You wanted them and we have them for you. After the disappointment that was 71.21 hopefully you will find these much better. I don't know though, but I should have these drivers myself before midnight. So let me know how these drivers go! The 71.22 had all kinds of problems with Counter-strike: Source (as well as other applications) so I didn't even bother to post them - lets hope these will do the trick as I am pretty sure that they will be the last release of the year.
The drivers are obviously beta, so use them at your own risk - not to scare you off or anything like that, as these should be a nice release really.
I'll add more information as I discover it! I really wanted to get these drivers out to you as soon as I could!! What I have determined is that the files were WHQL on the 22nd of December and the other files have a timestamp of 15th so at least they weren't the drivers that were being worked on just before and during the Christmas party because you know that could just mean problems. Without a modified .INF these drivers only support the Geforce6 series, but if you are using older cards you should have fast and stable drivers anyway to be honest. Check out the comments for some screenshots of a problem with Half-life 2!
Here is a small collection of download links where you can get NVIDIA Forceware 71.24:
If you have another mirror please comment below and I will get it added to the list!
Comment posted by Tobold at 11:34pm on the 29th December 2004
im gona try'em out, i'll post here as soon as i have some performance bost or something!
PS: i own a 6600GT, i'm expecting a lil improvement
Comment posted by Electronic Punk at 11:49pm on the 29th December 2004
Yeah, brand new card, would be interesting to see how it compares.
6800 Ultra here, so won't be benching but I will see how it fares with Half-life 2 quickly
Comment posted by Tuffgong4 at 12:06am on the 30th December 2004
going to try it out in CS Source right now will come back any let you know how it goes
EDIT...tried these out in CS Source and these are by far the best I have used
EDIT again...the dust that floats on dust2 in source looks a little funny...not sure if it's much of a deterant for my yet but it's a small problem
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Comment posted by sullysnet at 12:34am on the 30th December 2004
going to load these myself
Comment posted by Electronic Punk at 12:55am on the 30th December 2004
67.03
71.24
Comment posted by LordOfLA at 3:22am on the 30th December 2004
Sorry guys, due to so many external sites direct linking to me my network card ran out of physical buffers for all the connections and refuesd point blank to handle any more connections than it had open at the time.
So my mirror is leech protected. I will invest in better LAN adapters in the future to avoid the network card running out of physical connection capacity.
Comment posted by Electronic Punk at 3:44am on the 30th December 2004
Yes, had to do the same.
Too much for one server.
Plenty of mirrors now though!
Comment posted by 2z at 7:47am on the 30th December 2004
6800 GT
was having problems with The Battle for Middle-earth
these drivers have fixed it nicely
Comment posted by Michiel at 8:50am on the 30th December 2004
Comment posted by krubly at 7:17pm on the 31st December 2004
Hmmm. i cant to get them to work with my 5500. eh.
Reply posted by FredEx at 2:08pm on the 1st January 2005
Get the driver from the Guru3D site. As mentioned above they have a modified INF file for older than 6XXX series cards. It worked fine for my 5200 and the older NV in my laptop. When you expand the D/L there will be a directory with the modded INF in it; Copy that INF to the setup directory and overwrite the existing INF and run setup.exe and you will be set.
Comment posted by Mulberrycrush at 7:34pm on the 1st January 2005
I have uploaded the modded dets too
Comment posted by AMAN007 at 2:12pm on the 2nd January 2005
i have a 5200
and i got gr8 improvement on hl2, far cry, ut2004
worth it!
Comment posted by Lorenzo at 2:09pm on the 5th January 2005
with my 6600 gt i have some visual artifact on the textures.
i hope this driver helps
/me downloading
Comment posted by Lorenzo at 3:42pm on the 5th January 2005
thxxxxx alll my 6600 gt now works!
Comment posted by TechDre at 10:37pm on the 12th January 2005
Was not able to enable the SLI with Dual Quadro FX 3400 PCI-E both card a recognized individually but the option in the setting was not available.
Comment posted by Danilka at 7:01pm on the 26th January 2005
А ЗДЕСЬ КЕФИР ПРОДАЮТ?
Comment posted by Ben at 9:21pm on the 26th January 2005
will this work well with my Quadro FX 1100? Maybe help to remove that "Memory could not be read" error?
Comment posted by Fooster at 12:59am on the 29th January 2005
Had more SLI related crashes with 71.24 than 66.93 or 67.03
Comment posted by Nallers at 1:32pm on the 1st March 2005
Hope this driver can help my 6800 gt card to perform better on CS:S. And increasing my FPS... eehh I Mean Frags per second...
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