Nvidia BETA 186.08 Drivers XP/Vista/7 32 and 64bit

[elpedro]

New in Release 186.08

Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
Installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
New in Release 185/186 drivers:

Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA for more details.
Expands GPU hardware acceleration for the NVIDIA Video Encoding library to GPUs with less than 32 cores. Applications using this library include CyberLink PowerDirector 7, Nero Move it 1.5, Loilo SuperLoiloScope MARS, and CyberLink MediaShow Espresso.
Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185/186 drivers vs. Release 181 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
Up to 25% performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
Up to 22% performance increase in 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 30% performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled

Windows 7/Vista 32bit - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7_winvista_32bit_186.08_beta_uk.html

Windows 7/Vista 64bit - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/win7_winvista_64bit_186.08_beta_uk.html

XP 32bit - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winxp_186.08_beta_uk.html

XP 64bit - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winxp64_186.08_beta_uk.html

 

[Mariusz]

Cheers for the heads up, will try these later

 

[Neil79]

Thannnks!

 

[mrk]

All good here

 

[mmj_uk]

Looks like it is simply a Physx update.

What’s New in Version 186.08
• This driver version adds support for NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on all
GeForce 8‐series, 9‐series and 200‐series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB
dedicated graphics memory (this driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX
System Software v9.09.0428).
• See “Changes in Version 186.08” on page 6 for a list of resolved issues in this
release.

Changes in Version 186.08
There are no bug fixes to report since version 185.85. See “Changes in Version
185.81” on page 8 for the most recent bug fixes.

Must be nice to hardly have any bugs to fix.

 

[Bony Maloney]

Ta very much like

 

[magpie1966]

Thanks Matey, will stick some feedback on later.......

 

[D13]

is it just me or does nvidia seem to be releasing drivers slightly more frequently?
tbh I think they had the right idea taking their time with driver releases

 

[wolvers]

Must be nice to hardly have any bugs to fix.

You must be kidding! There's loads wrong with the HDCP and HDTV control in the 185.xx drivers.

 

[jmc007]

Downloading now, cheers matey. Do these percentage performance increase figures ever deliver?

 

[mrk]

Dunno I have a GTX260 so get 60fps+ in 99% of games anyway so it doesn't matter for me other than bug fixes and physx updates

 

[zytok]

can someone test desktop scaling for me please? Seemed to be broken in 185.85 for me where no matter what I selected, it reverted back to no scaling....... This was only in Windows 7 rc however, XP was fine.

 

[thevet]

nice driver my vantage score is up also...keepers for now

 

[wolvers]

can someone test desktop scaling for me please? Seemed to be broken in 185.85 for me where no matter what I selected, it reverted back to no scaling....... This was only in Windows 7 rc however, XP was fine.

Yeah, that's one of the things I was referring to.

 

[Datamonkey]

From a windows 7 point of view i no longer suffer the delay when right clicking on the desktop soooo happy chappy here lol

 

[spitzoid]

is it just me or does nvidia seem to be releasing drivers slightly more frequently?
tbh I think they had the right idea taking their time with driver releases

It's just you.

 

[D13]

It's just you.

doh!

 

[zytok]

Yeah, that's one of the things I was referring to.

no it still doesn't work

 

[scooby555t]

cheers downloading now

 

[wolvers]

no it still doesn't work

I tried scaling last night on my Win7 install and a 26" LCDTV, connected via HDMI, and it works fine. That's with the driver that Win7 installed itself which, when I checked, was 185.85. Maybe worth letting Win7 install the driver itself and see how you get on?