NVIDIA today made its GeForce 182.46 beta drivers available on its website. The new drivers bring bug fixes and optimize the installed NVIDIA GeForce hardware for upcoming games. The most notable changes are:

• Optimized single GPU and SLI support for upcoming PC games
• Bug fix specific to Windows XP 32bit: GeForce 7 series AGP, GeForce 6 Series AGP: NVIDIA graphics driver
cannot be installed

• Fix specific to SLI: Football Manager 09–the game fails to run properly with SLI mode
enabled. [490661]

• Fix specific to Quad-SLI, GeForce GTX 295: Fear2: Project Origin - when launching the game with Quad SLI enabled, there is brief flash of residual corruption from a previously launched application
• Fix specific to 3-way SLI and Windows Vista 64bit: nForce 780a SLI, GeForce 9800 GTX: The user cannot switch from Additional display mode to Boost performance mode when the display is connected to the GeForce 9800 GTX GPU

A complete list of changes can be found in the Release Notes document for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Be cautioned, this is a beta release, the use of which is not covered by warranties.

DOWNLOAD: GeForce 182.46 BETA for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit.