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Nvidia Releases New WHQL GeForce Driver 182.06, Left 4 Dead Performance Boost

Posted 02/19/09 at 11:20:51 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Nvidia this week released new WHQL GeForce drivers for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series owners. The new drivers, version 182.06, promise around a 10 percent performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution with AA, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Half Life 2 at high resolution with AA, the insanely entertaining Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA, and Race Driver: GRID, also at high resolution with AA.

In addition to double-digit performance boosts, Nvidia says its new drivers include full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8, 9, and 200 series GPUs and automatically installs the new PhysX software (version 9.090203. The drivers also fix a bug in Vista 32-bit where GeForce 9800 GTX/GX2/GT/GTX+ and 8800 GTS/GT/GS owners experienced a system hang when switching between performance states.

More information available in the release notes (PDF).

Windows XP 32-bit
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit

Image Credit: Nvidia

COMMENTS:6
TAGS: gaming, Software, graphics, videocard, nvidia, gpu, geforce, driver, Videogames, whql, 182.06
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avatarHey on the driver download

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 1:57am

Hey on the driver download page I found a link to Graphics Plus™ Power Pack #2 seems pretty neat and a fairly sizable download at 4.4gb

Here is the link http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicsplus/us/download.asp 

Anyone ever mess with this stuff and is it worth downloading?

Also I noticed that Nvidia has answered my question on PhysX acceleration. I can use my GTX280 for 3D work and one of my old 640MB 8800GTS video cards for PhysX acceleration. I'll reinstall one of my 8800's when I find a game that actually uses PhysX. 

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avatarTried them out...

Submitted by digital demon on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 9:22pm

...and all of my benchmarks (except 3DMark06) were down. About to say screw benchmarks and just use games for testing.

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avatardont werk

Submitted by dstevens on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 1:58pm

these drivers will not install under windows 7...

 

comes back as this driver is not designed for this version of windows....

 

hope they get around to updating the win 7 drivers myself....

nice that they have them and all but a tweak or 2 wouldnt hurt ;)

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avatarwindows 7

Submitted by kowal on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 12:55pm

 I too.........wonder how well these will work on windows seven?

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avatarI wonder if this will work

Submitted by anthonyfg on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 11:33am

I wonder if this will work in Win7, I was having problems with their newest drivers.

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avatarWhere are you, AMD/ATI? Show

Submitted by quicks0rt on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 11:13am

Where are you, AMD/ATI? Show us some love with performance boost. ;)

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