Nvidia Releases New WHQL GeForce Driver 182.06, Left 4 Dead Performance Boost
Nvidia Releases New WHQL GeForce Driver 182.06, Left 4 Dead Performance Boost
Posted 02/19/2009 at 9:20am
| 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
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Keith E. Whisman
February 21, 2009 at 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.
digital demon
February 19, 2009 at 9:22pm
...and all of my benchmarks (except 3DMark06) were down. About to say screw benchmarks and just use games for testing.
dstevens
February 19, 2009 at 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 ;)
anthonyfg
February 19, 2009 at 11:33am
I wonder if this will work in Win7, I was having problems with their newest drivers.
quicks0rt
February 19, 2009 at 11:13am
Where are you, AMD/ATI? Show us some love with performance boost. ;)
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