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Nvidia Geforce 185.65 Drivers

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New in Release 185.65:
Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
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 www.nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
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
Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.

Existing Support:
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.
Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0.
Supports NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Learn more here.
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. Learn more here. Note: GPU PhysX is supported on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory. This driver package automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

XP64
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-185.65-XP-64-bit-Beta-download-2239.html

XP32
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-185.65-XP-32-bit-Beta-download-2238.html

VISTA 32
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-185.65-Vista---32-bit-Beta-download-2237.html

VISTA 64
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-185.65-Vista---64-bit-Beta-download-2236.html
 
WHQL 185 series driver is meant to be going up on Nvidia's site today... so i'd just wait for that.

Check out this, it seems the driver improves performance at 2560x1600, but sacrifices performance at lower resolutions. The GRID example there is the biggest example though.
I'm happy though, i have a 30" monitor ;)
 
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Didn't go down too well for me...

On rebooting they were running at 640x480 and I couldn't select native res for my panel, selecting other resolutions would either result in an error saying I didn't have admin rights, or apply but look all fuzzy. Was also getting random BSOD with driver stuck in loop error and when I tried to enable SLI it wiped out the drivers forcing a reboot into 4bit color...

Thank goodness for system restore :D
 
I had the same rpobs with these as I had with all the other recent nvidia drivers releases, flashing ingame textures, sudden slowdowns, freezing momentarily, etc. Gone back to 18o.43 versh, allways runs well, no crashes, freezing, etc good minimum framerate too.
 
Installed and working ok my end on a [email protected] IP35-Pro 4gb Vista 64bit

FarCry 2

MSI N280GTX OC (650-1300-2300) Anti-Aliasing(8x)

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Settings: Demo(Ranch Small), 1920x1200 (60Hz), D3D10, Fixed Time Step(No), Disable Artificial Intelligence(No), Full Screen, Anti-Aliasing(8x), VSync(No), Overall Quality(Ultra High), Vegetation(Very High), Shading(Ultra High), Terrain(Ultra High), Geometry(Ultra High), Post FX(High), Texture(Ultra High), Shadow(Ultra High), Ambient(High), Hdr(Yes), Bloom(Yes), Fire(Very High), Physics(Very High), RealTrees(Very High)

'With' Ambient Occlusion

Average Framerate: 29.43
Max. Framerate: 49.84
Min. Framerate: 21.43


'Without' Ambient Occlusion

Average Framerate: 44.20
Max. Framerate: 63.08
Min. Framerate: 33.76

182.46 Drivers;

Average Framerate: 40.81
Max. Framerate: 62.95
Min. Framerate: 32.97


*** 2xAA looks like this;

'With'
Average Framerate: 34.69
Max. Framerate: 56.61
Min. Framerate: 25.49

'Without'
Average Framerate: 56.16
Max. Framerate: 79.01
Min. Framerate: 44.74

'182.46'
Average Framerate: 52.29
Max. Framerate: 67.84
Min. Framerate: 42.24

So the 10% performace increase is there, just subtract 34% if you turn on Ambient Occlusion... :-)
 
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I just saw an option for 'on'... I just kicked off a benchmark using optimal and Ultra settings looping 3x and using 0xAA, 2xAA, 4xAA & 8xAA (I read somewhere that the drivers had 'AO' profiles for games much like SLI has, I'll have a closer look.. :-) )

I'll run them through 1x with a screenshot at some point thats got shadows and see if I can spot the differences... :-)
 
Just checked, under "Nvida Control Panel" and "Ambient Occlusion" is grey'd out saying "not supported for this application"... it didn't even see my exe till I renamed it to "Far Cry 2.exe" from "FarCry2.exe"

Ambient Occlusion 'was' obviously running due to performance hit... hopefully it'll still run and not disable now the control panel can see it...

back in a min... :-)
 
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