Nvidia's certified Vista driver finalized, SLI support still in beta

Nvidia's Vista driver is ready, mostly.

(Credit: Nvidia)

Good news for everyone but SLI owners. Nvidia just released a Windows Vista-certified 100.65 graphics card driver for its GeForce 8800 cards. You can find the driver on Nvidia's site. That's great for those of you running Vista and a single GeForce 8800 card. For anyone who has an Nvidia SLI mode of any flavor, you're still stuck in beta mode for now. We haven't played with the new driver yet, so we can't say just how beta the SLI support is. Nvidia's driver notes indicate that full SLI support will come in another driver update. This release brings Nvidia in line with AMD for single-card Vista graphics drivers, but neither vendor offers full support for dual graphics card configurations in Windows Vista.

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Nvidia Sli Vista Drivers

X6800 Dual Processor, 2xGeForce Nvidia 8800GTX, Vista Primium 32bit. Setting the new driver (7.15.11.6925) for Sli mode gives higher 3DMark score, 10952 Sli off, 12727 Sli on, but running 3D games is quite a bit slower than running single GPU! Glitchy and slower framming. Until Nvidia release new driver (scheduled April) Sli support for Vista and 8800 family of cards gives no graphics improvement, in fact it's horribily slower. Not wanting to go back to Windows XP, I will wait and hope Nvidia do produce drivers that work properly under Vista.