Within the past 72 hours, Nvidia has released Geforce 185.63
beta and Geforce 185.65 beta drivers for its Geforce 8-series (G92), 9-series,
and 200-series GPUs. Apparently, these releases didn’t meet up to the company’s
expectations so it pulled them and came back today with an update, Geforce
185.66 beta.
These drivers are identical in feature set to .65,
including support for Ambient Occlusion, the newly released Geforce GTX 275,
and CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications.
As we mentioned yesterday, this release reinstates the
Ambient Occlusion feature, although to a more limited extent. In 185.20 beta,
the setting could be set to Low, Medium, High and Off.
In the more refined .63 and .65, only On and Off can be selected. On another note, Nvidia claims the following examples of
improvement over official Geforce 182-family drivers:
Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at
War. Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts. Up to
22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled. Up to 11%
performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled. Up to 14% performance
increase in Far Cry 2. Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror's Edge with
antialiasing enabled.
Again, the drivers are bundled with the PhysX 9.09.0203 WHQL
system software and include support for GeForce Plus
Power Pack #3.
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Geforce 185.66 beta drivers released
The third beta this week