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Nvidia ForceWare 181.20 WHQL
Posted by Chaos on January 8th, 2009, 10:35 PM

Nvidia Corporation has released a new official ForceWare driver. This driver supports GeForce 6,7,8,9,200 series and available to Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, MCE, Vista and their 64-bit versions as well. This driver also includes Microsoft's WHQL certification, support for the latest GTX 295 and 285 GPUs, support for SLI on X58, support for CUDA Video Encoder, GPU PhysX acceleration, performance improvements and a lot more.

Release Notes
• Added support for GeForce GTX 295 and GeForce GTX 285.
• Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with all SLI-certified GPUs.
• Enables NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode.
• Enables NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects.
• Added support for the new NVIDIA CUDA Video Encoder with H.264 optimization.
• Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
• Supports CUDA.
• Supports Folding@home distributing computing application.
• Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
• Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes.

Performance Improvements
• Up to 10% in 3DMark Vantage performance preset.
• Up to 13% in Assassin's Creed.
• Up to 13% in BioShock.
• Up to 15% in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.
• Up to 10% in Crysis Warhead.
• Up to 25% in Devil May Cry 4.
• Up to 38% in Far Cry 2.
• Up to 18% in Race Driver: GRID.
• Up to 80% in Lost Planet: Colonies.
• Up to 18% in World of Conflict.

You can download this file at our downloads section.

Last edited by Regeneration; January 9th, 2009 at 01:31 AM..

5 Comments
Anyone tested yet , are they real faster that 178 ??
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no, and no.
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Avoid. OMG why are nvidia on a shitty driver spree lately? Is it because they're so desperate to take the performance crown back that they're hardly testing this crap?

Last edited by Unixlord; January 9th, 2009 at 05:19 AM..
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yeah but this is really just because they have new product out, simply so that GTX 295 owners can use something WHQL certified, performance is guaranteed to be shite..
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Originally Posted by Unixlord View Post
Avoid. OMG why are nvidia on a shitty driver spree lately? Is it because they're so desperate to take the performance crown back that they're hardly testing this crap?
Because reviewers are biased and ignoring these issues.
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