ForceWare Release 80
Version: 84.15
Release Date: March 9, 2006
WHQL Certified
Release Highlights:
- WHQL Certified
- Adds support for GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7900 GT, GeForce 7600 GT, GeForce 7300 GS, and GeForce 7300 LE GPUs.
- New NVIDIA PureVideo features and enhancements. Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on PureVideo technology and system requirements.
- Support for high definition H.264 hardware decode acceleration on GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs.
- Support for high definition MPEG-2 inverse telecine.
- Support for high definition MPEG-2 spatial-temporal de-interlacing.
- Application compatibility fixes. For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes.
- 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