New 158 drivers are available at Nvidia. I believe they are just for 8800 cards and Vista. Lucky you! Don't see anything new for my WinXP 6800 card.SD PS: I know, wrong forum.

I have tested these drivers , but unfortunately, with these 100.XX and up series, I can

Maybe it has to do with the drivers being Beta?SD

Think those drivers were developed for the 8600 series just released.scott s..

Hi Scott,I looked again and the 8800 is listed with Vista 32 and 64 bit and WinXP with the 8800 board. So I guess its for more than just the new boards. But still Beta.I also looked in the release notes and saw FSX/Flight Simulator listed a few times.Regards,SD

>I also looked in the release notes and saw FSX/Flight>Simulator listed a few times.Yes, but apart from one (something with SLI) all those entries are in the section with still unresolved problems...BTW EVERY driver for the 8800 is beta...! You can't download a non-beta driver! That says a lot... In installed the 158.18 for my 8800GTX: FSX seemed to run worse... but then again FSX runs different everyday...

OK I Installed this.. Performance wise.. didn;t notice anything. Not that I was expecting,. but I thought I read someone say...that they have managed to move stuff from CPU to the GPU. Don't know how a video driver is capable of doing that. :)But I have a negative. My FS9 antialiasim doesn't seem to work any more. I now have the shimmering. FSX is fine.Manny

I have learned in the past 6 months that if it aint broke when it comes to nvidia then do NOT install any of their newer drivers. Im still using the driver from early february because it is by far the most stable. Any driver update when it comes to those guys is like russian roulette. They toss together a few lines of code in order to unleash a new generation of card to the market not having even fixed any of their previous generation cards' problems first. There are no words for me to describe my feelings towards this company. If ati supported triplehead then i would buy their card in a heartbeat and ebay both of my nvidia cards. Worst.Support.Ever.________________________________________________________________________________________________Intel D975XBX2 'Bad Axe 2' | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.20Ghz | 2 GB Super Talent DDR2 800 | Big Typhoon VX | eVGA 8800GTS @ 565/900 | Seagate 2x320GB SATA RAID-0 | OCZ GameXStream 700W | Creative X-Fi | Silverstone TJ-09BW | Matrox Triplehead Setup

A few things:While acknowledging that Nvidia support has been very shameful recently, it still really depends what you're after if you choose to try new drivers; bug fixes like allowing HDR + AA in vista matter to many, but may not matter to you if you don't play games. Personally I gave up running any 3d programs in vista for the time being. The results also vary too much to follow an if it ain't broke don't fix it rule.----More important and reasonably less contentious, if you are posting driver results, it helps to let people know which operating system you are running - since there are two 158 releases, one for xp and one for vista - and which card you have. ----For my part, I have an 8800gts, with vista and xp dual boot. I noticed a marked increase in xp but not as much of an increase in vista, although several bug fixes in both.As for cpu offloading to the gpu. Three things control this: the rendering language e.g. directx 9 or 10, the driver, and the 3d program itself taking advantage of it (like hardware skinning on or off in rainbow six vegas). Whether the increase in performance people are reporting has to do with an offloading I don't know; that is only the rumor which would explain the benefit I am seeing in FSX.

I have XP and an 8800GTX card. Whilst I didn't notice any difference in FSX my 3Dmark06 score went from 7698 to 8219 and my X3demo benchmark went from 62.004 FPS to 65.3 FPS. I guess once again FSX has proved that it is a CPU intensive application.BTW I have no trouble using 16x aa in FSX with no visual artifacts or shimmering. So the drivers appear OK although they are not WHQL'd.

Tried the 165.01 already, same story, same bugs. Not worth the effort of installing them.AA and Aniso doesn't do much, compared to my previous ATI card, even when having forced both to 16x the shimmering is still there... :(

I just rolled back the 158 driver update. I did a system restore to the old 8800 driver. I got my AA for FS9 back. I didn't see any drawback for FSX. Not that I an extesive test or anything.. atleast it didn't seem do harm. But for FS9, it doesn't work. At least for me.Manny

Same here, Manny.Regards.Miquel Egea.

Greetings Miquel!Something has changed with the arrival of the 158.* drivers in combination with the 8600/8800 series: you must set the desired AA value in your Nvidia control panel, AND switch anti-aliasing in FS9 ON!!! This clearly is a departure from what we were used to, and I only discovered it through irritated experimenting (grin)!I now run FS9 with AA 16x at resolution 1600x1200, and the results are SPECTACULAR! The 8600/8800 Geforce series can handle just about everything that's thrown at it.Hope this helps.Jaap Verduijn.

Hello,I'm using Nvidia Drivers 165.01 in SLI. I have the following settings inside Nvidia's Control Panel. I no longer have a black box inside FS9 while reviewing/selecting aircraft. The drivers seem fine to me, I will say this, I see "NO" improvement in regards to FPS.============FS9 Settings============All sliders set "FULL RIGHT" - All Check Boxes Checked except what is listed below.Display Resolution=2048x1536x32Render to Texture=OFFFrame Rate Locked At=30