NVIDIA 185.68 Beta Available Now
Nvidia often releases beta drivers with the release of high profile games. And none come bigger than 2004-05’s sleeper hit, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. With the release of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena which includes a remake of the original game with better graphics, Nvidia has released 185.68 drivers which will optimize performance for Assault on Dark Athena.
Download:
* NVIDIA GeForce Driver 185.68 Beta For Vista 32bit
* NVIDIA GeForce Driver 185.68 Beta For Vista 64bit
* NVIDIA GeForce Driver 185.68 Beta For XP 32bit
* NVIDIA GeForce Driver 185.68 Beta For XP 64bit
New in Release 185.68:
* Optimized performance for the PC game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
New in Release 185:
* Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
* 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):
o Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War
o Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
o Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
o Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
o 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 and OpenGL, including SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
* Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0.
* 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.
Note: The following SLI features are only supported on Windows Vista: Quad SLI technology using GeForce 9800 GX2 or GeForce GTX 295, 3-way SLI technology, Hybrid SLI, and SLI multi-monitor support.
