14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that NVIDIA has finished its latest installment of the consumer graphics driver, complete with WHQL certification and performance enhancements in several games, among other things.
NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices release graphics drivers once a month, as well as when they happen to unleash a new video board.
In this case, it is the former company that has presented its newest package, one that has passed all WHQL certification tests.
The main thing it does is add support for the GeForce GTX 560 graphics card which was more or less recently unveiled.
Another accomplishment is the fix to the previous driver's problem (v275.27) that caused large performance drops when playing The Witcher 2.
What's more, all 400 series and 500 series adapters should now see better frame rates during some games, like Crysis 2, Portal 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum (with PhysX High), Civilization V (with SLI) and Bulletstorm (with Antialiasing enabled).
The frame rate boosts range from 4% to 15% and are supplemented by yet another gaming performance increase (of up to 12%) on certain dual-core CPUs (in CPU-limited areas).
Meanwhile, 3D Vision game profiles are added for certain titles, while water reflection problems and better 3D vision compatibility has been provided for Portal 2 and The Witcher 2, respectively.
All in all, while all components of the driver will be updated to the newest and best versions, the new package definitely should be bale to brag more about visible gaming performance advantages.
NVIDIA has added the 275.33 WHQL Graphics Driver to its website but end-users that own a 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, or 500-series GeForce card (or the ION GPU) can downlaod the appropriate version from one of the links below.
Nvidia GeForce Display Driver 275.33 for XP
Nvidia GeForce Display Driver 275.33 for XP64