NVidia Release new driver 162.18 (27/7)

[Calder]

Don't know if anyone has posted this already, but here we are:
NVIDIA has released new versions of their ForceWare graphics drivers for their GeForce based graphics chips and cards. The 162.18 drivers for Windows XP/Windows XP Media Center are now available as are the 162.22 drivers for 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista. The Vista version has a number of fixes for various games including World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2142, the DirectX10 version of Company of Heroes, Lost Planet, and many other games.

Noted Fixes for Civ4:
• [SLI], GeForce 7950 GX2 512MB Quad NVIDIA SLI: Civilization 4–
white area of corruption with flickering appears while zooming out.

• [SLI], GeForce 7900 GTX/GeForce 7950 GX2 Quad NVIDIA SLI:
Civilization 4– game creation screens have text rendering artifacts
with 8xS AA or 16x SLI AA enabled.

• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, GeForce 6800/6600: Ground and water
textures are corrupted when zooming out in Civilization 4.

Not Fixed:
• GeForce 7800 GTX/GT, SLI: The load balancing line is corrupted when
playing Civilizations 4 at 2560x1600.
This is not an NVIDIA bug, but a visual effect resulting from the interraction
between the frame rate and the update rate of the split line.

 

[MrWhereItsAt]

I tried this yesterday with my Asus G1S (8600M GT graphics card) - it didn't detect any hardware that would benefit from these new drivers, so it may not work for mobile cards at all.