nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP (32-bit) 186.18

4.2 out of 5 stars 4.2 (826 votes)

(June 18, 2009)

Windows 2003/XP / Freeware / 385,967 downloads

Drivers for the nVIDIA GeForce, Geforce 2, GeForce 3 + 4, the 'Ti' range of cards, GeForce FX and some Quadro cards. Visit the nVIDIA website for a full list of supported products.

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    DudeBoyz

    Reviewing 185.65 Beta (Apr 3, 2009)

    This seems to work ok for me, but I think 178.24 worked better with my 8800 GT 512 meg card.

    Still - I don't get about the concern about the control panel. I have it installed and the default control panel seems just fine to me. Unlike that HORRIBLE ATI CATALYST CONTROL CENTER garbage.

    Is there a problem with the default Nvidia control panel?

    Could you elaborate on that "registry change" that will give me the classic one so I can compare?

    Thanks

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    mprost

    Reviewing 182.08 (Mar 16, 2009)

    Remote desktop is ONCE AGAIN broken in this release, OMG, when is nvidia going to fix that for good? And why is MS WHQLing drivers that broke basic OS functionality? So much for their quality testing, I suppose WHQL is just a way to control the market and, of course, profit from one more thing...

  3. 2 out of 5 stars
    jcunews

    Reviewing 182.06 (Feb 20, 2009)

    Although the classic control panel can be enabled manually via registry, it's like Artem said - the panel is crippled and has user interface glitch that make the interface a little unstable.

    And yes, it's becoming bloatware than ever. More likely be worse than ATI driver. It's not ISP's nor the programmer's fault. It's nVidia's vision fault since it controls what to give to the users.

    It's so called Unified Driver - aka. "All for one, and one to rule them all" is a joke. The proof is that the driver can't rule them all. No, really.

    From what I've known from nVidia users in forums and blogs, more and more various complaints regarding the drivers are pouring. Ironically, it's the other way around for ATI driver.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    fatray

    Reviewing 182.06 (Feb 19, 2009)

    Dudboyz, it's always been this way. nForce has always been needed to overclock GPU and CPU. It's better this way in case you prefer to use other overclocking tools that most prefer IMHO.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    Artem Tashkinov

    Reviewing 181.22 (Jan 22, 2009)

    The classic configuration panel is absolutely crippled right now - you cannot overclock/downclock your GPU, also you cannot see your GPU temperature - for that matter NVIDIA wants you to install a beast called NVIDIA System Tools - no thank you!

    Why is every ISP is so obsessed with bloatware?

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