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Nvidia GeForce 257.15 beta driver released
By Hanleigh Daniels 26 May 2010 | Categories: newsNvidia have released their GeForce 257.15 beta driver that supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs, and Ion desktop GPUs; in addition to adding support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
According to Nvidia, their latest beta driver will see to it that the performance in certain games is boosted by as much as 110%. Some of these games include Aliens vs. Predator (seeing a boost of up to 14%), Metro 2033 (up to 7%) and Stone Giant with SLI (up to 110%) while using a GeForce GTX 480 card. A full list of performance gains according to game and GPU settings is available on their site.
The latest driver also upgrades the PhysX system software to version 9.10.0222 and adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards. A download (94.4 MB) of the GeForce 257.15 beta driver for Windows 7 and Vista is now available.
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