This morning, Nvidia released its
official Geforce 182.50 WHQL drivers dated March 27th. As expected, this release brings official
support for the newly released Geforce GTX 275 and is also certified for
Geforce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
Unlike the 185.63 beta released
yesterday, these drivers are still in the Geforce 182 family and do not include
support for “officially supported” upcoming features like Ambient Occlusion.
According to the release notes,
several bug fixes for SLI have been addressed, including stuttering issues with
the Resident Evil 5 Blu-ray film running on a Geforce 9600GT and the game
Football Manager 09 not running properly when SLI is enabled. More
interestingly, the release also addresses a F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin issue of
residual corruption from a previously launched application while running on GTX
295 Quad-SLI.
On another note, Nvidia claims the
following examples of improvement over previously released 181.22 WHQL drivers:
Up to 8% performance increase in
Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.
Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.
Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA. Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.
Moreover, the drivers include full
OpenGL 3.0 support and are bundled with PhysX 9.09.0203 WHQL system software.
Geforce
182.50 WHQL Vista 64-bit