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Nvidia has just released a new WHQL-certified driver, version 185.85, for GeForce videocard and ION platform owners. The new driver adds official support for the recently released GTX 275 videocard, as well as support for CUDA 2.2, which Nvidia says will result in improved performance in GPU computing applications. Other performance claims include:
You read that right - that's up to a 45 percent boost in Mirror's Edge, according to Nvidia. In addition, 185.85 updates the PhysX software to 9.09.0408 and offers "numerous bug fixes." Barrage of links below.
Release Notes (v185.85) PDF
New Control Panel Users Guide
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
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Bless
May 10, 2009 at 2:39pm
I tried installing the 185.81 after reading the performance boost blah, blah, blah.. on crysis, mirror's edge, and so on, and so on in nvidia site. and the result: it slowed down my wow, and some other third person game. Now I'm pretty much scared to install this new 185.85 especially since someone already post a bad comment on it. has anyone else tried this new driver? is it any good? please share it with us. thx so much.
Rostamr
May 10, 2009 at 2:05pm
Yeah that's right, and even after updating my pc crashed in Left 4 Dead, i rolled back to previous...
digital demon
May 12, 2009 at 6:52pm
It's funny you say that...the whole reason I was trying every new driver that came out is because L4D kept blue screening on me. It turned out to my overclock.
MeTo
May 08, 2009 at 10:57am
What ever hapened to unified drivers for Nvidia? 6 drivers for Windows!
Linux Mint,Duel boot/Vista,AMD Athlon+ x2 5600,3 Gig ram,500 Gig HDD,ATI 1300 Video.
Stry8993
May 08, 2009 at 1:22pm
AMD Athlon+ x2 5600,3 Gig ram,500 Gig HDD,ATI 1300 Video
Nice type writer, but i think you wanted to sign up at Maximum POS. Plus 9.4 Catalyst Drivers wouldn't do sweet f all to your 1300 (I've still got mine in the box, yay), you should try building your own next time, instead of going with a Dell... like, how slow is your ram for god sakes. 500GB Laptop HDD... sad day man, sad day, save your pennies.
MeTo
May 08, 2009 at 10:12pm
This is my Acer internet machine Linux works great on low end stuff. My game machine has C 2 Q,6gig ram,750 gig HDD,Vista 64 home,Nvidia 9800 GT,OC Plays any game that i have tried. There is one born everyday get my drift.
Linux Mint,Duel boot/Vista,AMD Athlon+ x2 5600,3 Gig ram,500 Gig HDD,ATI 1300 Video.
