Nvidia Forceware 182.46 Beta

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This is a Beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

New in Release 182.46:
Optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games.
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.

New in Release 182 Drivers:

Boosts performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 182 WHQL drivers vs. Release 181.22 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

Up to 8% performance increase in Fallout 3 at high resolution and AA.
Up to 10% performance increase in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin.
Up to 9% performance increase in Half-Life 2 at high resolution with AA.
Up to 11% performance increase in Left 4 Dead at high resolution with AA.
Up to 10% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID at high resolution and AA.
Includes full support for OpenGL 3.0 on GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs.
Automatically installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0203.

Vista:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.46_beta.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_182.46_beta.html

XP

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_182.46_beta.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.46_beta.html
 
[H]adouken;1033884557 said:
I love how Half-Life 2's performance always increases. I'm at 400FPS now, yay?
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Some of us have 6,000Hz monitors s don't hate! :p

(I kid I kid)
 
The performance increases are only for certain gpu's or combinations of gpu's. They sorta falsely advertise there. You need to read over the Fixed and Changed issues section to know if you need to bother upgrading the driver or not. I'm done upgrading drivers unless I have to fix an issue.
 
What was busted on downclocking? I've used the NiBiTor from MVtech to downclock and downvolt the 8xxx and 2xx series.
 
Johnny Mo said:
Do you overclock your CPU with BIOS settings? :rolleyes:
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Yes, but my motherboard BIOS was designed to be played with. I am confident in editing / flashing / tooling around with video card BIOS settings but I'd prefer it just downclock as it should without me having to muck around with it. Right now I just manually downclock with RivaTuner profiles+hotkeys but it doesn't lower the voltages.
 
Jon55 said:
You have the glasses? How do you like them? I've been thinking of getting them myself (yes, I have a 120hz LCD).
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It's not perfect in all games, but the 3D effect is pretty damn awesome. It's tough to go back to flat displays. Keep in mind if your 120Hz LCD is a TV it probably won't actually take a 120hz signal from your PC. The only 120Hz LCD's I'm aware of are the Samsung and Viewsonc 22" models.
 
Rizen said:
Yes, but my motherboard BIOS was designed to be played with. I am confident in editing / flashing / tooling around with video card BIOS settings but I'd prefer it just downclock as it should without me having to muck around with it. Right now I just manually downclock with RivaTuner profiles+hotkeys but it doesn't lower the voltages.
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Weird... my downclocking issues were long gone after 182.XX

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Rizen said:
These have fixed downclocking for me.
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Glad to hear.
 
xp3nd4bl3 said:
It's not perfect in all games, but the 3D effect is pretty damn awesome. It's tough to go back to flat displays. Keep in mind if your 120Hz LCD is a TV it probably won't actually take a 120hz signal from your PC. The only 120Hz LCD's I'm aware of are the Samsung and Viewsonc 22" models.
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Yeah I have the Samsung LCD. What games do you use it with?
 
Thanks OP

The last batch totally messed up some of my games. Even Crysis with the CCC configs ran horrible, and that usually runs beautifully!
 
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