NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista driver delivers the following changes:
- Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
- Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
- Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
- Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
- Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
- Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
- Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
- Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
- Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
There are a whole host of other minor tweaks and performance enhancements, so get your download on.
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Windows Vista x86-32: Here
Windows Vista x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here
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