Download Driver For nVidia ForceWare 163.71 WHQL

For its video cards, nVidia has released new drivers in the ForceWare series that work on Windows XP, XP MCE, and Server 2003 , both 32-bit and 64-bit. The drivers have since arrived at version number 163.71 and are WHQL certified. The developers have added improvements for PT Boats: Knights of the Sea and Team Fortress 2 and fixed a minor bug with sli support on Geforce 7300 and 7600 graphics cards. The list of changes for this and the previous version looks like this:

Version 163.71:

New Features:

• Improved compatibility with PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
• Added NVIDIA SLI profile for Team Fortress 2

Fixed Issues–Windows XP 32-bit

Fixed SLI Mode Issues

GeForce 7 Series GPUs
• GeForce 7300/7600: SLI mode cannot be enabled. [349475]

Version 163.69:

Fixed Issues–Windows XP 32-bit

Fixed Single GPU Issues

All GPUs
• HDCP cannot be enabled with the Dell 30” flat panel on resolutions higher than 1280×800, which prevents playback of HD DVDs or Blu-ray discs. [328561]
• NVIDIA Control Panel Category Pages: Japanese translation issues exist in the menu options.[257063]
• Battlefield 2: Corruption and flickering occur in the grass when video settings are set to High.[272027]

GeForce 8 Series GPUs

• GeForce 8800 GTX: The system hangs after playing a Blu-ray disc for awhile using PowerDVD. [318755]
• GeForce 8800 GTX: nTune (5.05.38.00) GPU fan control settings are not available (grayed out). [308669]
• GeForce 8800 GTX: nTune (5.05.38.00) GPU fan control settings reverts to previous settings when applied.[308683]
• GeForce 8800 GTX: Video frame freezes while audio continues when playing H.264 HD titles using PowerDVD.[325436]
• GeForce 8600: Jaggies appear during de-interlace video playback using Windows Media Player. [301769]
• GeForce 8600 GT/GS: When attempting to set the HD mode to 576i, the resolution switches to 480i instead. [275079]
• GeForce 8600: Rise of Nations:Rise of Legends–the game crashes to the desktop when the resolution is set to 1920×1200 and antialiasing is set to Medium from the game control panel.[298503]

GeForce 7 Series GPUs

• GeForce 7800 GTX: There is no output on the HDTV. [296699]
• GeForce 7800 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel SLI rendering option is not available for the component-out connection. [301841] It is available when using the S-Video connection.
• GeForce 7800 GTX: The NVIDIA Control Panel crashes if you change the HD format of the component-out display under Dualview.[301752]
• GeForce 7800 GTX: The driver cannot switch to another HD format after being set to 480i or 576i.[301828]
• GeForce 7300 LE: NVIDIA Control panel fails to switch modes depending on the starting and target modes.[232009]
• GeForce 7300 GT: Demo Medieval II : Total War–blue-screen crash occurs while playing the game with Battle map resolution set to 2560×1600 and with 4x AA enabled. [317852]

GeForce 6 Series GPUs

• GeForce 6600: Blue-screen crash while playing WMV HD files after enabling DirectX VA. [316693]
• GeForce 6600: The user cannot change HDTV formats after a first time switch to HDTV from the DVI or VGA display. [301293]
• GeForce 6150/6100: Battlefield 2 has high frequency flicker of horizontal bands scanning across the screen on bright backgrounds.[191291]

Fixed SLI Mode Issues

GeForce 8 Series GPUs
• GeForce 8800 GTX: The SLI visual indicators for some SLIAA modes do not match the NVIDIA Control Panel settings. [327393]
• GeForce 8800 GTX: The SLI visual indicators for SLI16xS antialiasing displays 16xQ antialiasing instead. [327398]
• GeForce 8600: The SLI Load Balancing indicator does not appear when invoked. [311894]
• GeForce 8500/8400/8300: Blue-screen crash occurs when resuming from standby mode while an OpenGL demo is running. [317880]

GeForce 7 Series GPUs

• GeForce 7900 GTX: Direct3D applications have rolling/flickering corruption with SLI enabled on component/composite/S-Video out. [301608] This issue does not occur when using DVI output.

GeForce 6 Series GPUs

• GeForce 6800 GT: The desktop splits into two screen when the resolution is lower than 1280×800.[324342]

Fixed Issues–Windows XP 64-bit

• GeForce FX 5200, Windows XP x64: Display Properties Window corruption occurs while playing a .vob file in Windows Media Player, previewing 3D Flower Box screen saver, and then reverting from the preview. [234046]

[break]The driver can be downloaded in the following flavors:
Windows XP, XP MCE and Server 2003 32-bit (English – International)
Windows XP and Server 2003 64-bit (English – International)