Driver update: nVidia ForceWare 80.40

The folks at 3DChipset have once again got their hands on new ForceWare drivers for nVidia’s video cards. This time it concerns the first version of the 80 series, namely 80.40. The new version is via this page download and takes up approximately 16.39MB. ForceWare 80.40 is dated June 13, 2005. In addition to support for hardware decoding of H.264 MPEG4 video for the GeForce 7800 series, we notice that the list of supported video cards starts with the GeForce 2 and ends with mentions of some new ones. video cards. These previously unseen card names feature the G72 and C51 core.

NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D0.1 = “NVIDIA G72”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D1.1 = “NVIDIA G72”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D2.1 = “NVIDIA G72”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D3.1 = “NVIDIA G72”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01D5.1 = “NVIDIA G72”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01DE.1 = “NVIDIA G72GL”
NVIDIA_G72.DEV_01DF.1 = “NVIDIA G72”

NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0240.1 = “NVIDIA C51GL”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0241.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0242.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0243.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0244.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0245.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0246.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0247.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0248.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_0249.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024A.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024B.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024C.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024D.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024E.1 = “NVIDIA C51”
NVIDIA_C51.DEV_024F.1 = “NVIDIA C51”