Nvidia made their latest WHQL-certified Forceware drivers v196.21 available for download yesterday. The drivers support the GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200 and Ion-series graphics processing units (GPUs) on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

 

The latest drivers also enable SLI and multi-GPU support for many of the games that have just been released or are nearing their release dates, including the Avatar Demo, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, City Bus Simulator, Dirt 2, Ferrari Virtual Race, GREED: Black Border, Mass Effect 2, Mortal Online, Ninja Blade, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Demo, Planet 51, RUSE, Serious Sam HD and Wings of Prey.

 

The Version 196.21 driver updates the PhysX System Software to version 9.09.1112 as well, and includes some bug fixes for problems encountered with previous driver releases. For a complete list of all the bug fixes you can check Nvidia’s release notes for the new drivers.