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GeForce/ION 195.39 Beta Released

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A heads up for Nvidia owners :)

New in Version 195.39

* Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
* Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
* Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for Borderlands, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, G-Force, FIFA Soccer 2010, League of Legends: Clash of Fates, NHL 2009, Order of War, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, Race On, Star Trek: D-A-C. Improved SLI and multi-GPU support for Champions: Online and Dragon Age: Origins.
* Includes over 200 bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
* Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver
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Windows 7 64bit/Vista 64bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_195.39_beta.html

Windows 7 32bit/Vista 32bit

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_195.39_beta.html

Windows ME/XP

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_195.39_beta.html
 
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It's this kind of thing that puts me off multi gpu setups, and I'm not blaming Nvidia as ATI are just the same. So you can take it before this update these games had zero benefit from SLI
 
I tried these today, I can report that these are a sack of **** just like all the 19XXX series.
 
straxusii said:
It's this kind of thing that puts me off multi gpu setups, and I'm not blaming Nvidia as ATI are just the same. So you can take it before this update these games had zero benefit from SLI
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They may or may not... some games will work with default SLI settings but not get maximum scaling... and for those "power users" you can usually break out nHancer and make a profile that usually manages ok/stable multi GPU even its its not as optimal as the nvidia one...

Bare in mind the games are barely out and nVidia have SLI profile updates ready to go so its not like your waiting on them.
 
Rroff said:
They may or may not... some games will work with default SLI settings but not get maximum scaling... and for those "power users" you can usually break out nHancer and make a profile that usually manages ok/stable multi GPU even its its not as optimal as the nvidia one...

Bare in mind the games are barely out and nVidia have SLI profile updates ready to go so its not like your waiting on them.
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Plus, I thought EVGA were also making their own SLi profiles in between nVidia's driver updates?
 
kylew said:
Plus, I thought EVGA were also making their own SLi profiles in between nVidia's driver updates?
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So are nVidia now (as per my link above) I'm not sure how often EVGA update theres but last time I tried the EVGA one they had some nice performance boosts on some games even over the nVidia settings.
 
Rroff said:
So are nVidia now (as per my link above) I'm not sure how often EVGA update theres but last time I tried the EVGA one they had some nice performance boosts on some games even over the nVidia settings.
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So between ATi's monthly updates and nVidia's and EVGA's updates, I never understand why people moan about multiGPU setups.
 
Maybe when they put them back up they will actually fix the series underlying issues in the recent driver releases :( the number of memory leaks is insane.
 
kylew said:
So between ATi's monthly updates and nVidia's and EVGA's updates, I never understand why people moan about multiGPU setups.
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To be fair I'm a little dissapointed with Batman AA and multi GPU scaling... specially on the nVidia front as its their baby... I get 8% increase in average fps in the benchmark and only a 20% increase in actual gameplay... it does help to keep the performance a bit more stable tho.
 
Rroff said:
To be fair I'm a little dissapointed with Batman AA and multi GPU scaling... specially on the nVidia front as its their baby... I get 8% increase in average fps in the benchmark and only a 20% increase in actual gameplay... it does help to keep the performance a bit more stable tho.
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That does suck, especially considering how much nVidia bang on about Batman AA.

Which reminds me, I really need to play my copy of it, I was really surprised that the OcUK freebie of it was a Steam version.
 
These appear to be back online now... dling.

EDIT: They seem to have rushed the repackaging without the proper signing... not a good uh sign.

Bit of a messy installation later they seemed ok at first - but after 10 minutes into anything the benchmark/game would keep pausing for 5 seconds on a black screen before continuing for another 20-30 seconds, pausing on a black screen for a few seconds, repeat...
 
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