nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 196.21

4.2 out of 5 stars 4.2 (1514 votes)

(January 19, 2010)

Windows 7/2000/2003/Vista/XP / Freeware / 551,822 downloads

This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    DudeBoyz

    Reviewing 196.21 (Jan 21, 2010)

    I have found that 196.21 has a bug regarding the proper listing of available resolutions. In testing, I found that 195.62 also has this bug as does 191.07. However, 186.18 does NOT have this bug.

    So I'm sticking with 186.18, though I will continue testing new versions to see if the bug is corrected at some point.

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing 196.21 (Jan 20, 2010)

    can not use the Nvidia Control Panel and my tv card quit working
    thanks Nvidia

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    some guy

    Reviewing 196.21 (Jan 19, 2010)

    version 196.21 as the guy below lost the control panel and this driver caused my Wintv7 Hauppauge HVR-1600 model#1199 to restart my PC. Roll back driver failed in device manager had to remove and re-install older package

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    Neoprimal

    Reviewing 191.07 (Oct 29, 2009)

    While the driver works fine, somewhere along the line the Nvidia Control Panel has been rendered useless for some built in video models, for instance I'm using a Nvidia 630i/7100 MGPU and the Nvidia Control Panel will no longer open.

    This means I no longer have access to detailed configurations or controls like acceleration, performance vs. quality settings or color control. I've tried everything, including a fresh OS install. I've notified both the board manufacturer and Nvidia, both who claim Windows 7 certification with said driver and chipset however neither of them seem to be able to isolate or iron out the problem.

    So for the record, if you're using Windows 7 64bit and the Nvidia 630i 7100 chipset, upgrade your drivers ONLY if you don't need access to your settings, as the Nvidia Control Panel no longer works for this chipset.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 191.07 (Oct 6, 2009)

    uncompressed:
    PhysX is ~40M
    Control Panel App ~20M
    3dVision ~16M
    HDaudio ~4M
    rest (~50M) are misc drivers/install files.

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