On march 18th the NVidia ForceWare driver version 174.53 was released at the official nVIDIA beta site.

Windows Vista 32bit >>> DOWNLOAD HERE

Windows Vista 64bit >>> DOWNLOAD HERE

Windows XP 32bit >>> DOWNLOAD HERE

Tested compatibility with:

• DELL D820 (w. Quadro NVS120 - 512 MB - WinVista 32bit, WinXP 32bit)
• FSC ESPRIMO P5615 (w. Geforce 7300 LE - 128 MB - WinXP 32 bit) 

Release features:

• + automated, space saving setup [by 2good4you.net]
• + for all nVIDIA graphic cards [by 2good4you.net]
• + multilanguage setup
• + new (160 Series) multilanguage control panel and help files

• Added support for 9800 GX2 GPUs.
• Added new PureVideo HD features for GeForce 9800 GX2:
  • Dynamic Contrast Enhancement
  • Dynamic Blue, Green & Skin Tone Enhancements
  • Dual-Stream Decode Acceleration*
  • Microsoft Vista Aero display mode compatibility for Blu-ray & HD DVD playback*

Please klick "READ MORE" for the full and huge list och changes....

• • Blu-ray disc titles over component-out do not play at 576p.[304186]
• GeForce 8 Series GPUs
• • GeForce 8 Series: The Help topic for Antialiasing inaccurately states to use override
• when turning off in-game AA. [308859]
• The override option should be used only if your application does not have built-in
• antialiasing control.
• GeForce 7 Series GPUs
• • GeForce 7900 GTX: Half-Life 2–performance drops by 50% at resolution 2048x1536
• and 1920x1440 compared to 2560x1600.[304298]
• • GeForce 7 Series: With TMM enabled, the driver does not detect a hot-plugged
• VGA (dongle) or DVI connection.[250354 273864]
• GeForce 6 Series GPUs
• • GeForce 6800: Star Wars Empire at War – the application crashes to the desktop
• after displaying the logo 'petroglyph' during launch. [344182]
• • GeForce 6800: Frame drops occur when playing MPEG2 video files using Windows
• Media Player 11. [284346/336873]
• SLI Mode Issues
• GeForce 8 Series GPUs
• • [SLI], GeForce 8800 GTX: Everquest2–there is a brief flicker when entering the water
• with 8xAA enabled. [306973]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8600: 3DMark06–the screen goes blank after running all the tests
• using the default settings, requiring a hard reboot. [348065]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8600 GT: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion–the game crashes to the desktop
• when antialiasing is set to 8x (Enhance) from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [308931]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8600 GT/GTS: 3D games such as Battlefield 2, Age of Empire 3,
• Battlefield 2142, Far Cry, and Chronicles of Reddick behave erratically when played
• while the NVIDIA Control Panel is open.[303662]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8600: Warhammer 40k Mark of Chaos–the ground has flickering
• patches when using SLI mode. [332353]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: Dungeon Siege 2–the system crashes after enabling
• SLI and Override AA set to any value (from the NVIDIA Control Panel). [330815]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars–corruption
• and flickering occurs in the game after pressing the ESC key. [328823]
• • [SLI], GeForce 8500/8400/8300: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion–there is flickering and
• corruption on the player selection screen and in the game. [328013]
• GeForce 7 Series GPUs
• • [SLI], GeForce 7900 GTX: Gothic 3–the mountain reflections in the water flicker after
• enabling SLI mode.[340574]
• GeForce 6 Series GPUs
• • [SLI], GeForce 6600/6200: The "Resize Desktop" tab does not work on the NVIDIA
• Control Panel->Resize HDTV Desktop page. [349389]

• • GeForce 7 Series: With TMM enabled, the driver does not detect a hot-plugged
• VGA (dongle) or DVI connection.[250354 273864]
• • GeForce 7800 GTX: “Display Driver is not responding “ messages appear when
• playing HD files using WinDVD with hardware accelerator enabled. [309218/
• 319789]