version can attach the driver here if they would like to share it with us.
Not as new as 8.0.0.144 uploaded yesterday.

Atheros v2.0.0.73

Modded INF also made over here

Forceware 186.11 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 22, 2009 (2009-06-22) at 09:22:36 GMT

Just found these over at ASUS.
A mobile WHQL set.
I've included the audio driver as well in a seperate dir for those that like that too.

Driver Information
  • Released By: ASUS
  • Driver Version: 186.11
  • Operating System: Windows Win7 32bit
  • Driver Date: 2009-06-03 (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Driver Size: 53.79MB (MD5: 196d36c3b58a74712e28fe400b2f7466)
  • Release Notes/Change Log (PDF):
  • MS WHQL Certificate:
  • Setup Files Included:
  • Multilanguage Support:

Languages (28)
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Czech
Danish
German
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UK English
Spanish
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Finnish
French
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Hungarian
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Iberian Portuguese
Portuguese Brazilian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Thai
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Simplified Chinese
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Information Files (1 files supporting 37 models)
CODE
* nvam.inf supports 37 models:
[DEV_0405&SUBSYS_16341043] NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS
[DEV_0407&SUBSYS_3D7B17AA] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
[DEV_0408&SUBSYS_19021043] NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS
[DEV_0409&SUBSYS_18321043] NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
[DEV_0425&SUBSYS_826C1043] NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
[DEV_0427&SUBSYS_3D7A17AA] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
[DEV_0428&SUBSYS_82651043] NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
[DEV_042E&SUBSYS_387217AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G
[DEV_060A&SUBSYS_20271043] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
[DEV_060C&SUBSYS_16201043] NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
[DEV_0617&SUBSYS_20031043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX
[DEV_0618&SUBSYS_202B1043] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
[DEV_0628&SUBSYS_20121043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_062A&SUBSYS_20021043] NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
[DEV_062B&SUBSYS_20201043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
[DEV_062C&SUBSYS_20171043] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
[DEV_0648&SUBSYS_387917AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
[DEV_0649&SUBSYS_20061043] NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
[DEV_064A&SUBSYS_20091043] NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
[DEV_064B&SUBSYS_3A2717AA] NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
[DEV_064C&SUBSYS_20221043] NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
[DEV_0652&SUBSYS_202C1043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
[DEV_0653&SUBSYS_202D1043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
[DEV_0654&SUBSYS_20391043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
[DEV_06E8&SUBSYS_20081043] NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
[DEV_06E9&SUBSYS_83291043] NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS
[DEV_06EC&SUBSYS_20261043] NVIDIA GeForce G 105M
[DEV_06F1&SUBSYS_20321043] NVIDIA GeForce G105M
[DEV_0862&SUBSYS_16C21043] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_0866&SUBSYS_20091854] NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G
[DEV_086E&SUBSYS_40061B0A] NVIDIA GeForce 9100M G
[DEV_086F&SUBSYS_20081854] NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G
[DEV_0872&SUBSYS_1AA21043] NVIDIA GeForce G102M
[DEV_0873&SUBSYS_19B41043] NVIDIA GeForce G102M
[DEV_0876&SUBSYS_12021849] NVIDIA ION
[DEV_0A34&SUBSYS_20401043] NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
[DEV_0A74&SUBSYS_20381043] NVIDIA GeForce G210M


Vista/Win7 x32

Atheros WLAN v8.0.0.144 is out

By mobilenvidia • June 22, 2009 (2009-06-22) at 09:17:23 GMT

From Fujitsu-Siemens, a whole new series to try, Vista/Win7 only

Atheros v8.0.0.144

Modded INF version available here

Must go and try these now smile.gif

IDT/Sigmatel Audio Codec 6.10.6209.0

By mobilenvidia • June 22, 2009 (2009-06-22) at 04:00:39 GMT

Latest IDT Audio driver out.
Found these over at MSUpdate, not sure which OEM these are meant for.
Except for the ability to turn off the Andrea Audio features (in the IDT Control Panel) there is nothing new to report.
The alternate Control panel doesn't' wiork with this driver.

IDT v6.10.6209.0
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  • 179.84 XP 32bit - 2009-04-17
  • 179.84 XP 64bit - 2009-04-17
  • 179.66 Vista 32bit - 2009-03-06
  • 182.24 Vista 64bit - 2009-04-13
  • 186.11 Win7 32bit - 2009-06-03
  • 186.12 Win7 64bit - 2009-06-04
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