Nvidia GeForce 257.21 WHQL Driver Now Available for Download
New drivers are available for Nvidia graphics card owners, version 257.21. The latest release adds support for Blu-ray 3D with Nvidia 3D Vision technology and serves up a ton of performance improvements for GTX 400 series owners, some of which include:
- Up to 14 percent in Aliens vs Predator
- Up to 4 percent in Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Up to 5 percent in BattleForge
- Up to 24 percent in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Up to 40 percent in Metro 2033 with SLI
- Up to 9 percent in Unigine: Tropics
- Up to 5 percent in 3DMark Vantage
Nvidia also made upgrades to the PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0223, added support for OpenGL 4.0 for GTX 400 cards, added a new Control Panel feature for "ultimate control over CUDA GPUs," and a bunch of other changes, some of which are specific to version 257.21 and others that apply to the 256 (and above) family of drivers.
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