NVIDIA Display Driver
Driver Provider: NVIDIA
Driver Date: 07/09/2010
Driver Version: 8.17.12.5896
Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher
Operating System:
Windows Vista x64
Windows 7 x64
File Size: 153.42 MB
 
Details

NVIDIA GeForce6/GeForce7/GeForce8/GeForce9/GeForce 100/GeForce 200/GeForce 300/GeForce 400/ION series video card version 258.96 official WHQL driver for Vista-64/Win7-64 released on 20th July 2010.

What¡¯s New

1. Added support for the GeForce GTX 460 GPU.
2. Added support for NVIDIA Surround technology¨Cinclude 3D Vision Surround¨Cwhich works with SLI and PhysX controls to combine multiple displays to act as one larger display, allowing a panoramic view of full©\screen games or your desktop.
3. Added support for GeForce GTX 400M series of notebook GPUs.
4. This driver package installs NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.10.0224.
5. NVIDIA PhysX acceleration is available on all GeForce 8©\series, 9©\series, 100©\series, 200©\series, and 400©\series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory and a minimum of 32 processor cores.
6. This driver package installs the HD audio driver, version 1.0.15.0.
7. Driver version 258.96 will be the last driver to support Hybrid Power, a Hybrid SLI technology. Hybrid Power is supported on GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 9800 GTX GPUs.

Issues Fixed

1. [Quad©\SLI], GeForce 200 series, Surround gaming: With two displays connected to a GeForce GTX 295 GPU and a third display connected to the head 0 DVI on a second GeForce GTX 295 GPU, the third display does not go active when switching to Span displays with Surround.
2. Half Life 2: Episode 2¨Cthe in©\game brightness is greatly reduced if Enhanced or Override AA is enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel.
3. ION: Several DirectX games (e.g. RUSE or Assassin¡¯s Creed) are not rendered properly when played at 1600x900 resolution.
4. GeForce GTS 250M: With Dualview mode enabled and the desktop set to either portrait or portrait©\flipped rotation, the primary display cannot be changed.

Supported Devices

NVIDIA HICx8 + Graphics

 
   
   


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