This is ForceWare Release 80 as released by NVIDIA. Version: 81.87
Release Date: October 26, 2005
BETA Driver

Release Highlights:

• Improved performance and compatibility for Call of Duty 2.
• Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI.
• TV-Out/HD-out support for NVIDIA SLI.
• Added support for VSync on Direct3D games when running NVIDIA SLI.
• Performance enhancements for dual-core CPUs.
• PureVideo high definition MPEG-2 de-interlacing support.
• Usability enhancements when connecting to an HDTV.
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.0 support
• For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes.

Single GPU Issues Resolved

GeForce 6 and 7 Series GPUs, Windows XP: Improved compatibility and performance on GPUs when playing Call of Duty 2.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: Reflections are corrupt when set to high in Serious Sam 2.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: There is screen corruption when panning in overscan shift mode.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX: Cyan-colored pixels appear randomly on the water tower in F.E.A.R.
GeForce Go 7800 GTX, Sager system: LCD compressed scaling mode is not retained after rebooting the system.
GeForce 6800: After switching playback from one DVR-MS file to another, the second file experiences dropped frames.
GeForce 6800 GT, GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault has sky and ship rendering artifacts.
GeForce 6800/ 6600: Silent Hunter III characters located outside experience random fogging effects.
GeForce 6600: When applying a new resolution on a Samsung 30" CRT via DVI, the resolution reverts after rebooting the system
GeForce 6600, HDTV, Windows XP MCE: The mouse cursor disappears after when opening the MCE extensions resize Desktop option with MCE in fullscreen mode.
GeForce 6600, Windows XP MCE 2005: Fluctuation in video brightness and color occurs when running a 1080i.ts file using VMR9.
GeForce 6150/6100: Playing an HD MPEG2 clip while another is playing causes corruption on the bottom half of the playback window
 GeForce 6150/6100: The lower half of the screen fails to render at 512x384 or lower resolution.
GeForce 6150/6100: Video tears when playing back MPEG HD clips with latest WinDVD.
GeForce FX 5900: Water rendering corruption occurs in Links 2003.

SLI Related Issues Resolved

GeForce 7800 GTX, SLI: The Apple 30" display loses sync when installing the driver.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, SLI: Rendering corruption occurs in 3D applications when fixed aspect ratio is set for widescreen panels.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, SLI: With SLI mode enabled using AFR2, the opening video in Tiger Woods 2006 does not render.
GeForce 7800 GT/GTX, GeForce 6800 Ultra, SLI: The NVIDIA panel intermittently prompts for a reboot after enabling dynamic SLI coming out of Dualview.
[SLI]: It is not possible to reliably switch the output to a specific display after enabling SLI.
[SLI]: The screen goes blank after switching to the flat panel display on the second GPU once after rebooting the system.