New'ish BETA nVidia Drivers

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:23 am Post subject: New'ish BETA nVidia Drivers

New BETA nVidia Drivers...

Version 177.92 Relased August 26, 2008

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

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I installed these and they seem to work fine. Hard to tell if COD4 is 15% faster, but it seemed to work well, I was getting 200+ FPS on a pretty busy map.

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* Supports GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT and 9400 GT GPUs.
* Adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory - this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.08.18.
* Experience GPU PhysX acceleration in several full games and demos today by downloading the GeForce Power Pack.
* Adds support for 2-way and 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology with GeForce GTX 200-series GPUs on Intel® D5400XS motherboards.
* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI™ technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
* Supports CUDA™.
* Supports NVIDIA GeForce 3D Stereo Technology.
* Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
* Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
* Includes several 3D application performance improvements. The following are examples of improvements measured with v177.92 WHQL versus v175.19 WHQL driver:
o Single GPU increases up to 11% in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
o Single GPU increases up to 11% in Assassin's Creed DX10
o Single GPU increases up to 15% in Bioshock DX10
o Single GPU increases up to 15% in Call of Duty 4
o Single GPU increases up to 8% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
o 2-way SLI increases up to 7% in Bioshock DX10
o 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts DX10
o 2-way SLI increases up to 12% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
o 2-way SLI increases up to 10% in World in Conflict DX10
* Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes. Please read the release notes for more information on product support, features, driver fixes and known compatibility issues.
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject:

Still rolling along with no problems?

I'm thinking about trying these out.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

I've been using them since release work great with my dual 8800gts 512BM
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

After all these years, I just now realized my monitor was upside down. Things sure look a lot clearer now. Laughing

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