NVIDIA Drivers Updated

Aangeliceus

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There are new drivers for NVIDIA cards as of 7/21. (190.38)

This fixed a significant issue I was having with a GTX 285 card and ghosting while running more than one instance of FFXI.

For 32bit Vista & Win7 - http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_190.38_whql.html

For 64bit Vista & Win7 - http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_190.38_whql.html

For 32bit WinXP: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_190.38_whql.html

For 64bit WinXP: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_190.38_whql.html

NVIDIA said:
This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

New in Release 190.38
  • Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
  • Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
  • Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (cards must already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
  • Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
  • Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
Existing Support:

  • Supports Microsoft’s new DirectX Compute API on Windows 7.
  • Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology* on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL,including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
  • Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
  • Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here.
  • Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
  • Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
 
Very niec, will use this when I get back to update my desktop. Thanks Aang!
 
Bump for New Drivers:

I missed this last month. :(

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

NVIDIA said:
This is a WHQL-Certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

New in Release 190.62

  • Adds WHQL support on Windows 7 for Microsoft’s new DirectX GPU Computing API: DirectCompute.
  • Optimized for the latest PhysX gaming titles: Batman: Arkham Asylum and Darkest of Days.
  • Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0814.
  • Includes several bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
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New in Release 190
  • Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
  • Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
  • Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for select GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (only available on cards that already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
  • Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
  • Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
Existing Support:

  • Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL,including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
  • Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects. Learn more here.
  • Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
  • Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
 
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Dammit. That's twice!

More new NVIDIA Drivers: 10/5/09

NVIDIA Release Notes said:
This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.
New in Version 191.07

  • Adds support for OpenGL 3.2 for GeForce 8, 9, 100, and 200-series GPUs and ION GPUs.
  • Accelerates performance in several gaming applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with version 191.07 drivers vs. version 190.62 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
    • Up to 12% performance increase in ARMA 2
    • Up to 8% performance increase in Batman: Arkham Asylum with GPU PhysX enabled
    • Up to 50% performance increase in Call of Juarez: Blood in Bound with SLI enabled
    • Up to 14% performance increase in Fallout 3 (indoor scenes) with antialiasing enabled
    • Up to 10% performance increase in Far Cry 2 (DX9 version) with antialiasing enabled
    • Up to 34% performance increase in Prototype with antialiasing enabled
  • Adds SLI support for Aion, Darkfall, Dawn of Magic 2: Time of Shadows, Dreamkiller, Fuel, Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, Need for Speed: Shift and more.
  • Includes numerous bug fixes, including the following key fix (additional bug fixes can be found in the release notes on the documentation tab): For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application.
  • Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here

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