NVIDIA GPU driver v191.07 released

Robert Hallock (Thrax) NVIDIA has put the seal of approval on its newest GPU drivers, version 191.07.

October 6, 2009 10:56 AM ET in News, , , ,

nvidiaNVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 100, 200, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this WHQL-certified Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes:

  • Adds support for OpenGL 3.2 for ION, GeForce 100, 200, 8000 and 9000-series GPUs.
  • Big anti-aliasing or SLI performance improvements for a handful of titles.
  • For graphics cards supporting multiple clock states, 3D clocks correctly return to 2D clocks after exiting a 3D application. This will have big power savings for impacted users.
  • Adds support for DirectX 11’s DirectCompute (Compute Shaders) API on GeForce 8000, 9000, 100 and 200 GPUs.
  • Added support for 3D Vision Discover, a feature to enable stereoscopic 3D for games.

This is a fairly important release, particularly due to the inclusion of the DirectCompute API. Note that this does not mean the compatible GPUs are DX11-ready; DirectCompute merely requires stream processors, and all recent GPUs have them. It can be expected that ATI will do the same thing with their next driver release.

Download

Windows Vista & 7 x86-32: Here
Windows Vista & 7 x86-64: Here
Windows XP x86-32: Here
Windows XP x86-64: Here

9 Comments:

  1. _k_
    6 Oct '09, 3:35 pm

    Isn't this the same as the 191.03 beta, except maybe it breaks the PhysX hack?

  2. Thrax
    6 Oct '09, 3:50 pm

    NVIDIA did not specify what has changed between the beta and the WHQL release.

  3. _k_
    6 Oct '09, 4:14 pm

    Cause this and this look the same.

  4. _k_
    6 Oct '09, 8:33 pm

    Its Aion SLi support if you didn't check.

  5. mirage
    7 Oct '09, 2:52 pm

    Using the previous driver release with a GTX260, I was playing Fallout 3 with frequent stuttering (or micro-second freeze) and the game was sometimes freezing permanently during those stuttering. I installed this new driver with the hope that the problem would be resolved. And, as it was stated in the release notes, the problem is resolved for indoor environments. But the driver started crashing outdoors. On top of that, Crysis benchmark reduced 10%.

  6. mirage
    9 Oct '09, 1:37 am

    I finally went back to 186.18. No stuttering, no crashes, better performance. All of the 190 series have been problematic with GTX260. Latest drivers screw up latest chip generation? WTH they are trying to do?

  7. _k_
    9 Oct '09, 1:56 am

    There was also flames about 190 drivers screwing up fan control and causing cards to over heat.

  8. mirage
    9 Oct '09, 2:27 am

    I have not noticed the fan problem, maybe because I control the fan speed through Rivatuner. But I noticed that the GPU temperature was not monitored with Speedfan and one of the GPU temperature readings was missing in GPUZ with the latest drivers.

  9. _k_
    9 Oct '09, 2:30 am

    Its not on all cards, sporadic it is

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