GeForce Driver 185.81 For Windows 7

Martin | May 01, 2009 | View Comments

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New beta drivers have been released for Nvidia based video cards for the Windows 7 operating system. They support the GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and install WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series (DirectX 10) GPUs and WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series (DirectX 9) GPUs. The drivers are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and still seem to cause performance problems especially for users with dual monitor systems. Users experiencing the performance drops should install the Windows Vista drivers instead which install and work fine in Windows 7.

Windows 7 32-bit download
Windows 7 64-bit download

The download links point to the English drivers. Users with different languages need to use the search form to find the drivers for their language.

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About the Author: Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks

  • Alejandro Nova
    This driver is amazing. I have a puny GeForce 6150 SE in a laptop, and Aero was sluggish before this driver. After this driver... Aero is fast like never before.
  • smilingman
    Why is not the series 5 cards supported, I have a 5500 FX card I use for a backup PC. I know this series was crap and it was the only nVidia card I ever bought, but are they going to ignore those who bought it.
    This is why I only buy ATI cards, sure drivers are not always the best, but they support there users.
  • matrixcaptain84
    This is most likely due to the fact that the FX series of NVIDIA cards weren't supported in Vista either because of the lack of proper Shader/DX support. The minimum spec NVIDIA cards that was supported by Vista was the 6200 and appears to be the same with Windows 7 (http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1241025430517.html).
  • I have one question: I looked into the Windows Update directory and found that I have installed:
    "NVIDIA driver update for NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (Prerelease WDDM 1.1)"

    Should I download the driver from the link given above in the article from Martin Brinkmann ? I think I don't have to do this, right?
  • paul
    the drivers that rc1 install are the 181.72 and just update your gpu to wddm 1.1 so you can use the new way that windows uses video memory. you can read about it here.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-graphi...
  • Intrigued
    This driver actually solved all my performance problems when it comes to gaming situations. Since build 7000, I have not been able to play games such as Hellgate, Fear 1&2, UT3 and Mirror's Edge. My GPU would get hot enough for the safety to activate and my computer would crash every time. Now it still gets a little too hot but I can still play games!

    This driver still has problems but I say WOOT WOOT!
    For now, I can rest easy with a beta...
  • when I installed 7100 build yesterday, windows 7 downloaded some updates and among them was nVidia driver ~45Mb. was this the new driver?
  • Mario
    The latest version released on Windows Update is 181.72
  • For me, no. All it did was update from 181.71 to 181.72
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