New Nvidia beta graphics drivers boost some games’ performance
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Nvidia sneaked out some new beta drivers for their GeForce line of graphics chips earlier this week and the beta driver have quite a few performance improvements for a number of recent games. The 185.81 version drivers can be downloaded in both Windows XP and Vista flavors (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, naturally).
Here’s the list of performance improvements for various games:
- Up to 25 percent performance increase in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Up to 22 percent performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
- Up to 11 percent performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
- Up to 14 percent performance increase in Far Cry 2
- Up to 30 percent performance increase in Half-Life 2 engine games with 3-way and 4-way SLI
- Up to 45 percent performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled
In addition the drivers have a number of bug fixes, the new versions of their PhysX game physics drivers and new support for ambient occlusion for various PC games. In summary, titles that allow for ambient occlusion effects to be turned on will have more realistic lighting and shadows in the games. You can get more info on the feature and a list of games that support it at Nvidia’s Nzone web site.
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