NVIDIA GeForce6/GeForce7/GeForce8/GeForce9/GeForce 100/GeForce 200/GeForce 300/GeForce 400/ION series video card version 257.21 official driver for Vista-64/Win7-64 released on 16th June 2010.

What's New

1. Added support for the following GPUs:
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 470
GeForce GTX 465
GeForce 315
GeForce 310
GeForce 9100
2. Added the ability to select the content type reported to the (HDMI) display. Some HDMI displays can automatically adjust its settings to present the content with the best image quality.
3. Gamma slider: The gamma range is increased to 0.3¡ª2.8, but the range available to the slider may be limited, depending on the Brightness and Contrast settings.
4. Added the ability to select the desktop resizing mode reported to the display. Some HDMI displays can use the information to properly present the content onto the screen with minimal overscan or borders.
5. Added support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs.
6. Added support for CUDA 3.1 toolkit.
7. Added support for NVIDIA Optimus technology notebooks (Windows 7 only).

Issues Resolved

1. GeForce 400 Series: With Dualview or Clone mode enabled and the display resolution set to 1920x1080 or 1280x730, the primary display cannot be switched.
2. GeForce 200 Series: BioShock 2¨Cthere is corruption in the water scenes when the NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing is enabled.
3. GeForce 200 Series, NVIDIA Control Panel: After installing the driver, the preview animation (NVIDIA spinning logo) is missing from the Adjust Image Settings with Preview page, the screen flickers when navigating to another page, and Windows Aero cannot be enabled.
4. GeForce 200 Series: When entering custom resolution values from the Manage Custom Resolutions page, the values are not validated.
5. GeForce GTX 295: Settings on the ?Adjust desktop color settings page are at 0% for the secondary Clone or Dualview mode display.
6. GeForce GT 230: System performance drops after switching to the Windows Basic theme.
7. GeForce 9800 GTX: 576i/480i format cannot be applied to HDTV + DVI displays connected in Clone mode.
8. GeForce 8800 GT/GTX: Default custom resolutions cannot be created when using the DVI connection.
9. [SLI]: Color depth switches to 8©\bpp when selecting 1080p or 720p resolution for the DVI©\to©\HDMI connection.
10. [SLI], GeForce 400 Series: Heaven Benchmark 2.0¨Cthe system hangs with a black screen with resolution set to 2560x1600.
11. [SLI], GeForce 400 Series: With SLI mode enabled across GPUs and both displays set to 1920x1080 or 1280x72, the displays switch to single©\display after enabling SLI mode.
12. [SLI], GeForce GTX 2xx, GeForce 9600 GS: Under Dualview mode, the SLI focus display cannot be changed.
13. [3©\way SLI], GeForce 8 Series: Napoleon:Total War¨Cthe SLI visual indicator shows the wrong SLI AA value.