UPDATE - 8/4/2004: THIS VERSION OF THE FAQ IS NO LONGER UPDATED. I am no longer responsible for updating the GeForce FAQ. I have handed over maintenance of the FAQ to another website. To see the latest version, go to the following URL:
http://go.to/geforcefaq
The copy on this server is maintained for historical purposes and to redirect people to the new site.
Note that the following driver download links are broken - older drivers are not really worth the server space to make them available forever.
6.01 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/nv_w9x601.zip
These drivers are much slower in most applications and may cause problems with certain applications.
They are faster for Need for Speed 5: Porsche.
They may cause corruption and other issues in 2D.
6.09 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-609.zip
6.11 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-611.zip
These drivers have a new NVIDIA control panel with FSAA options explained and extra D3D VSYNC options.
These drivers are significantly faster than the 5.xx series of drivers.
These drivers improve Unreal Tournament framerates.
These drivers may cause instability in some games.
6.16 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-616.zip
6.18 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-618.zip
These drivers should improve performance in general.
These drivers will especially improve NFS5 performance.
These drivers may cause problems with your screen 'shifting'.
These drivers may cause shutdown and restart problems. You may need to read the 'I get a blue screen of death when I close Windows ME. How can I fix it?' question if you have an Intel machine.
If these drivers cause crashing for you, try disabling AGP Fast Writes. You can read more about this in the 'How can I enable or disable AGP Fast Writes?' question.
6.20 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-620.zip
The 6.xx driver sets after 6.18 may cause problems with Shogun: Total War. See the 'I have problems with Shogun: Total War. How can I fix it?' question for more information.
6.23 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9X-623excel.exe
6.26 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x_626.zip
These drivers may help with instability problems that cropped up in 6.18.
These drivers may improve performance.
These drivers and all following drivers may cause screen corruption when using PowerDVD 2.55 (0620) with hardware acceleration enabled. This does not affect PowerDVD 3.0.
These drivers may cause problems with the mouse pointer for some people, especially when resizing windows. Enable Pointer Trails to fix this problem - set the length to Short and you shouldn't notice it.
These drivers will cause the monitor timing setting in the NVIDIA control panel to always reset on reboot. Having no setting selected may cause blue screens on reboot.
6.27 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-627.zip
These drivers are actually leaked from another manufacturer, so the description of your card will be e-GeForce or similar, but they still work for all cards.
These drivers fix problems with flickering Direct3D with certain joysticks.
These drivers may cause screen corruption when using PowerDVD with hardware acceleration enabled.
These drivers will cause the monitor timing setting in the NVIDIA control panel to always reset on reboot. Having no setting selected may cause blue screens on reboot.
These drivers may cause problems with the mouse pointer for some people, especially when resizing windows. Enable Pointer Trails to fix this problem - set the length to Short and you shouldn't notice it.
6.31 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/NVW9x-631.zip
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
These drivers may be slightly faster.
These drivers fix problems with the mouse pointer for some people but not for others.
These drivers have a tweaked NVIDIA control panel with a new Desktop Display Manager for multiple monitor users.
These drivers do not support the Quadro or Quadro2 cards.
These drivers and all following drivers up to 7.56 will dramatically reduce performance on Super Socket 7 MVP3 motherboards when compared to previous versions in Direct3D. You can fix this by copying the nvdd32.dll file from the 6.27 drivers into your Windows\System folder.
6.32 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-632.zip
6.34 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-634.zip
These drivers may help to fix problems with Windows Protection Errors on shutdown.
These drivers fix problems with triangle popping in Metal Gear Solid.
6.35 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-635.zip
6.36 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/win9x-636.zip
6.47 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-647.zip
WARNING: DO NOT USE MONITOR POWER SAVING MODES (Standby included) with these drivers. See the 'When I resume from monitor power saving modes in Windows 9x, I get display corruption and / or instability problems, or my card seems slower than usual. How can I fix it?' question for more information.
