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UPDATED: NVIDIA rolls out 258.96 WHQL drivers

By | July 19, 2010, 3:09pm PDT

NVIDIA finally gets the green light from Microsoft and gets Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification for driver set 258.96, bringing 3D Vision and official support for GeForce GTX 460 GPUs.

If you are running GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, or 400-series desktop GPUs, or ION desktop GPUs, then these drivers are for you.

More info on this release here [fixed the link!].

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RE: NVIDIA rolls out 258.96 WHQL drivers
ryanstrassburg 20th Jul 2010
This is good news usually. I never had the overheat issue, maybe my video card was smart enough not to burn out or something. In any case this usually means gaming gets a little faster, and multiple-gpu support improves.
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mtgarden 19th Jul 2010
But are they safe? wink
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Suspend mode finally working?
hickum 19th Jul 2010
Hope these drivers finally allow systems to wake up from suspend state. I have to stick with Win7 inbox drivers for my HTPC because the updated drivers keep my system from properly waking up. A ridiculous problem.
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RE: NVIDIA rolls out 258.96 WHQL drivers
ryanstrassburg 20th Jul 2010
@hickum
I had this issue too, it only happened when I let the system go to sleep on its own. If I manually put it to sleep it is fine. Seems to be an issue with the AwayMode driver I am guessing. Norton would cause sleep mode to fail if trying to sleep during "idle time" scans.

I agree, I would like to see sleep mode work properly, and the occassional hanging when restarting where the screen goes black, everything is logged off but it doesn't actually restart.
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RE: NVIDIA rolls out 258.96 WHQL drivers
ryanstrassburg 20th Jul 2010
This is good news usually. I never had the overheat issue, maybe my video card was smart enough not to burn out or something. In any case this usually means gaming gets a little faster, and multiple-gpu support improves.

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