News NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38

[Dark Atheist]

Thanks to LordofLA on IRC for letting me know that NVIDIA have released a new set of WHQL drivers for your downloading pleasure. The drivers are for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

New in Release 190.38
- Adds support for OpenGL 3.1
- Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.
- Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards (cards must already support more than one power state). This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.
- Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.

Existing Support:
- Supports Microsoft’s new DirectX Compute API on Windows 7.
- Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology* on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL,including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
- Installs PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
- Supports NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects.
- Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
- Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

So far, feedback suggests that these drivers are pretty good.

:software: Download: NVIDIA GeForce/ION Driver Release 190.38
:source: News Source: NVIDIA Homepage

 

[epk]

Re: Geforce/ion driver release 190

just saw it at guru3D.. seems to be a good set (only tested with tf2 so far tho)

hehe, btw.. just realized that not only its not necessary to uninstall previous drivers anymore, but u dont even need to reboot after installing 😀 so cool! (yes, bring on the "welcome to 2006" cmts xD)

 

[Dark Atheist]

i still uninstalled the old ones first and then rebooted, force of habit 🙂

 

[epk]

heheh, thats cool. i still have driver cleaner installed just in case ;D

well, i tried them with ut3.. woah, the IQ is pretty darn great! i see some slowdowns on physx maps with my 8800gt.. im gonna check on that, maybe its just the physx driver messed up

 

[LordOfLA]

thats normal. by using GPU physics you are taking processing power away from 3d processing.

 

[epk]

i kno.. they just seemed a little bigger than with previous drivers.
of course it coudl've been just me :] heheh