14 DAY TRIAL // It's been some time since the Santa Clara, California-based graphics chip maker, NVIDIA had announced its last graphics drivers to support the company's GeForce products. However, it looks like the green team has finally come through for its customers and has just rolled out a series of new GPU drivers that are designed to enable a noticeable boost of performance, for some applications, while also fixing some of the known issues. Still in their Beta form, the new GeForce 191.03 are recommended for those looking to improve their gaming experience in new titles such as Batman: Arkham Asylum.
The new beta drives have been designed to support all of the new Windows operating systems, including the upcoming Windows 7 OS, for the chip maker's GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100 and 200-series of GPUs, as well as the increasingly popular GeForce Ion desktop GPU. The new release adds a couple of new features as well, like support for DirectCompute in Windows 7, the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0814, support for the NVIDIA 3D Vision Discover, as well as support for CUDA 2.3.
In addition, according to the release notes for the new Beta version, the GeForce 191.03 drivers also enable a couple of performance increases in some of the most popular gaming titles available today. These performance increases include:
Up to 12% performance increase in ARMA 2
Up to 8% performance increase in Batman: Arkham Asylum with GPU PhysX enabled
Up to 50% performance increase in Call of Juarez: Blood in Bound with SLI enabled
Up to 14% performance increase in Fallout 3 (indoor scenes) with antialiasing enabled
Up to 10% performance increase in Far Cry 2 (DX9 version) with antialiasing enabled
Up to 34% performance increase in Prototype with antialiasing enabled
The drives, which are available for download right here at Softpedia, include a couple of other new features, but also come to resolve some known issues. It's recommended that you update your system to the latest version, following the links below:
NVIDIA GeForce 191.03 Beta Drivers for Windows XP 32-bit
NVIDIA GeForce 191.03 Beta Drivers for Windows XP 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce 191.03 Beta Drivers for Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit
NVIDIA GeForce 191.03 Beta Drivers for Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit