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Nvidia rolls out its Geforce 257.15 beta driver

by on24 May 2010

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3D Vision Surround has to wait

As promised, Nvidia has rolled out its newest Geforce graphics card driver, version 257.15 beta. The new driver feature PhysX 9.10.0222 driver and supports Geforce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300 and 400 series graphics card including the upcoming GTX 465 and regular ION GPUs.

Although it lacks the support for Nvidia's 3D Vision Surround that would be available sometime in June, the new driver features a whole lot of performance improvements for GTX 400 series graphics cards, brings support for Open GL 4.0 for GTX 400 series, adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI 48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI 96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs, features new Nvidia Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX, new NCP setup page for control over CUDA GPUs, support for new "Quality" mode for Nvidia's Ambient Occlusion control panel feature, support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1, and last but not least, support for Blu-ray 3D with Nvidia Vision technology.

The performance improvements include aq bunch of games such as Aliens vs. Predator, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Battleforge, Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2, Crysis, Metro 2033 and much more. You can check out the full list of performance improvements over at Nvidia's download page, here.

Last modified on 24 May 2010
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