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Nvidia releases GeForce 181.20 drivers

by on09 January 2009

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Adds 295 and 285 support and more

 

Yesterday, Nvidia released their WHQL-certified drivers for the Geforce 6, 7, 8, 9 and 200-series of desktop GPUs. To complement their recent launch, the drivers support the new Geforce GTX 295 and Geforce GTX 285 cards, but that's not all, as the drivers contain numerous fixes and improvements.

The drivers will enable Nvidia SLI on SLI-certified Intel X58 based motherboards. It will also enable Nvidia PhysX acceleration on a dedicated Geforce graphics card, where the primary card will handle graphics and the secondary will do all the demanding physics computations. Note that PhysX will run on 8, 9 and 200 series cards that feature a minimum of 256MB of graphics memory and where the driver package automatically installs the PhysX System Software version 8.10.13.

The company also added support for the new Nvidia CUDA Video Encoder with H.264 optimization. Nvidia also claim gaming performance increases by as much as 10 percent in Crysis Warhead to a whopping 80 percent in Lost Planet Colonies. Unfortunately there's no word on the bug in Crysis Warhead that severely downgrades performance at 2,560x1,600 when AA is enabled.

You can download the driver and check out the lengthy list of improvements and fixes here (XP and XP Media Center Edition) here (Windows XP x64, Server 2003 x64), here (Windows Vista 32-bit), here (Windows Vista 64-bit) or here (Linux).

Last modified on 09 January 2009
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