Nvidia Geforce/ION 190.38 Beta Driver

[honestjohn]

Directly from Nvidia ....


Nvidia Geforce/ION 190.38 Beta Driver

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. 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. Learn more here.

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.

Vista & Windows 7 - 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_190.38_beta.html


Vista & Windows 7 - 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_190.38_beta.html

XP 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_190.38_beta.html

XP 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_190.38_beta.html

 

[SnowBeast]

Reading the forums over at Guru3d, these seem to be more bad than good.

 

[honestjohn]

Just looked through the 3 pages of feedback and this driver's feedback doesn't seem to be any worse or better than usual. Some say they're just swell, while others say this or that doesn't work. So far so good for me and AA works just fine.

 

[TerranUp16]

They FINALLY fixed the boot-up bug where it would, on boot, swap your rez to something lower than what it should be (and than it was last set to) for no discernible reason. For me, this meant that it swapped my primary display from 1920x1200 to 1600x1200 and I needed to manually swap it and then move everything around again into its proper position since it all got displaced (at least Fences keeps my desktop icons in order but im apps and get got tossed all over). Now it boots at 1920x1200.

Haven't tried any games yet and am just about to check out the new power management features, but already these beta drivers are on my good side.

 

[Brahmzy]

DL'ing now -will update with results...

But holy cow, I bet before mid- '10 we'll have 200mb driver packs. These things just keep getting bigger and bigger.

 

[bigdogchris]

DL'ing now -will update with results...

But holy cow, I bet before mid- '10 we'll have 200mb driver packs. These things just keep getting bigger and bigger.

Well because Nvidia thinks they know more about what you want installed on your computer than you do. They give you PhysX and now lately have been giving that Nvidia 3d vision, or whatever it is, driver out with normal driver updates. I don't want that shit on my system (the 3d driver). The last install package I put on showed some 100MB 3d vision crap installed without me even knowing it. It's not even about the disk space that seems endless, it's about them installing crap that I don't know about. I shouldn't have to go to add/remove after every install to take off the crap I don't want.

On a side note, the power manager option looks interesting.