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EarthDog
03-25-10, 10:29 AM
...get em while they are hot!!!

This is a WHQL driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, and 300-series desktop GPUs and ION desktop GPUs.

This driver resolves fan speed issues reported with version 196.75 drivers. NVIDIA asks that you remove 196.75 drivers and update to this 197.13 WHQL driver.

New in Version 197.13

Adds support for Next Generation ION.
Adds support for GeForce GT 320, GeForce GT 330, and GeForce GT 340.
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0129.
Upgrades HD Audio driver to version 1.0.9.1 (for supported GPUs).
Increases performance in several PC games from v196.21 WHQL. The following are examples of measured improvements. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU
Up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology
Up to 13% performance increase in H.A.W.X with single GPU
Up to 15% performance increase in H.A.W.X with SLI technology
Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU
Up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology

Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.

Enhanced SLI support for Metro 2033, Supreme Commander 2, Unigine, and World of Warcraft

Adds Ambient Occlusion support for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Need for Speed: Shift, Resident Evil 5, RUSE, and Street Fighter IV.

Adds override anti-aliasing support for Mass Effect 2.

Includes numerous 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 here.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

baris_
03-25-10, 10:33 AM
...get em while they are hot!!!



http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

They've been hot enough ^^.

Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU
Up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology

Wow.. If that can live up to its name it'll be really good. Is that literally how they say it is? If one would get an average of 50 fps he'd supposedly get 56.5 average fps?

Marshmallow64
03-25-10, 11:31 AM
Hopefully no fan problems... *Crosses fingers*

EarthDog
03-25-10, 11:37 AM
Heh, yeah, I highlighted in red that it fixed that problem... :)

freeagent
03-25-10, 11:37 AM
Hopefully no fan problems... *Crosses fingers*

Ive been useing em since the 17th with no troubles.

I manually control my fan tho, I always have.

edit:

whoops mine arent whql

col_sanders
03-26-10, 09:00 AM
out of beta already?

EarthDog
03-26-10, 09:19 AM
These are WHQL, yes.

gear.h34d.2012
03-26-10, 01:57 PM
Now... Worth moving from my 197.13 Beta to this? Possibly. :comp: