Nvidia 185 beta drivers

Ashdaw · Post by **Ashdaw** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:42 am

This driver supports GeForce 9-series, 100-series, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

* 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 http://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 •Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

If anyone is looking for updated drivers for their Nvidia cards, these are it

114mb though. This is the link, you will need to make it a beta driver you are looking for to get the link for your OS http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:20 am

Just FYI: the 185.65's were pulled after only one day of release and replaced with the .66's due to a issue somewhere..not sure what.

I've had the 185.66's loaded on my Vista32bit machine since that release the other day and everything runs good.. Crysis Warhead and BF2 run like they did with previous WHQL.

There was a new WHQL set released also and I recommend people stay to those vs these unless they want to test them out since they are beta.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:20 am

I'm forced cause of my mobo to run vers. 4 for the third card, SLI works on the first 2 at 8.0, but ATI CROSSFIRE has to be enebled to get the third P-E card?