Report: Nvidia GeForce 185.66 beta

Since the 3D graphics market is a tough competition between ATi and Nvidia there is with the development of the graphics card and the unique programming of the driver is no longer done. Meanwhile, manufacturers are requested for a prolonged period at regular intervals, new driver for a graphics chip to develop and maintain. Sometimes it is even necessary, a driver for a single game to adapt to play the game, at best, a little faster, but sometimes in the first run.

Moreover, the new drivers for GPUs are adapted because their architecture often differs from its predecessors and so special optimizations are inevitable. This is, inter alia, for the GeForce GTX-200-N series from Nvidia, whose GPU (GT200) from G8x/G9x while not complete, but crucial distinction. We’ve decided, with a GeForce GTX 280 in some future regular speed tests and so on to verify that it has serious changes.

The newest driver from the house is Nvidia GeForce 185.66 Beta. Also in the test with the batch, GeForce 178.24, 180.42, 180.48, 181.22, 182.05 and 182.46.

Just in time for the launch of the GeForce GTX 275 (ComputerBase test) was waiting with a new Nvidia beta drivers on. GeForce 185.66, the name of the latest shoot ‘, which shows that there is something major changes has been made. The driver is dated to the 2nd April and is therefore not even a week old. Because the software in beta stage, there is not WHQL certified by Microsoft.

Nvidia GeForce 185.66

In the 64-bit version for Windows Vista brings the GeForce 185.66 118 MB on the scales. Apart from the actual driver is still the PhysX software in version 9.09.0203 in the download package. This is compared to the GeForce 182.46 therefore not changed. The driver supports the G92 GPU all Nvidia graphics cards, including the new GeForce GTX 275th The GeForce-6000-the GeForce-7000-series and the GeForce 8800 GTS, GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 Ultra GeForce 185.66 are opposed to the unknown.

Regarding the performance should be the GeForce 185.66 some have done. According to Nvidia, the texture management Direct3D 10 improved, as the Z-culling efficiency, anti-aliasing and compression SLI scaling, most notably the Source engine will be affected. Accordingly, the speed compared to the GeForce 182.xx to eleven percent in Call of Duty 5, five per cent in Company of Heroes: opposing Fronts, 22 percent in Crysis Warhead, eleven percent in Fallout 3, 14 percent in Far Cry 2 and 45 percent in Mirror’s Edge have increased.

Nvidia GeForce 185.66

Also new in the GeForce 185.66 is a feature called Ambient Occlusion. On this we are already in a separate news received, which is why we at this point offer no description. The GeForce 185.66 now again “SLI Anti-Aliasing” for multiple GPUs and CUDA 2.2. In the latter aims to increase its performance. The Nvidia driver has a few items changed. In addition, some bugs were removed.

Who exact information on the GeForce 185.66 would like to learn, we recommend a look at the official release notes. The driver can, as usual, from our download archive downloaded.