6.48 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-648.zip
These drivers will cause Coolbits to stop working. See the 'Coolbits doesn't work or I can only adjust my memory speed. How can I fix it?' question for information on how to fix this.
6.49 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-649.zip
WARNING: DO NOT USE MONITOR POWER SAVING MODES (Standby included) with these drivers. See the 'When I resume from monitor power saving modes in Windows 9x, I get display corruption and / or instability problems, or my card seems slower than usual. How can I fix it?' question for more information.
The following is 'What's New' for these drivers:
General Fixes
GeForce2 MX Fixes
GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ultra Fixes
6.50 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9xMe-650.zip
WARNING: DO NOT USE MONITOR POWER SAVING MODES (Standby included) with these drivers. See the 'When I resume from monitor power saving modes in Windows 9x, I get display corruption and / or instability problems, or my card seems slower than usual. How can I fix it?' question for more information.
These drivers may cause problems with Asheron's Call.
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
The following is 'What's New' for these drivers:
6.53 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/win9x-653.zip
6.62 - These drivers are Windows 2000 drives with a Windows 9x/ME filename.
6.66 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-666.zip
These drivers will cause Coolbits to stop working. See the 'Coolbits doesn't work or I can only adjust my memory speed. How can I fix it?' question for information on how to fix this.
These drivers have a new NVIDIA control panel with a video overlay zoom option.
These drivers cause a line of garbage pixels on the right hand side for DVD software.
6.67 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-667.zip
These drivers will cause Coolbits to stop working. See the 'Coolbits doesn't work or I can only adjust my memory speed. How can I fix it?' question for information on how to fix this.
These drivers cause a line of garbage pixels on the right hand side of the screen in DVD software.
These drivers may appear to be missing a .cat file, but just select 'Skip File' - they will still work.
These drivers fix problems with Asheron's Call and Battlezone 2 and other Direct3D programs with horizontal band flickering.
6.72 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-672f.zip
WARNING: There are some copies of these drivers that will change your homepage to http://kyf.net/supportaz - the copy available here is fixed, which is why it has the letter f at the end of the filename.
Coolbits is working again in these drivers.
These drivers may cause overclocking settings to be reset to minimum values after the monitor recovers from power saving modes.
These drivers cause a line of garbage pixels on the right hand side of the screen in DVD software.
These drivers may cause problems with Quake 2 and X-COM: UFO Defense.
These drivers may cause flickering menus with Mechwarrior 4.
6.88 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/W9x-688.zip
These drivers may cause problems with Midtown Madness 2.
6.92 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN9X/w9x-692.zip
7.04 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=233
These drivers and all later drivers are optimised for DirectX 8.
The early (pre 7.52) drivers are all slower than using the 6.xx series of drivers, even with DirectX 8.
These drivers cause a line of garbage pixels on the bottom of the screen in DVD software.
7.10 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=234
These drivers cause a line of garbage pixels on the bottom of the screen in DVD software.
7.16 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=235
7.17 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=236
These drivers may cause problems with mirrors and portals in Quake 3 Arena.
These drivers may cause problems with Half-Life and many other OpenGL programs.
These drivers may cause problems with PowerDVD 3.0.
7.23 - These drivers are fakes.
7.52 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=237
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
This driver set may cause problems with Shogun: Total War. See the 'I have problems with Shogun: Total War. How can I fix it?' question for more information.
These drivers may cause problems with Undying.
7.56 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=239
There are some copies of these drivers that will not install correctly - the copy available here is fixed, which is why it has the letter f at the end of the filename.
These drivers fix performance problems on Super Socket 7 MVP3 motherboards in Direct3D.
7.58 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=240
7.65 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=241
7.68 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=242
7.76 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=243
7.78 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=244
7.83 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=245
7.91 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=246
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
7.97 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=248
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
8.03 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=250
8.05 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=325
8.33 - These drivers are an April Fool's joke.
10.50 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=251
These drivers have stereoscopic glasses support. You can read more about this at Stereovision.net.
These drivers fix problems with X-Wing Alliance.
These drivers may cause problems with Mercedes Benz Truck Racing.
10.70 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=252
10.80 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=253
These drivers fix problems with High Heat Baseball 2002.
These drivers fix problems with semi-transparent dropshadows in WindowFX.
These drivers may cause slowdowns in Quake 3 on original GeForce cards when there is a lot of action.
These drivers may cause problems with Need For Speed High Stakes and SWAT3.
11.00 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=254
These drivers may cause problems with Diablo 2 and No One Lives Forever.
These drivers may cause problems with X-tension. You can fix them by installing the latest patch for X-tension.
11.01 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=255
Note that the following driver download links are broken - older drivers are not really worth the server space to make them available forever.
6.11 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-611.zip
6.18 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-618.zip
These drivers have a new NVIDIA control panel with more FSAA information and Direct3D VSYNC options.
These drivers should improve game performance in general.
These drivers may help to improve stability on VIA chipset motherboards.
6.23 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2K-623excel.exe
6.27 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/w2k-627.zip
6.31 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/NVW2k-631.zip
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
These drivers have a tweaked NVIDIA control panel with a new Desktop Display Manager for multiple monitor users and an Overlay Color Control display tab.
These drivers do not support the Quadro or Quadro2 cards.
6.34 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-634.zip
6.47 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-647.zip
6.48 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/w2k-648.zip
6.49 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/w2k-649.zip
6.50 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/WIN2k-650.zip
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
These drivers may cause Windows 2000 to crash when you access the Overlay Color Control tab in the NVIDIA control panel.
These drivers may cause corruption problems with Deus Ex.
6.54 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/654w2k.exe
6.62 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/662whqlwin2k.exe
6.66 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-666.zip
Using these and later drivers may cause you to lose the 1152x864 resolution.
6.67 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/W2k-667.zip
6.72 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/w2k-sn-672.zip
6.88 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WIN2K/w2k-sn-688.zip
7.04 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=297
These drivers and all later drivers are optimised for DirectX 8.
Currently they are all slower than using the 6.xx series of drivers, even with DirectX 8.
7.10 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=296
7.16 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=295
7.17 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=294
Unlike in Windows 9x, these drivers are faster for most people under Windows 2000, although they may cause problems with certain games.
These drivers may cause Windows 2000 to crash when you access the Overlay Color Control tab in the NVIDIA control panel.
7.52 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=293
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
7.58 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=292
7.59 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=291
7.76 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=289
7.83 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=288
7.91 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=287
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
7.97 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=286
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
8.03 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=285
8.05 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=328
10.40 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=284
10.70 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=283
10.80 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=282
11.01 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=281
Note that the following driver download links are broken - older drivers are not really worth the server space to make them available forever.
6.11 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-611.zip
6.18 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/Nt4-618.zip
These drivers have a new NVIDIA control panel with more FSAA information and Direct3D VSYNC options.
These drivers should improve game performance in general.
6.23 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-623excel.exe
6.27 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/nt4-627.zip
6.31 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/Nt4-631.zip
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
These drivers have a tweaked NVIDIA control panel with a new Desktop Display Manager for multiple monitor users.
These drivers do not support the Quadro or Quadro2 cards.
6.34 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-634.zip
6.47 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-647.zip
6.48 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/nt4-648.zip
6.49 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/nt4-649.zip
6.50 - These drivers are officially released drivers and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/WINNT-650.zip
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
6.54 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/654nt4.exe
6.66 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-666.zip
6.67 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-667.zip
6.72 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/nt40-sn-672.zip
7.52 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=346
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
7.56 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/NVIDIA/WINNT/NT4-756.zip
These drivers fix performance problems on Super Socket 7 MVP3 motherboards in Direct3D.
7.58 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=345
7.76 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=344
7.83 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=343
7.91 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=342
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
7.97 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=341
Release notes for these drivers are available here.
8.03 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=340
8.05 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=330
10.70 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=339
10.80 - These drivers have been leaked and are available here:
http://www.gamers-ammo.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?file=338