NVIDIAGPUVista 181 00 exe

Geforce ForceWare 181.00 Vista 32-bit



Version: 181.00

Publisher: NVIDIA

Date added: 2008-12-19 02:00:49

File Size: 58 MB

OS Support: Windows Vista 32-bit

License: Freeware

Downloads: 14319 downloads

Software type: Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Vista 32|64



Download Geforce ForceWare 181.00 for Windows Vista 32-bit



NVIDIA is distributing a new revision GeForce driver. First off, this is a developer driver, mainly showing OpenGL 3.0 support. Though it should work fine for the cards supported, this is not a final driver.



The driver has full support for OpenGL 3.0 and version 1.3 of the OpenGL shading language (GLSL).



The drivers work on Geforce 8 or newer graphics cards along with a number of Quadro professional offerings. According to Nvidia, these drivers allow developers to "immediately begin using these drivers to build OpenGL 3.0 functionality into their software to give end-users new, superior graphics reproduction and visualization features."



We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.



You need one of the following graphics cards to get access to the OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 functionality:



Desktop



* Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, 3700, 4600, 4700x2, 4800, 5600, 5800, Quadro VX200, Quadro CX

* GeForce 8000 series or higher; GeForce GTX 260, 280



Notebook



* Quadro FX 360M, 370M, 570M, 770M, 1600M, 1700M, 2700M, 3600M, 3700M

* GeForce 8000 series or higher



This driver implements all of GLSL 1.30 and all of OpenGL 3.0 and exposes the following new extensions:



OpenGL 2.1 extensions:



* ARB_vertex_array_object

* ARB_framebuffer_object

* ARB_half_float_vertex



OpenGL 3.0 extensions:



* WGL_create_context

* GLX_create_context

* ARB_draw_instanced

* ARB_geometry_shader4

* ARB_texture_buffer_object