From time to time, NVIDIA brings forth some much needed drivers that will enhance the display capabilities provided by the company's various GPUs, and that's exactly the case right now, with the latest addition to the Release 260 family of drivers being available for download, these latest update also being the second WHQL release in the series.
This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs, so if you fall in this category, you can check out the 260.99 WHQL drivers right here, on Softpedia, whether you're running Windows XP (download here), Windows XP 64 (download here), Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit (download here) or Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit (download here).
If you're curious just why a driver upgrade is a good idea, you should know that gamers will be particularly favored by the update, since it will bring about some performance increases in Civilization V (SLI), Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIV, and Formula 1 Racing (DX11), while Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and Fallout: New Vegas will also get SLI support.
Moreover, Fallout:New Vegas will also get an extra bonus in the form of enhanced compatibility with antialiasing enabled.
Additionally, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Tom Clancy's HawX 2 will also be added to the 3D Vision compatibility list.
Other important information worth mentioning about the new driver release is the fact that it installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0., includes PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514, supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5 and also supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1.
Furthermore, the new package supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs, as well as single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards, not to mention GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
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