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Nvidia has officially released its Forceware 181.22 WHQL GeForce driver suite just under a week since making the drivers available as beta downloads. The graphics chip maker recommends upgrading to the latest release "for the best GPU PhysX experience in EA's hot PC title Mirror's Edge." Forceware 181.22 WHQL installs the new PhysX system software, now in version 9.09.0010.
Also included with the new driver release is support for Nvidia's latest GPUs, the GTX 295 and GTX 285. Nvidia also claims modest to significant performance boosts in select titles, such as up to 80 percent in Lost Planet: Colonies, up to 38 percent in Far Cry 2, and up to 25 percent in Devil May Cry 4. Several other titles are said to run anywhere from 10 to 18 percent better with the latest Forceware driver.
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Axabitte
January 27, 2009 at 10:42pm
What about the NVidia scaling with fixed-aspect ratio which no longer works, causing all older games to stretch across the screen? I had to go back to an older 178.13 driver I had archived somewhere. (Fresh OS install, couldn't rollback; and yeah, I still like to play Starcraft, what about it? lol)
BloodToxinSplitter
January 24, 2009 at 7:19am
Nice job Nvidia. . but what about those on Windows 7? Can't we get a nice warm dose of PhysX for Mirror's Edge?
arkweld
January 23, 2009 at 5:38pm
Does it still cause the game to crash repeatedly at various points like the last official update?
Devo85x
January 23, 2009 at 4:18pm
I am using 2 GTX 260s in SLI right now and upgraded to the new drivers yesterday, but a question I have been wanting to ask is, if I have Physx and SLI enabled, will it try to dedicate one of the cards to Physx or have the second card processing Physx ans Video? I mainly need to know so I can know what to have my settings at for Far Cry 2 and Crysis for max framerates
ProtoJMB
January 24, 2009 at 10:46am
If you have PhysX AND SLI turned on, both cards will process PhysX. The only way to assign PhysX to a particular card is to turn SLI off, and assign it in the nVidia CP.
Balgaroo
January 24, 2009 at 2:01am
I believe the in with NVIDIA cards enabling the Physx is justanother application that the card handles and having two cards would simply mean that both cards would share the physx loads. From what I read, enabling physx will impair performance a little but not enough to really be noticeable and the effects are well worth losing a few frames here and there. You can always turn it off in the control panel.
I do remember something about ATI is developing a physx solution that would use a second or third card only for physx acceleration but I am not sure anymore. Its been a while since I read anything about that.
I could be wrong on this so if anyone knows more than I please correct me.
